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- BFI identifier699357
- Date2005 (Copyright)
- Production countryUSA
- Production company
- SynopsisSet in a world inhabited by robots. Aspiring young inventor Rodney Copperbottom travels to the big city from a small town in the hopes of improving his life and impressing the renowned Bigweld, creator of the city who has encouraged inventive robots and whose motto has always been "no matter who you are you can shine". In the city he encounters the streetwise Fender and is disillusioned by what he finds. Bigweld's business empire has been effectively taken over by the sleek Ratchet, whose only interest is in making money, and who despises poor robots who can only afford to patch themselves up with parts rather than buy shiny new upgrades. He changes the company motto to "why be you when you can be new" and stops the company's production of parts, consigning those robots who cannot afford to buy upgrades to scrap, to be swept up by machines which will take them to be melted down in the factory owned by Ratchet's formidable mother. When the parts start to run out, Rodney helps to repair hordes of robots in Fender's neighbourhood, and he finds out that his own father needs new parts to survive. He and his friends track down Bigweld and together they try to overthrow Ratchet and reinstall Bigweld, aided in the final battle by all the shabby robots. (Synopsis)
- Work historyAnimation.
- Genre
- Subject
- CreditsDirected by: Chris Wedge
Co-directed by: Carlos Saldanha
©(all territories except BR,IT,KR,JP,ES): Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
view all - CastEwan McGregor (voice of Rodney Copperbottom)
Halle Berry (voice of Cappy)
Greg Kinnear (voice of Phineas T. Ratchet)
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Title
Robots (Original)
Category
Fiction- Collections
- Scripts / Documents
- ArticlesSight and Sound v15 n5 May 2005 - Credits, Review, SynopsisEmpire n196 October 2005 - DVD ReviewFilm Review vSpec. n56 Star Wars - Article, InterviewEmpire n190 April 2005 - Article, InterviewFilm Score Monthly v10 n3 May/Jun 2005 - Soundtrack Reviewview all
- Robots
Work - 699357 - 2005 (Copyright)
USA - Film - Fiction
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