 The addition of 3D to Meet the Robinsons apparently hasn't succeeded in making the film the equal of Pixar's best, according to the critics. (Actually, the film was already nearly finished by Disney when the company's acquisition of Pixar occurred. It was then reworked by Pixar's John Lasseter, who was installed as Disney's chief creative officer.) Ann Hornaday in the Washington Post poses a salient question: "Has a movie ever really benefited from being shown in 3D?" On ABC's Good Morning America, critic Joel Siegel suggested, "If you've been selected designated chaperone, my advice: trade the 3D glasses for reading glasses and bring a book and a flashlight." Most other reviewers also appear to have adopted a ho-hum attitude towards the movie. "Zippy if forgettable," is the way Dennis Lim describes it in the Los Angeles Times. Claudia Puig in USA Today writes that the movie "is sweet, entertaining and amusing. And though the story is rather slight, there is still significant excitement." The film does receive a handful of outright raves. Phil Kloer in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution calls it "a family movie that everyone can enjoy, one with a real story and characters that don't empty out of your brain faster than movie soda moving through a 6-year-old." But the movie also receives some heavy-handed drubbing as well. Writes A.O. Scott in the New York Times: "Meet the Robinsons is surely one of the worst theatrically released animated features issued under the Disney label in quite some time." |
