Meet the Robinsons
Filed under: Animation, Disney, Fandom, Family Films
Disney has given the world its first look at their new animated feature Meet the Robinsons. The picture above shows the animated cast of the film, based on William Joyce's beloved 1990 book A Day with Wilbur Robinson. In the tale, Wilbur is a boy genius who creates a fantastic Jack Kirby-esque machine which ends up unlocking time, allowing Wilbur to visit with a future whose survival depends on him.
Apparently this book was a big hit, although I've never heard of it myself so I can't offer any insights. I will say that I tend to enjoy Disney's computer animated features, and so I will no doubt watch this one when it hits. If anyone out there has read the book and has some opinions/thoughts they'd like to offer, I'd appreciate it.
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11-04-2005 @ 12:23PM
Mcdoogle said...
I think some are so quick to bash disney that they will never give a chance to anything that DOES have originality, and when it is starring them in the face they will desparately try to find something like the "modeling and lighting" to conclude that it is ripping of the Incredibles.
If that is what you wish to believe, you are in for a big suprise.
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11-18-2005 @ 12:03PM
Stonks said...
Definitely not an "Incredibles" rip-off. I've read this book to my son recently. Yes to the pillow fight and grandfather's missing teeth, no to the time machine and saving a family. It has an "Addams Family" feel to it with Wilbur being the ordinary boy and you meet the rest of his extraordinary aunts and uncles. Let's hope Disney doesn't contrive some ridiculous story and kill Wilbur's mother (like Bambi, Nemo, The Bear, Cinderella, Snow White, gawd Walt, can you say Oedipus complex?) and blow the original story that my son finds so appealing. It's his favorite book.
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10-30-2005 @ 6:40PM
Targ8ter said...
I also have not read the book, but that picture, particularly the modelling and lighting, makes me think this will be some sort of Incredibles ripoff. Which means that Disney, unable to compete with Pixar, is so short on originality that they are copying the way that Dreamworks copies other films. That's just sad.
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10-30-2005 @ 8:27PM
Will Entrekin said...
I admit I'm only vaguely familiar with the work in question, but it's certainly not copying "The Incredibles." I acknowledge the similarity between the animation styles of the two works in question, yes, but that's only because both pay homage to an older style of animation.
I will note, on the other hand, that unless my memory serves me very wrongly, I don't remember there having been any mention of a time machine thingy (I remember a pillow fight and Wilbur's grandfather's teeth, though). I could be wrong; it's been many years since I read it to my little sister.
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