Oh my gosh – I can’t believe I did that! (snigger)
Man, I’m so sorry.
Thanks for correcting me. I keep getting Wilbur and Lewis mixed up for some reason. 
Mitch: You
think that is bad? Before I watched the movie, I have been telling my family that "It is about a story of a
boy named Wilbur who wants to find his family." You can’t get any more dumb than what I did. 
The Star Swordsman - (snigger) Haha – well, I
guess I shouldn’t be too ashamed then, huh? Nah – that’s alright. You’re weren’t dumb at all.
Just…confused. 
I guess you were right. I noticed when Wilbur actually introduced himself.
Just seen
it:
[spoil]I quite enjoyed it. It’s not something I’m gonna rush out and get on DVD, but it
was an entertaining use of my time.
For starters, I really liked Lewis and Goob’s voices. They seemed
really genuine and heartfelt. Lewis’ story was really touching, and I liked it when he rips up all his notes in
a wave of self-pity and despair.
Bowler Hat Guy was an interesting villain, but I guessed he was Goob
grown up when he tells Goob to hold on to his slights and let them fester. Perhaps that was too strongly
telegraphed. DOR-15 (Doris) was a very effective power-behind-the-curtain type, and I loved the way Lewis defeats
her by vowing never to invent her.
The family were amusing, but perhaps there were too many of them so
really feel for most of them. I did feel for Carl when he had a massive hole punched through him. Wilbur didn’t
resonate with me, emotionally. He was a little too much like the cool teenager, and it’s difficult to feel for
his position. Another problem was, I think, it was too strongly hinted that Lewis was “Dad” when Carl
brought out the PB&J gun.
What surprised me for a second was that Lewis does
not discover his Mother’s identity, rather like Lightning McQueen not winning the
Piston Cup. Then I realised that he doesn’t need to, as he’s already gained a family, just as Lightning already
gained more than the Cup was worth.
The ending was wonderful. Lewis takes time to save Goob’s future
(anyone else see the Toy Story poster in that scene?), then shows that his invention works. I like the way he
sees the present day versions of Grandpa and Frannie.
The very end of the film feels like a tradional
Disney happy ending, and yet it doesn’t. Lewis has a family and will go on to do great things, but it’s so open
ended as he sits there coming up with ideas, and then an inspirational quote from Walt Disney caps it off. I love
open ended and hopeful endings to films, like the Matrix if you pretend the sequels never happened.
One
thing though: why did Lewis take the name Cornelius? I guess it was a plot plot to prevent Lewis guessing
Wilbur’s father’s identity, but unless I missed it, Mr. Robinson was never mentioned by his first name except
on the radio in the Goob-Brooding sequence. They should have drawn more attention to that.
General
Summary: The heart was alive and ticking in the film, and that makes it a better story, but a large zany cast
detracted from this slightly.
Things I liked:
Adam West’s character (Super-Pizza delivery
guy)
Lewis’ summary of the Robinson family (complete with Tom Selleck, a nice metafilm reference)
The
Frogs’ mafia style disposal of Mini-Doris
BHG’s general ineptitude[/spoil]
Final Grade:
B+. Recommended? Certainly.
RMS - Great run down there of the film’s plot and overall story sequences,
Oceanic. Pretty much everything that ran through my mind as I watched the film was
mentioned in your summary/review.
[spoil]I also loved Lewis’ little “run-down” of
the Robinson family, with each character viewed in their individual photos/pictures. And the whole mafia-style
thing of the frogs locking up the mini-Doris had me chuckling, as well.[/spoil]
That part was really funny Mitch. It took me a while to
get the entire gist of everything. For a while, I was like, WHAT?
[b]The Star
Swordsman[/b] - Heheh. Cha – it was pretty hilarious. It’s probably one of my favorite humorous
moments in the film; that, and this one:
[spoil]…when Goob is having trouble chewing on the
peanut butter.[/spoil]
I like it when goob went "Stake, you are my only
friend." he is so cute.
This line never fails to crack me up:
"A north Montana man doesn’t care
about hat hair!" - Uncle Art
Only Adam West could deliver that line. It sounds like it was
straight out of Family Guy.
~~=oP
I just saw the movie yesterday. And I must say…
It was … so … COOL!
Believe it or not, I actually cried in the very last part. Gosh, you can call me whatever you want, but that part was so cute…
BTW, I never realized this untill I saw the movie… Wilbur is so hot! <3
Maggie - Awesome! You finally saw it!
Join the club. I was kinda tearing up during that last part as well…
And yeah – Wilbur is da’ bomb!
I agree. It was
probably the most powerful scenes in the whole movie. Well, at least once you defeated the antagonist, things
start to get a little emotional for me.
What happened at the end!? I need to know! I don’t care if it spoils the movie 4 me tell me! 
Wilbur’s just awsome <3
Saw it in theaters the last time yesterday. Movie got kicked to the curb for the ogre.
Requested to take the poster and little movie times card(you know, the backlit ones they have at the ticket
booth) once they were done with them.
It actually worked. Need to find wall space for the Robinsons poster at
one point and now that I think of it, I’m starting a collection of those backlit movie card things. Would be
cool to display somewhere in my now forming plans for a killer home theater
room.
[b]*edited by PixarVixen
~~=oP*[/b]
(jumpin’ up and down in my seat 
)
Somebody answer my question!
Well maybe if you actually went to see the movie, you’d find the answer
that way. But considering it’s essentially wiped out from theaters now, you missed your chance. Try finding the
bootleg copy floating around the interwebs.
CarFreak - Haha
– alright, but I must warn you now that reading this spoiler will ruin the whole experience!
Badda-bing:
[spoil]Through the course of the film, the audience is given various clues
that lead to the surprise ending of the production; however, we don’t find out that Lewis is actually Wilbur’s
father until the final course of the menu is presented…
Yep – that’s right. Lewis Wilbur’s father. I
must also tell you now that Goob, Lewis’ old and baggy-eyed room mate, is the Bowler Hat Guy. This all ties in
with the story here…
Near the end of the film, Goob pulls Lewis into his old orphanage room for a
“sentimental” interrogation and clarification session. Simply put, Lewis matured to become the founder
of Today Land: a.k.a., the future of the Robinsons and everyone else within the time
in which they live. Goob, however, never really did have a bright future of his own. When Lewis was young, he
kept Goob up all night inventing the Memory Scanner (which also turned out to be his first ever successful
invention). Due to the fact that Goob was ridiculously tired after trying to sleep through Lewis’ midnight
tinkering, he fell asleep during his baseball teams’ game and missed the winning catch. Adult Goob (Bowler Hat
Guy) goes on to explain to Lewis that the orphanage soon close down, but he stayed at the old, run-down place,
having never been adopted as a child. The years pass on and so does Goob’s age, but he soon comes to an
unjustifiable conclusion that, if Lewis hadn’t kept him up all night, he would have caught the ball and his team
would have won the most important game of the season. Henceforth, he decides to get revenge on Lewis. During a
course of events…he meets up with Doris, the cunning and diabolical bowler hat. Goob tells Lewis that Doris
(or, DOR-15, as she is technically known) was an invention that he (Lewis) created – an invention that ulimately
went haywire and had to be locked up to due a few…“technical difficulties”. But Doris was never shut
down completely… She awoke from her “sleep state”, escaped from her enclosure, and vowed to seek
revenge on Lewis. How perfect that she should discover Bowler Hat guy, who also wanted revenge…
Doris
has a plan: go back in time and steal the Memory Scanner so that Lewis will never become an ingenious inventor.
Good plan, except that they don’t have a time machine. But…Lewis does. Two of them…
Doris and Bowler
Hat Guy sneak over to the Robinson’s household one stormy night to try and steal the time machine. Through some
high-tech binoculars of Doris’, we see teenage Wilbur Robinson foolishly leave the garage door unlocked as he
steps outside to do something. Goob and Doris go inside, steal one of the time machines, and set to collecting
that Memory Scanner of Lewis’.
I won’t go into every detail, but Lewis ends up stopping Doris from
carrying out her evil plans and comes to good terms with Goob. A future that was previously fore-shadowed by
Doris’ intimidating plans disintegrates, and the future as the Robinsons know it is restored to its good ol’
clean self.
Now we get to the best part: The Robinson family is thrilled to have met Lewis…again, but
Wilbur has to take him back to his own time. Before he does so, however, Wilbur decides to fullfill promise he
made earlier and takes Lewis back to see his birth mother – at the time she abandonded Lewis and left him on the
doorstep of an orphanage on a wet and dreary night. Lewis can barely speak; the only word he is able to utter is
a silent one: “mom”. Stepping silently out of the time machine, Lewis tiptoes quietly across the
slippery sidewalk and behind his birth mother, who is, at that moment, setting himself – baby Lewis – down by
the orphanage door. Lewis reaches out a scrawny hand to touch her…but then withdraws his extended arm.
Knowingly, he steps back down a step…and slips. His mother is alerted to the noise, but doesn’t manage to
catch Lewis as he races back to the invisible time machine and rejoins Wilbur.
"I don’t get
it," Wilbur says some moments later, after he transports Lewis back to his own tiime. "Why did you just
let her go like that?"
“Because…I already have a family,” Lewis responds, before
embracing his son, Wilbur, in a heart-warming and beloved hug.
Before racing back to his science class to
fix some mistakes, Lewis gazes into the air to watch Wilbur zoom off in his time machine. The last words Wilbur
says to his father before he leaves is a sentence that he writes in the sky: [i]See ya’ later,
dad![/i]
Lewis sprints as fast as he can in the direction of the science fair. He still has
time to show his teachers and classmates that his invention really does work. But wait! He almost forgot…
Rushing back to a ball game in progress, he yells to Goob from the sidelines in an attempt wake the boy from a
deep sleep state. Goob does wake up, and catches the ball, scoring a win for his team! Lewis smiles
satisfactorily, and runs off to return to what he was previously about to fix…
"I know what went
wrong!" Lewis calls to his science teacher, begging him to let him give the Memory Scanner one last try. His
teacher agrees, as does the school Coach and nutty professor Dr. Krunklehorn. Lewis asks for a volunteer, and
Krunklehorn eagerly twinkles her fingers in his direction.
Unsurprisingly enough, the invention works! As
Dr. Krunklehorn relives her fondest memory as she watches her wedding day replay itself out on the Memory Scanner
screen, Lewis realizes something. Krunklehorn’s husband… He looks an aweful lot like Grandpa Bud Robinson
from the future. Swiveling around suddenly to turn his attention from the screen to a voice behinid hiim, Lewis
finds himself face-to-face with a much younger version of Grandpa Bud! And so that must mean that Dr. Krunklehorn
is Grandma Lucile. Lewis can’t believe his eyes. The beginnings of his family were right there under his nose
the whole time, and he didn’t even realize it until now! Even stranger is that a petite and frog-loving young
girl in the science fair resembles Franny Robinson. And, of course, that’s because it is Franny – Franny as a
young girl, with her hip-hoppity frogs whom she claims can sing better than people.
And so Wilbur gazes,
not for the first time, upon his family: Dr. Krunklehorn and Bud…and his future wife, Franny.
One of
the last moments we see in Meet the Robinsons are played out in a very heart-warming
and touching light: Lewis, now adopted, rides home in the back of Dr. Krunklehorn’ and Bud’s car, where they
surprise him with a home that contains an elaborate domed enclosure – a place where Lewis can live out his life
inventing his dreams away…and creating the future of the Robinsons.[/spoil]
Wow. Heheh –
sorry it got kind of long and “out-of-hand” there. Didn’t realize it took me almost an hour to write
that until now. I like writing stories. Heheh.
I would, but you got two options. One, watch the movie. Two, look at Mitch’s long
post. your choice. Either way, have fun doing it.
Thanks Mitch! I
apperciate it! 