Meet the Robinsons, an ‘old’ movie, considering it’s first debut in 2007. I am not an anime or computer animated story fan. Yes, I do agree that all the characters are well created, rendered and animated. But personally, what is more importantly is that the story of this movie. It captured my attention and touched me emotionally. To me, this isn’t a WOW movie, where you watched, amazed by the effects and characters building, and forget kind of movie, it depicts some real life lessons.

Frankly speaking, by looking at the title of the movie, it doesn’t motivate me to watch it, until my friend insisted that I should. Of course, I am going share some reviews and inspirations I have got from the movie itself. If you have not watched it, please go and get a legal copy or rent it. If you have watched it, and yet haven’t get any inspirations out of it, please go and watch it again.

Long story short, the main character, Lewis grew up in an orphanage, awaiting to get adopted. He is a brilliant kid that always likes to work on  his invention projects. Unfortunately, all his adoption interviews did not went well. He starts to get worried, as once he turns 13, it would even be harder for people willing to adopt him. The sad thought makes him want to look for his mother, to see what his mother looked like, and maybe she would want him. So, he works on inventing a machine that scans through the brain and replay memories, and goes to participate in the invention fair.

A mysterious kid from the future, Wilbur warns him about a bowler hat guy. Lewis doesn’t take it too seriously and eventually the bowler hat guy and his accomplice robotic hat - Doris manage to ruin his presentation to the judges. Beaten by the failure, the upset Lewis gives up.

What follows is that Wilbur takes Lewis to the future, and that’s where he meets the wacky Robinson family, where he gets to feel the warmth and how closely connected the family members are, and found the courage of keep moving forward. This is something that he never gets to experience before. While amazed with the hip-hopping frogs, bubble and tube transportation, pizza delivering saucer, octopus butler, Lewis has never given much  thought that a conspiracy of ruining Lewis and the Robinsons’ future is secretly being carried out by the bowler guy and his accomplice. And only Lewis could save himself and the Robinsons….As to how Lewis done it, what is his relationship with the Robinsons, what’s the conspiracy about, and who exactly is the bowler guy, I’ll leave the details for now.

Moving on, the movie inspires me on the fact to … Keep Moving Forward. Yes, life is never perfect. You failed, you keep moving forward. Failed again, continue moving forward again. Eventually, you will learn something, like what the movie says “From failing you learn, from success…not so much.”

There is a scene where Lewis found out who the bowler guy is and why does he have to do all that harms, and Lewis tells him that “Don’t blame me, you messed it up yourself, you just focused on the bad stuff, when all you have to do is let all that pass and keep moving forward.”

Like what I have always been saying in the blog, you have the choice. You can choose to blame anyone and everyone. You can choose to be despaired and drown yourself in pools of failures, and let negatively bad stuff congest your brain and thoughts. Or, you can choose to let go and move on.

Hatred and vengeance blinds and drives a person to the extreme. But it is a cause and effect. You have the power to consider an alternative solution to a problem, and things can turnout differently. Don’t always think that you are sacrificing, but learn to balance your passion driving against your consideration for others, especially your loved ones.

Hope that you can get more inspirations out of the movie itself, and here’s a teaser of the movie, that I liked pretty much.

We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we’re curious…And curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

- Walt Disney

A toast to your brilliant failure, may lead to success in the future.

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