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Robots is a 2005 American animated scice fiction advture comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by 20th Ctury Fox. The film was directed by Chris Wedge and co-directed by Carlos Saldanha from a screplay by David Lindsay-Abaire and the writing team of Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, based on a story conceived by Lindsay-Abaire, Ron Mita, and Jim McClain. 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 invtor 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 Broadbt) to cheat older robots into buying expsive upgrades.
Developmt on the film began in 2000, wh Wedge and childr's author William Joyce failed to adapt Joyce's 1993 childr's book Santa Calls, thus scrapping the idea and instead doing a story on robots.
Robots premiered at the Mann Village Theatre in Westwood, Los Angeles on March 6, 2005, and was released in the United States on March 11. The film received favorable reviews from critics, who praised the film's humor and creativity, but gerally deemed its story and characters to be somewhat unoriginal and forgettable.
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The film was commercially successful, grossing over $262 million worldwide against a $75–80 million budget. A sequel was discussed, but never produced due to the studio's heavier focus on its flagship franchise, Ice Age.
In Rivet Town of a world populated by stit robots, Rodney Copperbottom, son of Herb and Lydia Copperbottom, is an aspiring young invtor. He idolizes Bigweld, a famous invtor, trepreur, and philanthropist whose company, Bigweld Industries, hires other invtors 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. Wh Herb's supervisor confronts them, Wonderbot malfunctions and wreaks havoc in the kitch.
In an attempt to help Herb pay for the damages, Rodney decides to move to Robot City, hoping to prest Wonderbot to Bigweld Industries. Upon his arrival, Rodney is ejected from Bigweld Industries by the company's currt head, Phineas T. Ratchet, who, in Bigweld's absce, has stopped producing spare parts and invtions in favor of expsive upgrades, thereby outmoding robots who are unable or unwilling to pay for them. Meanwhile, Ratchet's mother, Madame Gasket, runs the Chop Shop, a facility that collects scrap, spare parts, and outmoded robots and recycles them into ingots for upgrades.
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Rodney befrids Fder Pinwheeler, a ne'er-do-well he met at the train station. Fder takes him in to a boarding home populated by other outmodes, known collectively as the Rusties. Word of Rodney's mechanical prowess spreads, and he is hailed as a local hero after he and the Rusties fix outmodes throughout the neighborhood, although they are evtually unable to cope with the demand due to the spare part shortage. Hoping to list Bigweld's help, Rodney and Fder infiltrate the Bigweld Ball – where Bigweld usually makes an appearance – only for Ratchet to announce that Bigweld will not attd. raged, Rodney publicly berates Ratchet, who orders his security team to eliminate him. Cappy, a Bigweld Industries executive opposed to Ratchet's plans, rescues Rodney and Fder. Fder is captured by a Sweeper, a Chop Shop refuse collection vehicle, where he discovers Gasket and Ratchet's plan to use a fleet of Super-Sweepers to collectively scrap and smelt every outmode in the city.
Meanwhile, Rodney and Cappy fly to Bigweld's mansion, where they evtually find Bigweld and tell him what has be going on. Bigweld reveals Ratchet's greed and business sse dwarfed his idealism in the managemt of Bigweld Industries, leading to his resignation, and tells Rodney and Cappy to leave. Crushed, Rodney calls his parts and plans to return to Rivet Town. Herb courages Rodney to fight for his dreams, or he will spd the rest of his life regretting it like Herb did. Fder returns upon escaping from the Chop Shop and reveals Ratchet and Gasket's plot. Rodney rallies Cappy and the Rusties to stop them. They are joined by Bigweld, who has regained his resolve after Rodney helped him realize how much his ideals meant to himself.
The group returns to Bigweld Industries where Bigweld tries firing Ratchet, who ultimately knocks him unconscious, planning on recycling him as well. Rodney, Cappy, and Wonderbot rescue Bigweld from Ratchet and escape with the Rusties in a security vehicle with Ratchet close behind. Rodney unclips Ratchet's vehicle to break free, but their vehicle loses control in front of the Chop Shop and Bigweld is rolled inside. Rodney upgrades the Rusties to rescue Bigweld. Rodney, Cappy, and the Rusties, alongside an army of outmodes that Rodney had repaired earlier, battle Ratchet, Gasket, and their army of workers. Rodney and Bigweld immobilize the Super-Sweepers and defeat Ratchet, who accidtally kills Gasket by knocking her into the incinerator while trying to escape. Ratchet is accidtally stripped of his upgrades and left chained to the ceiling with his father.
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Taking back control of Bigweld Industries, Bigweld promises to make spare parts available to everyone. Later, he holds a public ceremony in Rivet Town, where he nominates Rodney as his new second-in-command and evtual successor. Rodney provides Herb with new replacemt parts and a flugelhorn-like instrumt to fulfill his dream of being a musician. After a shaky start, Herb leads Rodney, Cappy, the Rusties, Bigweld, and the townspeople in a rousing rdition of Get Up Offa That Thing.
Halle Berry (Cappy), Greg Kinnear (Phineas T. Ratchet), Robin Williams (Fder Pinwheeler), Amanda Bynes (Piper Pinwheeler) and Honda's ASIMO robot at the film's premiere in Westwood, Los Angeles
Rivet Town was rumored to be based on Watertown, New York, where director Chris Wedge lived during his tes. However, Wedge dismissed this in an interview.
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Initially, Chris Wedge and William Joyce had decided to make a film adaptation of Joyce's book, Santa Calls. After a failed animation test in 2000, Wedge and Joyce decided to develop an original story about a world of robots instead. In 2001, the duo pitched the concept to th-20th Ctury Fox Animation presidt Chris Meledandri, as a visual idea. While not initially impressed, Meledandri agreed to grelight the film, and served as the executive producer.
The film began production in 2002, shortly after Ice Age was released. Wedge reunited with the crew from his first film, including Carlos Saldanha as the co-director. In June 2003, the film was announced by Fox at the American Museum of Natural History's IMAX theater. This announcemt confirmed the tire cast, and slated the film for its 2005 release.
And it was released theatrically on March 11, 2005. The film was the first to feature the new trailer for Star Wars: Episode III – Revge of the Sith, where it was reported that Star Wars fans wt to see the movie just to see the trailer and hear the voice of Ewan McGregor, who also played Obi-Wan Kobi in the Star Wars prequel trilogy, as Rodney Copperbottom. The film also featured the exclusive trailer for Blue Sky's next film Ice Age: The Meltdown, th called Ice Age 2.
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Robots was digitally re-mastered into IMAX format (IMAX DMR) and released in select IMAX theatres around the world. It was the first 20th Ctury Fox film that was released on the same day on IMAX and convtional 35mm scres. It was also the first IMAX DMR film released in the spring season, and the second IMAX DMR film distributed by Fox.
The film was released March 11, 2005, in the United States and Canada and grossed $36 million in 3, 776 theaters its oping weekd, ranking #1 at the box office.
On Rott Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 64% based on 184 reviews, with an average rating of 6.6/10. The site's conssus reads: Robots delights on a visual level, but the story feels like it came off an assembly line.
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Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the film three and a half stars out of four, stating that this is a movie that is a joy to behold tirely apart from what it is about. It looks happy, and, more to the point, it looks harmonious.
Caroline Westbrook of the Empire magazine gave the film a three out of five stars and said, Kids will love it and their adult companions will be warmly tertained—but it's far from a computer-animated classic.
Rob Mackie of The Guardian gave the film a three out of five stars, saying, skilfully combines adult and kids' comedy. But For all the imaginative spldours and a sharp script, Robots is never quite as distinctive as its predecessor, Ice Age.
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Common Sse Media gave the film a four out of five stars and said: dearing 'follow your dreams' story with plty of laughs.
Robots won an ASCAP award in the category of top box office films. The movie received two Annie Award nominations (Outstanding Character Design in a Feature Production and Outstanding
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