Meet the Robinsons
Director: Stephen J. Anderson
Cast: Daniel Hansen, Stephen J. Anderson, Wesley Singerman
Rated: G
92 minutes
It was a simpler time. Saturday mornings were the only
time you could watch cartoons. People rented VCR’s on special occasions.
And a new animated Disney film was a big deal. The story’s were
fantastic, the animation breathtaking, and the voices... buckets of talent
but not a recognizable name in the bunch. That’s the past, enter
the present.
Walt’s cold and dead and they’re releasing
crap after crap hoping the kids today are as easily entertained as they
say they are.
But wait, what’s this? Could we have the slow but
steady return of the mighty Disney name with Meet the Robinsons?
The screen opens with our orphaned hero, Lewis. A quirky
inventor that just can’t find suitable parents. Giving up, he pours
all his efforts into making a brain scanner to find his mother. But at
the science fair, fiend and friend are lurking.
Enter perhaps the most important make or break character:
the villain. Here played by “Bowler Hat Guy”, a fantastic
Snidely Whiplash character who steals the invention. Lewis then gets picked
up by Wilbur Robinson and together they hop in a time machine to go back
to the future where zany family hijinks ensue.
Now, although I haven’t seen it, I must mention
that the 3-D version of this film is being touted as a masterpiece. After
countless appalling 3-D efforts being used as only a tacky ‘gotcha’
gimmicks, apparently they got it right this time. Well, 2 or 3-D, either
way it’s a better Disney.
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