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Robots - Ewan McGregor, Halle Berry, Mel Brooks, Carlos Saldanha, Chris Wedge

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Repair for adventure!

Academy Award-winning director Chris Wedge (Ice Age) brings his innovative filmmaking magic to Robots, taking the animated feature film genre to a new, exciting level. For the first time ever, an animated feature presents a unique, totally imagined world - a wondrously clanky universe populated solely by mechanical beings. And never has a cast of this calibre - encompassing no less than five Oscar winners, as well as Emmy and Tony honourees - been brought together for an animated feature.

In the film you'll meet memorable 'bots Rodney Copperbottom (Ewan McGregor), a young genius inventor who dreams of making the world a better place; Cappy (Halle Berry), a beautiful executive 'bot with whom Rodney is instantly smitten; the nefarious corporate tyrant Ratchet (Greg Kinnear) who locks horns with Rodney; Bigweld (Mel Brooks), a master inventor who has lost his way; and a group of misfit ‘bots known as the Rusties, led by Fender (Robin Williams) and Piper Pinwheeler (Amanda Bynes).

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Target demographic movie keyword propaganda

Film animation cartoon adventure comedy robot inventor

Persons of interest

Paula Abdul .... Watch
Halle Berry .... Cappy
Lucille Bliss .... Pigeon Lady
Jim Broadbent .... Madame Gasket
Mel Brooks .... Bigweld
Amanda Bynes .... Piper
Drew Carey .... Crank
Jennifer Coolidge .... Aunt Fanny
Dylan Denton .... Youngest Rodney
Will Denton .... Young Rodney
Damien Fahey .... Stage Announcer
Lowell Ganz .... Mr Gasket
Paul Giamatti .... Tim the Gate Guard
Dan Hedaya .... Mr Gunk
Jackie Hoffman .... Water Cooler
Greg Kinnear .... Ratchet
Jay Leno .... Fire Hydrant
Natasha Lyonne .... Loretta Geargrinder
Ewan McGregor .... Rodney Copperbottom
Tim Nordquist .... Tin Man
Jansen Panettiere .... Younger Rodney
Al Roker .... Mailbox
Alan Rosenberg .... Jack Hammer
Stephen Tobolowsky .... Bigmouth Executive/Forge
Stanley Tucci .... Herb Copperbottom
Dianne Wiest .... Mrs Copperbottom
Harland Williams .... Lug
Robin Williams .... Fender
Crawford Wilson .... Young Rodney
Lowell Ganz .... Screenwriter
Babaloo Mandel .... Screenwriter
Carlos Saldanha .... Director
Chris Wedge .... Director

Cinematic intelligence sources

Robots official movie site
Robots QuickTime movie trailers
Awards and film festivals:

Annie Awards 2005: Character Design in an Animated Feature Production (William Joyce), Production Design in an Animated Feature Production (William Joyce, Steve Martino)
Online Film Critics Society Awards 2005: Nominated: Best animated feature
Visual Effects Society Awards 2005: Nominated: Outstanding Animated Character in an Animated Motion Picture (Fender - Robin Williams, David Torres, Mark Piretti, Ben Williams)

Studios and distributors:

20th Century Fox

Intelligence analyst

Special Agent Matti

Theatrical report

While not as good as Ice Age, Robots is still as good laugh, with lots of over-the-top moments of guffawing and humorousness. Robin Williams does his usual stand-out shtick but the rest of the cast are bland to the point that I don't recognise any of the famous names (and voices). The drawings are good. um... it's fun.

Robots is a good baby-sitter for baby and sitter alike.