Robots Critic Reviews

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

The voice talent behind Robots reads like a who's who of comic actors...But too much reliance is placed on their star power and not enough on an interesting and fresh idea.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

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

For audiences simply looking for easy entertainment and some neat-looking robots along the way.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

It's meant as high praise to say that, very early in Robots, the extraordinary starts to seem perfectly ordinary.Read the full review

The video-game sequences are impressive, but you know that a 'toon is in big trouble when its most powerful theme is planned obsolescence.Read the full review

The amiable but thin comedy Robots does have a little more going on, but not quite enough to make a difference, although it looks good enough to distract viewers from that fact for a while.Read the full review