The hype: It's on a LOT of Top 10 lists, so curiosity got the best of Her Indoors.
The caveat: I don't hate animated movies per se, but I can't think of one off the top of my head where I just had to see it twice. I also don't have kids, so I don't have that "kids love it" sensibility when watching animated movies.
Marc Horton Plot Synopsis: Humans and/or large corporations and/or rampant consumerism have killed Earth. There's a robot that eats piles of garbage and shits it back out in cubes that can be used as, I dunno, building blocks. A space shuttle comes and drops off a more advanced robot. They get friendly. They end up back on the Mother Ship, which is a bunch of fat humans floating around in space thousands of years after abandoning Earth.
When the space humans attempt to return to Earth, the ship's auto-pilot, like HAL in 2001: A Space Odyssey, tries to over-ride the mission. The cute robots and the fat humans co-operate, prevail over "HAL" and return to Earth.
Politically Incorrect Movie Review: To paraphrase Cartman on South Park: I don't hate robots, I fuckin' hate hippies.
10 years ago