Robots (2005)

Best movie of this year hands down!

Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

This film great for the most part. It has great CGI and great voice-casting. The people who animated this film really payed attention and made it look very detailed, and this film has a great voice cast. I will be honest and say that the story is not great, but it's not bad either. It's pretty good, just nothing too fantastic about it. The reason why is because it's pretty generic. I say that because it's the old "Stop the villain and everything gets better" cliché. They do that very well in this movie, but it's just that I've seen this happen many times in other films, and it doesn't really impress me all that much. But I guess it's good enough to sit through, I guess. There are a few times in which this film can seem a little overly kiddie. But other than that, I enjoyed this film and would recommend this to anyone who likes robots or anyone else really. I can't guarantee everyone would love this film the first time they see it, but they'll most likely have fond feelings for this film like I still do.

I really do not understand the hate for this movie, particularly Williams' performance. I loved his character, and I did not find him even slighty annoying. I think that was genius casting, because he fits the character of Fender perfectly.Also, the message is superb and is handled brilliantly. In fact, I'd say there are 3 main morals. "You are perfect no matter who you are", "Never give up" and "see a need, fill a need." They are all truly fantastic morals.My only flaw with the movie is that they didn't show the transport enough! That scene where Rodney and Fender take the "train" to Bigweld Industries is genius and amazingly imaginative. I wanted more!So overall, 94/100, great picture for kids, and has enough humour to keep adults entertained. I honestly have no idea why nobody talks about it like they do with Toy Story and Finding Nemo and other animations. Because in my opinion, Robots is up there.

When computer animated films were first birthed, a lot of the first ones were brilliant. The people behind them worked as hard on the scripts as the effects, and so we got masterpieces such as Toy Story, Shrek, A Bugs Life... (Stop laughing at the back).So when did the rot set in? When did CGI flicks stop being events, and become just another way to print money? My vote is for the mid 00's, when rather than around 2 a year, studios started releasing around 10. They stopped with the heartfelt stories and the clever humour, and instead gave us obnoxious characters, unoriginal plots and bathroom gags aplenty. Mostly, companies that weren't Pixar. A few examples: A Shark Tale, The Ant Bully, and this loud nonsense, which is as soulless as its mechanical protagonists.Ewen Mcgregor and a whole cast of stars do voiceovers, but their presence neither adds nor subtracts anything to the film. As for Robin Williams, he's like a prescription medicine: Good in small doses, but too much and you begin to feel a bit queasy. It's just utterly forgettable, and has deservably consigned to the scrapheap in most people's memories (Tee Hee). The funny thing is, I remember liking it a lot more when I saw it at the cinema initially. Oh well, my critical faculties must have been a bit below par that day...

The bar for animated films is very high what with the Shrek franchise from Dreamworks and all the wonderful films that Pixar continue to produce so Robots has to work hard to try and match them. And while it makes a good attempt it will never topple these films as being the best example of an animated film.All the hallmarks of good animated family films are there - it's visually interesting, it has a good heart and humour while also boasting the now obligatory all star cast that all animated films seem to need but the overall story seems to be lacking so we don't invest as much love into the characters as we do with say Buzz or Woody. Children of a young age will no doubt enjoy it but the adults who are watching it with them may find themselves sneaking a look at the running time on the back of the DVD and seeing how much longer there is to go.The team at BlueSky (who also did the Ice Age films) do an awful lot right with this film but it hasn't been remembered as fondly as some of the others that have been released in the same time period.