Robots stick to gender roles
I’m mad at the movie Robots. I saw it and liked it while I was watching it, but then upon review with crownofspoons I found that my true feelings on the movie were not all smiles and giggles.
This movie was made and intended to pleasure an audience of a very young age. You know the thing about a young audience? They’re very impressionable.
The movie reinforces stereotypes. Why do we need that?
The main character (the beauteous Ewan McGregor), Rodney Copperbottom decides that he wants to leave home and live out his dreams. His mother cries and says no, but of course the father says it is important to follow your dreams. Then the father says how he had a dream once but he didn’t follow it. Now he’s a dishwasher. It does not appear that the mother has a job. Why, if the family was struggling, could the mother not get a job?
Piper, played by Amanda Bynes is a tomboy who thinks that Rodney is just so handsome. Then there is Cappy, the hot to trot robot played by Halle Berry. She appears to be the sole female robot in the executive room, surrounded by males. And of course, her boss wants to do her and says as much. Is that so necessary for a kid’s movie? Yeah you could argue that it helps to distinguish the bad guy (the boss hitting on her) but they give many other ways so it was not needed.
Jennifer Coolidge plays Aunt Fanny, a large bootied woman who takes in poor kids. What a good soul. Why could there have been an Uncle Fanny doing that?
Why was the worse guy behind the bad guy a psycho mother? Why was it a man that everyone looked up to and was waiting to come back (Mel Brooks- Mr. Bigweld)?
Cappy was in the business world but at the price of being subjected to sexual advances. She only leaves when there is a man worth leaving for- Rodney.
And in the end Rodney is rewarded and got both Cappy and Piper!
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This movie was made and intended to pleasure an audience of a very young age. You know the thing about a young audience? They’re very impressionable.
The movie reinforces stereotypes. Why do we need that?
The main character (the beauteous Ewan McGregor), Rodney Copperbottom decides that he wants to leave home and live out his dreams. His mother cries and says no, but of course the father says it is important to follow your dreams. Then the father says how he had a dream once but he didn’t follow it. Now he’s a dishwasher. It does not appear that the mother has a job. Why, if the family was struggling, could the mother not get a job?
Piper, played by Amanda Bynes is a tomboy who thinks that Rodney is just so handsome. Then there is Cappy, the hot to trot robot played by Halle Berry. She appears to be the sole female robot in the executive room, surrounded by males. And of course, her boss wants to do her and says as much. Is that so necessary for a kid’s movie? Yeah you could argue that it helps to distinguish the bad guy (the boss hitting on her) but they give many other ways so it was not needed.
Jennifer Coolidge plays Aunt Fanny, a large bootied woman who takes in poor kids. What a good soul. Why could there have been an Uncle Fanny doing that?
Why was the worse guy behind the bad guy a psycho mother? Why was it a man that everyone looked up to and was waiting to come back (Mel Brooks- Mr. Bigweld)?
Cappy was in the business world but at the price of being subjected to sexual advances. She only leaves when there is a man worth leaving for- Rodney.
And in the end Rodney is rewarded and got both Cappy and Piper!
IMDB- see reviews of movies at bottom