If you have children, you can enjoy this sidesplitting animated movie without furtive looks out your window. If you don’t, watch it anyway, poo-poo to your nosey neighbors. The comedian Robin Williams plays one of the street savvy robots in this movie and he’s fantastic. Your kids will love it, you will love it, so much that you might miss the motivating message of the movie: having just one person believe in you makes all the difference.
Robots is about Rodney Copperbottom, a blue-collar robot that grows up watching his hero, Big Weld, on TV. Each week, Big Weld solves the world’s problems with insatiable curiosity and new inventions. Rodney decides to leave Rivet Town for Robot City on a quest to show his invention to Big Weld. Rodney’s father, eschewing pragmatism, supports him every step of the way, even when the path becomes ridiculously unclear.
As an incurable inventor myself, this is the kind of movie I want my kids, and grandkids, to see no matter their age. If no one else will say it, I will tell them, “Go ahead, chase your dreams. Ignore naysayers, use what you have, and push through obstacles. The world is mostly decent people just trying to get by, but unabashed dreamers bring hope to the rest of us.”
Silly, funny, for all ages, retro, optimistic, just plain fun
Movie: 1 hour, 31 minutes
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