Meet the Robinsons
Meet the Robinsons (Original title: Meet the Robinsons ) is an American computer animation film and the 47th full-length animated film by Walt Disney Animation Studios from 2007 . It is based on the children's book To Guest at Willi Robinson (original title: A day with Wilbur Robinson ) by William Joyce .
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Lewis is a twelve year old orphan boy whose greatest wish is a family. To find out why his mother gave him away and to look for her, he invents a mind scanner. His roommate, the tired baseball player Michael "Goob" Yagoobian, endures Lewis' explosive mixture of sadness and inventiveness more or less dumbly. Lewis would like to present the mind scanner at a science fair . A mysterious boy named Wilbur, who claims to be from the future, warns Lewis about an evil man in a bowler hat whose goal is to steal the mind scanner. While Lewis prepares for the presentation, his device is sabotaged by that very same person. The mind scanner collapses and Lewis is devastated.
Lewis, disappointed and angry, retires to the roof of the orphanage , where Wilbur will soon arrive. The latter tries to persuade him to repair the mind scanner. Lewis only wants to fix it if Wilbur proves that it really is from the future. Without further ado, he brings Lewis into the future with a time machine. There the two accidentally destroy the time machine in an argument because Lewis wants to go back to the past to keep his mother from giving him away. In the meantime, the melon man steals the mind scanner and wants to pass it off as his own invention. This goes completely wrong as he has no idea how this thing works. That's why he plans to kidnap Lewis.
This one, however, is in the future where he meets the Robinsons, Wilbur's completely crazy family. After a fight with a dinosaur that the melon man brought from the past, the Robinsons want to adopt Lewis immediately, but take it back when they see his blond hair. Angry at Wilbur, Lewis runs away and meets the melon man, whom he also follows. Lewis fixes the mind scanner for him. The melon man ties him up and tells Lewis about his life.
As it turns out, the melon man is the adult goob for whose ruined life he blames Lewis. Since Lewis' loud inventions cost Goob a lot of sleep, he fell asleep while watching a baseball game that was very important to him. Lewis is Wilbur's father, Cornelius. The melon man gets into the past and claims the thought scanner is his invention, but thereby changes the future extremely. The Robinsons' house is empty except for the mind scanner on which Lewis can see what happened: Doris the Melon Man's hat was also patented and reproduced. However, this hat has a life of its own, enslaved humanity and kills its shocked owner.
Lewis is attacked by the Melon Robinson family and can only escape by starting the broken time machine. He travels back in time and prevents Doris from ever being invented by him. Back in the future, the world will fix itself. Lewis also meets his future self before Wilbur takes him into the past. However, on the day when he was abandoned in front of the orphanage. Lewis meets his mother after all, but doesn't stop her from giving him away: the future is more important to him than the past.
At this point it becomes clear that the time machine was built only for this purpose. Lewis doesn't stop his birth mother from giving it away, but rather returns to the competition to showcase the mind scanner, which works this time. He is adopted by one of the jurors. He also meets his future wife Franny, who falls in love with him, and moves into the house he had met in the future. From now on his name is Cornelius Robinson. Before that, however, he goes to the baseball game where Goob fell asleep and yells at him to wake up and catch the ball.
Publications
The film opened in cinemas in numerous countries on March 23, 2007. In its country of production, the United States, the film opened on March 30 of the same year and grossed approximately 96 million US dollars by June . In Germany, where it started on March 29, 2007, the film was seen around 250,000 times.
reception
AO Scott criticized the New York Times on March 30, 2007 that the film was "definitely one of the worst animated films recently released in theaters under the Disney label." A positive opinion of Meet the Robinsons was against it Todd McCarthy from Variety . The film is "cynical" and "amply entertaining" . Children of all ages would follow him with big eyes and would be kept on their toes.
The film-dienst described the story as confused, but also said: “Still, director newcomer Stephen J. Anderson succeeds in conjuring up a little Pixar glamor in this production from Disney - which causes you to be more amazed than you think and let yourself be carried away into a universe in which the impossible seems possible. It helps enormously that the story doesn’t become too emotional as it usually does at Disney, and that the gags are timed sensibly and also appeal to adults. "
The lexicon of international films judges: “ A sometimes somewhat overloaded science fiction adventure, which, despite its reference to well-known models, is still convincing as an independent 3D animation film. Carefree entertainment, which is based on action rather than feeling. "
Honors
- CFCA Awards 2007
nominated:
- Best animated film
- Golden Reel Awards 2008
nominated:
- Best sound editing in an animated film
- Annie Awards 2008
nominated:
- Best score in an animated film
- Best storyboarding for an animated film: Don Hall
Trivia
- In the future at dinner, Uncle Gaston Lewis asked where he was from, he said from Switzerland . But Tallulah said that he was probably referring to Western Austria, because Switzerland has not been used to refer to this area for a long time .
- A quote from Walt Disney is shown at the end of the film .
literature
- William Joyce : Visiting Willi Robinson. (Original title: A day with Wilbur Robinson ). German by Gerd Friedrich . Thienemann, Stuttgart and Vienna 1992, 28 pages, ISBN 3-522-43123-5 .
Web links
- Meet the Robinsons in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Information about the film at Disney.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of Release for Meet the Robinsons . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , March 2007 (PDF; test number: 109 365 K).
- ^ Age rating for Meet the Robinsons . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Insidekino.de
- ↑ AO Scott: A Nerdy Orphan Plows Ahead With a Lot of Familiar Novelties . In: New York Times , March 30, 2007
- ^ Todd McCarthy: Meet the Robinsons . In: Variety, March 29, 2007
- ↑ film service 07/2007
- ^ Journal film-dienst and Catholic Film Commission for Germany (eds.), Horst Peter Koll and Hans Messias (ed.): Lexikon des Internationale Films - Filmjahr 2007. Schüren Verlag, Marburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-89472-624-9 .
