Meet The Robinsons
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Now what are the odds of that, droosan?
If you can't locate a theater showing Meet The Robinsons in Disney Digital 3D, try using this: Find A READ D Digital 3D Cinema Near You
I've discovered there's a REAL D theater in the same place I'm seeing Sarah Vowell next week. Wednesday promises to be a fun day.
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If you can't locate a theater showing Meet The Robinsons in Disney Digital 3D, try using this: Find A READ D Digital 3D Cinema Near You
I've discovered there's a REAL D theater in the same place I'm seeing Sarah Vowell next week. Wednesday promises to be a fun day.
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Why not rest your eyes on this awesme sketch of Bowler Hat Guy (from the Animation Guild Blog.)
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You can’t just have your characters announce how they feel! That makes me feel angry!
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Had to post what this one reviewer said: (Jeff Vice, Desert Morning News)
"Produced by Pixar" Ooooooookay......As it is, this digitally animated science-fiction comedy has to settle for being sort of goofy and cool. It's certainly one of the more imaginative-looking Disney cartoons in recent memory. It also has one of the better stories for a Disney-released cartoon produced by Pixar, even if portions seem ripped off from the "Back to the Future" movies.
You can’t just have your characters announce how they feel! That makes me feel angry!
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I find one thing interesting, aside from box office grosses: (and yeah, RT numbers don't mean THAT much, but then box office grosses aren't always e=mc squared either )
Meet the Robinsons: 66% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes
Cars: 76% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.
Both films had their strenghts and weaknesses. But I find it interesting that the scores are so close compared to other years, like, let's say:
Incredibles: 97% or whatever it was, and Chicken Little: 37% (ouch )
But wait!! Many point to Treasure Planet as the "huge disaster" that sunk WDFA and was a signpost to all the bad films they'd put out afterwards...I checked it on RT, and lo and behold....Treasure Planet is 72%.....only four points below Cars, which was 76%.
IMHO, a lot of the bad reviews for films like CL and overwhelmingly good reviews for Incredibles and Nemo had to do (somewhat) with their respective qualities (although this is arguable in the case of CL, which I very much enjoyed, although I can see some of the critic's quibbles) but also on the period in which they came out....2003--2005 were the years in which Pixar Could Do No Wrong, and Walt Disney animation was going down the tubes, supposadely.
I think now, after Cars, which was a decent film but perhaps not the Citizen Kane that critics were expecting after Incredibles, critic's viewpoints have eased up a bit on Disney and non-Pixar films in general.
I think, now that CGI is much more established, they're a lot more objective, at least relatively.
All in all, while Chicken Little was not a perfect film, I definetely think it deserved higher than 37%.....probably more along the lines of what Treasure Planet got...72% or something.....Treasure Planet was pre-Nemo remember, before it became uber-fashionable to trash Disney and anyone who wasn't Pixar.
Just my thoughts.
Meet the Robinsons: 66% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes
Cars: 76% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.
Both films had their strenghts and weaknesses. But I find it interesting that the scores are so close compared to other years, like, let's say:
Incredibles: 97% or whatever it was, and Chicken Little: 37% (ouch )
But wait!! Many point to Treasure Planet as the "huge disaster" that sunk WDFA and was a signpost to all the bad films they'd put out afterwards...I checked it on RT, and lo and behold....Treasure Planet is 72%.....only four points below Cars, which was 76%.
IMHO, a lot of the bad reviews for films like CL and overwhelmingly good reviews for Incredibles and Nemo had to do (somewhat) with their respective qualities (although this is arguable in the case of CL, which I very much enjoyed, although I can see some of the critic's quibbles) but also on the period in which they came out....2003--2005 were the years in which Pixar Could Do No Wrong, and Walt Disney animation was going down the tubes, supposadely.
I think now, after Cars, which was a decent film but perhaps not the Citizen Kane that critics were expecting after Incredibles, critic's viewpoints have eased up a bit on Disney and non-Pixar films in general.
I think, now that CGI is much more established, they're a lot more objective, at least relatively.
All in all, while Chicken Little was not a perfect film, I definetely think it deserved higher than 37%.....probably more along the lines of what Treasure Planet got...72% or something.....Treasure Planet was pre-Nemo remember, before it became uber-fashionable to trash Disney and anyone who wasn't Pixar.
Just my thoughts.
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Animated Views' review is up:
http://animated-views.com/2007/meet-the-robinsons-film/
http://animated-views.com/2007/meet-the-robinsons-film/
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I know Vi, such a shameBut wait!! Many point to Treasure Planet as the "huge disaster" that sunk WDFA and was a signpost to all the bad films they'd put out afterwards...I checked it on RT, and lo and behold....Treasure Planet is 72%.....only four points below Cars, which was 76%.
It just didnt find an audience, Sci fi in animation is a really hard thing to sell to a wide audience, people don't seem interested in it.
It was the same with Titan A.E., black cauldron, Atlantis,etc...
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Great review James,
I really liked robinsons but my main problem with the movie was that it was waaaay to short and as you mentioned didnt get to spend enough time with a lot of the characters.
Tiny who made it on every single posters was hardly in it,
At the end he seems to be their pet, but you can only find that out for yourself if you pay close attention to whats happening in the background and saw his dogtag on the posters
I really liked robinsons but my main problem with the movie was that it was waaaay to short and as you mentioned didnt get to spend enough time with a lot of the characters.
Tiny who made it on every single posters was hardly in it,
At the end he seems to be their pet, but you can only find that out for yourself if you pay close attention to whats happening in the background and saw his dogtag on the posters
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Um, no, I'm pretty sure Incredibles and Nemo have high ratings because they were good movies. Chicken Little was not. If The Incredibles came out next week, it would probably get the same ratings it has now. Likewise with CL - critics wouldn't have liked it regardless of whether or not it came out in 2004 or 2005.IMHO, a lot of the bad reviews for films like CL and overwhelmingly good reviews for Incredibles and Nemo had to do (somewhat) with their respective qualities (although this is arguable in the case of CL, which I very much enjoyed, although I can see some of the critic's quibbles) but also on the period in which they came out....2003--2005 were the years in which Pixar Could Do No Wrong, and Walt Disney animation was going down the tubes, supposadely.
Treasure Planet and Atlantis were okay, but I kept feeling throughout both films that they could have been more. Even people who worked on Black Cauldron hated it, and I turned off Titan A.E. after about 20 minutes into it.It just didnt find an audience, Sci fi in animation is a really hard thing to sell to a wide audience, people don't seem interested in it.
It was the same with Titan A.E., black cauldron, Atlantis,etc...
Animated sci-fi films (with a good marketing campaign, anyway) would probably do wonderfully if a great movie in that genre was released. I'm sure I'm not the only one who's noticing the rapidly growing number of sci-fi animated films coming out in a few years...