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61
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61
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58
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57
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57
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55
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55
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55
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54
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54
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53
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49
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48
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47
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44
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41
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37
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37
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37
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36
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36
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35
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34
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34
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33
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31
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24
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22
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75
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84
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84
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83
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83
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83
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83
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82
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81
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80
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80
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79
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79
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79
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78
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76
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76
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75
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74
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74
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73
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72
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72
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72
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72
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71
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71
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71
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70
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70
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70
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70
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69
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69
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68
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68
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68
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67
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66
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66
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64
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64
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64
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63
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63
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63
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62
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62
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62
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61
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61
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60
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60
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60
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59
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57
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56
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56
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56
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55
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55
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55
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55
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55
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54
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53
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52
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52
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52
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52
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51
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49
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47
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45
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Robots
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp.
FILM:
MPAA RATING: PG for some brief language and suggestive humor
Starring
Ewan McGregor,
Halle Berry,
Greg Kinnear,
Mel Brooks,
Drew Carey,
Amanda Bynes,
and
Robin Williams
A timeless, comedic tale that pushes the boundaries of animation while introducing characters rich with humor and soul, and a heart-warming story proves that a robot can shine no matter what he is made of. (Twentieth Century Fox)
| GENRE(S): |
Animation
|
Comedy
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Family/Kids
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Fantasy
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Sci-fi
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Lowell Ganz
Babaloo Mandel
Jim McClain (story)
Ron Mita (story)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Chris Wedge
Carlos Saldanha (co-director)
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: September 27, 2005
Video: September 27, 2005
Theatrical: March 11, 2005
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| RUNNING TIME: |
91 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
100
New York Post
Kyle Smith
24-karat stuff, even if it has a soul of tin. With the voices of Ewan McGregor, Robin Williams and Mel Brooks, Robots is a giddy erector-set update of "Toy Story" with a splash of "The Wizard of Oz."

100
Baltimore Sun
Michael Sragow
Full of wit, charm and wonder. It's so hilarious, you might blow a gasket.

88
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
Like "Finding Nemo," this is a movie that is a joy to behold entirely apart from what it is about. It looks happy, and, more to the point, it looks harmonious.

83
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Zippy, enjoyable sci-fi slapstick jamboree.

80
Time
Richard Corliss
Robots goes for a color scheme that is cool, muted, instantly aged. Director Chris Wedge wants the eye to concentrate on the gags he and his writers (including veteran comedy craftsmen Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel) have stuffed into the film.

80
Variety
Joe Leydon
It's meant as high praise to say that, very early in Robots, the extraordinary starts to seem perfectly ordinary.

80
Chicago Reader
Joshuan Katzmann
The net effect of which is like a prolonged visit to an amusement park--kids will love it.

75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Paula Nechak
There are a lot of terrific creative energies at play in Robots and they overcome an overreliance on amusement park sensibilities in the animated adventure.

75
Chicago Tribune
Robert K. Elder
Wildly inventive, sweetly subversive.

75
Charlotte Observer
Lawrence Toppman
Jim Broadbent is the wild card in the cast; he screeches and growls his way through Madame Gasket's lines in the best traditions of British drag.

75
Philadelphia Inquirer
Carrie Rickey
Cluttered as it is colorful, Robots is a visual delight.

75
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Isn't as trippy, scary, handmade-looking, or environmentally aware as some of Miyazaki's pictures. But it shares their dreaminess. Even at its most ingenious, not even Pixar does that.

75
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Hartlaub
Robots never stays in the same gear for long, and the abrupt shifts in tone kill the movie's chances of becoming a classic.

75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Liam Lacey
Sure, it's a bit mechanical, but what did you expect? The important thing is that the characters and jokes don't prevent you from grooving on the pleasures of the moving parts.

75
Portland Oregonian
Shawn Levy
Clever and charming.

75
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Robots is more than a load of spare parts, but there are some sprockets and rivets missing.

70
Village Voice
Ben Kenigsberg
Entertaining enough that it leaves one wishing for more in the way of android mythology—a pint-sized Blade Runner or A.I. The screenplay goes on autopilot, grinding toward a happy ending just when it has a shot at something darker and more memorable.

70
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Keith Phipps
The amiable but thin comedy Robots does have a little more going on, but not quite enough to make a difference, although it looks good enough to distract viewers from that fact for a while.

70
Dallas Observer
Robert Wilonsky
Robots doesn't rely on being current, which will ultimately render it as timeless as any great fable. At its center is a big, beating heart.

70
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
For audiences simply looking for easy entertainment and some neat-looking robots along the way.

70
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano
The animated tale has flashes of brilliance but seems assembled from cultural flotsam.

63
USA Today
Claudia Puig
The voice talent behind Robots reads like a who's who of comic actors...But too much reliance is placed on their star power and not enough on an interesting and fresh idea.

63
Premiere
Peter Debruge
There's too much going on to take it all in. It's a shame, really. Robots boasts some of the most vibrant visual design ever captured on screen.

63
New York Daily News
Jami Bernard
Visually, Robots is fun and imaginative. The wow factor is enhanced in the IMAX version, also opening today.

60
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
If sheer cleverness were everything, Robots would be the best computer-animated cartoon yet…Yet, unlike the very best CG animation, Robots doesn't quite connect with the emotions and humor for which one yearns in cartoons.

60
TV Guide
Angel Cohn
Though the script is best described as mechanical and it takes a while to get into gear, this computer-generated "reach for the stars" story is a well-calibrated piece of entertainment.

50
Austin Chronicle
Kimberley Jones
The movie can be funny in fits, but too often the scripters go for the obvious and uninspired.

50
LA Weekly
Scott Foundas
On a storytelling level, Robots is in dire need of an upgrade.

50
Christian Science Monitor
David Sterritt
The visuals are spectacular at times, but the screenplay is trite, intermittently vulgar, and just not funny.

50
Slate
David Edelstein
The visuals have so much intrinsic motion that it's too bad Robots is oppressively rollercoasterish.

50
Washington Post
Stephen Hunter
The story fails to really engage on any level save the kinetic.

40
The New York Times
Dana Stevens
In the end, though, Robots is hollow and mechanical, an echo chamber of other movies and an awkward attempt to turn the intrinsically scary sensitive-robot theme into something heartwarming and cute.

30
Wall Street Journal
Joe Morgenstern
The video-game sequences are impressive, but you know that a 'toon is in big trouble when its most powerful theme is planned obsolescence.

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