Robots: The Movie Storybook
Robots: Meet the Robots
Robots: Rodney and the Rusties
Robots: Rodney Goes to Town, etc.
We haven’t seen “Robots” yet, but the hubby and I know every line of dialogue and every frame. Our son is obsessed, so every blasted one of the tie-in books is a must-read, over and over and over again.
The plot’s borrowed from the standard Hollywood template: A poor robot with big dreams leaves his small town for Robot City, only to have his ambitions short-circuited by a greedy baddie. But he makes friends among the downtrodden “Rusties,” foils a sinister plot, overthrows the baddie (and his mother!) and wins the girlbot.
There isn’t much new or clever here, no Shrek-like double entendres or an “Incredibles” mid-life crisis to keep adults from slipping into a catatonic state by the first hackneyed plot twist. Sure, it’s given a corporate setting, with the bad guy bent on a takeover, but since when is that riveting?
Besides, in real life, the corporation would suck up the little guy, melt him down for spare parts and produce drivel like this.
Nonetheless, I have to give it a passing grade, for no other reason than the colorful bots and simple storyline keep my mechanically minded son bolted to his seat.
Rating: *\*\
Riveting! Bolted! You crack me up!
Posted by: elswhere | April 18, 2005 at 01:08 PM
I seem to have an odd knack for really bad puns. Forgive me.
Posted by: Anne | April 19, 2005 at 09:58 AM