Pizzeria Catch-up: Robots (2005)
On the way to Alice In Wonderland, I stopped in a pizzeria. On a big Samsung television, above the soda fountain, there played Robots. It reminded me of the old days when I would seek happiness in a movie like Bolt or Igor.
First of all, why do they make all these movies where everyone talks on cell phones, percolates coffee, wears ties and has female troubles (all the main characters being male)? Only they’re talking robots or fish or bees or frankenstein’s assistants? There is no imagination (Pixar being the exception). Why don’t they get honest and have young humans trying to change the way things are from their apartments in New York or L.A.?
My point is that Robots — which I watched for about half an hour — was so formulaic, depressingly so, I realized I could very well do without Alice In Wonderland, even if there was not one cellphone opened (onscreen) for the whole movie. When you feel only the formula, there is a problem.
(Knowing Burton, he’ll probably stay pretty close to the original text. So it’s not that. It’s just, do I need another animated comedy that’s supposed to be high flying adventure, yet I don’t care a wink about the characters? It goes against the spirit of this website, but no, I don’t.)
The pizza, by the way, was too doughy and made me feel sick for about an hour.
