Robots
Robots is a 2005 American computer-animated science fiction adventure comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by 20th Century Fox. The film was directed by Chris Wedge and co-directed by Carlos Saldanha from a screenplay by David Lindsay-Abaire, Lowell Ganz, and Babaloo Mandel, based on a story by Ron Mita, Jim McClain, and Lindsay-Abaire. It stars the voices of Ewan McGregor, Halle Berry, Greg Kinnear, Mel Brooks, Amanda Bynes, Drew Carey and Robin Williams. The story follows an ambitious inventor robot named Rodney Copperbottom (McGregor), who seeks out his idol Bigweld (Brooks) to work for his company in Robot City, only to discover a plot by its new owner Ratchet (Kinnear) and his mother (Jim Broadbent) to cheat older robots into buying expensive upgrades.
Plot
In a world populated by sentient robots, Rodney Copperbottom, son of Herb and Lydia Copperbottom, is an aspiring young inventor. He idolizes Bigweld, a famous inventor, entrepreneur, and philanthropist whose company, Bigweld Industries, hires other inventors and provides robots with spare parts. Following Bigweld's example to "see a need, fill a need", Rodney develops a small, flying robot, named Wonderbot, to assist his father, Herb, who works as a dishwasher at a restaurant. When Herb's supervisor confronts them, Wonderbot malfunctions and wreaks havoc in the kitchen.
More details
author | Babaloo Mandel David Lindsay-Abaire Lowell Ganz |
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director | Carlos Saldanha Chris Wedge |
editor | John Carnochan |
events | invention robot |
genre | adventure animation comedy science fiction |
keywords | capture ceiling chain chop shop crush flugelhorn fly get up offa that thing ingot ne\'er-do-well philanthropist philanthropy plan recycle spare part train station trying to escape |
musicBy | John Powell |
producer | Jerry Davis John C. Donkin William Joyce |
productionCompany | 20th Century Fox Animation Blue Sky Studios |
publisher | 20th Century Fox |
theme | animated |