Meet the Robinsons is a 2007 American computer animated science fiction comedy produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures on March 30, 2007. The 47th Disney animated film features, released in standard versions and Disney Digital 3-D. The film is loosely based on the character of A Day with Wilbur Robinson's children's book, by William Joyce. The sound players include Jordan Fry, Wesley Singerman, Harland Williams, Tom Kenny, Steve Anderson, Laurie Metcalf, Adam West, Tom Selleck, and Angela Bassett. It was the first film released after then-Pixar executives John Lasseter became chief creative officer of Walt Disney Animation Studios.
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Plot
Lewis is a 12 year old inventor who aspires to an orphanage whose inventions have frightened potential parents. She worked all night in the machine to scan her memory to find her mother, who left her in an orphanage when she was a baby. While carrying a scanner into his school's science, Lewis meets a 13-year-old Wilbur Robinson, a mysterious boy who claims to be a police time from the future. Wilbur had to recover the time machine worn by a man wearing a bowler hat. Lewis tried to demonstrate the scanner, but it had been sabotaged and shattered, throwing science into chaos. Lewis leaves while Bowler Hat Guy, with the help of a robotic bowler cap named Doris, fixes and steals the scanner.
Wilbur met Lewis at the orphanage and asked him to fix the scanner. Lewis agrees to do so only if Wilbur can prove that he is telling the truth, which Wilbur did by bringing them into 2037 in a second time machine. When they arrive, he and Wilbur are involved in disputes and accidents. Wilbur asks Lewis to fix the time machine, but Lewis has another condition: Wilbur should take him to visit his mother afterward. Reluctantly, Wilbur agreed and hid Lewis in the garage. Lewis did not stay there long, and finally met the rest of the Robinson family except Cornelius, Wilbur's father, who was on a business trip. After following Lewis, Bowler Hat Guy and Doris try to kidnap her, but the Robinsons beat them. Robinsons offered to adopt Lewis, but changed his mind when they learned that he was from the past. Wilbur claimed to lie to Lewis about bringing him back to see his mother, causing Lewis to run in disgust.
Lewis later discovers that Cornelius Robinson is, in fact, a future version of himself, and Wilbur is the son of his future. Lewis also discovered that Bowler Hat Guy is an adult version of Lewis's roommate, Michael "Goob" Yagoobian. Because he was kept awake by Lewis's work on the scanner, Goob fell asleep during an important Little League game and failed to make an important catch that cost the game. Goob became so bitter that he had never been adopted and lived in an orphanage long after it was closed. Doris is "DOR-15", one of Lewis's failed and abandoned inventions. They both blame Lewis for their misfortune and decided to destroy his career by stealing a memory scanner and claiming credit for it. Leaving Lewis behind, they take off with the scanner, drastically transforming the future into a world where Doris clones have enslaved humanity. Lewis fixes a second time machine, confronts Doris and destroys it by promising never to create it, restoring the future to his utopian self. After persuasion from Lewis, Wilbur tries to ask the adult Goob to join the family, but he has disappeared, apparently embarrassed by what he has done.
Back in time to Wilbur, Lewis finally met face to face with Cornelius. Cornelius explains how the memory scanner started a successful career, and persuaded Lewis to return to the science fair. Wilbur takes back Lewis, but makes one first stop: as promised, he takes Lewis back to the moment when his mother left him.
Wilbur dropped Lewis in time and left. Lewis heads to the fair, but on the way, he wakes up just in time to make the winners catch. Back at the exhibition, Lewis asked for one more chance to show his scanner, which was successful this time. She was adopted by Lucille, one of the science judges, and her husband Bud, who dubbed him "Cornelius" and took him home.
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Cast
Production
Originally titled "A Day with Wilbur Robinson", production began in June 2004, and is scheduled for release in 2006. When the film was produced, Disney announced on January 24, 2006 that it would acquire Pixar, and as a result, John Lasseter became the chief creative officer of Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios. When he sees the initial screening for the film, he tells director Stephen Anderson that he has not found a frightening or threatening criminal, and suggests he make some changes. Ten months later, nearly 60% of films have been deleted and repeated. The enemy has improved and given a new sidekick, chasing dinosaurs has been added, and finally changed.
Release
More than 600 3D-DAL 3D movie theaters feature Disney 3-D versions of the film. The 3D version was preceded by a 1953 Chip 'n Dale 3D short Working for Peanuts . The latest credits from the remaining 3D versions are two dimensions, except for the names of those who turn movies into 3D.
Home videos
Both DVD and Blu-ray versions were released on October 23, 2007. Both versions have 1.78 widescreen aspect ratio and Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound, plus music videos, Family Function 5000 games, deleted scenes and other bonus features. The audio commentary DVD contains Anderson's narration, sometimes annoyed by himself as Bowler Hat Guy. Blu-ray also includes uncompressed 5.1 audio and BD-J games, Bowler Hat Barrage! . Blu-ray 3D was released on November 8, 2011.
In January 2008, the DVD has sold about 4 million copies.
Reception
Critical reception
The review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 66% of critics gave the film a positive review, based on 138 reviews with an average score of 6.3/10. The site's important consensus states "Meet the Robinsons is a children's animated film that impressively visually marked by a very profound story. " Metacritic reported the film had an average score of 61 out of 100, based on 27 reviews.
Realmovienews states that it has "a sharp plot that demands close attention as it whirs back and forth in the space-time continuum, touches serious ideas and suggests some rather disturbing alternative realities. handled with subtlety and rare intelligence.At the end it may be a little whiny and inspirational, but it's so charming that we do not mind at all. "Danny Minton of Beaumont Journal says that" The Robinsons may not be a family that you want to associate with, but they must be delighted to meet in this imaginative and wonderful 3-D experience ". Andrew L. Urban of Australian Urban Cinefile says that "Walt Disney stands for fantasy on screen and this is a tribute of love to his inheritance". Kyle Smith of New York Post named it the 10th best movie of 2007.
Instead, AO Scott from The New York Times wrote: " Meet the Robinsons must be one of the worst theatrical animation features released under the Disney label in a while", while Lisa Schwarzbaum from Entertainment Weekly gave the movie "C" and said "This is a bumpy ride".
box office
The film grossed $ 25,123,781 on its opening weekend, falling behind the Blades of Glory. More than running the show, it grossed $ 97,822,171 in the United States and Canada and $ 71,510,863 in other regions, totaling $ 169,333,034 worldwide.
Soundtrack
The soundtrack album was released by Walt Disney Records on March 27, 2007. Contributors to albums beyond Danny Elfman's scores included Jonas Brothers, Rufus Wainwright, Rob Thomas, Jamie Cullum, The All-American Rejects, and They Might Be Giants. The song "Little Wonders", recorded by Rob Thomas, reached number 5 on the Billboard airline chart and the top 20 in Australia and Canada.
All music is composed by Danny Elfman, except as mentioned.
The song "This Much Fun" by Cowboy Mouth, shown in the trailer, is not featured in the movie or on the soundtrack. The song "There a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow" comes from the attractions of the Disneyland Carousel of Progress General Electric.
Video game
Disney's Meet the Robinsons video game is available from Buena Vista Games for PlayStation 2, Xbox 360, Wii, Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo DS and PC. UK-based independent Climax Group company developed their own adaptation for Game Boy Advance.
Canceled order
DisneyToon Studios was originally planned to make a sequel to the movie, while titled Meet the Robinsons 2: First Date . However, when John Lasseter became the head of the new creative designer of Walt Disney Animation Studios, he canceled all of DisneyToon's planned future series, including the sequel to Chicken Little (2005) and The Aristocats (1970), and refocused on original spin-off and production films.
References
External links
- Official website
- Meet Robinsons on IMDb
- Meet Robinsons in the TCM Movie Database
- Meet Robinsons in The Big Cartoon DataBase
- Meet Robinsons in Mojo Box Office
- Meet Robinsons at Rotten Tomatoes
- Meet Robinsons in Metacritic
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