That Goob scene when everyone was being nice to him and all he could think was that everyone hated him really hit me as an adult. So many opportunities and possible friendships wasted because we're stuck in our own negativity.
I never thought about that. I always just laughed it off as a comedic bit but that’s a good catch 😅 I can relate a bit to Goob in that way. Sometimes I get trapped in my own head.
Todayland from _Meet The Robinsons_ is the closest thing we ever get to having Frutiger Aero in a Disney animated film. The futuristic city that stands on a clean environment screams _"The future we were promised"._
I actually really love when you give a lot of attention to the message of the movies you discuss and talking about its depth more, and I don't think it's just rambling. Movies are impactful because of what they're saying and trying to make you feel, so the message of a movie is just as important as the literal plot to me. I haven't watched this movie since I was a kid, but I remember it meaning a lot to me. I know I'm definitely gonna cry when I rewatch it.
That’s exactly how I feel! I love when people “ramble.” How people feel about art is how it impacts our world, of course that’s important!! Loving your positivity :)
I highly recommend getting 2x as much tissues as you’ll probably need them by the time you hear the phrase: “you have a great future ahead of you!” Dang it…now I’m crying!😭😭😭
Also wanna mention that Bowler Hat Guy IS indeed an amusingly memorable villain. The hilarity and zaniness of his character can be credited to none other than Stephen J Anderson, the film's director, who voiced not only Bowler Hat Guy, but also Bud (Lewis' adoptive father and Lucille's husband) and Tallulah (one of Lewis' adoptive cousins from the future). Stephen himself was adopted and he actively pushed to direct MTR because he related to and identified so much with Lewis. He's an awesome guy who continues to respond to fans online, especially on fan art for the film, to this day. 😊😊😊
I feel like another good movie about accepting your self and your quirks would be “a monster in Paris” while being originally is French and dubbed in English the movie still conveys the importance of accepting one’s self through story and music ( absolutely banger sound track) I highly recommend watching it, it’s criminally underrated.
I’ve always adored meet the robinsons it’s one of my favorite disney movies. the last time I watched it I went on a whole rant in my letterboxd review of how it’s so underrated despite being so fun and comforting and perfect to me
I've always adored this movie, and it probably remains one of my favorite Disney movies. I remember seeing it when it came out in my early childhood, I was visiting family and we all went to a drive in theater to watch it, and it's still such a great memory from that time.
This movie still makes me emotional. The music had no business being that good and nostalgic. The idea of self acceptance and self love runs through and through. It was such a prime example of great story telling with layers that can be appreciated to this day. Nowadays movies are played so safe which means they lack that substance that this particular era of movies were so rich in. I will always be glad to hear people go back and talk about this movie because it is definitely far too slept on. Such a nostalgic and wonderful film
Not to be depressing but I love this movie and it's message so much that I've actually chosen to have a couple songs from the soundtrack to be played at my funeral when it happens one day. My family isn't all great and I had to cut some of them off for my own health and safety. To know that I can still have family and loved ones in my life was always such a precious dream for me and this movie really helped to comfort me when I felt alone. Thank you for always giving attention to the movies that deserve it even if not everyone saw it for what it was.
As I've gotten older, I've started to miss when movie makers would take risks with the stories they told. Sure, not all of them were successful, but those risks lead to some of the greatest movies ever made! I want MORE original stories in unique art styles. Sure, not all of them are gonna be box office hits, but you throw enough things at the wall. Eventually, something will stick
It’s Ironic, Meet The Robinsons came out 16 years before Wish and Meet the Robinsons’ Keep Moving Forward is a good message that referencing Walt Disney that still hold up to this day unlike Wish’s Messages “just keep wishing”. Also I saw Wish’s End credits as they honor all Disney Movie before them. Meet The Robinsons was not in the end credits. I’m not lying. They put Chicken Little in the end credit, but There is no Meet the Robinsons in End Credits. My guess the Disney executives of Wish secretly hates Meets the Robinson. What else other reason the executives of Wish can forget to put Meet The Robinson in for Disney’s 100th year anniversary end credits?
Some rough edges like the whole adoption thing being kinda illogical, he literally already has a mother parental figure but its never addressed lol, but one of the greatest final messages and morals delivered in an animated film. Its okay for things to suck. Its okay for things to fall apart. All that matters is properly recognizing it, fixing it, and then trying again. Everything else is just you being hard on yourself.
Holding on to your past failures sucks. It's so hard to see your self worth when all you're focused on is how all you do is fail. Taking whatever it is one step at a time while appreciating and being in the moment helps, don't just focus on the end goal. Ps. I remember loving Meet the Robinsons when it came out and also feeling alot of emotions when i was younger watching it.
Never actually sat down and watched this movie, but I get what the plot is about. But who is the main kid grown up? The old guy with glasses right? And how is everyone else related to him?
Minor thing but I find it funny you comment on how stuff nowadays not being original anymore, in particular just being adaptations of pre-existing like books because Meet The Robinsons is actually based on a book. (Albeit very loosely so it's not like point doesn't stand. I just find that funny.)
“Why aren’t you seizing the boy!?” “Cause I have a big head, and little arms. And I’m not sure how well this plan was thought out…” This joke has lived rent free in my head for years.
I feel the phase "keep moving forward" is very underated even to today where people like to hold onto to a lot of past traumas or their own personal demons and take it out on others like goob. People are stronger than they know if they can take a step back and understand what's the issue and take steps to grow and surpass the past as it's over. It can't be changed
The first time I saw that quote, it really hit me. It basically the mind set I live by nowadays. Idk why, but it reminded me a lot of A Separate Peace. There was one quote in there that really hit me and its almost along the lines of being the same. Either way, very simple, yet powerful 3 words.
Another beautiful thing about the found family vs the blood related family is what Wilbur says in the end to Luis. "I didn't think my best friend would be my dad." Luis gave his son a beautiful blood related family to grow up in and feel loved in. Something Luis didn't have with his mother.
What I love about the Robinsons family is that its both found and blood related. Wilbur had the best of both worlds with lovely characters to grow up around.
@@Yummypoison0some people have wonderful relationships with both their blood related families and their chosen families. You sound like you’re bitter and projecting. Hope you can Keep Moving Forward.
@@yunochiii no, im just tired of people over evaluating blood. Did you know most kids are abused by people related to them? Blood is a trap. At least you get to choose your other family. Blood relations to abusers are extremely common.
This movie meant so much to me as a kid and even now. The story, characters, and message are so inspiring. So glad this underrated gem is getting the recognition it deserves.
I am almost 30 years old and I still make myself feel better by watching the "Keep Moving Forward" bit whenever I screw up. It's one of the best lessons you can learn is that failure can be ok
Pigs hair has finally reached full amazingness!! Let's hope he keeps it this time, or even grows it even longer still. It suits him very well, it helps he has amazing hair.
I quote “Bake them cookies Lucille!” At least once a year if someone is really destroying on a dance floor. It hurt me that I had to google the clip to explain to someone once
I definitely agree with the message. Uniqueness is in all of us and when we accept our children , they can feel comfortable in themselves and accomplish amazing things
A book by William Joyce, an amazing author who also wrote books in which other animated media was adapted from such as Rolie Polie Olie and Rise of the Guardians
last 15 minutes of this movie never fails to make me sob, like snot running from my nose type sobbings, hyperventilating..... its embarrassing that i cant watch this movie with other people.
I wish I could've shown my brother this video, he was in fact a "Goob" he was focusing his time on becoming an artist (I loved his art style btw) got a job, was going to college, and he had got caught up with the wrong people and became addicted to hard drugs. After several years, he comes back home and my mom, dad, and eldest brother, showed as much support as we could. Unfortunately, as an addict he would do things like steal out the house, was prone to violent outburst, and just spat on our Christian upbringing, so my father had him kicked out of the house (disowning him in the process). My oldest brother gave him up as well. However, my mom and I continued to show him support, giving him money, for food, hotel, and clothes, but he just couldn't appreciate it because of how bad those around him treated him, there were even those on the streets that gave as much as they could, and it still wasn't enough. Life had beat him down, and people hated him, mostly because he was transgender as well, and had to beg to get what he wanted (drugs included). I'm not sure if we were enabling him, but we believed that it was the drugs that hindered him from getting better. As there were somedays that he would bounce back, got himself a job, cleaned himself up, and would be the person I knew back then. He just couldn't let go of the person who he fell in love with, which was the same person that got him started taking drugs, and that relationship was toxic in of itself. Not everyone turned him away but it was enough to make him take his own life a few years ago. I still wonder if I could've said something or done something more to save him, but I guess I'll never know, to anyone who read this comment to the end, it doesn't matter what you do for someone in need if you don't first show them love. We all show love, but we all have our limits, and when it comes to love, there is no limit. I apologize for the long comment, but after what I, what my family has been through. This means a lot to me as well.
I'm so sorry about your brother, i had a family member that went through something similar, and also ended up taking his own life. I understand your pain, and i can tell you were a great brother for him, i really hope you and your family are doing well after all this
The Song "little Wonders" by rob thomas still crawls under my Skin to this day.... its...perfectly fitting to the movies message and themes underlining them with " enjoy the small things in life "
My mom is a huge Rob Thomas fan and apparently he wrote the song after an experience walking his dog. The realization that the small moments are things that are often the ones you'll look back on etc
That and Another Believer are two of the most beautiful songs I’ve ever heard! And Little Wonders almost always makes me cry tears of thankful joy for being alive!💖💖💖
My brother, yes, yes, yes! I saw this movie just randomly at a friend's house one night and I always thought it was a Top 5 Disney film, so underrated!
Best scene is when he went to future and in dark and watching that TV about how the bowler hat started to take over the world and made everyone slaves then the family was all "But Louis, we are already slaves" and it does the reveal where the whole family are wearing the bowler hats and turned into slaves, that scene was😮😮😮😮
one of my favorite details in the movie is in the beginning when Lewis’ mom is dropping him at the orphanage you hear someone run off and later on when Wilbur takes him back to that moment and he runs away you realize it was Lewis (but I will say this does mess with the movie just slightly because it means this is one concise timeline so lewis as an adult should have the memory of everything that happened in the movie but maybe that’s why adult lewis is gone the whole movie so he can butt out of it and let it happen because he knows where it ends up)
This, WALL-E, Bolt, and Cars! The four horsemen of my animated Disney Childhood! (Also, Toy Story 3 and even though it’s live action, Herbie: Fully Loaded!)
Thank you for mentioning that being blood related doesn't make you family. As a queen person we a lot of the time have to go out and find chosen families. So that hits kind of close to home with me and the people around me. If a toxic person is toxic it doesn't matter if they are related to you. You don't "have" to love or put up with anyone that makes you feel bad. ❤
2005-2010 is the golden era of disney movies and no one can change my mind, herby fully loaded, bridge to terebithia, meet the robinson, etc. they really had banger after banger
Cars, Ratatouille, WALL-E, Bolt, Toy Story 3, Up, Lilo and Stitch, and many more! Heck, Treasure Planet, all of Pixar’s line-up from Toy Story 1 to the Incredibles, and even the re-release of Aladdin on the 2-disc DVD Special Edition! Disney was seriously cooking in the late 90s and the general 2000s! (No joke, I even enjoyed Chicken Little! Yeah, I admit it’s got issues looking back: animation wasn’t the best, most of the cast, especially Buck Cluck, were pretty mean spirited, and to some it might seem a little all over the place in terms of tone. However, my defense for all of that is A. They were still trying to find their own Disney 3D aesthetic outside of Pixar, and I think the imaginative cartoony designs of the characters and world still kinda hold up to a slight degree despite the CGI looking rough. B. Buck, at least in my opinion, kinda redeemed himself by the end, and Chicken Little actually spoke his mind to his father and he responded, imo, quite appropriately. Some of the things, again, might not work, but I think Buck did actually have a decently written change of heart despite his over the top cowardly and worst-father-y character writing! And C. …the dramatic serious tones were fine, and worked alright imo. But most of the silly visual humor, even the pop culture references, and especially the 4th wall breaking opening, made me and almost EVERY KID IN THE THEATER CRACK UP AND HOWL WITH LAUGHTER! And even as an adult now, despite all its faults it still makes me wheeze with so many of the over the top reactions, and all the sudden pop music jokes!🤣🤣🤣)
@@aj27turquoiseskiesyeah Lewis uses several voice actors throughout the film. Wilbur has the same VA but they had to re-record all of Wilbur’s lines after his voice changed during puberty. He originally sounded a lot younger.
There’s no inherent problem with adapting source material into movies. This movie is a loose adaptation of a book and it didn’t even have time travel in the book. The movie rules regardless. Hell, a lot of beloved films are based on books. It all depends on the people making it.
Dang, whoever could be doing that smooth, velvety announcer voice in the beginning of the video?? Must be some kind of extremely handsome, tall, and young man, who should DEFINITELY be offered voice acting gigs....
I just wanna say I’ve always loved this movie and tried to get everyone I knew to watch it when I got the dvd😂. MTR deserved so much more love. Thank you for the vid!!
This movie was always one of my favourites as a kid and I didn’t know why it hit so deep but watching this video, I cried once I realized why it was a comfort movie for me and how much it helped me, thank you for making this video
I always thought this movie would be really weird when I was a kid so I always avoided. I decided to watch it in my later years of High School and I almost teared up during the scene where Lewis chooses his future family over his mom
Watched a TON of Meet The Robinsons growing up and it had such an emotional investing impact on me from the *Keep Moving Forward* point even Louis was an orphan and I was not.
This has been my favorite Disney movie ever since I saw it as a kid. I want to get a “Keep Moving Forward” tattoo for it; it means a HUGE deal to me. It’s so nice to see someone talk about it finally.
I remember watching this movie with my dad after my grandpa’s funeral. I was still too young to understand much, but looking back, this movie was flooded with messages that my Dad probably needed to hear after burying his dad. And honestly, it’ll be things I’ll hold onto hopefully later in life, if I ever have to do the same.
This actually is my favorite Disney. I've met so many people who haven't watched it simply because it isn't a musical. Really happy to see you cover it!
People really go by that logic? Guess they never seen any non musical Disney movie or show for that matter... they really are missing out with there weird hang-ups
I watched meet the Robinsons when I was going through a horrible time as a kid. I cried my eyes out when that end message hit. Keep moving forward..I watched it over 100 times. I have good memories watching it with old friends I lost contact with, I have good memories watching it when I was happy and bad memories of watching it when I was sad. It's my everything and doesn't get the praise it deserves.
I love this movie. I remember how I watched it on repeat, sobbing over and over when I was watching the bit about him realizing that the woman who gave him birth also made one of the best gifts of his life - an opportunity to choose his own family. And after seeing the family he'd make in the future, he changed his mind about chasing the woman who had abandoned him in the first place. I also think that the way he defeated Doris, made a huge impact on that decision - one move during this faithful moment and he can erase the very existence of his whole future that he still has a chance to create...
This movie impacted me so much emotionally when I was younger, that when I graduated high school, "Keep moving forward" was my senior quote. Genuinely has to be my favorite, if not one of my favorite, movies. At one point, I used to have most of the script memorized because I'd have it playing on repeat.
We're in an age where execs care more about "getting people in seats". Entertainment is financially more interested in getting people to just go to the theatre/streaming service. They're not interested in keeping them there, so anything beyond that is not their concern. And as for why not just hire passionate people(?), passionate people are harder to control and when the money is available more expensive
Nah cause this was one of my FAVORITE movies as a kid, and my favorite character was goob. The humor they had for his character was so ahead of the time
With this movie's message and it be Disney's first ever 3D animated movie that was made in the house at the studio it represents how not only the company wanted to move on from traditional animation but they also wanted to keep moving forward to focus on other stuff for the future of the company for both the better and for the worse But mostly worse since we have not only bad remakes but also artificial intelligence being used to write some of their projects now which sucks NGL Also the only reason why the animation looks as weird as it is is not really just because of the budget it's also because it's meant to be an adaptation of an old 1990s children's book made by the executive producer of this movie William Joyce and the character designs are semi faithful to their book counterparts As a person who's read the book myself
I loved that they didn't go too much into the bio mom's story, because it doesn't matter, because she was selfless enough to give up Louis so he could hopefully have a better life than what she could give him. I imagine she got sick and passed away,thats why she's not shown to contact him in the future. Maybe she was homeless or in an abusive relationship, the movie doesn't care about why, it cares about the sacrifice for the child.
This movie made me want to work in animation at a time I didn’t even know this was a real job. I’m from a small town in Brazil, and I was obsessed with Meet The Robinson and kept watching the making off. I now work as a background artist. I own a lot to this movie
