Review of Meet the Robinsons (2007) by Azeem H — 08 Feb 2015

Going through the back log of the Disney Animated Classics, Meet the Robinsons is one which is perhaps overlooked. At it's centre is the story of an orphan Lewis wanting to find a family. He finds himself encumbered in an orphanage where no one has wanted to adopt him going on almost 12 years. His desire to be an inventor tends to not be rewarded and when things do go wrong others blame him and he blames himself for the failure of the inventions not working. Mixed into this is a revenge plot against Lewis which involves a time machine.

There is a lot going on in this film and luckily more often than not you can follow it, the animation is visually solid and the Robinson's themselves are quirky but when really thinking about this film they are left short changed in terms of screen time.

There are some good twists and turns and the humour is well realised, the scene where the main protagonist uses firstly a frog and then a dinosaur to try and capture Lewis are hilarious.

In the end this being Disney everything works out alright, as messages of friendship, family and never giving up or looking back are on proud display.

While this is not by any means a genuine classic it's a solid entertaining film and one which children will perhaps enjoy more than adults, but there are laughs for those of us who are still children at heart.

Now together everyone 'KEEP MOVING FORWARD'.