Meet the Robinsons (2007) on Netflix

G20071h 35mAdventure Animation Comedy

Lewis, a twelve-year-old orphan, invents a Memory Scanner to find his mother. A boy named Wilbur Robinson warns him about a man in a robotic bowler hat who stole a time machine.

Netflix3.8/5
IMDb6.9/10123,583 votes
Rotten Tomatoes68%

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Plot summary

Lewis is a twelve-year-old orphan at the Sixth Street Orphanage who wants a family, but his energetic ways and malfunctioning inventions scare off the parents who visit. He builds a Memory Scanner to locate the mother who left him there as a baby. At his school science fair he meets Wilbur Robinson, who warns him of a tall man with a sentient robotic bowler hat and a stolen time machine. During Lewis's presentation that hat sabotages the scanner, throwing the fair into chaos.

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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Meet the Robinsons (2007)

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Disney's 2006 acquisition of Pixar made John Lasseter chief creative officer of Walt Disney Animation Studios; after an early screening he told Anderson the villain was not scary enough, and almost 60% of the film was scrapped and redone ten months later, with a new sidekick, a dinosaur chase and a changed ending.
Jim Carrey was originally offered the role of Bowler Hat Guy, but he signed to star in the film The Number 23 instead.
Stephen Anderson developed a personal connection to the film's main character, Lewis, because Anderson himself grew up an orphan and was later adopted.
The song "There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow" was not written for the film: it came from the Disneyland attraction General Electric's Carousel of Progress, which was located in Tomorrowland.
Meet the Robinsons was the first Walt Disney animated film to display the Walt Disney Animation Studios logo at the beginning; earlier animated films from the studio had displayed only the Walt Disney Pictures logo.