Meet The Robinsons

This is a strange film to come from the Walt Disney stable. It is politically incorrect insensitive about issues like adoption, morally confusing children lie on a regular basis, structurally deficient the story will be confusing to most, let alone children, and singularly unfunny you won8217;t laugh out loud even once.

Lewis is 12 years old and lives in an orphanage, which has never thought of keeping from him the fact that his mother left him on their doorstep when he was an infant. He has been interviewed by 124 couples for adoption and rejected, presumably because he is more inclined towards science than sports. And he is racing against a deadline, because once 13, his chances of adoption will be practically down to nil.

So, Lewis decides that the best thing would be for him to develop a memory scanner, which would help him figure out what his real mother looked like, and then he would just go there and find his own family.

But at the science fair where Lewis is demonstrating the memory scanner, things go wrong and a boy called Wilbur Robinson warns him that it8217;s the doing of 8220;a man in a bowler hat8221;. Wilbur is from the future and to prove that, he takes Lewis on a ride. Not surprisingly, things go wrong again and Lewis finds himself stuck in the future, with Wilbur8217;s family adopting him as their own.

While the film is obviously trying to convey a message about families, rejection and failure, there are no menacing villains or funny sidekicks to keep you on your seats in the meantime. Even the future as envisioned by the film8217;s creators is like colourful candy which 12-year-old boy would like to live in a yellow and red lollipop structure and have its grounds scattered with grass dinosaurs and tea cups?.

The bad guy, the man in the bowler hat, is voiced by director Anderson himself. He tries to be a baddie and yet a buffoon but manages to be neither, only irritating. In fact, the characters which are the most interesting are the ones that probably involved the least animation effort 8212; a hat that has legs like an octopus and a robot.