Robots

Robots is an animated comedy set in a world populated entirely by machines. Rodney Copperbottom is a young inventor from a small town who travels to Robot City hoping to meet Bigweld, the inventor he has admired since childhood and who has long helped robots upgrade themselves. Instead, Rodney finds that the smooth-talking Ratchet has taken control of Bigweld Industries and is phasing out spare parts, leaving older and worn-out robots destined for the scrap heap. Rodney joins a group of misfit machines, among them the rusty Crank and his sister Piper, and sets out to find the missing Bigweld and restore the company to what it once stood for. Cappy, an executive at the firm, becomes an ally along the way.

Directed by Chris Wedge, the film was released in 2005 and followed his debut feature, Ice Age, making it the second of the four features he has directed. It was written by Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel and David Lindsay-Acquire and produced by Blue Sky Studios with 20th Century Fox Animation. Ewan McGregor voices Rodney, with Halle Berry as Cappy, Greg Kinnear as Ratchet and Mel Brooks as Bigweld. Fifty-five cast members and 117 crew are credited.

The budget was 75 million US dollars, and the film took about 263 million worldwide, a strong return. On IMDb it holds 6.4 out of 10 from roughly 174,000 votes, and on TMDB 6.5 out of 10 from over five thousand votes. A critics' rating of 6.7 out of 10 from 181 reviews places it slightly above the audience scores.