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My little boy has been going on about the film 'Robots' for ages, so when I found it on sale for £7.99 I bought it for him.
It is rated a PG and runs for 86 minutes
THE STORY
Herb Copperbottom and his wife live in Rivet Town. They have a son named Rodney. Rodney's dad works as a dishwasher in a big fancy restaurant. Rodney sees himself as an aspiring inventor. His favourite programme on television shows Bigweld (who is Rodney's hero) and his company, Bigweld Industries, in Robot City. Bigweld says that his industry is always open to new inventors. Rodney would love to meet him, but thinks this is just a dream. Once Rodney leaves school he finds a job in the kitchens where his dad works. He creates an invention called 'Wonderbot', designed to speed up all the dishwashing his dad has to do. All goes well until the owner, My Gunk walks in and makes Wonderbot nervous………..with disastrous results. Rodney has had enough and buys a one way ticket to Robot City, to find a job to help his dad pay back Mr Gunk for the damage done to his restaurant,
and to achieve his dream of meeting Bigweld. Upon arrival in Robot City he asks many people for directions to Bigweld Industries, including a robot obsessed with taking his picture and a break dancing robot. He eventually manages to find out where it is and the journey from the train station to Bigweld Industries is in short brilliant and very imaginative. Trying to get into Bigweld Industries proves difficult as Bigweld is no longer in charge, so new inventors are no longer allowed in. Rachet, who has taken over from Bigweld plans on stopping making spare parts for robots and make them buy upgrades instead, to make the company more money - but could he have another, more sinister motive…………… Needless to say, Rodney manages to find a way in - albeit for a very short period of time. The robot who was taking pictures at the train station we find out is called Fender, and him and Rodney become friends, along with the rusties (Fenders family and friends). Rodney stays with them and learns that since Rachet has been in charge at Bigweld, the rusties have had to stay out of sight of 'sweepers', otherwise they will catch them and take them to the 'chopping shop'(scrap metal factory). When Rachet stops making the spare parts, the robots go to Rodney for him to fix them. When Rachet finds out he knows he must put a stop to it. Rodney goes on a quest to find Bigweld, to put him back in charge so that Bigweld Industries will make spare parts again, but along the way Fender gets caught by Sweepers and is taken to the chopping shop. Will Rodney be able to rescue Fender ????????????? Will he be able to find Bigweld ??????????????????? Will he be able to put a stop to Rachet ?????????????
You'll have to watch it to find out!!
Halle Berry, Ewan McGregor, Mel Brooks and Robin Williams are amongst some of the celebrities who did the voice over's for the film.
Some of the funniest parts of this film that stuck in my mind are when Herb and his wife decide they want to make a baby - literally. They make the baby and find they have one piece left to fit - now did they want a boy or a girl!! Also as Rodney grows up he has to have hand me down spare parts, so at the age of twelve he has hand me downs from his cousin Vanessa - a hot pink top!!
SPECIAL FEATURES There are also quite a few special features included on this DVD. Commentary - Technical commentary Aunt Fan's tour of Booty - A short computer animated tour of Robot City's train station. Voices of Robots - Interviews with the stars behind the voices. Music Video - What it says. My little boy enjoyed this part - he was on the floor dancing along with it! Discontinued parts - The deleted scenes. Meet the Bots - This section was pretty good. You could select one of the robots and you would be given some information about them. You could then go to the design gallery which shows drawings and pictures of the robot you chose and a 3D turnaround of the robot. The robot arcade - This has two sections - robot dance in which a robot appears on screen and you can select a dance routine from the list for it to do, such as Robo-tut, Oil spill and Robo twist to name a few. The other part was Fenders photo shoot which was a memory game. You had to look at a picture for five seconds and then answer questions about it. Ice Age 2 Teaser - Trailer for the film. Ice Age 2 Sneak Peak - A behind the scenes look.
I found this to be a really good film. It had lots of laughs and plenty of action going on to keep you and the children entertained. The animation is very good and it is obvious that a lot of thought and imagination went into making it. My little boy didn't move from the settee whilst it was on and he even enjoyed some of the special features. I would recommend this to anyone.
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Advantages: Original, entertaining and funny (at times it's "laugh out loud" funny too) !!! Disadvantages: Way too short ... the extras on this DVD are actually longer than the main feature !!!
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