Robots (Gift Set) (DVD And Action Figure)

Advantages: A fantastically funny family film with jokes for all and great attention to detail
Disadvantages: Some bland voice-over work

...to melt down the old-fashioned robots and make everything shiny and new. Can Rodney and his ragtag group of misfits rescue his hero, get the girl and put things right? Fox's Blue Sky Productions must be fed up with being seen as Pixar's poor relation. After all, they produced the marvellous "Ice Age", a warm, genuinely funny film that made the most of its snowy environment and some distinctly uncuddly characters. Here directors Chris Wedge and Carlos ...
...complete world in which the robots and their surroundings exist in perfect harmony. Normally inanimate objects take on a life of their own; with talking fire hydrants, chatty bins and retching lampposts. Instead of grass lawns, they are made of metal and need buffing rather than mowing. Instead of getting a haircut you go for a quick angle grind. "Making a baby" takes on a literal meaning as they come flat-packed and woe-betide any young man who ... Read review

Advantages: A great family film, with many one liners - something for everyone.
Disadvantages: None

...fixing things, and all the robots who need spare parts but cannot get them soon start going to Rodney so that Rodney can fix them. But because there are no spare parts being made, he and his friends decide it is time to fight back, and that they could try to find Bigweld who might be able to help, if he knows what is going on... This is a great children's film. The humour is evident and there is enough there to keep the adult entertained as well. ...
...my daughter what she thought of it, she replied: 'I liked the bit when that big bum lady robots knocked things down with her bum...' Here's a quote I liked from the film: Fender: I'm made of this material called "afraidium". It's yellow and tastes like chicken! ... Read review

Advantages: makes you appreciate other films more
Disadvantages: disapointing humour, predictable and bland.

...market so that the poorer robots like his father and thr friends he met along the way, can afford to be fixed and wont have to be used as scrap metal. although the computer animation was of top qualty, i found the story to be quite bland and predictable, and the voices were very mediocre, the only voice that really had any exciting qualities was that of a misfit robot called Fender, who was voiced by Robin Williams. the are a few scenes that are ...
...gets to Robot cty and is on the cross town express(if ive remembered the name correctly) but overall i thought that the movie was quite disapointing and no where near as funny as i had hoped, it was almost a chore to sit through it. the sound was quite over bearing too, with the background music often being too loud. my children didnt even sit through it, they lost interest before we got half way through. there are much better animated familly films ... Read review

Advantages: Funny amusing rib-tickler of a familly film (and that means you too!)
Disadvantages: A little formulaic but you can look past that

...then relax and enjoy, because Robots will entertain. Plot Summary The story is set in a Robot world where our hero protagonist Rodney Copperbottom (voiced by Ewan McGregor) is dreaming inventor who wants to go to the big city and meet the great inventor Big Weld (the wonderful Mel Brooks) to get new spare parts for his dad. The fly in the ointment in this is supplied by Ratchet (Greg Kinnear) who is bent on making all of the old Robots obsolete, ...
...The Incredibles and so on. Robots is also one of these, with a well known cast lending their vocal talents to the story - for me that was a little distracting. However we are missing the principle audience of this movie, which (amongst others) is my 4 years old son, who absolutely adores it. We went to see it in the movies and have rented it twice in a week on DVD (cheaper buying it I hear you cry). He must be wearing a groove in the disc with the ... Read review