Journey to the Blue Sky Episode 2: Robots

In this episode of Journey to the Blue Sky, Arun and Patricia discuss about the 2005 Blue Sky animated film Robots starring Ewan McGregor, Robin Williams, Amanda Bynes, Drew Carey, Gary Kinnear, and Mel Brooks. Set in a world filled with robots, a young inventor named Rodney Copperbottom journeys to Robot City to fulfill his dream of working with entrepreneur Bigweld and his company Bigweld Industries by presenting his new invention Wonderbot. However, when arriving, he learned that Bigweld is no longer the president of Bigweld Industries, but instead a young, ruthless, and power hungry robot named Ratchet who wishes to no longer provide old, cheap scrapped body parts and instead having robots buy expensive upgrades. Rodney meets up with a group of robots called The Rusties and helps robots by fixing them. Ratchet, learning about what Rodney is doing, is determined to find him and take him to the Chop Shop where all old robots go to being scrapped. It's up to Rodney and his friends to find Bigweld and stop Ratchet from his evil plans. When Robots premiered in theaters, it received over $262 million dollars out of a $75 million dollar budget getting mixed reviews from critics and viewers. It has now gained a cult following. What did Arun and Patricia think of the film? Listen and find out.