Sunday, September 28, 2008

Meet the Robinsons (2007)

Loosely adapted from the picture book "A Day with Wilbur Robinson" by William Joyce (1st ed. 1990).

Lewis is an orphan boy with inventing skills who is transported to the future by another boy; they are chased by a villain who wants to steal one of Lewis's inventions; in the future Lewis meets a bizarre but warm-hearted family.

Sufficiently entertaining; on the other hand, the problem with this (and with most present-day animations) is that there is a surface of movement and prettiness and even occasional inventivity all of which revolve around a somewhat trite core.

Rating: 55

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