Robots Critic Reviews

Isn't as trippy, scary, handmade-looking, or environmentally aware as some of Miyazaki's pictures. But it shares their dreaminess. Even at its most ingenious, not even Pixar does that.Read the full review

Like "Finding Nemo," this is a movie that is a joy to behold entirely apart from what it is about. It looks happy, and, more to the point, it looks harmonious.Read the full review

Zippy, enjoyable sci-fi slapstick jamboree.Read the full review

The animated tale has flashes of brilliance but seems assembled from cultural flotsam.Read the full review

Robots is more than a load of spare parts, but there are some sprockets and rivets missing.Read the full review

Robots never stays in the same gear for long, and the abrupt shifts in tone kill the movie's chances of becoming a classic.Read the full review

The visuals have so much intrinsic motion that it's too bad Robots is oppressively rollercoasterish.Read the full review

If sheer cleverness were everything, Robots would be the best computer-animated cartoon yet…Yet, unlike the very best CG animation, Robots doesn't quite connect with the emotions and humor for which one yearns in cartoons.Read the full review

In the end, though, Robots is hollow and mechanical, an echo chamber of other movies and an awkward attempt to turn the intrinsically scary sensitive-robot theme into something heartwarming and cute.Read the full review