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I kind of love how the 'they eat nuts and bolts, but they're also made of nuts and bolts' part is the perfect example of what it would be like for aliens to interpret what humans are like if they only had a base level knowledge of Earth lore from a single movie, and by extension the way a lot of world building plotholes just exist in reality. They eat meat BUT HOLD ON... they're made of meat!
Ratchet’s mum says “use those brains I stole for you”, which suggests robots can swap in different brains. What does that imply about personality and consciousness in the robot world?
The first thing that came to my mind was that with this knowledge you could steal anothers intellectual property by swapping brains there's other stuff related but it's 1:00am and I'm tired so BYE
No you actually don’t understand. The yassification of the ‘Hit Me Baby One More Time’ scene transformed my internal cultural fabric at age 6. To hear you review it has truly sent tremors through the cosmos. With respect, this was a slay.
Something that struck me is that they have the "we wanted a boy, right?" joke during Rodney's assembly which pretty explicitly means that there is a certain "piece" that makes someone a boy (at least according to Rodney's parents), which happens to be placed between the legs. Now - when Fender switches legs at the Chop Shop for a pair of heels with a skirt, he must have lost that "boy piece". And what's more, when the rest of the gang sees him at the train station, Piper exclaims "I have a sister!" but the there's like. No questions about his masculinity. He walks around with girl's parts for the rest of the film and there's not even a throwaway line about trying to get him another boy piece.
“Well we can’t call her Aunt Booty” changed my entire world. I was 7 when this movie came out and I have thought of that line every single day since then
by portraying fender and piper as brother and sister we can actually examine really easily the concept of family as a social construct. even if theyre not from the same parents, they are found family and i am here for that.
Wouldn't they be brother and sister because they were built by the same parents? They may be different models but just being built by the same person would make them related
Still kinda holds up? They "made" them who they are even if they're not the same model, like an allegory for adoption, which (to me) sits in between a bio family and a chosen family @@brodstarpadpen6949
the chokehold that the "hit me baby one more time" scene still has on me to this day. i didn't even know who britney was but after this scene, i had no choice but to stan.
You forgot to mention when Rodney is delivered, he comes in a cardboard box. Implying the existence of trees somewhere…which would also need water to survive and grow! One of my favorite jokes in the movie happens while Bigweld is out of it and Rodney is driving him around the city trying to fix him, he starts singing Daisy Bell. Which is actually the first song ever sung by a computer, the IBM 704 all the way back in 1961. It's a sweet song, and I think it's a really sweet anecdote, that one of the very early things we tried to do with computers was to make them sing and make music. The song was originally written by Harry Dacre who was from the Isle of Man! Little did Harry knew the success his song would achieve. Had this movie on DVD growing up and this was the DVD we selected to watch on the night that the disastrous Hurricane Sandy hit us when we lived in Jersey City, New Jersey back in 2012...the TV only flickered once but we didn't lose power that night...and we ended up being the only block in our neighborhood that STILL had power after the storm. This movie was a good luck charm.
Thank you for sharing this information! I remember at school when I was 7 they would always play this movie whenever there was a bad storm and we couldn’t go outside to play during breaks. I saw the beginning of this movie so many times but never finished it.
the fact that master of mechanical engineering michael microphone reviewed robots is truly the perfect culmination of this channel. it's christmas let's go home
Read this before watching, didn’t question it, didn’t realize my mistake until he mentioned his Gossip Girl video and not his engineering related video
during my undergrad, my friends had an ongoing bit of asking "how long has it been since you thought about the movie Robots?" periodically in group settings. Its one of my favourite questions to ask strangers now lol.
Rust actually comes from a reaction between metal and oxygen, not with water in liquid form like rain. Moisture is needed but it can come from just high humidity in the air, and considering there is fire in the movie (a product from combustion is water vapor) there definitely is at least water in gas form. I think there’s just humidity in the air and the rust implies how long the parts have been in contact with it showing old age or something like that. Just some food for thought. This movie was a visual landmark, and it was miles ahead of what anyone else was doing. Tons of dynamic reflections and lighting, metal rigid body clanky characters with perfectly rusty or metallic looking surfaces with the slightest of blemishes visible, full motion blur and very elaborate high polygon count towns. I think the idea of making a setting where everything and everyone is made out of metal was a pretty good idea for CGI at the time. I love how this movie took the Toy Story and Zelda Wind Waker approach of "let's make the graphical style and setting something that our current technology can already do well, so that the visuals don't succumb to the flow of time."
okay so in universe what would be the implication of ending world rust? getting rid of humidity?? getting rid of oxygen?? Would it be more akin to wrinkles and less world hunger, or more like a disease? The statement “end world rust” makes it sound like it’s an avoidable but deadly condition so I’d be inclined to think it’s more like a disease…
@@thilypad557maybe it can be thought of akin to cancer? They can get it on presumably any body part, and your odds increase depending on exposure to certain environments and age. It spreads if left alone, and will result in the death of the robot A cure might be preventative coatings, or cleaning procedures, or just allowing for cheap and plentiful replacement parts for old ones
On the topic of the visuals of the film, I think the art direction is why I like art deco so much today. It's almost like they saw those weirdly proportioned drawings of art deco people and thought "yeah, what if they were robots too?"
Interesting to note, I had the Robots video game. And in it theres a npc with a piece of dialogue where he describes how one day years ago it rained, supposedly killing thousands, he also states that the rain will one day return.
I think the rust yearbook quote was kinda an equivalent to "end world poverty" cuz if there is no water it takes an infinitely longer time for metal to rust, which means the only robots who go long enough with the same parts for them to rust, are poor robots.
@@maddieb.4282everything in the film shows direct correlations between the disgusting rich and the classes below them. Government and citizens have no power in a system that is run by corporations. Thats our real world environment currently and has been for most of human history. In the film the main storyline is rodney inevitably having to destroy the existing “political” system to be able to restart and provide the people their needs..
One time I did ketamine (monitored by dr, it was completely legal and a treatment for depression) and when I was tripping I was dragged by big weld himself through a series of pitch black tunnels that collapsed around me and took me to the recycling place. It was terrifying, and I have a personal vendetta against big weld. Great video though 😁👍
I'm starting to realise how goated of a movie Robots must have been for the parents who had to watch it with their children. It really feels like it was "built" for them first.
so freaking delighted how seriously you analyze this very unserious movie. as someone that works in animation, it's really gratifying to see you point out all the details that go into visual worldbuilding that are not even necessarily meant to be noticed but inform the movie as a whole. another michael's analysis for the history books!
Thats so cool! What’s it like working in animation? I’ve been thinking about possibly pursuing a career in animation after high school cuz I honestly really wanna work at Pixar.
it may be unserious but it always struck me very much as a labor of love and I hope it did well financially. as a kid who loved robots in general from my earliest memories, I could tell this movie was made by people who also just think they're cool as heck.
i think the canon is that there's a projection robot at the cinema, as well as popcorn maker and soda dispenser, and the building is only a building. in fact, being a projection robot is a highly valued artistic career, almost performance art, because the heat of the lamp is unbearable, but that is a sacrifice they're willing to make for cinema.
In the old days of cinema, working in a projection room was an incredibly risky job. You had to (manually) keep the machine operating constantly and smoothly or else it would catch on fire. The movie "Cinema Paradiso" explores what this job looked like and what happens when it goes wrong.
@@floridaflamingogirl3119partially because the celluloid they used for reels was highly unstable and very easy to light on fire, in fact as it degrades slowly in storage it can create a fire spontaneously. This is why a lot of early films have been lost
my younger sister was OBSESSED with this movie. so much so my mom asked the movie theater for the cut out robots and we had three life sized cardboard robots in our home
18:05 out of all the mind bending creative choices, insane animation, and ludicrous story, hearing Natasha Lyonne without her accent is still the craziest thing about this movie for me.
absolutely needed this in my life. so sick of not having any fellow besties who enjoy picking apart and studying the heck out of things that have no business being studied. have no idea how people can just watch something like Robots and then just move on with no desire for discourse. also you absolutely sent me with the "fender et al." 😆 love love love your humour!
I have vivid memories of watching the “Hit Me Baby One More Time” scene as kids and my friend and I LOSING. OUR. MINDS. 😂 that scene hit different back in 2005
stop how did you perfectly elucidate my thought process smh. Rodney had such an exceptional opportunity to take down the capitalist system with the proletariat backing him up, and then he sells out to be reformist with a cushy job in the large corporation :(
I still cant get over the fact that I had just finished writing about the inherit class struggles that the characters from Robots were facing for an English essay not even a month ago and now this pops up in my recommended. I should have known I had struck gold writing that essay lmao
You could also call Rodney the domino’s delivery guy because he’s the one to set the chain of events in motion to enact change for his community and also helped Bigweld rediscover his passion and purpose. Rodney knocked down the first domino after all
20:56 i think the whole greese issue is that we look at it from a human point of view where we separate food we ingest and blood that fuels us, while obviously a car filled with greese/gas is just that: It's fueled by the gas, it cycles giving it energy and then it's discarded
i actually wrote a goofy little essay about this movie for one of my political theory seminars. wihtin the logic of the capitalist mode of production the whole machine parts/grease/cannibalism question becomes even more interesting bc in that frame they're all just means of production (so the lines between the real-world labor force, raw material and manufacturing spaces are blurred in a kind of egalizing way). ratchet appropriates these means of production as the bad capitalist, resulting in a revolution as marx had imagined it (started by leaders within the proletariat). seeing that other systems of oppresion (i. e. sexism, racism) weren't really part of the robots world (or weren't directly touched on) acutally aligns with marx' theory as well since he was mostly very ignorant about these issues. yes i was manic at the time i wrote that essay.
They're eating the machine parts, bolts and all, of other robot species. Like we eat the meat and organs of other animals. Or it could straight up be cannibalism, there's no wrong answer.
When I was a kid I didn’t know how to skip forward but I liked that Britney Spears scene so much that id just watch the whole movie from the start just so I can see that serve again.
My theory about the cannibalism is that it's like how humans eat meat but are also made of meat so it's not really cannibalism because the nuts and bolts may be the equivalent to the chicken and beef
My mom bought this movie for me and a in car DVD player to keep me entertained on our 3hr drives to the coast to see my grandmother. I remember being so obsessed with this movie I would watch it after school. I watched this movie about 9 times every 2-3 months for 3 years. And when I tell you that I love any and all discord around this movie I just ugh thank you Mike. I felt this in my inner child
6:46 Perhaps the connotation of curing “rust” in the robot world could be relating to some sort of finding cure for life-threatening/terminal diseases? Nevertheless. We stan a robot woman in STEM 🤖💅🔬🧪✨
Fun fact: when I was learning to walk, I was only able to do it when I was holding a Rodney Copperbottom figurine that I got in a McDonalds happy meal. Kinda slay if I may say
I absolutely ADORED this goofy little movie when it came out. I had little action figures of the robots and you could switch their arms/legs/heads to make your own robot. Thank you for this nostalgia!
Fender saying "we'll ignore the gossip" and giggling about sharing a room with Rodney. Zoom. Straight over my head as a kid. But I love that! So funny 😂
This movie had entirely too big of an impact on me as a child, I need to watch it again. It was weird and goofy and just absolutely nuts to me as a kid and then over the years I admired the art- I’ve gotten a big appreciation for William Joyce’s work over the years.
glad I'm not the only one who almost felt like this movie was just some sort of fever dream i had as a child! It feels greatly validating to hear my fave insider breaking it down for me
In the Robots video game for Xbox, a random npc will say periodically "One good rain and this whole town will go to rust." This certainly implies that rain exists at least as a concept, and one to be feared. It also implies that there hasn't been rain in quite some time, considering the catastrophic implications.
I’m so happy other people appreciate the pure GENIUS of this movie. The comedy is top tier, a modern day classic, there is no other like it. Fender alone is one of the best characters ever created in cinema
Robots is one of the best animated movies and the cast sends me off the rails every time. Loving the Stanley Tucci Ewan McGreggor Robin Williams collab
I saw Robots in theaters at seven years old in 2005! I like to consider Robots (2005) as a fundamental Trans Kid movie! It has the usual Be Unique/ Yourself theme, but the world of Robots tells us that you can literally make yourself with the resources you have! It’s not just “you can shine no matter what you’re made of” it’s that what you’re made of can be physically, anything you want. Also, I like to think that Rodney himself is a trans character! (Albeit made unintentionally) the sequence him of getting his 12 yr old parts (which we never see) to getting his teenager parts to getting rid of specifically Veronica’s chest plate, echoes a lot of the trans experience. It echoes this experience all the way down to Rodney’s High School Senior yearbook photo and the clear uncomfortable awkward expression on Rodney’s face, knowing he has to endure it. Gender as a construct in the Robots world is extremely superfluous! and Rodney being given and made to wear girl-parts despite being assigned a boy by his parents is evidence of that! Even stronger evidence, I think, is Fender being both assigned sister by Piper and Boyfriend(?) by that girl he meets at the ball. And of course the found family trope has this undercurrent of it being a Queer found family. Especially since the main set of characters in the movie rep parts of the rainbow.
There's also the part where when building Rodney, the mom asks what that piece over there is, and the dad replies with "uhhh, we did want a boy, right?". Combining this with the scene where Fender literally puts on an entirely new set of hips and legs in the chop shop implies that physical gender in the robots world could literally as fluid as what clothes you want to put on that morning
Absolutely! It’s so subtly (possibly unintentionally) queer coded and I’m here for it. From language to story to animation. I saw it once it came out on DVD it was my favorite movie growing up.
I was utterly terrified of this movie when I was a kid, but after rewatching it recently, I can safely say that it has become one of my favourites and is so incredibly underappreciated
i can't count how many times i watched this movie as a child but since i watched in german i never once realized how iconic the cast was, what a true masterpiece
i'm sorry but the idea of it in german is some of the funniest shit i've ever heard. I'm bilingual german/english but i've only ever seen it in english and I have to see the german dub, jesus christ 💀
16:42 “who is that lady because she square root of 64ed” I think more people need to be appreciating the genius behind this because OMG SHAKESPEARE COULD NEVER
I haven’t watched this film since I was 6 years old and there are things that I subconsciously internalised into my personality and didn’t realise until now! Like that singing in the oil scene was buried right at the back of my brain!
Funfact about my childhood connection with the movie robots! In the early 2010s, me and my sibling lived on a bunk bed in the attic room together, and we had one of those small box TVs with the curved screens. However, we had no remote for it. And the only movie we had that would play without the remote was Robots. So, for multiple months, we rewatched Robots once every few days. We can both quote this movie almost entirely. It's insane. We know it so well. The older I've gotten, the more my brain comes up with a random quote from it in the middle of the conversation and I've realised just how many adult jokes were packed into this movie. Bonus story that I think is funny - we did eventually find the remote for the TV again, and the next memory I have (I was like 6 and it's just out of my reach of memory lmao) after finding it is that I put on Land Before Time and snuck onto my sibling's bunk bed (the top bunk, which I was not allowed on) to watch it. Then I heard my dad come upstairs, and I jumped off the bed, fell face first and tried not to cry so he wouldn't find out that I was on the bunk. Anyway I had to go to the hospital because I almost broke my nose, and it is the only time I have ever been to the hospital. But here's where it ties in - when we got back home, my parents let us put a movie on because I was hurt. And what did I put on? That's right, it was Robots. My parents actually got mad at me because I got so enthusiastic while saying the lines at the same time as the movie (I don't know what to call that to be honest) but it was totally worth it that movie was great and the "Upgrades, people, upgrades!" meme is from it. I need to see if we still have that disc somewhere lmao. 10/10 movie, seeped in memories and nostalgia.
That's a cute story ☺️ If you're asking what it's called when you repeat/recite lines from a movie, I've usually called "parroting," but if it's an autism trait it's called "echolalia." There's a piece of mostly useless information! 😂
@@Cat-tastrophee Oh my god, of blumin' course it's an autism trait. I'm telling my mum this, she'll find it hilarious lmfao. Thank you for your mostly useless information! I love facts. I devour mostly-useless information like a student trying to fill out an essay word count.
"But!✋✋✋✋✋" 10:25 thanks for bringing my memories of this movie back to life, together with Bugs (worthy of a video essay too btw) it was a movie that I watched 1384293475893 times but I didn't think about it in the last 15 years of my existence
I’ve always liked the fact that oil seemed to serve the same function as water for the robots - we are made up of a lot of water, we have to drink water, water rains down from the sky etc. etc. Robots is such a great movie and I’m glad to see you giving the slightly unhinged recognition that it deserves!
This movie is soooooo underrated. It was one of my favorites growing up and I feel like it aged surprisingly well. Also the voice casting is iconic and the soundtrack is epic.
We had this one on DVD and this was one of the movies we just watched like every week or month. I still love it and later watched it again as an adult, and it's just a good movie even removing the nostalgia. But it's still a weird memory bc I don't remember anyone else of my friends or family knowing this and even when I got into commentary RU-vid it felt like this movie never existed. I still have no idea if it was a secret underrated masterpiece for it's time or a smash hit or just one of those movies in between that are loved by most people but fade into the back of your memory after a while.
Now if you'd asked me if I'd seen this film at the beginning of this video I would've said no, but now I'm most of the way through and I in fact remember most of this movie just with no context. Amazing
This was so unexpected from Mike and yet the way this movie lives rent free in my head and has not gotten enough recognition from society. I feel so seen. Mike's really going through the pop culture trenches to give credit where credit be due.
i loved this film as a kid omg i also thought it was a fever dream until i rewatched it with my friends a few months ago :)) why is it such a good film haha
I don't know why but this reminds me of the movie Repo: The Genetic Opera, where people have to pay for organ replacements due to a organ failure epidemic and they get hacked if they miss a payment. This makes me think of a potential sequel for that where organ replacement isn't enough anymore and the rates have gone up, so certain people have been secretly building prosthetics from whatever they can find(scrap/junk/whatever)and eventually that evolved into the 'Robots' civilization cos the robots needing spare parts and getting captured to go to the chop shop works the same way.
Wild how Repo! is completely unrelated to Repo Men (not to be confused with Repo Man), even though they basically have the same premise. And Jude Law is both in Repo Men and Gattaca, another movie vaguely similar to Robots but with human characters. All of these movies slay so hard.
people act like i'm joking when i say this is one of my favorite movies. everyone who remembers it remembers it as a silly movie for kids, and it is, but it's legitimately an amazing piece of animation and storytelling with a timeless message that anyone can enjoy.
Never in the million year did I expect Make to review Robots (2005). I never connected the dots, how camp this movie is, the humour, the flavour, the aftertaste!
what really blew me away babes is that once fender puts on the slay heels and skirt she never changes them out. she owns it to the extent that when the other robots add on battle gear for the end she goes even harder and becomes the opera diva baby one more time doja cat kesha woman we all yass collectively and frequently. in 2005 naur less!!
i cant believe robots 2005 introduced me to this channel. i’ve been binge watching your other videos since. robots 2005 has changed my youtube experience drastically in the year 2023. i love you
I loved this movie as a kid, it’s so weird and the universe is insane. (The talking toilet messed me up). My favourite scene was when they’re in the Chop Shop and “Underground” by Tom Waits plays and I still think about it!! baby me never understood that they are chopping up CORPSES. Also, CANNIBALISM?!
4:53 the idea of a world so fucked up in which you decide that something that gets beaten up as a job is sentient is the same idea explored in brian david guilbert's unraveled on mega man
18:40 What's amazing about this is I have just now had the opposite experience. As a kid I didn't know what Domino's pizza was so I *always* thought he just meant more dominoes. It took watching this video to get the double meaning even though I've watched this movie countless times xD Amazing
saaaame, there was no Domino's in my country when the movie came out and I didn't even know it existed, so the joke was lost in translation. It was still a bit funny to me as a kid though, because Bigweld had enough dominoes to raise a tidal wave and surf on it, yet he wanted more of them? Is that what rich people (robots) spend their money on when they retire?
