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Meet the robinsons villain Continue This article is about the film. For a video game, see Meet the Robinsons (video game). Meet RobinsonsTheatrical Release PosterPostStephen AndersonProduced by Jopoti McKimScreenplay John A. BernsteinMeel SpritzDon HallNathan GrenoAurion RedsonJoe MateoStepo AndersonBased onA Day with Wilbur Robinsonby William JoyceNorringJordan FryWesley SingerHarland WilliamsTom KennyThiv AndersonAngela BassettLauri MetcalfAdam WestTom Sellecknik SullivanMusic byDanny ElfmanEd byEllen KenesheaProductcompany Walt Disney PicturesWalt Disney AnimationDistributed byBuena Pictures DistributionRelease Date March 23, 2007 (2007-03-23) (USA) (USA) March 30, 2007 (2007-03-30) (UK) Duration 94 minutes fantastic comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures on March 30, 2007. The 47th Disney Animated Feature Film, it was released in standard and Disney Digital 3-D versions. The film is based on characters from the 1990 children's book A Day with Wilbur Robinson by William Joyce. The voice cast includes Jordan Fry, Wesley Singerman, Harland Williams, Tom Kenny, Steve Anderson, Laurie Metcalf, Adam West, Tom Selleck, and Angela Bassett. It was the first film released after then-Pixar CEO John Lasseter became chief creative officer of Walt Disney Animation Studios. The Lewis plot is an aspiring 12-year-old inventor who grew up in an orphanage whose inventions have been scaring off potential parents. He works all night by car to scan his memory to find his birth mother, who abandoned him in an orphanage when he was a child. Taking the scanner to his school's science fair, Lewis meets 13-year-old Wilbur Robinson, a mysterious boy, claiming to be a police officer from the future. Wilbur needs to restore the time machine that was stolen by a man in a boiler hat. Lewis tries to demonstrate the scanner, but he was sabotaged by Bowler Hat Guy and falling apart, throwing science fair into chaos. Lewis walks away while bowler Hat Guy, using a robotic bowler hat named Doris, repairs and steals the scanner. Wilbur meets Lewis in the shelter and asks him to repair the scanner. Lewis agrees to do so only if Wilbur can prove that he is telling the truth, as Wilbur does by taking them to 2037 in the second time machine. When they arrive, he and Wilbur will get into an argument and flare up. Wilbur asks Lewis to fix the time machine, but Lewis realizes that he can just use the time machine to see his mother, and not have another condition: Wilbur must take him to visit his mother after that. Reluctantly Wilbur agrees and hides Lewis in the garage. Lewis didn't stay there for long, however, and ended up meeting the rest of the The Robinson family, with the exception of Cornelius, Wilbur's father, who went on a business trip. After Lewis, bowler Hat Guy and Doris try to kidnap him, but the Robinsons beat them back. The Robinsons offer to adopt Lewis, but change their minds when they find out he's from the past. Wilbur admits that he lied to Lewis about going back to his mother, causing Lewis to run away in disgust. Lewis discovers that Cornelius Robinson is, in fact, a future version of himself, and Wilbur is his future son. Lewis also learns that Bowler Hat Guy is an adult version of Lewis' neighbor, Michael Goob Yagoobian. Because he was awake from Lewis's work on the scanner, Goob fell asleep during an important Minor League game and couldn't make an important catch that cost the game. As a result, Goob became so bitter that he was never adopted and remained in the orphanage long after its closure. Doris is a DOR-15, one of Lewis's failed and abandoned inventions. They both blamed Lewis for his misfortunes and decided to ruin his career by stealing the memory scanner and claiming credit for it. Leaving Lewis behind, they take off with a scanner, dramatically changing the future in a world where the clones of Doris enslaved humanity. Lewis repairs the second time machine, confronts Doris and destroys it, promising never to invent it, restoring the future of her utopian me. After persuading Lewis Wilbur tries to ask the adult Gob to join the family, but he disappeared, apparently ashamed of what he did. Back in Wilbur's time, Lewis finally meets Cornelius face to face. Cornelius explains how the memory scanner began his successful career, and convinces Lewis to return to the science fair. Wilbur takes Lewis back, but makes one stop first: as he promised, he returns Lewis at the moment when he was abandoned by his mother. While Lewis approaches his mother, he ultimately decides not to interact with her, realizing that the family he will come to have with Wilbur and others. Wilbur drops Lewis off in his day and leaves. Lewis heads to the fair, but along the way Wakes up Goob just in time for him to make a winning catch. Back at the fair, Lewis asks for another chance to demonstrate his scanner, which this time was a success. He is adopted by Lucille, one of the judges of the science fair, and her husband Bud, who nicknamed him Cornelius and will take him home. The film ends with a quote that repeats the message not to dwell on the failures and keep moving forward, attributed to Walt Disney. Starring Jordan Fry and Daniel Hansen† as Lewis, Tom Selleck as Cornelius, Lewis older himself as Wesley Singerman as Wilbur Robinson as Steve Anderson as Bowler Hat Guy Matthew Josten as Michael Goob Yagoobian, Bowler Hat Guy Jr. and Anderson also provided the voices of Grandpa Bud and cousin Tallulah Harland Williams as Carl Nicole Jesse Flower as young Franny Angela Bassett as Mildred Adam West as Art's uncle Laurie Metcalf as Lucille Krunklehorn as Ethan Sandler as: DOR-15 (Doris) Uncle Fritz (and Aunt Petunia) Spike and Dmitry Cousins as InventCo CEO Don Hall, as Uncle Gaston Hall also provided the voice of gym trainer Tom Kenny. Willerstein Kelly Hoover as Aunt Billy Tracy Miller-Sarneke as the singing voice of Frankie the Frog Paul Butcher as Stanley Dara McGarry as InventCo Receptionist, Ms. Harrington John H. H. Ford as Mr. Harrington as Nathan Greno as Lefty †Not: The character Lewis was voiced as Daniel Hansen and Jordan Fry. Daniel Hansen voiced Lewis at the beginning of the film's production, and when the studio needed to change Lewis's lines, they re-voiced Jordan Fry in many segments. Produced by Steven Anderson at the premiere of A Day with Wilbur Robinson, production began in June 2004 and was scheduled for 2006. During the production of the film, Disney animator Steven Anderson decided to make the film because of his personal connection to Lewis, as they both grew up adopted. The studio planned to adapt Joyce's style to the film, but due to his stylistic involvement in Robots, the style was slightly redesigned. While still taking cues from its retro style, influenced by everything from Technicolor to 40s architectural design movies, the crew also drew inspiration from Apple. Unlike their previous film Chicken Little, starring CG Animals, the animation crew was calling the animated people CG. They drew inspiration from The Incredibles when they animated the characters. They also drew inspiration from Disney animated classics such as Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella, and Peter Pan, and from Warner Brothers cartoons to capture the aesthetics of the 1950s. While the film was in production, Disney announced on January 24, 2006, that it would acquire Pixar, and as a result, John Lasseter became chief creative officer of both Pixar and Walt Disney Animation Studios. When he saw the early screening of the film, he told Anderson that he had not found the villain scary enough or threatening, and invited him to make some changes. Ten months later, almost 60% of the film was canceled and remade. The villain improved and got a new mate, dinosaur chases were added, and the ending was changed. The release of more than 600 REAL D Cinema digital 3D-equipped theaters presented Disney Digital 3-D version of the film. The 3D version was preceded by a short 1953 Chip 'n Dale 3D Working for Peanuts. The final 3D credits were left two-dimensional, except for the names of those who converted the film into 3D. Home DVD and Blu-ray versions both were released on October 23, 2007. Both versions have a wide-screen ratio of 1.78 and a volume sound of Dolby Digital 5.1, as well as music videos, family Function 5000, deleted scenes and other bonus features. The DVD audio commentary contains Anderson's narration, sometimes interrupted by himself as Bowler Hat Guy. Blu-ray also includes a non-expressive 5.1 audio and BD-J game, Bowler Hat Barrage!. 3D Blu-ray was released on November 8, 2011. As of January 2008, the DVD has sold about 4 million copies. Receiving critical reception review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reports that 67% of critics gave the film positive reviews based on 141 reviews, with an average rating of 6.34/10. Critics of the consensus website said: The Robinsons' Encounter is a visually impressive children's animated film marked by a story of considerable depth. Metacritic reported that the film had a weighted average score of 61 out of 100 based on 27 reviews by critics, indicating generally favorable reviews. Realmovienews said it has a fast storyline that requires close attention as it whizzes back and forth in the space-time continuum, touching serious ideas and offering some rather disturbing alternative realities.