Robots

My sister insisted I come and see this, and I wasn't sure I was going to like it. I've been pretty disappointed in the big-studio animated flicks I've seen of late and thought perhaps this would be another one. But, actually, it was pretty good. A nice balance of stuff to keep the kids going (including a really well-executed fart joke which had me crying with laughter) and some neat intertextual bits and pieces to entertain their parents, like a rundown robot singing "Daisy, daisy..." like HAL out of '2001', or a Kenny G track playing in the background while a robot gets a massage, and toilet door signs that had iconic 'plugs' for the men and 'sockets' for the ladies! (Hope the kids didn't understand THAT one ; ) But unlike a lot of other films it didn't rely too heavily on that kind of stuff and had enough funny moments of its own to keep you going until the end. Not a bad one for a wet weekend, I say.