Amanda and I went to the movies yesterday (3/30) & saw "Meet the Robinsons 3-D" & it was really funny with a unique & solid story. And believe it or not it was from the newly restored (from life support) Walt Disney Animation Studios. This movie was based on the novel "A Day With Wilbur Robinson" by William Joyce & adapted for the screen in cla
ssic Disney manner.
This film had a Pixar feel and flow to it and would've competed nicely with Pixar if Disney didn't own them, too... In fact, I was skeptical only to be proven right when I saw in the credits that Pixar Genius John Lasseter was the Executive Producer for this film. Rumor has it, he joined the film at the end at the request of Bob Iger to add his touch to the film. Lasseter cleaned up the flow of the story and had a hand in the movie's villian character improvement and whatever he did...it worked! Seeing it in 3-D made it even better as that, to me, is a lost art of film making; it was also cool seeing the original Walt Disney Donald Duck 3-D movie from 1953 at the beginning!
ssic Disney manner.This film had a Pixar feel and flow to it and would've competed nicely with Pixar if Disney didn't own them, too... In fact, I was skeptical only to be proven right when I saw in the credits that Pixar Genius John Lasseter was the Executive Producer for this film. Rumor has it, he joined the film at the end at the request of Bob Iger to add his touch to the film. Lasseter cleaned up the flow of the story and had a hand in the movie's villian character improvement and whatever he did...it worked! Seeing it in 3-D made it even better as that, to me, is a lost art of film making; it was also cool seeing the original Walt Disney Donald Duck 3-D movie from 1953 at the beginning!
So about the movie (without any spoilers), it had humor for kids and adults with an almost odd group
of characters, especially "the Robinsons". The humor was reminiscent of SCTV or even a little bit Monty Python and at times I was one of only a few laughing. I can say for those of you reading that may not know what I am talking about, then it reminded me of shows like Animaniacs or Pinky & the Brain. The film had a running motto that the "father of the future world" lived by, "Keep Moving Forward". To me this was great to see not only did Disney decide to get serious about their roots, animation but they decided to implant some positive thinking into today's kids. By the way the quote was a piece of a quote by the man himself, Walt Disney:“Around here, however, we don’t look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things… and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”
–Walt Disney
Before I close my 1st Blog, you may be asking "what about the classic Disney soundtrack?",
well they brought in Danny Elfman to compose this soundtrack. Elfman is an amazing composer, he's not John Williams but for this movie Elfman was PERFECT (think Beetlejuice, Men In Black, Mars Attacks!). Rufus Wainwright composed other tracks and Rob Thomas lends one of his new songs to the record and the All-American Rejects are featured as well. Disney traditionalist will love this part, the best song could be They Might Be Giant's cover of "There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow" from Disneyworld's Carousel of Progress.
well they brought in Danny Elfman to compose this soundtrack. Elfman is an amazing composer, he's not John Williams but for this movie Elfman was PERFECT (think Beetlejuice, Men In Black, Mars Attacks!). Rufus Wainwright composed other tracks and Rob Thomas lends one of his new songs to the record and the All-American Rejects are featured as well. Disney traditionalist will love this part, the best song could be They Might Be Giant's cover of "There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow" from Disneyworld's Carousel of Progress. "Meet the Robinsons" was a breathe of relief as I haven't been to a Disney only movie in the theatre in years because they weren't worth the time. The story, music, humor and 50's Sci-Fi feel wrapped up with some memorable characters made "Meet the Robinsons" at must-see and especially if it is in 3-D!
