Well I have seen Meet the Robinsons, so I guess now's the time for the critique. But please be aware I never usually like to make my final judgement on a film after only one viewing.
So, let's split it up. Warnig *spoilers*
Story
Well the overall story of the movie is gold, orphan boy who is gifted at inventing gets yanked into future to find a family that accepts him, isa a very strong innovative story. The characters are all introduced well and aside from the middle section the film had a good natural flow to things. One issue I do have is that it all seemed to happen slightly quickly, it had some of the similar flaws that the Lion King's story has in my opinion, i.e. Event, event, event, wallop, end. I was very much wanting to shout "stop" and just have a few minutes of going over something in a bit more depth. I feel if Lewis had remained at the Robinsons for a night before his identity was revealed there could have been some scene set at nightime perhaps some sort of intimate discussion between Lewis and Wilbur to give a pause to the action and also to cement their relationship, which in turn would have made the realisation they couldn't be friends all the more heartbreaking and would also strengthen Wilbur's statement at the end of the film that he was his best friend. There's something just not plausible about 2 kids being best friends and the family wanting to adpot Lewis within the space of a few hours. The plot twists would were guessable (but not helped by the fact that the retards at BVHE placed a spoiler in the movie's trailer so that slightly ruined it for me. However there are a couple of other surprises which I wasn't sure what to think i.e. The Bowler hat guy and Krunklehorn. There is a lot of action, comedy, drama and the climax is fitting. However I have to admit I was left with a feeling of being unfulfilled, again perhaps the climax was a bit rushed and I get the feeling a lot of what was going on went over the heads of most of the kids in the audience.
Characters
Well the main characters were excellently flawed out. Lewis' strife and inner turmoil was an ovbious one, but the film is stolen by The Bowler hat guy, who was not the character I was ecxpecting at all. The trailers did do a good job of throwing you off the scent of where the real villainy comes from and also adds to the whole Goob revelation. I also really warmed to Wilbur. I wasn't expecting much from his character but his wise-ass, cool-kid persona worked really well. You could tell he was trying to play the cool-guy and his bizarre-ness at times was brilliant, almost a Spin Evans type of character is what he reminded me of.
As for the rest of the characters, I feel a bit more of time spent between Bud and Lucille would have helped things, again maybe if he'd spent a night... I feel for the part they are revealed to play, more time in fleshing them out was needed. The rest of the family were pretty much background characters, which is understandable given time that they couldn't all be explored. Although I have to say Talulah male voice was REALLY distracting, why?
Animation
Well definitely a step up from Chicken Little. I have to say The Bowler hat guy is without a doubt the best CGI character I have ever seen period. The fluidity are squash and stretch in his character literally amazed me. Unfortunately I don't think I say 100% say all the characters were as fluid as Pixar. Now as I've said a million times I don't believe humans work in CGI at all, mostly because we've only ever seen humans from dreamworks ( who do crap humans) and Pixar ( who always have a squareness to them, which doesn't appeal to me). Now Meet the Robinsons is the first CGI film I've seen where I could accept the humans. Now this will sound like a bit of an odd statement but I think Disney's humans are better than Pixar's, yet similarly Disney's humans aren't as good as Pixar's!
Confusing, what I mean is that Disney's humans have a greater likeability in my opinion, althought they lack polish and detail which was needed. Yet even though in my head I was thinking "These humans are better than Pixar's" at the same time I was thinking "It's a shame Disney's humans aren't as good as Pixar's". My head is so confused!
I can't describe it.
I think with CGI humans, in my opinion the more abstract, the better. Designs like Bowler hat guy, Goob, Bud worlk because they are not trying to look like real humans, whereas some characters like the woman at the orphanage don't work because they try to make her look to real.
The CGI backgrounds were stunning, the colorful, playfulness of the city was lovely. The detail within the overrun city near the end of the movie was breathtaking. Whilst not on the same level as Pixar's overwhelming backgrounds like in Cars, MTR certainly seems to have a hold on good CGI backgrounds.
Overall for all it's good points I couldn't help but have that feeling in the pit of my stomach which said to me "Is that it?". Depsite almost being brought to tears by the movie's end, it was still missing a final "OOMPH" i feel. However like I say, it's very rare my first viewing informs my final decision, so all the above could change.
In terms of animation (difficult as Disney only has one movie, so I'll compare to other studios), it was certainly a bit step up over Chicken Little, and better than the Dreamworks by a mile in terms of human animation, but probably not as good as Dreamworks in terms of backgrounds. In comparison to Pixar like I've already mention In terms of the design of humans I prefer them much more than Pixar's but in terms of overally animation I'd say MTR was better than the animation in The Incredibles/Monsters Inc, but still a fair bit behind Cars/Finding Nemo?From what I've seen of Ratatouille.
In terms of story and plot development (comparing only to the last decade, again difficult due to genre), I'd say Meet the Robinsons was better than Lilo and Stitch, Chicken Little, The Emperor's New Groove, but probaly equal to Brother Bear, Atlantis and Home on the Range, but not as good as Treasure Planet.
In terms of characterisation and character development/introduction, I'd say it was better than Brother Bear, Atlantis, Home on the Range, Chicken Little probably equal to Lilo and Stitch and The Emperor's New Groove, but again probably not as good as Treasure Planet.
i was just defending my beloved pocahontas 
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