Runaway is a 1984 american metrocolor science fiction action film written and directed by michael crichton, starring tom selleck, gene simmons, cynthia rhodes and kirstie alley filmed in panavision. Heroic characters are captured and held against their will, and one is shot by a laser and falls through a giant hole in the floor. Throughout cinematic history, especially in sciencefiction tales, robots have always played a primary role. Rodney copperbottom voice rodney copperbottom voiced by ewan mcgregorand 4 others. Cartoon characters, cast and crew for robots 2005 previous cartoon next cartoon. Teens and robot are in peril from hired mercenaries, an evil businessman, a robot in combat mode. The 100 greatest movie robots of all time paste paste magazine. The robots never seem to have the heft and weight of actual metallic machines, and make boring villains. What character are you in robots the movie by blue sky studios.
The i, robot 2004 film community note includes chapterbychapter summary and analysis, character list, theme list, historical context, author biography and quizzes written by community members like you. Optimus prime voiced by peter cullen is the second leader of the autobots after sentinel, the last prime of dynasty of primes, one of the guardian knights, keeper of the matrix of leadership and the narrator of the series. Robots is brilliantly imagined by illustrator william joyce, and every single shot is filled with fabulously imaginative detail, every bit of it adorably witty, wonderfully fantastic, and perfectly logical. What makes robots enjoyable is its constant whimsy, the clever visual and verbal puns the animators make, filling every scene with blinkandyoumissem gags.
To further facilitate the linking together of the stories, asimov creates a framing device in which an unnamed narrator creates the history of robotics. Madame gasketratchet was the hidden true main antagonist of robots. Thunderbolts, lightning, dramatic music, laser action. Premiere magazine in its april 2004 issue, in an article written by numerous authors, published a list of the 100 greatest movie characters of alltime. List of transformers film series cast and characters. Donkin, and stars the voices of ewan mcgregor, halle berry, greg kinnear, mel brooks, amanda bynes, drew carey, jim broadbent, stanley tucci, and robin williams. In robot city, almost the first robotperson rodney meets is fender. Theres a little of the wizard of oz in the character of big weld, who does a tv program extolling the virtues and perfection of his vast corporation, but does not seem findable when rodney visits big weld headquarters. From main characters to cameos and minor roles, these characters are the reason why the movie is loved by film buffs around the world.
Robots delights on a visual level, but the story feels like it came off an assembly line. The list celebrated the most memorable movie characters in film history. Madame gasket is a fearsomelooking robot with yellow eyes, red and orange volcanolike crown, and a metal unibrow. Heroes a humble and idealistic young robot from rivet town, rodney is an aspiring inventor who idolizes bigweld. Robots is beyond generic as far as cinematic stories go. Written by imdb editors plot summary plot synopsis. Out of the shadows voice actors and characters duration. Robots 2005 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. The 10 hottest robot movie and tv characters sexy robots. Designs of the robot characters in robots i do not own anything. Hiro hamada has the mind of a geniusand the heart of a 14yearold.
Robots are the eponymous characters in the film robots. It was directed by chris wedge and produced by jerry davis, william joyce, and john c. The dvd features a short called aunt fannys tour of booty. There are all kinds of takeoffs of movies and television shows that are played out in the story singin in the oil is a gene kelly copy of his famous scene. Fandom apps take your favorite fandoms with you and never miss a beat. Robots has a plot that centers on the availability of spare parts, and uses a lot of them itself, borrowed from other movies. Robots characters cast list of characters from robots. Character bios, characters 3d turnaround, character interviews profiles, character. His big brother tadashi inspires him to put his brain to the test in a quest to gain admission to the san fransokyo institute of technology. Advanced search watchlist sign in robots 2005 poster. D by personality results are all guy robots though.
This character s voice belongs to actor alan tudyk. Robots the movie, rodney cobberbottom piper pinwheeler. Athena kim possible athena tomorrowland awesome android. Transformers robots in disguise optimus prime bumblebee sideswipe strongarm. Asimovs treatment of robots as being programmed with ethics was greatly influential in.
The movie is the second featurelength computer animated movie by 20th century fox and blue sky studios released in march 21, 2005 same year behind ice age. Powell and donovan fill the same position in these robot stories as bert and ernie do in sesame. The 19 best artificial intelligence characters in movies. Robots is a 2005 american computeranimated steampunk comedy adventure produced by blue sky studios and distributed by 20th century fox. In a robot world, a young idealistic inventor travels to the big city to join his inspirations company, only to find himself opposing its sinister new management.
A helpful robot for once, but really an entirely pointless character in the film overall, one of the highest compliments i can pay is that it felt like 80s robot had always been a part of the. Of course organics are the last concern of young rodney copperbottom voice of ewan mcgregor, who is. I could recognize his voice in about anything, even in happy feet. I, robot, a collection of nine short stories by sciencefiction writer isaac asimov that imagines the development of positronic humanlike robots and wrestles with the moral implications of the technology. Cappy, a bigweld industries executive opposed to ratchets plans, rescues rodney and fender. When a tragic event changes everything, hiro turns to a robot named baymax, and they form an unbreakable bond. Throughout history and popular culture, robots have reflected the mood, social and cultural issues, and technology of their times.
The following is a list of characters featured in the transformers film series. The defining moments were excerpted and abbreviated from the article. The plot is simpleminded and disappointing, and the chase and action scenes are pretty much routine for movies in the scifi cgi genre. The original robots short original short that sold the movie to the studio you can shine no matter what youre made of character inspiration featurette blue man group music featurette. List of robots characters, along with their pictures from the film when available. The story is about a robot called rodney copperbottom who travels to robot city in seek of his dream job as an inventor at bigwelds company. This film featured a magnificent voice cast noticeably robin williams. On his journey he encounters cappy, a beautiful executive bot with whom rodney is instantly smitten, the nefarious corporate tyrant ratchet who locks horns with rodney, and a group of misfit bots known as the rusties, led by fender and piper pinwheeler.
These characters from the movie robots are displayed from top to bottom according to their prevalence in the film, so you can find the lead characters at the top of the list. Robots stars ewan mcgregor as the voice of rodney copperbottom, an idealistic robot who wants to. Ostensibly a supporting character to walter pidgeon, anne francis, and leslie nielsen, robby still had a character design and a voice by marvin miller that made him the real star. He transforms into a 1997 red and blue peterbilt 379 semitrailer truck in the first three films. He is the main character of the film, and ultimately the one who saves the entirety of robot city from having ratchet and madame gasket dominate them. His human emotion and logic portrays his significance from all other ns5 robots, due to lannings unique design of sonny. After seeing how much of a toll ratchets actions have taken on bigweld, rodney goes into a state of despair and discouragement and decides to give up on his dream. She was rodneys archnemesis, ratchets mother and bigwelds archrival.