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(1 - 46) of 46 OFCS Rating: 57% Rotten Page   1   "Despite minor quibbles, I felt great joy while discovering a whole new animated world in 'Robots.'"   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Betty Jo Tucker D+ "What else suggests a complete surrender of effort, imagination, and skill better than an extended flatulence joke between all the metallic characters?"   FilmJerk.com   Brian Orndorf "This is the way things tend to go in Robots: boys go forth and girls stand by."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 3/5 "'Robots' isn't a joyless experience, but the thought, effort and expense that went into casting Jay Leno as a fire hydrant might have been better placed elsewhere."   eFilmCritic.com   Dan Lybarger 3/5 "As animation, it’s brilliant. If only the story was as sharp."   eFilmCritic.com   David Cornelius A- "A gem of pacing, humor and fun... for those of you keeping score, that's exactly how a movie should be made."   EDGE Boston   David Foucher 3.5/4 "...innocent, charming, colorful and vibrant, and made all the more rich by a narrative plunge that engages audiences of several ages"   Cinemaphile.org   David Keyes 2/4 "...the weakest computer animated film to come along since the birth of the format ten years ago..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair 2.5/4 "Doesn't contain a whole lot to grasp onto and take away with you, but it's pleasurable and bright and inoffensive while it lasts."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman 1.5/4 "Robots more or less confirms that production studio Blue Sky is likely to be remembered as the Jan to Pixar’s Marcia and PDI’s Cindy."   Slant Magazine   Ed Gonzalez C+ "It feels like they sat around thinking of robot-world gags and neglected everything else."   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider 2/4 "This giddy exposition is polished in its nostalgic atmospheric look but has been assembled with the simplistic precision of piecing together a Tonka toy truck"   Movie Eye   Frank Ochieng C "Itself seems recycled...as far as these kinds of movies go, it's mediocre--sporadically amusing but never hilarious, and curiously flat despite all the frantic motion."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 4/5 "A frolicsome and endlessly creative animated feature."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat B+ "A smart, snappy energy to the dialogue that gives the film a zesty flavor rarely found in the genre."   Mixed Reviews   Gabriel Shanks 3/4 "Robots is more than a load of spare parts, but there are some sprockets and rivets missing."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 2/4 "The tin-bucket robots characters are just as robotic in personality as they are in form, thus they never come across as being particularly interesting or sympathetic."   Q Network Film Desk   James Kendrick 3/5 "Robots has the nuts-and-bolts basics of quality computer animation and family fun, even if the script lacks a certain polish."   Netflix   James Rocchi 3/4 "Futuristic cityscapes animated to cutting-edge perfection and a narrative paced like a well-oiled machine."   Palo Alto Weekly   Jeanne Aufmuth 6/10 "How can something so richly ambitious in look and design be so unambitious in personality?"   Window to the Movies   Jeffrey Chen "What makes Robots enjoyable is its constant whimsy, the clever visual and verbal puns the animators make, filling every scene with blink-and-you-miss-‘em gags."   Pajiba   Jeremy C. Fox 5/10 "...there wasn’t much about the film that stuck with me as I walked out of the theater..."   JoBlo's Movie Emporium   JoBlo 76/100 "The first of this year's CG treats."   FilmFocus   Joe Utichi 6/10 "Although Robots has great animation, wonderful visual invention, and a few clever jokes, it has no compelling characters or story to hold them together."   DVDTown.com   John J. Puccio "The attention is in the detail, and what detail."   Light Views   John Larsen 5/10 "Basically a bunch of recycled gags from Matt Groening’s woefully under-appreciated Futurama."   Planet Sick-Boy   Jon Popick 3.5/5 "full review in Greek"   Movies for the Masses   Joseph Proimakis 4/5 "Does not suffer from Shark Tale syndrome; instead a good story with a good message and great performances."   Cinerina   Karina Montgomery 2.0/4.0 "... in a world populated by living machines, not a single soul can be found..."   MovieCrypt.com   Kevin A. Ranson 4/5 "It’s not high-brow science fiction, and I’m okay with that."   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr B+ "....clever writing, ingenious throwaway sight gags, in-jokes galore, good messages and cute characters"   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 3.5/5 "Una fantasía con las tuercas bien aceitadas. Fastuoso estilo visual."   Cinenganos   Luis Martinez 5/10 " Lacks all the magic of ICE AGE. The film is entertaining but it is definitely second-rate as current animated features go. It has some good ideas, but overall it tanks."   rec.arts.movies.reviews   Mark R. Leeper "Robots is a dazzling visual spectacle that will delight children of all ages. I guess I'm the only one who wonders why as much care and cleverness can't go into the script and the characters and the plot as go in to those dazzling visuals."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 2.5/5 "Far more interested in yelling 'look what we can do!' than in developing any of its characters or livening up its recycled story."   Goatdog's Movies   Michael W. Phillips, Jr. 3.5/4 "I sat in my seat for 90 minutes enthralled by the look of the film and laughing continually at the endlessly clever jokes. Robots is wonderful family entertainment."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan A- "Just like its endearing hero, this movie is assembled from hand-me-down parts but it has so much heart that it becomes irresistibly fresh and downright adorable."   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow 4/5 "É um alívio constatar que ainda há realizadores que sabem utilizar a tecnologia não como um fim em si mesma, mas como mera ferramenta para dar vida à imaginação dos artistas."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 4/5 "This lively and visually striking animated comical romp succeeds simply because it remembers its story and characters."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline C "Like the chrome chassis its villains so ruthlessly hawk, there's a lot of empty space underneath that sparkling shine."   Flipside Movie Emporium   Rob Vaux B "The story is predictable, mediocre and clichéd, but visually, the film is marvelous."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten 3.5/4 "Deserves two separate grades – a perfect four-star mark for its breathtaking computer animation and a mediocre two-star mark for its tasteless humor."   Charlotte Weekly   Sean O'Connell B+ "Clever rather than heartfelt. Still, it’s a high grade of clever, and I enjoyed it a lot."   Decent Films Guide   Steven D. Greydanus 3/4 "Visually spectacular and never less than amusing."   Reel.com   Timothy Knight 2/4 "A picture made by artists who have some imagination wrestling with a screenplay by professional hand-crankers Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel that doesn't have any."   Film Freak Central   Walter Chaw 2.5/4 ""Robots" is fraught with silly one-liners, plot contrivances and predictable solutions. There's nothing for mature minds except toilet humor."   Oscar Guy   Wesley Lovell  (1 - 46) of 46 OFCS Rating: 57% Rotten Page   1