Meet the Robinsons [Blu-ray]

Meet the Robinsons [Blu-ray] Review

If you're looking for a funny animated film which is a little off-the-wall, "Meet the Robinsons" should satisfy. I would say it is more of a family-oriented movie with simple messages kids of any age can learn. While I didn't find it as fulfilling as recent films like "Wall-E" or "Up", it was still rather entertaining in its own way.

Lewis is a 12 year-old orphan who loves science and tries to invent things, though not always successfully. After over a hundred unsuccessful adoption interviews, he decides to invent something which can display a person's memories on a TV screen so that he would be able to see his mother who abandoned him years ago. Perhaps she gave him up originally because she couldn't care for him and is now ready to do so. Lewis is desperate to find a loving family to be his own.

Taking the device to a science fair, Lewis encounters Wilbur Robinson, a 13 year old boy from the future. Wilbur has come to protect Lewis from an evil guy wearing a bowler hat. He isn't successful. The evil man - whose bowler hat seems to have a mind of its own and is smarter than its wearer - sabotages and then steals Lewis' invention. Soon Lewis ends up in the future with Wilbur via a time machine which is then quickly damaged. Wilbur says it's up to Lewis to fix the machine, but Lewis feels defeated after so many failed experiments.

While in the future, Lewis accidentally encounters Wilbur's odd extended family. The grandfather leads him around, showing him a variety of sights including the woman with a singing band of frogs with a Sinatra-type lead, an almost-superhero who actually delivers pizzas in a spacecraft, and the twins who hide near the front door asking people to ring their doorbell. Lewis quickly feels at home with the odd bunch, a feeling that only increases after they protect him from the bowler hat guy who arrives in his own stolen time machine to take Lewis away. In the end there is still the question of Lewis possibly discovering who his real mother was.

The storyline is somewhat simple which makes it good for all ages. All the time Wilbur is trying to encourage Lewis to believe in himself and to "keep moving forward" and learn from mistakes instead of getting down. It's a good simple message for everyone and the goofball characters provide it in a rather entertaining fashion.

Meet the Robinsons [Blu-ray] Feature

• ISBN13: 0786936726534
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

Meet the Robinsons [Blu-ray] Overview

Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 10/23/2007 Run time: 114 minutes Rating: Pg

Meet the Robinsons [Blu-ray] Specifications

Developing positive self-esteem and persevering in the face of difficulties are fundamental parts of growing up, but when 12-year old orphan Lewis (Daniel Hansen and Jordan Fry) can't seem to get adopted or make his inventions work despite repeated efforts, he begins to seriously doubt himself and his abilities as an inventor. A CGI picture by Disney with great animation and a fresh vision of what the future might look like, Meet The Robinsons follows Lewis from his lonesome days at the orphanage to his crushing failure at the school science fair when his newly invented memory scanner won't work. Then, an odd boy named Wilbur Robinson (Wesley Singerman) shows up to warn Lewis about the mysterious "Bowler Hat Guy" (Stephen J Anderson) lurking around the science fair, an evil man Wilbur claims is from the future. The next thing Lewis knows, he and Wilbur are on route to the future via time machine. Once there, Lewis meets the very quirky, extended Robinson family with whom he feels oddly at home. As the search for the Bowler Hat Man and his constant companion Doris (Ethan Sandler) becomes more and more dangerous, the Robinson family becomes crucial in keeping Lewis safe. In the end, Lewis returns to the present with a whole new inner strength, a sense of his place in the world, the knowledge that his actions directly affect others, and an optimistic determination to "keep moving forward." While comparisons with the Back to the Future films are inevitable, Meet the Robinsons stands apart from its predecessors as its own, thoroughly entertaining family film. (Ages 4 and older)

Included is the seven-minute 1938 short Mickey Mouse's Boat Builder in which Mickey Mouse, Goofy, and Donald Duck order and assemble a do-it-yourself boat kit and launch an impressive ocean liner dubbed the "Queen Minnie." Needless to say, hilarity reigns throughout and following the boat-building process. --Tami Horiuchi

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