Movie #23 - Robots

Title: Robots

Director: Chris Wedge and Carlos Saldahna

Release Year: 2005

Plot Summary: A little robot with big dreams goes to the city to meet his idol and become an inventor. Unfortunately, not everything is exactly the way it looks on television, and trouble is brewing in Robot City...

Thoughts: The more I think about it, the more this movie really didn't do anything for me. It just felt like someone watched all the Pixar movies, said "Hey, we can do that!" and then completely missed the point. As loathe as I am to say it - oh, who am I kidding, I love saying things like this! - Robots just didn't have a soul.

What made it truly annoying, though, was the completely hit-and-miss approach to funny jokes/gags. For every completely hilarious 2001: A Space Odyssey reference or similar, there was an even more terrible Britney Spears reference or suchlike. It appears that there were four writers for the movie - looking back, I'd say one of them was funny, and the other three should have been shot in advance.

Rating (0-10): 2.5

Recomendations: Go see Monsters, Inc. again. Monster city >> robot city.