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[[DisneyAnimatedCanon Walt Disney's]] 46th animated feature, released in March 2007 in standard and Disney Digital 3-D and based loosely on William Joyce's picture book ''A Day with Wilbur Robinson'' (though Joyce did have some creative input on the adaptation).

Follows the story of 12-year old orphan/child prodigy Lewis in his attempt to find a family, a journey that takes him 30 years into the future with the fast-talking Wilbur Robinson and in pursuit of the do-wrong, overgrown man-child Bowler Hat Guy and his evil, robotic bowler hat, hell bent on taking credit for Lewis's inventions.

Generally a ''bad'' example of how to write a {{time travel}} story (the film itself has ''seven'' credited writers) and yeah, [[JustBugsMe/MeetTheRobinsons it just bugs us]]. Still probably one of the better non-Pixar Disney films in recent years, generally being seen as a step in the right direction alongside ''{{Bolt}}''.

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!!This film provides examples of:

* {{Action Mom}}: Franny
* ActorAllusion: When Lewis asks Wilbur what his currently-absent father looks like, Wilbur lies and says "Tom Selleck". When Wilbur's father shows up at the end of the film, he looks nothing like Selleck, but he sure ''sounds'' like him... This is actually a kind of reverse ActorAllusion: the scene was written first, and gave the director the idea to offer Selleck the role.
**Played straight with international releases, where Tom Selleck is replaced by whoever's playing Cornelius. In Japan's case, Kazuhiko Inoue, AKA [[{{Naruto}} Kakashi]].
* AdamWesting: Art
* {{Adaptation Expansion}}: The book is essentially the middle part of the movie with the searching for grandpa's teeth and the dinner. A few things actually got cut from the book like several family members, a pillow fight and slumber party. The book itself was expanded shortly before the movie came out with stuff like the dinosaur and some totally new material like an indoor SnowballFight.
* {{AI is a Crapshoot}}: Doris
* {{All Animals Are Dogs}}: Tiny the Tyrannosaur once the Mini Doris controlling him is removed.
* {{Arc Words}}: "Keep Moving Forward"
* BadassFamily
* {{Bad Future}}
* {{Big No}}: When Lewis learns of Doris' rise to power.
* BuffySpeak: From Bowler Hat Guy. "All our hopes and dreams are dashed like the many pieces of a broken machiny thing..."
* {{Catch Phrase}}
* {{Crossdressing Voices}}: Tallulah
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Pretty much [[spoiler: the entire ending]]
* CyberCyclops: Doris
* {{Dastardly Whiplash}}: Bowler Hat Guy
* {{Deadpan Snarker}}: Goob is one until he takes the advice of his future self.
* {{Disney Death}}: Carl
* {{Doorstop Baby}}: Lewis
* {{Dystopia}}
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Tiny
* {{Emotionless Girl}}: Lizzy
* {{Executive Meddling}}: In a good way. When Disney bought Pixar and John Lasseter took charge of Walt Disney Feature Animation as well, about a third of the movie was redone to improve on the story. However the old guard about revolted at it and openly expressed to the press that they hoped the film would bomb.
* {{Food Fight}}: Complete with Japanese style, low budget, poorly dubbed lipsyching.
* {{FreudianExcuse}}: Bowler Hat Guy has one. Doris the helper hat is just evil.
* FreudianSlip: Louis calls Franny "Mom"
* FridgeLogic: and ''how''
* {{Future Badass}}: In the distopian alterna-future. You know they're Future Badass because the ladies all sport black lipstick. Otherwise, they're just hat-zombies.
* {{Gadgeteer Genius}} AKA boy genius, child prodigy, whiz kid... Lewis graduates college at ''fourteen''.
* GenkiGirl: A ''scientist.'' Yes, really. The fact that she invented a caffiene patch doesn't help matters.
* {{Ghibli Hills}}: Surrounding the Future City, with the Robinson house on top of one of them.
* {{Hard Work Montage}}
* HappilyAdopted: [[spoiler: Lewis manages to find a family in the end. As the movie shows, he grows to love every weird bit of it.]]
** [[spoiler:Goob looks well on his way to this after Lewis wakes him up in time to catch the fly ball and win the game for the Dinos.]]
* {{Heartwarming Orphan}}
* {{Hey Its That Voice}}: Franny grows up from sounding like [[AvatarTheLastAirbender Toph]] to sounding like [[KimPossible Shego]].
* {{Homemade Inventions}}: Because you can totally crack the hippocampus with a TV screen, a fan, a vacuum cleaner, a bottle of Mountain Dew and a Discman. Oh, and really comfy headphones.
* IntelligibleUnintelligible: Doris
* {{Is It Always Like This}}?: Short answer: yes.
* {{It Runs in the Family}}: What is ''"it?"'' Insanity, probably. And it runs in about four different actual families.
* JustBetweenYouAndMe
* {{Meanwhile In the Future}}: Happens twice. At least.
* MentalPictureProjector: Lewis' Memory Scanner
* {{Midair Repair}}
* {{Missing Mom}}
* MyFutureSelfAndMe
* {{Kid From The Future}}: Wilbur Robinson
* {{No New Fashions In The Future}}: We have flying cars and robot buddies and ''bubblevators'', but all the cool kids wear T-shirts, jeans and Converse All-Stars. Huh.
** Well, a few of the characters do wear Jetsons-like jumpsuits. But T-Shirts and Jeans have lasted out the better part of 50+ years, so there's no reason not to think they can do it for another 20.
* {{Only Known By Their Nickname}}: Bowler Hat Guy doesn't get a name until about 2/3 of the way through the movie, for {{spoiler}}iffic reasons.
* {{Only Six Faces}}: A lot of minor characters have similar character models and even a few main character models are reused with Art's appearing in Midtown University and Franny's model also serving as Lewis' mother.
* {{Planet of Hats}}: ...literally.
* [[CoversAlwaysLie Posters Always Lie]]: The poster at the top of the page gave the impression that Lizzy was a member of the Robinson family in the future when she's actually just a classmate of Lewis in the present who is only on screen for under a minute in total.
* {{Quirky Household}}
* {{Ripple Effect Proof Memory}}
* {{Robot Buddy}}: Carl
* RobotNames: DOR-15, pronounced "Doris"
* {{San Dimas Time}}
* {{Science Fair}}
* {{Shout Out}}: Todayland in the Future City consists of Space Mountain and the old Astro Jets ride from Disneyland. In a deleted scene on the DVD, Carl has Winnie the Pooh stationery.
** Goob's baseball team is called the Dinos, a {{Shout Out}} to William Joyce's book ''Dinosaur Bob'', which is about a dinosaur who plays baseball.
** Also, they go to Joyce Williams Elementary School, a {{Shout Out}} to William Joyce.
* {{Start Of Darkness}}: Goob
* StereoFibbing: When Franny asks Lewis how he and Wilbur met.
* {{Stock Dinosaurs}}: When Bowler Hat Guy uses the time machine to fetch a dinosaur, it's a TyrannosaurusRex.
* {{Strong Family Resemblance}}
* {{Squick}}: Ummm... well, at one point Lewis is almost adopted by ''[[spoiler: his wife]]''
** ''And'' he calls her "Mom"...
* {{TearJerker}}: The very end, revealing that the arc words were taken from, reduced many a sentimental viewer to tears. (Including this troper's mother, who was adopted.)
* {{Telescoping Robot}}: Carl
* {{Time And Relative Dimensions In Space}}
* {{Time Machine}}
* {{Time Police}}: Specifically, the Time Continuum Task Force. [[spoiler:It ain't real.]]
* {{Timey Wimey Ball}}
* UglyGuyHotWife: Morbidly obese Joe and Billie
* UnreliableVoiceover: When Bowler Hat Guy is recounting his backstory
* {{Zeerust}}

There was also a console game that served as a midquel that mostly averted TheProblemWithLicensedGames. The game's plot expands Wilbur's efforts in trying to get the stolen time machine back from Bowler Hat Guy. When arriving at the Science Fair though, he accidentally alters the timeline drastically just by opening the door into Stanley's face. As a result, Stanley and another student, Lizzie, become dueling supervillains, and Wilbur has to get his own time machine back from their forces in order to go back and fix things.

Tropes used in the game include:
*BugWar: Lizzie's giant ant robots serve as one of your primary enemies.
*ConvectionSmonvection: The "touch the lava and die" rule applies and only bursts from highly visible steam vents will kill you as well.
*LoadBearingBoss: Prometheus, whose destruction ends up threatening the whole city
*LoweredMonsterDifficulty: Especially after you get the invincibility and unlimited ammo cheats.
*GenreShift: Main adventure is a [[LegendOfZelda Zelda-style]] game, with some quests including the Air Hockey/Breakout hybrid game of "Chargeball", the SuperMonkeyBall like Protectosphere missions, and DigDug style puzzle missions.
*HeyItsThatVoice: Emperor Stanley is [[XiaolinShowdown Jack Spicer]].
*MechaMooks
*NiceJobBreakingItHero: Sets the game's main plot into motion.
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