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A glossy, fast-moving animated sci-fi comedy with real visual imagination and a surprisingly pointed undercurrent about class, obsolescence, and corporate control. It’s uneven in character depth and jokes, but the world-building, production design, and energy make it an easy watch for families and animation fans.
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Thu · 1h 30m
Director: Chris Wedge
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Halle Berry, Greg Kinnear
Rodney Copperbottom is a young robot inventor who dreams of making the world a better place, until the evil Ratchet takes over Bigweld Industries. Now, Rodney's dreams – and those of his friends – are in danger of becoming obsolete.
Chris Wedge
Ewan McGregor, Halle Berry, Greg Kinnear
A glossy, fast-moving animated sci-fi comedy with real visual imagination and a surprisingly pointed undercurrent about class, obsolescence, and corporate control. It’s uneven in character depth and jokes, but the world-building, production design, and energy make it an easy watch for families and animation fans.
Robots is a bright, overdesigned piece of mainstream animation that gets a lot of mileage out of its machine-made world. The film’s best asset is its visual invention: every street, gadget, and character detail feels engineered for playful spectacle, and the movie keeps finding new ways to turn scrap metal into personality.
Under the kid-friendly adventure is a fairly blunt but effective story about labor, replacement, and who gets left behind when profit becomes the only value. That gives the movie a little more bite than its reputation suggests, even if the script sometimes rushes past emotional beats in favor of another gag or chase.
It’s not a top-tier animated classic, but it is a lively one, with enough charm, satire, and design flair to justify revisiting. If you’re in the mood for a family film that’s more interested in gears, gadgets, and corporate villainy than sentimental softness, it still holds up reasonably well.
James (Schaffrillas) (3★) · 5112 likes
Fender is canon trans :)
mia lee vicino (3★) · 4721 likes
Robots is straight up a sexy political comedy-thriller, that also functions as an explicit commentary on class conflict & capitalism & propaganda & big pharma & MUCH more, disguised as a feel-good animated kids movie
chloe (5★) · 4653 likes
this movie made me a gay trans communist
Karsten · 3146 likes
jesus christ
Claire (4★) · 3112 likes
I love this movie. I love that aunts fat ass
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A more emotionally polished robot-centered adventure with invention, friendship, and city-sized spectacle.
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class conflict, corporate greed, obsolescence, inventor hero, friendship, self-discovery, satire, family adventure
animated sci-fi, family comedy, corporate satire, class struggle, inventor adventure, early-2000s animation, bright visual design, feel-good rebellion, robot world, broad humor