The dvd features a short called aunt fannys tour of booty. Rodneys dream is to go to robot city to work as an inventor for bigweld industries. The movie is the second featurelength computer animated movie by 20th century fox and blue sky studios released in march 21, 2005 same year behind ice age. Like its characters, robots seems assembled from previously owned. Robots, but bigweld is the only character duration. Sun times, gave the film threeandahalf stars out of four, stating that this is a movie that is a. If you open the case, youll find some movie tickets for the movie, robots. When he loses his pieces, he inherits what he needs from his rich cousins, so he decides to find fortune in robot city, where his idol bigweld lives. The rest of the characters then have to save him before hes melted down andor chopped up, but find themselves massively outnumbered by bad robots. The story is about a robot called rodney copperbottom who travels to robot city in seek of his dream job as an inventor at bigweld s company. Robots is a 2005 american computeranimated comedy film produced by blue sky studios and distributed by 20th century fox. He is an inventor, as he has already made a little dishwasher assistantbot named wonderbot. Dont let people miss on a great quote from the robots movie add it here. Bigweld is the head of bigweld industries, also owns a television show called the bigweld show, and rodney follows this show in his childhood.
Ratchet is a ruthless and scandalous corporate social climber, who takes charge of bigweld industries after bigweld leaves and goes into hiding. Rodney copperbottom is the main protagonist of robots. She is one of the more levelheaded and reasonable characters in the movie, and sympathizes with the robots who have been outmoded because of the changes ratchet made to bigweld industries. After an accident in a local restaurant results in herb copperbottom stanley tucci going into debt, his ambitious young son rodney voiced by ewan mcgregor leaves his hometown for robot city, hoping. The story was created by chris wedge andwilliam joyce, a childrens book authorillustrator. Bigweld voice robots movie behind the voice actors.
Rather than herb saying im gonna be a dad, he says im going to kill my son in a satanic voice. Machines that rage against other machines the new york times. I am usually not a big robin williams fan, i find that he can be too in your face and distracting. Robots is a 2005 american computer animated comic science fiction film produced by blue sky studios for twentieth century fox, and was released theatrically on march 11, 2005. The story was created by chris wedge and william joyce, a childrens book authorillustrator. The greatest inventor of all time and owner of bigweld industries. In this animated adventure, rodney and his friend fender robin williams go underground to fight ratchets evil plans. It is less fun when her own boss keeps flirting with her every second i rewatched the movie robots and it ruined me rated. Rodney copperbottom was born in rivet town to herb and. Characters that have appeared or been reversioned multiple times across different mediums.
But bigweld has just been deposed as company head by the villainous phineas t. Rodney is the main protagonist in the movie, alongside fender pinwheeler. Donkin, and stars the voices of ewan mcgregor, halle berry, greg kinnear, mel brooks, amanda bynes, drew carey, and robin williams. Incarnations view all 2 versions of bigweld on btva. He is madame gaskets son and rodneys archenemy along with madame gasket. In a robot world, a young idealistic inventor travels to the big city to join his inspirations company, only to find himself opposing its sinister new management. He falls in love with a very sexy executive robot and must face down a corporate tyrant and aid a master inventor. Robots 2005 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. A young genius wants his robots to make the world a better place. I have seen all the computer animated films of recent yearstoy story, monsters inc. Robots marks robin williams return to feature film animation, following his role in 1992s aladdin.
He has no legs, but resembles an enormous titanium sphere on which are added arms, a tuxedolike cover, and a head. Robots is a 2005 american computeranimated steampunk comedy adventure produced by. Originally developing a film version of joyces book santa calls, joyce and wedge then decided to develop an original story about a. He is the child of herb copperbottom and lydia copperbottom. Robots 2005 movie bigweld mel brooks show nonenglish actors hide nonenglish actors toshiyuki nishida. Robots is a game for nintendo gamecube, game boy advance, and nintendo ds released in 2005 and is based off the film with the same name. Rodney copperbottom is a young robot that lives in rivet town. I saw a red iris on tv and thought it was the robots movie but the announcer said a very special movie is next. Robots is a 2005 american computeranimated science fiction comedy film produced by blue sky studios for 20th century fox, and was released theatrically on march 11, 2005. After the wild success of ice age, we knew our second feature would give us an even bigger chance to show the world what we were made of robots started out as a pet project for director and blue sky cofounder chris wedge and became an elaborate, beautifully detailed film that utilizes our proprietary rendering software, cgi studio, to its fullest potential.
Its written by david lindsayabaire, lowell ganz and babaloo mandel. Trivia his appearances in the stephen squirrelsky and friends movie spoof travels are beauty and the grizzly bear, the rescuers, nikkis adventures of sing along songs episode 4, the rescuers down under, the secret of nimh, nikkis adventures of sing along songs episode 6, the little merlioness 2. Cappys usual workday at bigweld industries is never easy. Robots is a 2005 cgianimated film produced by blue sky studios, directed by chris wedge and coproduced by william joyce.
Your medication, delivered learn more have a question. Robots rodney tries to fix bigwelds brain as rachets minions chase them across robot city. The two were trying to create a film version of joyces book santa calls but instead they came up with a movie about robots. Robots funny moment robin williams golden voice acting. The story is about a robot called rodney copperbottom who travels to robot city in seek of his dream job as an inventor at bigwelds company. He also sports a metal, tuxedolike covering which hides the upper half of his body. Despite this, cappy still does nothing to attempt to find bigweld or solve the mystery of his disappearance. Both of them are the heads of bigweld industries for a portion of the movie, but while the honest corporate executive bigweld is dedicated to helping those in need, particularly the older and poorer robots, the corrupt corporate executive ratchet is bigoted towards the outmodes and places making money over everything else. She was voiced by jim broadbent, who also played lord kelvin in around the world in 80 days, wackford squeers in nicholas nickleby, frank butterman in hot fuzz, and lord. He is extremely arrogant, greedy, selfcentered, uncaring, and materialistic as he decides to discontinue making spare parts so that older, rusty robots would be forced to either buy upgrades or become. In addition, robots is mel brooks debut voicing effort in an animated feature. Madame gasket is the main antagonist of blue skys 2nd animated feature film robots. Robots movie he is the son of dishwasher herb copperbottom and his wife, lydia. Rodney befriends the rusties, a group of poor street robots and with their help rodney begins a battle against robot citys shady characters to have a better future.
Bigweld has two main catchphrases heard in the movie. He has a round, spherical body with a small head on top, and two large arms. Robots ist ein computeranimationsfilm aus dem jahr 2005. Old parts, new parts or spare parts, you can shine no matter what youre made of. He created other robots from materials on the planet. I recalled a scene of the characters drinking oil in a star warsesque bar scene that made my heart flutter with the same happiness movies such as cars have given it, the joy that comes with things that are. He aspires to become an inventor like bigweld and work at. Rodney is an aspiring inventor who idolizes the famous bigweld. When his fathers boss becomes angered by one of his inventions, rodney decides to leave rivet town, to go to robot city and sell his idea to bigweld. It was directed by chris wedge and produced by jerry davis, william joyce, and john c. Ratchet also simply known as ratchet is the central antagonist in blue skys 2nd animated feature film robots. Heroes a humble and idealistic young robot from rivet town, rodney is an aspiring inventor who idolizes bigweld. Ever since he was a young bot, rodney dreamed of becoming an inventor and meeting his childhood hero bigweld.
Upon arrival at robot city, rodney is ejected from bigweld industries by the companys new. Recently, i was overcome with a wave of nostalgia and had the overwhelming urge to venture back into the universe of the 2004 movie robots. Ratchet greg kinnear, who wants to make all robots submit to profitable forced upgrades. First, this movie with the same name was released before the game was released before star wars. Peabody and sherman, bigweld shrek, wonderbot kowalski madagascar, aunt fanny ogre fiona shrek, lug lenny shark tale, crank oscar shark tale. Robots is brilliantly imagined by illustrator william joyce, and every single shot is filled with fabulously imaginative detail, every bit of it adorably witty, wonderfully fantastic, and perfectly logical. Fandom apps take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat.
The bigweld company, once run by its kindly, rolypoly founder voiced by. He is trying to take over bigweld industries through lies and manipulation so that he can recycle all outmoded and discarded robots in town. June 2015 a robot named rodney copperbottom decides to leave his home at rivet town and head to robot city to realize his dream of working for his. With their help, he created an entire city of robots. Rodney copperbottom alex madagascar, fender pinwheeler marty madagascar, cappy gloria madagascar, piper pinwheeler angie shark tale, ratchet lord farquaad shrek, madame gasket penny peterson mr.
With ewan mcgregor, halle berry, mel brooks, robin williams. Robots movie set of 6 figures vending machine toys. Robots is a platform video game released in 2005 by eurocom to coincide with the film of the same name. In a world populated by sentient robots, rodney copperbottom is an aspiring young inventor who idolizes bigweld, a famous. Dreamworks characters robots the parody wiki fandom. Rodney copperbottom is the main protagonist of the 2003 film the wonder pets. Heads up with bigweld to a spot in the chop shop with a big gear on a lever, then detaches the lever, making it swing towards the machines with them hanging onto it rodney copperbottom. Ratchet rodney copperbottom bigweld madame gasket fender pinwheeler piper pinwheeler. Sowohl fur best character design, als auch best production design in einem animierten spielfilm. The one with the good characters crashes and slides along the floor, with bigweld sliding into a smelting area with the door to it then closing. Ratchets mother, the leader and boss in the chop shop and rodneys archenemy along with ratchet. Donkin, and stars the voices of ewan mcgregor, halle berry, greg kinnear, mel brooks, amanda bynes, drew carey, jim broadbent, stanley tucci, and robin williams. Robots is a 2005 american computeranimated comedy film produced by blue sky studios. Robots is a 2005 american computeranimated adventure comedy filmproduced by blue sky studios and distributed by 20th century fox.