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It's a shame that even the excellent animation cannot cover up the overly significant plot holes. The film can "boast" of not only straightforward simplicity, which kids will appreciate but also plenty of ideas that don't fall into the category of "original." The city itself, along with the storytelling concept, undoubtedly recalls Proyas' I, Robot, including sweeping camera movements and the grand heroic music by John Powell, who, however, relies a bit too much on motifs from Paycheck in this film. In contrast, there are plenty of references and cute jokes (which will be appreciated mainly by older viewers), and when considering the good selection of voices for the main characters, it creates a somewhat conflicting impression. For younger audiences (preferably 1st grade of elementary school), it's definitely a super cool hit, but I give it an indecisive three stars. (04.09.2005)

It seems to me that it is possibly even a bit too schematic animated film, which has good moments when human life is paraphrased by the robotic one. The opening title sequence is absolutely fantastic and would work great as a stand-alone short film. The rest of the film is somehow predetermined and its development is too expected. But it is still entertaining. (20.07.2015)

At least Ice Age didn’t pretend to be anything more than an unserious string of fine jokes. Robots lays out family values in the introduction and returns to them in the conclusion, but it’s a completely different film in the middle – a robotic patchwork of comical and unfunny scenes, peppered with both well-done and dumb allusions to the contemporary way of life rooted in pop culture. On the other hand, the robotic world is fascinating with various innovations and endearing ideas (the first ride on public transport in Robot City is fantastic!) and the characters themselves are very nicely designed. It’s just a shame that they’re not better developed. I found myself bored by the last third of the film. (17.03.2005)

Robots is full of so many ideas, gags and allusions of all kinds that I will gladly forgive the film its millionth variation on a well-known story. By the way, even though I usually watch dubbed cartoons, in this case it would be a sin - I wouldn't want to lose the wonderful Robin Williams as the "evil" Fender, Mel Brooks as the inventor Bigweld or Paul Giamatti, who lent his voice to the great character of the janitor (he made me laugh to tears).__P.S. The robotic old lady feeding robotic pigeons, but she has to wind them at the same time to make them peck at all... That's one of the best ideas. (05.03.2012)