Robit

Robit is an upcoming 2017 American-Canadian-German-Australian-French-South African-Italian-Indian 3D computer-animated motion capture family drama science fiction comedy film written and directed by Bobby Farrelly and Peter Farrelly.

The film was a box office success and it received critical acclaim, with critics praising the faithfulness to the 2017 film's original director's cut, the visual effects, the CGI animation on the trains, splendid acting, well-developed characters, and the plot along with the performance of Eddie Murphy as Robit. The film also become the fourth highest grossing film and won eight Academy Awards and received eight Academy Award nominations. At the UK, the film had won three BAFTA Film Awards and also got one BAFTA nomination.

Film Summary
A young girl, Pok, befriends Robit, a robot from another planet who was alone on the journey in the future. They began to journey on a fantastic journey across the post-apocalyptic town as cabin boy aboard a majestic space galleon, accompanied by the the alien invaders that are preparing an invasion of the Earth.

Plot
In the alternate history, the Mushroom Bomb lands on Earth, destroying part of the world and it falls into the post-apocalyptic town.

10 years later, a young adolescent girl, Pok Tezuka, became separated from her grandmother after the apocalyptic war against the aliens, leaving the town in ruins. She met the gentle trolls, the hand-working Wayne (Jim Carrey), the grumpy Stupid (Alan Cumming), the dim-witted Dru (Bill Hader), and the former actress Brooke (Rihanna), which are preparing an invasion of the Earth that use a mind control weapon. One day, the pirates chases after her. During the chase, she met a crazy robot named Robit (Eddie Murphy) and his former invention, Wonderbot.

Robit, Pok, and the other trolls is later captured by the pirates and was taken into the ship. The ship is commanded by the feline Captain Amelia along with her stone-skinned and disciplined first mate, Mr. Arrow. The crew is a motley bunch, secretly led by the half-robot former cook and current general Maul, whom Robit suspects is the cyborg he was betrayed his own kind. Pok is sent down to work in the galley, where he is supervised by Maul and his shape-shifting pet, Morph. Despite Robit's mistrust of Maul, Maul reveals himself to be a bad alien that wants to turn humans into slaves (which the truth was later confirmed in his nightmare).

Spending one day in the ship, the other robots are received by the visit of the kangaroo-like mate, Shelia, and his son, Reo. During the voyage, the ship encounters a supernova. Robit, while securing lifelines of all crew members, saves Maul from falling just in time. The supernova then devolves into a black hole and Ren is shortly sucked into it. Pok abandons the ship, along with his friends, causing to Maul targets to blast Pok. The fugitives are shot down by a mutineer during their escape, injuring Brooke.

Eventually, Pok and Robit begins saving aliens in the neighborhood. Upon discovering this as a plan for stealing treasure, Maul orders Shelia to stop and destroy the world. Upon arriving at the Forbidden Place, Pok and the other aliens is captured by the greedy sorcerer, Alakazam. One night, as the pirates corner the group here; using a back-door, Pok reunites again with her grandmother in return to the ship in an attempt to steal the treasure. Shelia attacks them but gets thrown into space, which causes Reo joins the group to the good side.

They obtain the treasure, but upon returning they are caught by Maul, who already captured Wayne, Cliff, Dru, and Brooke.

Moments after steals the treasure, a second Mushroom Bomb strikes and destroy the post-apocalyptic city, spreading destruction in its wake. Pok and his friends flee and jump across the sea to the mainland. After escaping, Robit and Pok gets into an argument, and blaming him for holding him back. Pok and the others arrives back to the apocalyptic world to stop the apocalypse, but Maul and his crew corners and attacks them. The final battle ensues when Maul is crushed by the third Mushroom Bomb, and the crew calls off the invansion.

After Pok and Robit restores their frienship, the world is back to normal. But then, a spaceship appears in the sky and the aliens goes back home off to Earth, sharing several goodbyes. As avoid to being captured by the government, Robit tries to return home with his former invention, the time machine. With great reluctance, Pok and her grandmother bids a farewell with him, but instead lets Robit move in with her home. Back home, Pok and Robit reunites with his friends. Sometime later, a party is hosted at the rebuilt apartment, as the aliens join with them.

Cast

 * Anna Kendrick as Pok Tezuka, a young adolescent girl who is separated from her grandmother. She has a relationship with the robot, Robit, her newfound friend.
 * Rihanna provides Pok's singing voice
 * Chris Sanders as Wonderbot
 * Eddie Murphy as Robit, a diminutive robot who is lost alone from another planet.
 * Nick Kroll as General Maul, the leader of the ogres.
 * Jennifer Saunders as Fanny Tezuka, Pok's grandmother.
 * Saunders also voiced Shelia, Maul's former greedy henchmen and Reo's mother.
 * John Cleese as Alakazam, the troll-like sorcerer who is one of Pok's enemies.
 * Seth Rogen as Wayne
 * Russell Brand as Cliff
 * Bill Hader as Dru
 * Jodi Benson as Brooke
 * Nancy Cartwright as Reo, Shelia's son.
 * Alan Cumming as Ren J. Watterson
 * Frank Welker as Marf, a mechanical animal who is essentially a block of metal with wheels. He is the pet of Robit and acts like a dog.
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Additional Voices

 * Bill Fagerbakke as Nick
 * Kevin Lima as Tim
 * Rodger Bumpass as Steve
 * Billy West as Mike
 * Mona Marshall as Sarah
 * Gary Rydstorm as Joe
 * Jim Cummings as Tyler

Development
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Writing
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Casting
In March 2017, Wonderbot, and Robit TBA was cast to voice Robit, and Wonderbot was cast as the two robots. The rest of the cast was announced on mid-February 2017.

Animation
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Filming
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Visual Effects
In late-2017, it was announced that the visual effects will be designed by Industrial Light & Magic, Blur Studio, Cinesite Montreal, Moving Picture Company, Lola VFX, FrameStore, Sony Pictures Imageworks, and WETA Digital.

Post Production
The sound for Robit is designed, edited, and recorded at Skywalker Sound in Marin County, California in the United States, with Randy Thom supervising the sound design, Tom Myers designing the sound, and Gary Rydstrom

Rating
This movie is rated PG by Motion Picture Association of America, 12A by British Board of Film Classification, M by Australian Classification Board and PG-12 by Eirin for the following reasons:

Fantasy violence

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Theatrical release

 * June 30, 2017 - United States and Canada and United Kingdom
 * July 7, 2017 - Australia and New Zealand and Russian
 * July 15, 2017 - France and Germany and Italy and India

Home media
Robit was released on Digital HD, Blu-Ray (2D and 3D) and DVD on May 1, 2018 by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment and Sony Pictures Home Entertainment and Paramount DVD and Entertainment One and Universal Pictures Home Entertainment and StudioCanal and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment and 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. The bonus features includes deleted scenes, audio commentaries, and "Always Know Where You Are" music video.
 * Digital HD
 * September 5, 2017
 * DVD and Blu-Ray
 * September 7, 2017

DVD Menu

 * Play
 * Scene Selection
 * 1. The Attack
 * 2. A Young Girl's Dream
 * 3. The Post-Apocalyptic Town
 * 4. Introducing Robit/Meet the Ogres
 * 5. The Warning/Captured by Aliens
 * 6. General Maul
 * 7. Setting Sail/A Mutiny in the Making
 * 8. Nightmare/Slavery
 * 9. Shellia!
 * 10. A Star Gone Supernova/The Truth/"I'm Not Here"
 * 11. Escape/Left Behind
 * 12. Bargaining/The Argument
 * 13. A Forbidden Place/Alakazam the Sorcerer
 * 14. "Playing with Big Boys?"
 * 15. Betrayal
 * 16. "I'm You from the Future"
 * 17. Escape/Final Fight
 * 18. Invansion Called Off
 * 19. Farewell/The Afternath
 * 20. End Credits
 * Set-Up
 * Language
 * English
 * French (TBA)
 * German (TBA; title translated in English as Robit)
 * Dutch (TBA)
 * Polish (TBA)
 * Italian (TBA)
 * Tamil (ரோபோட்)
 * Russian (TBA)
 * Spanish (TBA)
 * English Described Video
 * Subtitles
 * English
 * French
 * Spanish
 * Portuguese
 * German
 * Italian
 * Dutch
 * Russian
 * Tamil
 * Bonus Features
 * The History of Robit
 * History of Robit
 * Making of Robit (2017)
 * Casting
 * Development
 * Deleted Scenes with Robit, Behind The Scenes, Outtakes, Featurette.
 * Release
 * Deleted scenes
 * Behind the scenes
 * Outtakes
 * Music Video
 * "Always Know Where You Are"
 * Trailers
 * Teaser Trailer
 * Trailer 1
 * Trailer 2
 * Trailer 3
 * Trailer 4
 * Trailer 5
 * Theatrical Trailer
 * Previews
 * Robit 2 Trailer
 * Star Wars The Last Jedi Trailer
 * Olaf Frozen Adventure Trailer
 * Cars 3 Trailer
 * Coco Trailer
 * Moana Trailer
 * Finding Dory Trailer
 * A Wrinkle in Time Trailer

Box Office
The film became a box office success as it grossed $780 million worldwide compared to its $148 million budget.

Critical Response
The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported a 94% approval rating with an average rating of 8.7/10 based on 260 reviews. The website's consensus reads, "An old timer film that it was very bad on 2017 so now it was back on the rail to make it better." On Metacritic, the film achieved an average score of 88 out of 100 based on 39 reviews, signifying "universal acclaim".

CinemaScore reported that audiences gave the film a rare "A-" grade. Some of the critics and moviegoers had praised Nicolas Cage's performance of the character Boomer, The New York Times reviewed his performance "When the infamous actor used to make an appearance in any movie like The Wicker Man until it has been flopped, but his performance that he did was the main antagonist George Lucas the original 2017 film Robit where Boomer is very envious that he has nothing to get on his way, which is the most great performance I have ever seen".

IGN game the film a grade of 9.1/10 (Amazing),

Sequels
In March 2023, it was reported that a sequel titled Robit 2 was in development at Lucasfilm. Steven Spielberg and George Lucas, two of the executive producers on the first film, are writing the script for the sequel. Steve Hamilton Shaw and David Furnish are producing the film, and James Newton Howard, an exec producer, is again composing new songs for the film. The film will feature Robit 2, "the greatest ornamental adventure" hired by the characters from the first film, who will try to solve the mystery of disappearing aliens, only to be unaware that the evil magician's clutches. In September 2012, it was reported that Gary Rydstrom, has been again set to direct the sequel. In November 2015, it was announced that Johnny Depp would voice Marf and that the film is scheduled for release on January 12, 2018. Due to the box failure of Strange Magic, Touchstone will not be producing it. Instead, Paramount Animation and Columbia Pictures will produce the film, with Kendrick, Murphy, Saunders and Cleese reprising their roles. On May 26, 2017, Paramount delayed the film's release date to March 23, 2018.

Music

 * "Who's in Charge Here?" - Nick Kroll, Nicki Minaj and Chorus
 * "Chasing the Sun" - The Wanted
 * "Make a Wish (Pok's Lullaby)" - Jennifer Lopez
 * "Family of Me" - Ben Folds
 * "Always Know Where You Are" - Justin Timberlake

Score

 * 1) "Let the War Begin (Prologue)"
 * 2) "The Post-Apocalyptic World"
 * 3) "Meet the Aliens"
 * 4) "Beware the Cyborg!"
 * 5) "Pok Meets Robit"
 * 6) "Captured by Pirates"
 * 7) "General Maul"
 * 8) "Slavery"
 * 9) "Shelia's Visit"
 * 10) "Escape from the Ship"
 * 11) "Left Behind"
 * 12) "Visitors"
 * 13) "Intruders!"
 * 14) "The End of Our Town"
 * 15) "Argument"
 * 16) "Final Fight"
 * 17) "The Friend Ship"
 * 18) "Back to Normal"
 * 19) "End Credits"

Trivia

 * The movie has the same animation as On The Way: The Animated Adventures.
 * Robit was rumored to be the film's titular main protagonist.
 * Eddie Murphy, Jennifer Saunders, and John Cleese appeared in Shrek 2.
 * Diya, Dr. Cabbie, Masaani, is distributed by Lyca Productions and Eros International and Sri Green Productions.
 * The film was originally going to be distributed by Paramount Pictures and produced by Nickelodeon Movies, but moved to Touchstone Pictures.
 * This film was originally going to be distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures and produced by DreamWorks Pictures and Reliance Entertainment.
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