Robots: Critic Reviews

The movie bops along with a happy, jumping, kinetic vitality. Is it a coincidence that R2-D2 looks as if he would fit right in with the misfit bots?

A reminder that when it comes to innovative animated entertainment for all ages, there is Pixar, there is Japan and there is everybody else.

The innovative look is undercut by the predictable story and a drawn-out, overblown ending.

Moves along at an entertaining, if increasingly familiar clip.

As miraculous as the setting is and the realization of Wedge's vision, the story fails to really engage on any level save the kinetic.

A funny, vividly made technorama that is always splendid to look at.

Robots is a corporate product, after all -- but a sleek one.

For a movie that rails against the notion of creative artists toiling amid corporate gloom, Robots often feels calculated and mass-produced.

Packed with unexpected charms.

Technically, the film is a triumph.

Nothing but net.

Like Finding Nemo, this is a movie that is a joy to behold entirely apart from what it is about.

Despite the occasional dent, Robots emerges as a compelling bit of comic clockwork.

A visual delight.

Robots is in high gear from start to finish.

Fully entertaining and visually astonishing if a bit spare in the story department, Robots is nonetheless a 100-percent guaranteed kid-pleaser that will also bowl over adults.

The animation, and the creation of a world populated entirely by mechanical people, is impressive, but the plot is non-existent and the all-too-distant characters blend together in a mass of clanking gears and creaky sight gags.

Despite a script with more second-hand parts than many of its title characters, Robots inspires sufficient wonderment to impress as spectacle.

The sophistication of its humor is at the level of The Simpsons, and the computer animation is a wonder.

The wittiest and most ambitious computer animated toon to ever come from somebody other than Pixar.

Feels shopworn and rote.

Software has rarely made hardware look as attractive as it does in Robots.

The visuals have so much intrinsic motion that it's too bad Robots is oppressively rollercoasterish.

Robots is more than a load of spare parts, but there are some sprockets and rivets missing.