: Meet the Robinsons
Not bad. At times I was worried this was drifting into typical recent-Disney crap where the story’s just a loose excuse for lame jokes, but fortunately this came back around with a solid story at the heart. The story’s about an orphan boy who is into inventing. Since he’s too geeky to get adopted, he decides to invent a memory machine that will help him find his mother who abandonned him as a baby. Then we’ve got an over-the-top villain (complete with melodramatic black cape, pencil mustache, and yellow-toothed evil grin) who’s traveled back in time to sabotage the memory machine, and a young boy time traveler who takes the inventor to the future where he meets the boy’s wacky family. Some of the characters, like the toothless Grandpa, seem like excuses for those lame jokes I was talking about, but in the end the inventor boy has to learn a lesson, save the future, and find a family. Not quite up to Pixar standards, but better than recent Disney animations.
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