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10024-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."
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100Full of wit, charm and wonder. It's so hilarious, you might blow a gasket.
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88Like "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.
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83Zippy, enjoyable sci-fi slapstick jamboree.
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80Robots 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.
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80It's meant as high praise to say that, very early in Robots, the extraordinary starts to seem perfectly ordinary.
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The net effect of which is like a prolonged visit to an amusement park--kids will love it.
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75Wildly inventive, sweetly subversive.
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75Cluttered as it is colorful, Robots is a visual delight.
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75Robots never stays in the same gear for long, and the abrupt shifts in tone kill the movie's chances of becoming a classic.
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75Isn'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.
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75Robots is more than a load of spare parts, but there are some sprockets and rivets missing.
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75Sure, 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.
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75Jim 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.
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75Clever and charming.
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75There are a lot of terrific creative energies at play in Robots and they overcome an overreliance on amusement park sensibilities in the animated adventure.
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70The 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.
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70Entertaining 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.
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70Robots 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.
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70The animated tale has flashes of brilliance but seems assembled from cultural flotsam.
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70For audiences simply looking for easy entertainment and some neat-looking robots along the way.
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63Visually, Robots is fun and imaginative. The wow factor is enhanced in the IMAX version, also opening today.
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63The 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.
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63There'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.
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60If 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.
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60Though 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.
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50The visuals are spectacular at times, but the screenplay is trite, intermittently vulgar, and just not funny.
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50The movie can be funny in fits, but too often the scripters go for the obvious and uninspired.
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50On a storytelling level, Robots is in dire need of an upgrade.
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50The visuals have so much intrinsic motion that it's too bad Robots is oppressively rollercoasterish.
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stanleyh.10Very good movie,hope in future thier is more.