Robots (2005 movie)
| Robots | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Chris Wedge |
| Screenplay by | David Lindsay-Abaire Lowell Ganz Babaloo Mandel |
| Story by | Ron Mita Jim McClain David Lindsay-Abaire |
| Produced by | Jerry Davis John C. Donkin Steven Spielberg (Executive Producer) Chris Meledandri (Executive Producer) William Joyce (Executive Producer) Chris Wedge (Executive Producer) |
| Starring | Ewan McGregor Halle Berry Alec Baldwin Mel Brooks Amanda Bynes Drew Carey Robin Williams |
| Edited by | John Carnochan |
| Music by | John Powell |
Production companies | |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
Release date |
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Running time | 90 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $75 million |
| Box office | $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 David Spade, Halle Berry, Alec Baldwin, Mel Brooks, Amanda Bynes, Drew Carey, Stanley Tucci, Jim Broadbent, and Robin Williams.[1] It was released on March 11, 2005.
Cast[change | change source]
- Ewan McGregor as Rodney Copperbottom, a young blue robot and aspiring inventor
- Halle Berry as Cappy, a human-themed worker at Bigweld Industries and Rodney's love interest
- Alec Baldwin 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 Lugnut, 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)
- Dee Bradley Baker as Additional voices
- James Earl Jones as Darth Vader (archive recording)
- James Brown as Diesel (singing voice, archive recording)
- William Joyce as Angry Mob Robot
- John Powell as Large Robot
- Randy Thom as Bartender
References[change | change source]
- ↑ Jones, Malcolm (March 13, 2005). "Heavenly Metal". The Daily Beast. Retrieved September 1, 2011.
Other websites[change | change source]
- Robots on IMDb
- Robots at the Big Cartoon DataBase
- Robots at AllMovie
- Robots at Rotten Tomatoes
- Robots at Metacritic
