Probably the worst Disney Movie I’ve ever seen since The Emperor’s New Groove. My immediate guess is that Disney made this dog in anticipation of Pixar taking their movies elsewhere. All they got right was using computers to generate the images. What they couldn’t copy was Pixar’s sensibilities on plot, characters and overall entertainment. It’s so dull that it made Barnyard seem brilliant.
The plot is about an orphaned kid who makes inventions that don’t work, or what if Jimmy Neutron had no parents. Then a mysterious stranger arrives to steal his current gadget, a memory inducer so he can remember what his mother’s face looked like. Then there’s another kid trying to protect him but he’s from the future. It goes on with little point or interest because it stinks of revisionism midway through its production. Maybe kids will like it for the physical jokes, singing frogs and the lame robot. I fell asleep sometime after the tour of the Robinson Mansion. Somara told me I wouldn’t be missing anything if I replayed the DVD player.
Save your money and avoid this turkey. It might keep children occupied for 80 minutes but so would a DVD of a log burning or a fish tank over the same amount of time.