Meet the Robinsons story
Meet the Robinsons is a 2007 American computer-animated science-fiction comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is loosely based on the 1990 children's book A Day with Wilbur Robinson by William Joyce. Synopsis: The orphaned 12-year-old inventor Lewis, who is desperate to be adopted, encounters a young time-traveler who is trying to prevent a mysterious bowler-hatted man from changing Lewis' story, and, by proxy, the entire future.
15 total · 8 major · 7 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| child's need to be loved | major | The orphan boy Lewis longed to have a family, and in the end he got one. |
| father and son | major | In a not-so-surprise twist, it turned out that the 12-year-old boy Lewis was his own best friend Wilbur's father - chalk it up to time travel. |
| friendship | major | The boys Lewis and Wilbur became best pals. |
| orphanhood | major | The story follows the boy-genius, orphan Lewis as he longs to reconnect with his birth mother, who abandoned his at the orphanage when he was a baby. |
| the desire for vengeance | major | The film's villain Bowler Hat Guy (who turned out to be Lewis' childhood friend Goob) was motivated by a desire to ruin Lewis' life to get back at Lewis for inadvertently sabotaging his dream to win a Little League championship. |
| time machine | major | Lewis and Wilbur's use of a flying time machine to travel around into the future constitutes a main novelty of the film. |
| what if I found myself in the future | major | Lewis traveled to the year 2037 in a flying time machine, where he found a technologically advanced, borderline utopian society. |
| what if I met myself from a different time | major | In a pointed scene, Lewis met his successful inventor, adult self from the year 2037. Bowler Hat Guy traveled back in time and met his child self, Goob. |
| flying car | minor | The boy genius Lewis was discouraged from imagining a future where flying cars are an everyday mode of transport. |
| human aspiration | minor | The orphan boy Goob longed to win the Little League championship. |