Meet the Robinsons, my review, no spoiler

April 7th, 2007 | Movies

I took my 11 and 9 year old girls, adopted from China, to see this today. They had wanted to go, but hadn’t known until I told them earlier this week that it had to do with adoption, so they were prepared for that before we went.

They loved the movie.

I asked them about the scene where the baby is left on the doorstep in a box, if that made them sad. My older one said a little, but not a lot. It was heartbreaking for me. I guessed one part from later in the film. Remember it’s a fantasy in many respects.

The Bad Guy is pretty scary at times, but also enough over the top so as to be clever. And some of it would be scary for younger kids.

I laughed out loud more than once.

The moral of the story is very good. The little boy is adorable, so is his roommate, and the boy from the future is very cute. The animation is delightful. The Robinson family is adorable in its quirkiness and that they celebrate him for his failures as an inventor. I want that family! The story is wrapped up neatly (and fantasically.)

Both of my kids thought the insta-building was a great idea.

I’d need to see it again to pick up a clue earlier, but some I figured out towards the end. One other thing I figured out right about as it was happening.

I’d like to have a copy of Walt Disney’s quote that they worked from. I’ll see if I can find it. It was put on the screen at the very end. Here it is:

Around here, however, we donâ€™t look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new thingsâ€¦ and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
â€“Walt Disney

The orphanage director, a woman, was very kind and loving. Some of the prospective parents were definitely not the right family/ies. The little boy is entirely loveable and learns that it did not have anything to do with him that he was rejected. (He uses this word at one point where he says he doesn’t want to go before any more prospective adoptive parents and experience more rejection.)

You know your own children, how they would react. Mine were enchanted.

I asked what their favorite part was: my littlest said it was the dinosaur. My 11 yo liked that part too. My 9 year old also said to me, “In case you didn’t notice, the frog and the dinosaur both said the same thing.” I had noticed, and it was one thing that made me laugh.

Really there were a lot of positive role models in this movie. And some that were positively not a role model, how not to act.

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Oh yeah, the hair was great! (and the inventions) How about the pizza guy! And the ‘hat’ that Lewis wore…

I thought the hands were very realistic on Lewis, really perfect.

I wonder if the name ‘Doris’ might become popular again.

I dunno, the boys were just inspired. The family itself was inspired, not to mention the doorbells and the butler.

But then the girls take on a larger aspect by the end…so they turn out to be inspired too. I’d have to see it again to check out the girls from beginning to end, now that I know where it’s heading.

Karin

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