Robots (2005 movie)
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| Robots | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Chris Wedge |
| Produced by | Jerry Davis William Joyce John C. Donkin |
| Screenplay by | David Lindsay-Abaire Lowell Ganz Babaloo Mandel |
| Story by | Ron Mita Jim McClain David Lindsay-Abaire |
| Starring | Ewan McGregor Halle Berry Greg Kinnear Mel Brooks Amanda Bynes Drew Carey Robin Williams |
| Music by | John Powell |
| Editing by | John Carnochan |
| Studio | Blue Sky Studios 20th Century Fox Animation |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
| Release date(s) | March 11, 2005 |
| Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $75 million |
| Money made | $260,718,330 |
Robots is a 2005 American computer animated comic science fiction movie produced by Blue Sky Studios for Twentieth Century Fox. It stars Ewan McGregor, Halle Berry, Greg Kinnear, Mel Brooks, Amanda Bynes, Drew Carey, Stanley Tucci, Jim Broadbent, and Robin Williams.[1] It was released on March 11, 2005.
Release Dates[change | change source]
Cast[change | change source]
- Ewan McGregor as Rodney Copperbottom, a young blue robot and aspiring inventor
- Halle Berry as Cappy, a worker at Bigweld Industries and Rodney's love interest
- Greg Kinnear as Phineas T. Ratchet, Rodney's nemesis and Madame Gasket's son and right-hand man
- Mel Brooks as Bigweld, the jolly inventor and owner of Bigweld Industries; until Rodney met him, Bigweld had slipped into depression at Ratchet's actions
- Robin Williams as Fender Pinwheeler, an old red robot who befriends Rodney and is constantly falling apart
- Amanda Bynes as Piper Pinwheeler, a yellow robot who is Fender's younger sister who has a crush on Rodney
- Drew Carey as Crank Casey, an orange robot who befriends Rodney
- Jennifer Coolidge as Aunt Fanny, a kind motherly robot, who takes in "broke" robots; she has the unintentional effect of bumping people with her large rear
- Harland Williams as Lug, a large green robot who befriends Rodney along with his mute companion Diesel
- Jim Broadbent as Madame Gasket, an evil and hideous robot and Ratchet's mother
- Dianne Wiest as Lydia Copperbottom, Rodney's mother
- Stanley Tucci as Herb Copperbottom, Rodney's father and a dishwasher at Gunk's
- Natasha Lyonne as Loretta Geargrinder, a receptionist at Bigweld Industries and Fender's love interest (voiced by Cat Deeley in the UK release)
- Paul Giamatti as Tim the Gate Guard
- Dan Hedaya as Mr. Gunk, Herb Copperbottom's grumpy boss
Cameos[change | change source]
- Brian Scott McFadden as Trashcan Bot (voiced by Vernon Kay in the UK release)
- Jay Leno as a Fire Hydrant
- Lucille Bliss as a Pigeon Lady
- Paula Abdul as Wristwatch #1
- Randy Jackson as Wristwatch #2
- Ryan Seacrest as Wristwatch #3
- Al Roker as Mailbox
- John Mahoney as the Employee Robots
- Randall Montgomery as Zinc
- Tim Nordquist as Tin Man
- Lowell Ganz as Monsieur Gasket, Madame Gasket's husband and Ratchet's father (voiced by Sir Terry Wogan in the UK release)
- James Earl Jones as Darth Vader (archive recording)
- James Brown as Diesel (singing voice, archive recording)
References[change | change source]
- ↑ Jones, Malcolm (March 13, 2005). "Heavenly Metal". The Daily Beast. http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2005/03/13/heavenly-metal.html. Retrieved September 1, 2011.
Other websites[change | change source]
- Robots at the Internet Movie Database
- Robots at the Big Cartoon DataBase
- Robots at AllMovie
- Robots at Rotten Tomatoes
- Robots at Metacritic
- Robots at Box Office Mojo
