For every paint by numbers fairy tale Disney gets accused of making, there's a movie that reminds you just how crazy Disney can be. Think Fantasia, Alice in Wonderland or Meet the Robinsons. I'd try to explain the plot of Meet the Robinsons, but I don't want to write that much. Instead, I'd like to start with the moral lesson I learned: evil men don't wear bowler hats, men who wear bowler hats are evil because the hat is actually a sentient mind control robot hellbent on world domination, and she has access to a time machine. . . 'cuz evil bowler hats are girls. What's that you say? Sounds like this is a weird movie? You don't know the half of it, it also contains: Singing gangster frogs, meatball cannons, a squid butler, a superhero pizza delivery guy, a T-rex, and a boy named "Goob." It's wacky and silly and lets its freak flag fly. Meet the Robinsons shows the creativity that many Disney critics forget about. This movie is a celebration of creativity, imagination, and invention. It's a film built around a motto of Walt Disney himself: "Keep Moving Forward" Keep moving forward means learning from your past, but always looking to the future, always striving to be better than you were yesterday, and to never stop believing in your dreams. On the flip side we get to see, in a very comical way, what happens to a person who refuses to move forward in any way, and blames the world for all his problems. There are some nice themes running throughout the film, but it always stays firmly on the side of silly, silly fun. I think it's an overlooked little gem in the Disney canon, one that you should totally check out.
7/10
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