Robots

2005 computer-animated science fiction comedy adventure film by Blue Sky Studios and Paramount Pictures

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"Robots" is a 2005 computer-animated film that tells a science fiction comedy adventure story set in a world of mechanical characters. The movie represents an example of early feature-length computer animation from Blue Sky Studios, a technique and genre that would become increasingly important to the film industry.

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Rodney Copperbottom is a young robot inventor who dreams of making the world a better place, until the evil Ratchet takes over Bigweld Industries. Now, Rodney's dreams – and those of his friends – are in danger of becoming obsolete.

Released: 2005-03-1090 minDir: Chris WedgeAnimation, Comedy, Family, Science FictionBudget: $75.0MBox office: $263MPart of: Robots Collection

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Cast

Ewan McGregor as Rodney Copperbottom (voice)
Halle Berry as Cappy (voice)
Greg Kinnear as Ratchet (voice)
Mel Brooks as Bigweld (voice)
Drew Carey as Crank (voice)
Amanda Bynes as Piper (voice)

Themes

inventor
businessman
villain
steampunk
robot
dishonesty
amused

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Duration: 91
FilmAffinity ID: 980599
Official website: www.robotsmovie.com/intl_splash.php?country=IT

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publication date: 2005-00-00
title: Robots
Commons category: Robots (2005 film)
box office: 260700000
review score: 64/100

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Robots is a 2005 American animated science fiction comedy film directed by Chris Wedge and written by David Lindsay-Abaire, Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel. Produced by 20th Century Fox Animation and Blue Sky Studios, 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, who seeks to work for his idol Bigweld's company in Robot City, but discovers a plot by its new leader Phineas T. Ratchet and his mother to forcibly upgrade the city's populace and eradicate struggling robots, known as "outmodes".

Development of the film began in 2000, following a failed attempt by Wedge and children's author William Joyce to adapt Joyce's 1993 children's book Santa Calls. They instead decided to create an original story based on robots. The project was approved by executive producer Chris Meledandri in 2001 and production began the next year.