Review #43 | Robots

Blue Sky Studios' Robots is more comedic than appealing and is imaginative and good for a laugh.

Robots, 2005

For this follow-up to their mega-hit Ice Age, directors Carlos Saldanha and Chris Wedge team with the screenwriting duo behind Parenthood and City Slickers, Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel. Robots stars Ewan McGregor as the voice of Rodney Copperbottom, an idealistic robot who wants to convince his electronic brethren to come together and work toward making the world a better place. As the story unfolds, Rodney faces opposition from an evil corporation headed by Big Weld (Mel Brooks) and finds some unlikely allies in the form of a ragtag group of misfit robots called the Rusties and voiced by the likes of Drew Carey and Amanda Bynes. Stanley Tucci and Dianne Wiest provide the voices of Rodney's parents, and Halle Berry portrays his love interest, Cappy.

It won’t measure up to the A list story telling but the visuals and comedic parts make up to the slightly boring story. This movie has heart even though it is a story about robots. It tries to put the comedy and sometimes it seems forced. If it was me I would put all the comedic elements aside for the sake of the story and the moments.

The movie’s strong point was the world of Robot City; it is so vast and complicated. Other than that it does poorly on developing the characters. The character like Madame Gasket is very nice to look at, and the scene of domino falling one after another in Bigweld’s dwelling place was awesome.

It has a moral of following your dreams but does poorly to make the story appealing even though they had some funny moments; it significantly loses points on good story telling.

Inside Outside Rating: 66%