Meet the Robinsons

Plot

Lewis, a brilliant young inventor, is keen on creating a time machine to find his mother, who abandoned him in an orphanage. Things take a turn when he meets Wilbur Robinson and his family.

About Meet the Robinsons

Meet the Robinsons is a 2007 American animated science fiction comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios for Walt Disney Pictures and distributed by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution. Based on the 1990 children's book A Day with Wilbur Robinson by William Joyce, the film was directed by Stephen Anderson, and written by Anderson, Don Hall, Nathan Greno, Joe Mateo, Jon Bernstein, Michelle Spitz, and Aurian Redson, and stars the voices of Daniel Hansen and Jordan Fry, Wesley Singerman, Angela Bassett, Tom Selleck, Harland Williams, Laurie Metcalf, Nicole Sullivan, Adam West, Ethan Sandler, Tom Kenny, and Anderson. In the film, Lewis, an orphaned 12-year-old inventor, meets Wilbur Robinson, a young time-traveler who takes him to the future, before an incident wrecks Wilbur's time machine. Lewis agrees to help him fix the machine and ends up acquainted with Wilbur's eccentric family. Meanwhile, a mysterious man with a sentient bowler hat aims to sabotage Lewis' fate, and, by proxy, the future. Development began in 2002, with production starting in 2004 under the working title A Day with Wilbur Robinson, with a release initially slated for 2006. Anderson developed a personal connection to the main character, Lewis, as he himself grew up as an orphan with no parents and was later adopted. Disney originally planned to adopt Joyce's style, but it was decided to slightly…

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