Often funny and technically impressive.
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03/11/05
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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:Mar 11, 2005 Wide
Box Office: $128,107,031
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
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Reviews for Robots
Visually spectacular and never less than amusing.
03/11/05
A collection of thrill rides and chase sequences, and rapid-fire gags.
03/11/05
The wittiest and most ambitious computer animated toon to ever come from somebody other than Pixar.
03/11/05
Clever and charming.
03/11/05
It may not shatter any molds, but it clicks along in a genial, spirited manner.
03/11/05
Top CriticThe sophistication of its humor is at the level of The Simpsons, and the computer animation is a wonder.
03/11/05
Top CriticFor a movie that rails against the notion of creative artists toiling amid corporate gloom, Robots often feels calculated and mass-produced.
03/11/05
Top CriticIf Shrek was Raging Bull and The Incredibles was Million Dollar Baby, Robots is one of the Rocky sequels.
03/11/05
Cute, clangy, hyperactive, really shiny, completely inorganic (except for the flatulence jokes) and totally hermetic.
03/11/05
Top CriticA trip worth taking, even if it doesn't go anywhere particularly, gleamingly new.
03/11/05
The story doesn’t go in any unexpected directions, but with such fabulous visuals ... it doesn’t have to.
03/11/05
Robots is most like Polar Express. It may represent a new zenith for computer animation, but the uninspired story drags the film into obsolescence.
03/11/05
Robots is often dazzling to look at and has the requisite items for a ripping tale of good versus evil, but for this viewer, it just wasn't that easy to warm up to metalheads.
03/11/05
Robots seems designed for children with short attention spans, bombarding them with colour and movement and throwing in some ideas just for good measure.
03/11/05
Packed with unexpected charms.
03/11/05
Software has rarely made hardware look as attractive as it does in Robots.
03/11/05
Top CriticFine, if you don't mind a few kinks.
03/11/05
Fully entertaining and visually astonishing if a bit spare in the story department, Robots is nonetheless a 100-percent guaranteed kid-pleaser that will also bowl over adults.
03/11/05
Even when the jokes are so predictable the punch lines seem preprogrammed, there is inevitably some visual business to keep us occupied, and to keep Robots merrily clanking along.
03/11/05
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