? An animated Disney film about a orphaned science geek who dreams of finding out about his past but gets side-tracked by the future. Based on the book A Day with Wilbur Robinson by William Joyce.
+ Visual invention and conceptual imagination are all over the place. The plot hinges on the boy’s attempt to invent a device to look back in time, and while that’s a fanciful idea, it’s appealing too. Futuristic flying machines, a talking bowler hat that’s smarter than its wearer (the nominal villain), and genetically altered, singing frogs are all part of the story. Thematically, the message of the movie is to follow your inner goofball.
- So much is happening all at once that some people mind find all the zaniness overwhelming, and the youngest kids will probably get lost in all of the Back to the Future type contradictions.
= ***1/4 On the whole, a lot of fun.
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reviewed 4/6/07
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