The funniest part about this movie for me was Tom Selleck. I’m not going to say more than that because it will ruin the joke. Granted, I love Tom Selleck (I always thought Monica should have married him and not Chandler) so it was that much more fun for me. Besides Tom Selleck, this movie had some good chuckles. Not very many all out laughs but it kept me smiling the whole way through. It reminded me a bit of a better version of Robots. It was not, unfortunately, as good as Toy Story. But that is because it was missing a lot of the adult humor that Toy Story provided. There were a few adult jokes, Tom Selleck for example, but this was much more a kids’ film. Nonetheless, I really liked it.
Meet the Robinsons is about a young inventor, Lewis, played by both Daniel Hansen (Stewart Little 2) and Jordan Fry (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory). Lewis also happens to be an orphan who has never seen his mother. He has trouble getting adopted because of his faulty inventions and crazy ideas. One day he becomes determined to build a machine, called a Memory Scanner, that can search your memory for things you have forgotten. He brings his machine to a science fair where he bumps into a boy who tells him to watch out for Bowler Hat Guy. While Lewis isn’t paying attention, Bowler Hat Guy breaks his invention. Distraught, Lewis runs home to simmer over his failure. The strange boy, Wilbur (Wesley Singerman), finds him and tells Lewis that he has come from the future, but he can’t give Lewis very much detail on why.
To prove his point he takes Lewis into the future, where his time machine breaks and they are stuck there until Lewis can fix it. While there Lewis slowly discovers more and more about Wilbur’s family, the Robinsons.
Meanwhile, Bowler Hat Guy tries to pass Lewis’ Memory Scanner off as his own but finds that he needs Lewis to succeed, so he follows the two boys into the future to kidnap Lewis and craziness ensues.
The time travel theme of this movie was great and the writers’ vision of the future was incredibly imaginative. It was supposed to be about 30 years from now though, so I couldn’t really believe that most of the crazy contraptions could really be developed in that near of a future or ever; but then again it’s an animated fantasy flick! The story was excellent and very entertaining.
I saw Meet the Robinsons in Disney’s new 3D animation. This was probably what I liked least about the movie. Those glasses hurt my eyes! And if I took them off the movie was all blurry which also hurt. I couldn’t decide which was worse. In the end I just watched it in 3D, which wasn’t as impressive as I would have expected. The coolest advantage of the 3D was when they were inside the bubble of the car roof. The distortion and color reflections on the glass made it look as if you were actually in the bubble with them. It was very intricate work. The animation was really well done too. I’m not an expert in computer animation by any means, but I couldn’t believe how real some of the objects looked, like the chrome on the time machine.
Discounting my sore eyes, I left the theater with a big grin on my face. I highly recommend Meet the Robinsons. It is not a movie that is necessarily for adults, but adults will certainly enjoy it, especially if they are a child at heart. It’s a great family movie; there is something for everyone. I give it an A-.
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