Robots

Robots is a 2005 American computer-animated science fiction adventure comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by Chris Wedge and produced by Jerry Davis, William Joyce, and John C. Donkin, and stars the voices of Ewan McGregor, Halle Berry, Greg Kinnear, Mel Brooks, Amanda Bynes, Drew Carey, and Robin Williams.

Plot
In a world of sentient robots, striving young inventor Rodney Copperbottom wants to work for the avuncular Bigweld, whose Bigweld Industries makes spare robot parts. But Bigweld has just been deposed as company head by the villainous Phineas T. Ratchet, who wants to make all robots submit to profitable forced upgrades. In this animated adventure, Rodney and his friend Fender go underground to fight Ratchet's evil plans.

Good Qualities

 * 1) Blue Sky Studios was able to make lightning strike a second time.
 * 2) Very smooth animation and eye-catching visuals. The sci-fi robotic setting has every detail featured in it absolutely pop.
 * 3) * Robot City, for example, has a unique and cartoony animation and design style that's aged surprisingly well. The character designs' are also creative and even their movements work in their favor.
 * 4) Incredible world-building.
 * 5) Plenty of likable characters in the movie:
 * 6) *Rodney Copperbottom is an idealistic young blue humanoid robot and aspiring inventor who idolizes Bigweld, having grown up watching his show and taking to heart Bigweld's philosophies in hopes of helping to improve the world through his inventions. His ideals are later tested once he arrives at Robot City and discovers that Bigweld is no longer in charge of his company, and working-class robots are being jeopardized through the actions of the arrogant Ratchet, leaving Rodney and his new-found allies to journey in order to track down Bigweld and save Robot City.
 * 7) *Fender Pinwheeler is a troublemaking red blender-like robot who befriends Rodney and is constantly falling apart. He's clumsy, opportunistic red bot and member of a group of outmodes called the Rusties who suffers from the misfortune of his parts constantly falling off his body. He's one of the first robots Rodney meets upon arriving in Robot City, and despite having a rocky first encounter, becomes Rodney's best friend. He serves as a good comic relief in spite of his tendencies to be annoying at times (see BQ#2).
 * 8) *Piper Pinwheeler, a feisty yellow tomboy robot who is Fender's younger sister. A young, feisty, and tomboyish yellow female robot and a member of the Rusties, as well as Fender's younger sister. Developing a crush on Rodney when she first meets him, she quickly becomes one of the blue bot's closest friends and strongest supporters, even if her brother tends to drive her up the wall at times.
 * 9) *Bigweld an elderly sphere robot who is the jolly inventor and the owner of Bigweld Industries. He serves as Rodney's idol since childhood and the founder of the immensely powerful Bigweld Industries whose imagination has created the metropolis of whimsical mechanical marvels, Robot City.
 * 10) *Herb and Lydia Copperbottom (Rodney's parents) who always supported about their only son Rodney and his dreams and cares much about him, since they didn't have much money to buy parts for their son and they gave him second hand parts, to make Rodney have a happy childhood.
 * 11) Top-notch voice acting from voice actors like Ewan McGregor, Halle Berry, Greg Kinnear, Mel Brooks, Amanda Bynes, Drew Carey, and Robin Williams. Each actor's performance delivers a great deal of color and personality to their characters.
 * 12) Cool soundtrack by John Powell (his first film from Blue Sky ever) that perfectly fits the sci fi setting the film takes place in, as well as the events that occur when said tracks are playing.
 * 13) It delivers some strong messages about following your dreams and never giving up even when life gets tough and it seems like you won't be able to achieve your dreams.
 * 14) The whole childhood montage that shows Rodney growing up is is cute and funny.
 * 15) Has a good moral thanks to the line: "You can shine no matter what you're made of."
 * 16) The marble train scene is extremely well-remembered, for perfectly illustrating the movie's crazy, yet very inventive nature.
 * 17) Fender dancing to “Baby One More Time” is also comical.
 * 18) The party scene is very impressive.
 * 19) The scene where Rodney gets magnetized and gets chased by metallic debris is pretty funny.
 * 20) Madame Gasket, despite having a little bit of screen-time, is an amazing antagonist, she was the one who was behind the plot of the movie. She is the one who told Ratchet all these evil ideas, and the one who tried to outmode robots and kill Bigweld, so she and her son can take over robot city.
 * 21) *Her son, Phineas T. Ratchet, is also an enjoyable villain. In spite of his wimpiness, he symbolizes how greed can push people to do horribly reprehensible deeds, like him planning to scrap all the robots that couldn't afford their new upgrades. His relationship with his mother shows a camaraderie of a poisonous yet loving relationship between a mother and son.

Bad Qualities

 * 1) Some of the jokes are very immature and unsuitable for a kids' film. For example; when Rodney and Fender are sleeping, they start doing armpit farts in Aunt Fanny's House. This reaches a point where Aunt Fanny actually farts, which was so bad, it kills a lamppost robot (complete with a chalk outline on the sidewalk the next morning).
 * 2) *There is the beginning scene where Herb hammers a robot private part to the main character in order to make it a boy.
 * 3) *That one scene where Fender's arms fall off becomes less funny when you find out 9 years after the movie was released, his voice actor Robin Williams killed himself by hanging himself with a belt, in fact making the scene outdated.
 * 4) Although still likable and a good comic relief, Fender can be annoying at times.
 * 5) The story is probably the weakest aspect of the movie, being somewhat cliched.
 * 6) Madame Gasket, despite being a unique antagonist, has a little bit of screen time in the film. There were a few deleted scenes featuring her in the "sneak peek".
 * 7) *Lug and Diesel, the respective green and blue robots of the Rusties, don't get much in the way of development compared to the other characters. While Diesel's character mainly consists of the occasional Pantomime joke, Lug's character is reduced to a few lines throughout the whole movie, though a deleted scene implies that they originally planned for him to have somewhat of a short temper.

Critical response
Robots received mixed to positive reviews, with praise for its animation, humor and voice performances, notably McGregor's and Williams', while the storyline was criticized. On the review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film has a rating of 64% based on 177 reviews. The site's consensus reads: "Robots delights on a visual level, but the story feels like it came off an assembly line.". Another review aggregator, Metacritic, gave a score of 64 based on 33 reviews.

Box office
The film was released March 11, 2005, in the United States and Canada and grossed $36 million in 3,776 theaters its opening weekend, ranking #1 at the box office. It grossed a total of $260.7 million worldwide—$128.2 million in the United States and Canada and $132.5 million in other territories.

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Trivia

 * This was the first film to release the final trailer to Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, where it was reported that Star Wars fans went to see this movie just to see the trailer, hear the voice of Ewan McGregor, who also played Obi Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars prequel trilogy, as Rodney Copperbottom and leave.
 * Initially, Chris Wedge and William Joyce had decided to make a film adaptation of Joyce's book, Santa Calls. After a failed animation test in 2000, Wedge and Joyce decided to develop an original story about a world of robots instead. In 2001, the duo pitched the concept to Chris Meledandri, as a visual idea. While not initially impressed, Meledandri agreed to greenlight the film, and served as the executive producer.
 * Many memes have been spawned, such as Bigweld himself recently has become popular with being portrayed as an invincible god-like entity or anime character who can rival or is even seen as more powerful than Shaggy.
 * This is the last Blue Sky Studios film to be released on VHS. All subsequent films would be released on Blu-Ray instead.