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'Robots': Imaginative visuals rescue recycled plot
by Eleanor Ringel Gillespie

Director Chris Wedge has thrown everything but the kitchen sink — wait, I think there is a kitchen sink — into "Robots," a clever, fast-moving animated feature brimming with metallic brio. Tiny wind-up toy pigeons peck at miniscule metal scraps on well-buffed sidewalks. The Tin Man is greeted by his limo driver at the airport. Even the cigars are brassy. Read the full Review

TO SUM UP
Boy genius Rodney has a dream to endow the robots of the world with humanitarian programming. But in his way stands tycoon Big Weld, a master inventor in his own right, and Cappy, one of Weld's most alluring creations.

FILM FACTS ...

Blue Sky Studios

'Robots'

Director: Chris Wedge
Starring: Voices by Ewan McGregor, Mel Brooks, Greg Kinnear
Run time: 90 minutes
Release date: March. 11, 2005
Rating: PG for some brief language and suggestive humor
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On the web
Official movie site
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-- Trailers require Quicktime

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READ THE REVIEW

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: B
" ... nimble and imaginative. "