![]() ![]() For example, the big finale never pays off and his topped by a very cloying ending. Also, main protagonist Rodney’s arrival in Robot City is very reminiscent of a similar scene in ‘A Bug’s Life’ (1998), and the all too obligatory ‘follow your dream’ story line had already become stale by 2005, too. In all, the film’s story is much more standard than its exotic setting would suggest.īlue Sky’s storytelling is also very inconsistent and has many flaws in its timing. ![]() This setting is similar to that of ‘ Monsters, Inc.‘ (2001): a totally different world, this time inhabited with robots, which at the same time is an exact copy of our own modern urban world. First the animation: the robots are a good excuse for rather jerky motions, and its colorful setting never feels real. ‘Robots’ is unfortunately typical for the regression in the computer animated field. This age-old technique defeated the modernity of computer animation, as both films topped the computer animated features in originality and consistency of story and design. Surprisingly, the two most interesting features of 2005 were stop motion films: Aardman’s ‘ Wallace and Gromit and the Curse of the Were-Rabbit‘ and Warner Brothers’ ‘ Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride‘. In fact, both Blue Sky’s ‘Robots’ and Dreamworks’s ‘Madagascar’ are mediocre in the whole catalog of computer animation. This was a year in which no films were made that felt as if they were better than the last ones. 2005 was to be the first weak year in the history of computer animated features. ![]()
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