Meet the Robinsons (2007)
Let's take a look at Disney's follow-up to Chicken Little, Meet the Robinsons. The Movie: Meet the Robinsons is the 47th movie in the Disney Animated Canon. Though still considered a part of the Post-Renaissance/Pre-Revival era, the movie is considered a turning point for Disney, as it was the first film of the John Lasseter era, laying the foundation for the improved storytelling of the Revival Era. Meet the Robinsons received fairly positive reviews, though it wasn't without its detractors, and the movie was a failure financially. Meet the Robinsons is loosely based on a children's book by William Joyce entitled A Day With Wilbur Robinson. The main character is Lewis, a highly intelligent 12-year-old boy living in an orphanage, where he was left by his mother as a baby. Lewis is constantly rejected by potential adoptive parents, so he sets out to invent a memory scanner that he can use on himself to identify his birth mother in the hopes that she would...