Rate Robots

[Krug]

So what did you think of the movie?

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

A 7 from me. Not horrible, but not the best. Lots of good hidden jokes in there, especially Mel Brooks' Robot pulling a HAL 9000 with the "Daisy...Daisy..."

 

[D+1]

A 5 from me. The funniest moment in the whole movie is a fart joke and that is a VERY bad sign. It was excellent animation - but editing was INSANELY fast and gave me a headache. It was impossible to watch and actually register anything visually, making all the otherwise fine animation a waste. There were plenty of in-jokes/references as you might expect but there was nothing funny about them.

That, in fact, was the problem with the movie as a whole. It wasn't funny. It was barely even amusing. Even Robin Williams ad-libs couldn't keep it from wallowing in the catastrophe of the rest of the script. The writing here was simply so uninspired it hurt. Characters are all shallow and insipid. Plotting was horrifically predictable. Action scenes failed to induce excitement. Voice acting was all phoned in with the exceptions of Williams (though definitely not great work), and possibly Drew Carey.

It works best for small kids with absolutely no attention span. I wasn't BORED but definitely thought it didn't deserve more than a matinee admission price. With the exception of the fart joke there isn't a thing about it that remains memorable a day after seeing it.

Actually, now that I write this, I think it honestly deserves only 4/10 not 5 because it is BELOW average in entertainment value.

 

[TheAuldGrump]

I give it a 2 or 3 out of 10, fully as bad as Shark's Tale. I should have known better when they kept hyping that it was the same people as Ice Age, which wasn't that hot either. It made me want to get The Incredibles on DVD.

The Auld Grump

 

[Krug]

Top movie this past weekend and only 7 ppl saw it here?

 

[frankthedm]

Looks like the borrrowed from futurama a fair amount. The villian reminds me of a wussed up Megabyte from Reboot.

 

[Greylock]

Gotta love this poll. Curves? Who said polls needed curves?

 

[Desdichado]

Actually, now that I write this, I think it honestly deserves only 4/10 not 5 because it is BELOW average in entertainment value.

Which is what I gave it. I didn't particularly think the fart joke was all that funny, but neither were any of the others. I chuckled bemusedly a handful of times, but I wasn't terribly entertained. When my 18-month old started acting up, I volunteered to take him to the lobby a few times, but came back in pretty quick, so I only missed a few minutes of the show tops. Sadly, the Star Wars trailer was more entertaining that the feature presentation.

I think The Auld Grump is about right; I also had compared it to Shark Tale in quality, which is basically that I don't regret seeing it, but I'm certainly not lining up to buy it, even if it's for my kids and I don't expect to be watching it myself. Nowhere near a Shrek or a Pixar movie in entertainment value. Speaking of which, The Incredibles comes out on DVD today. That one, on the other hand, is my favorite animated movie of all time.

 

[TheAuldGrump]

You talked me into it, I am going out and buying The Incredibles.

The only line in Robots that I thought was worth repeating was the "Daisy" scene.

The Auld Grump, not that it is hard to talk me into getting Pixar movies...

 

[Lord Pendragon]

So it seems Robots's claim of being "more incredible than The Incredibles" was something of an exaggeration.