ROBOTS 2005 | dir. Chris Wedge

ROBOTS (2005)

"Crosstown Express"

dir. Chris Wedge, Carlos Saldanha

Robots Director: Chris Wedge | Studio: Blue Sky | USA, 2005

The amount of love i have for this movie cannot be expressed by mere words

I'll always love how both of these Chris Wedge directed Blue Sky films ended with both of these Chris Wedge voiced characters giving a little chuckle at the end. ^w^

ICE AGE 2002

I've eaten things that didn't complain this much.

Ice Age (2002)

This is a Movie Health Community evaluation. It is intended to inform people of potential health hazards in movies and does not reflect the quality of the film itself. The information presented here has not been reviewed by any medical professionals.

Ice Age has lightning-related strobes at night during a thunderstorm, starting about 12 minutes in, and ending a few seconds after a loud lightning strike with an audible electrical zapping noise.

There are brief moments of peril at extreme heights. One moment of double-vision and a sequence of high-speed sliding may be disorienting.

Flashing Lights: 5/10. Motion Sickness: 3/10.

TRIGGER WARNING: There is an extended gross-out gag involving feces.

Image ID: A promotional poster for Ice Age

Title: Epic

Rating: PG

Director: Chris Wedge

Cast: Colin Farrell, Amanda Seyfried, Christoph Waltz, Josh Hutcherson, Jason Sudeikis, Aziz Ansari, Chris O’Dowd, Beyoncé, Judah Friedlander, Steven Tyler, Pitbull, Blake Anderson

Release year: 2013

Genres: family, fantasy, adventure

Blurb: A teenager finds herself transported to a deep forest where a battle between the forces of good and the forces of evil is taking place. She bands together with a ragtag group of characters in order to save their world...and hers.

Robots (2005) dir. Chris Wedge. 8.3/10

I would recommend this movie to my friends. I would rewatch this movie.

I love how proud Herb is to say he's a dishwasher. He was cute telling Rodney. He was also cute at his smile when getting new parts from Bigweld. I love how creative this whole world looks. A lot of this is creative engineering genius. The crosstown express seems fun. Someone make it into a 4D ride. All the jokes are so intelligent, funny, and creative.

Omg at Tammy Cotterpin's yearbook intro.

I support Bigweld and Aunt Fanny.

I wonder how Ratchet managed to take over after Bigweld though. I need a prequel.

This is like a Pixar film before Pixar became what it is. This movie is like are all these small random scenes necessary for the plot?? but then you love all those scenes anyway.

The arriving at Robot City being like Times Square or Hollywood was amusing.

What an impeccable VA cast.

Piper bringing all the outmodes is like Avengers: Engame final battle.

Memorable Quotes: "See a need, fill a need." "I wanna grow up to be like you."

Happy birthday to Chris Wedge.

Monster Trucks (2016)

The first time I saw Monster Trucks, I HATED it. Seeing the film a second time, I’m not sure why. This picture isn’t worthy of strong emotion. It’s a knockoff of a knockoff; a movie so watered down it’s best described as bland and forgettable.

Tripp Coley (Lucas Hill) is astonished when he discovers that Creech, a multi-armed creature that drinks oil has invaded his newly-built monster truck. Tripp, Creech, and Meredith (Jane Levy, serving as Tripp’s love interest) set out to save Creech's home and family from Terravex Oil, whose evil CEO Reece Tenneson (Rob Lowe) wants to destroy the creatures.

Boy befriends creature. They bond. A villainous adult at the heart of an agency or corporation seeks to tear them apart. You’ve seen this tale before. It’s E.T., The Iron Giant, Transformers or even Mac and Me. Beat for beat, you can foresee what comes next, which makes the picture dull to everyone above the age of 8. It’s somewhat appropriate, considering a 4-year-old conceived the story. The end results are just as bad as those soulless pictures we so often find in the theater, but it’s somewhat refreshing to find a picture ill conceived because of love. Word is the story was conceived when Paramount Studios’ former president Adam Goodman heard his son ask “What if monster trucks were actually powered by monsters?”. Originally scheduled for summer 2015, it was only released two years later… in January – widely regarded as the dumping ground for films. The studio lost about $120 million on this bit of nepotism. Yikes.

Normally, I wouldn’t detail a film's behind-the-scenes or box office results unless it was some kind of revolutionary picture. I’m making an exception because the story behind the story is much more interesting than the end results. Lucas Hill is much too old to be playing a high schooler. Even if they had cast someone of appropriate age, the picture was doomed. Only a small child would dream of sticking a tentacle beast in an truck and then using it as an engine but small children can’t drive, and they sure as hell can’t customize a truck with the necessary openings, flaps and covers – in one night - like Tripp does. Stuck with this “is he a kid, or a grown up” protagonist, the film has difficulty finding what role Meredith should play. Best friend? Potential girlfriend? Quirky sidekick? Unattainable hottie whose attention is captured once the monster comes in? Similarly, Daniel Glover has a small part that adds little but was necessary because a teenager couldn’t own a junkyard. At least the villain is straightforward, in a “all I do all day is fantasize about kicking puppies and killing the environment” kind of way.

Monster Trucks began not with a story, or a premise, but with a title. I’m not sure how much blame screenwriter Derek Connolly and director Chris Wedge deserve. They could’ve done much better than this but why bother? Putting effort into this film would’ve been a waste. Then again, they got paid. What do we reap from this crop? Nothing. There’s no imagination or wonder in Monster Trucks at all. There’s maybe one scene that sticks out. Otherwise, it’s a lazy picture full of shortcuts that no one could ever have fond memories of. (August 17, 2018)

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ROBOTS 2005

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