Robots breaks no new ground, just wind. If this marginally entertaining yarn makes any new strides, it's in ... robot-ily function toilet humor.
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03/11/05
Robots (2005)
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Reviews Counted:173
Fresh:110
Rotten:63
Average Rating:6.5/10
Consensus: Robots delights on a visual level, but the story feels like it came off an assembly line.
Theatrical Release:18-03-2005
Synopsis: The pixel-happy production company Blue Sky follows its successful feature ICE AGE with more animated antics in ROBOTS. Rodney Copperbottom (voiced by Ewan McGregor) is a talented inventor who... [More]
Starring: Halle Berry, Ewan McGregor, Robin Williams, Jim Broadbent
Director: Chris Wedge
Reviews for Robots
121 - 140 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
What else suggests a complete surrender of effort, imagination, and skill better than an extended flatulence joke between all the metallic characters?
03/11/05
A gem of pacing, humor and fun... for those of you keeping score, that's exactly how a movie should be made.
03/11/05
...the weakest computer animated film to come along since the birth of the format ten years ago...
03/11/05
Robots is a dazzling visual spectacle that will delight children of all ages. I guess I'm the only one who wonders why as much care and cleverness can't go into the script and the characters and the plot as go in to those dazzling visuals.
03/11/05
A frolicsome and endlessly creative animated feature.
03/11/05
Despite minor quibbles, I felt great joy while discovering a whole new animated world in 'Robots.'
03/11/05
Clever rather than heartfelt. Still, it’s a high grade of clever, and I enjoyed it a lot.
03/11/05
How can something so richly ambitious in look and design be so unambitious in personality?
03/10/05
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03/10/05
Top CriticIf it’s not high art, Robots’ buoyant tone eventually overwhelms you and wins you over.
03/10/05
It feels like they sat around thinking of robot-world gags and neglected everything else.
03/10/05
a cute, funny, heartwarming movie with great visual effects
03/10/05
Like the chrome chassis its villains so ruthlessly hawk, there's a lot of empty space underneath that sparkling shine.
03/10/05
As animation, it’s brilliant. If only the story was as sharp.
03/10/05
....clever writing, ingenious throwaway sight gags, in-jokes galore, good messages and cute characters
03/10/05
Itself seems recycled...as far as these kinds of movies go, it's mediocre--sporadically amusing but never hilarious, and curiously flat despite all the frantic motion.
03/10/05
Just like its endearing hero, this movie is assembled from hand-me-down parts but it has so much heart that it becomes irresistibly fresh and downright adorable.
03/10/05
What was the point in Ewan McGregor doing an American accent? A well known Scottish voice imitating a generic American? Just get Frankie Muniz and save the money.
03/10/05
I'm hard-pressed not to recommend Robots as an energetic family-movie distraction...[but] plotting is...mechanical.
03/10/05
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