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Meet the Robinsons
Meet the Robinsons is a 2007 American animated science fiction comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, based on the 1990 children's book A Day with Wilbur Robinson by William Joyce. The film was directed by Stephen Anderson, and written by Anderson, Don Hall, Nathan Greno, Joe Mateo, Jon Bernstein, Michelle Spitz, and Aurian Redson, and stars the voices of Daniel Hansen, Jordan Fry, Wesley Singerman, Angela Bassett, Tom Selleck, Harland Williams, Laurie Metcalf, Nicole Sullivan, Adam West, Ethan Sandler, Tom Kenny, and Anderson. It follows an orphaned 12-year-old inventor, Lewis, who is desperate to be adopted. He meets Wilbur Robinson, a young time-traveler who takes him to the year 2037 to visit his eccentric family. They must prevent a mysterious bowler-hatted man from changing Lewis's fate, and, by proxy, the future.
Development began in 2002, with production starting in 2004 under the working title A Day with Wilbur Robinson, with a release initially slated for 2006. Anderson developed a personal connection to the main character, Lewis, as he himself grew up an orphan and was later adopted. Disney originally planned to adopt Joyce's style, but it was decided to slightly rework the style due to his involvement stylistically in Blue Sky Studios' Robots. The animation crew had the challenge to animate CG humans, being inspired by Pixar's The Incredibles. Inspiration for the film came from Disney animated classics, such as Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella, and Peter Pan, as well as Warner Bros. Cartoons, to capture a 1950s aesthetic. Disney's acquisition of Pixar in early 2006 led to nearly 60% of the film, including the villain and the ending, being scrapped and reworked. Danny Elfman composed the film's score, while artists such as Rufus Wainwright, Rob Thomas, The All-American Rejects, and They Might Be Giants contributed to its soundtrack.
Meet the Robinsons premiered at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles on March 25, 2007, and was released in the United States on March 30. The film received generally positive reviews from critics but was a box office disappointment, grossing $170.5 million against a budget of $150 million.
In 2007, Lewis, an orphaned 12-year-old boy who is an aspiring scientist and inventor, wants to get adopted. However, his energetic behavior and malfunctioning inventions frequently scare off prospective parents, so he embarks on a mission to locate his birth mother, who left him at the orphanage when he was an infant. To do so, he conceives an invention that will scan his memories and help him identify her.
Lewis takes his Memory Scanner to his school's science fair, where he meets Wilbur Robinson, a mysterious boy who claims to be from the future, warning him about a tall man wearing a sentient robotic bowler hat (nicknamed the "Bowler Hat Guy") who stole a time machine. During Lewis' presentation, the Bowler Hat Guy's hat robot, Doris, secretly causes the Memory Scanner to malfunction, throwing the science fair into chaos. After Lewis leaves the fair, the Bowler Hat Guy steals the Memory Scanner, intending to pitch it as his own to an invention company called InventCo. Labs, but fails when he doesn't know how it works.
Back at the orphanage, Wilbur attempts to motivate Lewis into fixing the Memory Scanner by taking him in a second time machine to 2037, which is highly advanced technologically. Lewis, however, theorizes that he can simply use the time machine to go back and prevent his mother from giving him up; an ensuing argument between the boys leads to the time machine crashing. Wilbur asks Lewis to fix the time machine, and Lewis agrees on the condition that Wilbur take him to see his mother afterwards.
At the Robinsons' house, Lewis meets the rest of the family, except for Cornelius, Wilbur's father and the inventor of the time's technologies, who is on a business trip. Throughout the visit, the Robinsons emphasize the "Keep Moving Forward" motto, encouraging Lewis to learn from his mistakes. Meanwhile, the Bowler Hat Guy, having followed Lewis, tries to kidnap him by bringing a dinosaur from the past, but it is foiled by the Robinsons. The family later offers to adopt Lewis, but change their mind when they learn that he is from the past. Wilbur admits lying to Lewis about taking him back to see his mother, causing Lewis to run off in disgust.
Lewis meets the Bowler Hat Guy, who offers to take him to his mother. Shortly after, the Bowler Hat Guy reveals that Lewis is Wilbur's father, and that he himself is the adult version of Lewis' roommate, Goob, who developed a grudge against Lewis after his constant work on the Memory Scanner indirectly caused a tired Goob to lose a Little League Baseball game. Eventually, Goob met Doris, who was a failed and abandoned Robinson invention, and the two decided to team up and ruin Lewis' life.
Meet the Robinsons
Meet the Robinsons is a 2007 American animated science fiction comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios, based on the 1990 children's book A Day with Wilbur Robinson by William Joyce. The film was directed by Stephen Anderson, and written by Anderson, Don Hall, Nathan Greno, Joe Mateo, Jon Bernstein, Michelle Spitz, and Aurian Redson, and stars the voices of Daniel Hansen, Jordan Fry, Wesley Singerman, Angela Bassett, Tom Selleck, Harland Williams, Laurie Metcalf, Nicole Sullivan, Adam West, Ethan Sandler, Tom Kenny, and Anderson. It follows an orphaned 12-year-old inventor, Lewis, who is desperate to be adopted. He meets Wilbur Robinson, a young time-traveler who takes him to the year 2037 to visit his eccentric family. They must prevent a mysterious bowler-hatted man from changing Lewis's fate, and, by proxy, the future.
Development began in 2002, with production starting in 2004 under the working title A Day with Wilbur Robinson, with a release initially slated for 2006. Anderson developed a personal connection to the main character, Lewis, as he himself grew up an orphan and was later adopted. Disney originally planned to adopt Joyce's style, but it was decided to slightly rework the style due to his involvement stylistically in Blue Sky Studios' Robots. The animation crew had the challenge to animate CG humans, being inspired by Pixar's The Incredibles. Inspiration for the film came from Disney animated classics, such as Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella, and Peter Pan, as well as Warner Bros. Cartoons, to capture a 1950s aesthetic. Disney's acquisition of Pixar in early 2006 led to nearly 60% of the film, including the villain and the ending, being scrapped and reworked. Danny Elfman composed the film's score, while artists such as Rufus Wainwright, Rob Thomas, The All-American Rejects, and They Might Be Giants contributed to its soundtrack.
Meet the Robinsons premiered at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles on March 25, 2007, and was released in the United States on March 30. The film received generally positive reviews from critics but was a box office disappointment, grossing $170.5 million against a budget of $150 million.
In 2007, Lewis, an orphaned 12-year-old boy who is an aspiring scientist and inventor, wants to get adopted. However, his energetic behavior and malfunctioning inventions frequently scare off prospective parents, so he embarks on a mission to locate his birth mother, who left him at the orphanage when he was an infant. To do so, he conceives an invention that will scan his memories and help him identify her.
Lewis takes his Memory Scanner to his school's science fair, where he meets Wilbur Robinson, a mysterious boy who claims to be from the future, warning him about a tall man wearing a sentient robotic bowler hat (nicknamed the "Bowler Hat Guy") who stole a time machine. During Lewis' presentation, the Bowler Hat Guy's hat robot, Doris, secretly causes the Memory Scanner to malfunction, throwing the science fair into chaos. After Lewis leaves the fair, the Bowler Hat Guy steals the Memory Scanner, intending to pitch it as his own to an invention company called InventCo. Labs, but fails when he doesn't know how it works.
Back at the orphanage, Wilbur attempts to motivate Lewis into fixing the Memory Scanner by taking him in a second time machine to 2037, which is highly advanced technologically. Lewis, however, theorizes that he can simply use the time machine to go back and prevent his mother from giving him up; an ensuing argument between the boys leads to the time machine crashing. Wilbur asks Lewis to fix the time machine, and Lewis agrees on the condition that Wilbur take him to see his mother afterwards.
At the Robinsons' house, Lewis meets the rest of the family, except for Cornelius, Wilbur's father and the inventor of the time's technologies, who is on a business trip. Throughout the visit, the Robinsons emphasize the "Keep Moving Forward" motto, encouraging Lewis to learn from his mistakes. Meanwhile, the Bowler Hat Guy, having followed Lewis, tries to kidnap him by bringing a dinosaur from the past, but it is foiled by the Robinsons. The family later offers to adopt Lewis, but change their mind when they learn that he is from the past. Wilbur admits lying to Lewis about taking him back to see his mother, causing Lewis to run off in disgust.
Lewis meets the Bowler Hat Guy, who offers to take him to his mother. Shortly after, the Bowler Hat Guy reveals that Lewis is Wilbur's father, and that he himself is the adult version of Lewis' roommate, Goob, who developed a grudge against Lewis after his constant work on the Memory Scanner indirectly caused a tired Goob to lose a Little League Baseball game. Eventually, Goob met Doris, who was a failed and abandoned Robinson invention, and the two decided to team up and ruin Lewis' life.