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->''"You can shine no matter what you're made of!"''

Lavish CGI movie from the [[Creator/BlueSkyStudios makers]] of ''IceAge'' and illustrator WilliamJoyce.

Ambitious young robot [[TheHero Rodney Copperbottom]] (voiced by EwanMcGregor) leaves his hometown for Robot City, hoping to show his inventions to his childhood hero [[BigGood Bigweld]] (Creator/MelBrooks). To his dismay, Bigweld has been displaced by CorruptCorporateExecutive Ratchet [[note]]: no, not [[RatchetAndClank that]] one, or [[{{Transformers}} that one]], either [[/note]], who is interested only in selling shiny upgrade parts to robots, leaving anybody who can't afford them to rust.

Rodney finds himself alone and broke in the big city. Luckily (or unluckily) for him, he falls in with motormouth and kleptomaniac Fender (voiced by RobinWilliams), who introduces him to his [[TagalongKid little sister Piper]] and his misfit collection of friends: [[TheBigGuy Lug]], [[SourSupporter Crank Casey]], and Diesel (who needs a new voice chip and is TheUnintelligible for most of the movie.).

Ratchet's factory stops producing spare parts, forcing robots to upgrade worn-out components. For bots like Fender and his friends who can't afford the upgrades, this means being recycled in the chop shop - a nightmare world beneath the city which just happens to be overseen by Ratchet's domineering mother.

Rodney, as TheHero, isn't just going to sit back and let this happen. With the help of [[ActionGirl Cappy]], an employee of Ratchet's who's disgusted by the way things are going, he sets out to reinstate Bigweld and defeat [[BigBad Madame Gasket]] and her son.

The voice cast also includes Greg Kinnear, Jim Broadbent, Amanda Bynes, Jennifer Coolidge, and [[TheDrewCareyShow Drew Carey]].
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!!This {{film}} provides examples of:
* AllStarCast: Greg Kinnear, Jim Broadbent, Amanda Bynes, Jennifer Coolidge, [[TheDrewCareyShow DrewCarey]], MelBrooks, EwanMcGregor, RobinWilliams, Jay Leno, HalleBerry, and Creator/JamesEarlJones (who makes an appearance via stock [[StarWars Darth Vader]] audio, yet still gets his name in the credits) all have major roles in the film.
* AlternativeForeignThemeSong: Japan uses [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0nqc5fDFSw "Mawaru Sora"]] written by Hitomi Yaida. The European theme is [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zKIu2PFSHc "From Zero to Hero"]] by Sarah Connor.
* AndShowItToYou: During the repair montage, Rodney takes out a robot's heart, which is still beating and attached by a wire. Fender faints at the sight.
* ArcWords: [[BeYourself "You can shine no matter what you're made of."]]
* AreYouPonderingWhatImPondering: Rodney and Bigweld need to take out a bunch of sweeper robots. Bigweld uses this trope, and Rodney delivers the punchline with a completely insane plan.
-->'''Bigweld:''' This isn't what I was thinking at all!
* AssKicksYou: [[MeaningfulName Aunt Fanny]], particularly in the final battle in the Chop Shop.
* AWorldwidePunomenon: When the movie isn't tossing [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar outmodes past the radar]], it's throwing an ever-more-awful series of puns at the audience.
* BigBad: ''Not'' [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Ratchet]], but his Mother.
** [[IncrediblyLamePun In more ways than one.]]
* BigGood: Bigweld.
* BigDamnHeroes
--> '''[[TagalongKid Piper]]:''' Did I miss the [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar bot]]-whoopin'?
* BoomerangBigot: Ratchet's mother Madame Gasket, who wants to destroy all older "outmode" robots. While oblivious to the fact she is made of "outmode" parts.
** It's implied that she just wants their parts, and is playing on Ratchet's dislike of them for her own advantage.
* ByTheLightsOfTheirEyes: Justified because they're robots, and their eyes have built-in flashlights. It only happens in one scene for about five seconds, though.
* ChainsawGood: No actual chainsaws ''per se'', but Madame Gasket's [[{{Mooks}} minions]] boast pretty impressive sawblade arms.
** Not to mention the giant (and apparently decorative) sawblade that Rodney and Bigweld use to [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome knock over all the Super-Sweepers domino-style]], taking them out of the fight.
* ChekhovsGun: The Crosstown Express in Robot City plays a HUGE part after Rodney busts Bigweld out of the penthouse office and tries to get him away from Ratchet.
** Subtle, but Bigweld's domino fixation gives Rodney a really bright way to battle the Super-Sweepers (see above).
* CityOfAdventure: Robot City, in contrast to Rodney's hometown, [[NothingExcitingEverHappensHere Rivet Town]].
* ColorCodedForYourConvenience: The bad robots tend to be chrome (or rust-coated...''things'') while the good ones tend to have chipped paint or a distinctly retro feel.
* {{Crossdresser}}: Fender ends up in a skirt and heels. Fender GenderBender?
** More like an EasySexChange.
** Also, at one point in his adolescence, [[TheHero Rodney's]] hand-me-downs are from his cousin ''[[NeverLiveItDown Veronica]]''. This part of his adolescence is mercifully skipped, and he's only shown wearing it in a single image.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: [[TheDragon Ratchet]]
* CranialProcessingUnit
* CreationSequence: See InnocentInnuendo.
* DancePartyEnding
* DieselPunk: Madame Gasket and the Chop Shop robots were designed to invoke this, rivets and all.
* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: Again, see InnocentInnuendo.
* DoubleJump: The VideoGame has the [[AwesomeYetPractical Wonderbot Trampoline]].
* EasySexChange: Fender
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Inverted: [[BigBad Madame Gasket]] is even ''more'' villainous than [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Ratchet]], but she still cares about her son.
* {{Everything Is An iPod In The Future}}: Invoked with Ratchet and his upgraded bots. They're all shiny and smoothly round, not to mention colored bright pretty chrome. It helps give them a sense of style being placed over practicality. Robot City also looks like this, to drive home how much more advanced and well-built it is than other cities.
* {{Expy}}: Bigweld is essentially a mechanical [[CharlieAndTheChocolateFactory Willy Wonka]] - instead of candy, he (logically) makes spare parts and upgrades.
* {{Fartillery}}: Aunt Fanny has a cannon powerful enough to [[UpToEleven shake the earth]] and [[CrowningMomentOfFunny kill nearby bots]]. It was even lampshaded by Piper:
-->'''Piper:''' She's a little artsy-fartsy. The artsy is fine, but when she gets ''fartsy''...
* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: Guess what Diesel is named after.
** Guess what Rodney does.
*** [[CaptainObvious Guess what Fender sung in.]]
**** Guess what Aunt Fanny's rump looks like.
* FreudianSlip: The whole movie is practically one LONG FreudianSlip.
-->'''[[MeaningfulName Aunt Fanny]]:''' Well, hello there! What's your name?
-->'''[[TheHero Rodney]]:''' (mesmerized by her large derriere) I'm Rodney Bigbottom- [[ThatCameOutWrong No!]] I'm Rodney Copperbottom! Copperbottom.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: It should have been titled ''GettingCrapPastTheRadar: TheMovie''.
** What'd you expect when RobinWilliams is part of the cast?
** In one scene, [[TheHero Rodney]] asks, "Who wants to get fixed?" to a group of robots. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny A robotic dog then covers up its crotch while whimpering.]]
** The hobo robot [[IncrediblyLamePun (Hobot?)]] towards the beginning has a sign that says "[[IncrediblyLamePun Got screwed]]". Not. Subtle. At. All.
** The way they hid it from the radar isn't exactly G-rated either: the "screw" in his "got screwed" sign is a giant industrial screw ''[[TisOnlyABulletInTheBrain lodged through his head]]''. [[spoiler:It turns out to be a fake screw novelty headband.]]
** When Bigweld comes back and is walking through Bigweld Industries, a robot walks out of the male restroom, then, upon seeing Bigweld, hides in the female restroom by mistake. The sign for the male restroom has a plug and the sign for the female restroom has an outlet.
** Bigweld himself seems to have a thing for oversized robotic rear ends, as he repeatedly comments in the presence of Aunt Fanny. No secret that they end up together at the end of the film!
** The British dub had Aunt Fanny's name shortened to "Fan" because of this.
** "Honey? What's that extra piece?" "Oh yeah, they always put in an extra... We did want a boy, right?". Wow. Just ''wow''...
** Even the ''Sweepers'' get into the act. The bumper sticker on one that Fender taunts reads "Like my driving? Call 1-855-Eat-Scrap." Yep, the Sweepers were just as [[SarcasmMode subtle as the rest of the movie.]]
** Aunt Fanny presses a button in Big Weld's limo. The wall opens to reveal a bed, a disco ball, and Barry White starts playing.
** The beginning of the movie, while Rodney is being built, has a few of these.
*** "Oh, I'm sorry, honey, you missed the delivery...but that's okay. Making the baby is the best part." (Que sexy instrumental.
*** "Honey, you forgot a part..." "What? No I didn't...(looks)...We did want a boy, right?" Que him hammering on the unknown part and Rodney screaming.
** When Bigweld enters the lobby of his company, Loretta is on the phone, talking about her Brazilian wax and how it makes every day feel like a fiesta.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: The sweepers.
* HeIsNotMyBoyfriend: [[ActionGirl Cappy]] and [[TheHero Rodney]]. (Only once, and offhand.)
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler:Cappy, who rescues Rodney when he crashes the Bigweld Ball, and later fights for the Outmodes in the battle in the Chop Shop.]]
* HeldGaze: Rodney and Cappy find themselves staring into each other's eyes after Rodney lands on the table in Bigweld's office. This begins the growing attraction they have for each other.
* HeroicBSOD: [[spoiler: [[BigGood Bigweld]]]], of all people. Turns into a ''literal'' BSOD when [[spoiler:Ratchet, out of desperation, brains him with the intercom, knocking him out of action.]]
* {{Homage}}: "I'm ''singing'' in the oil..."
* InnocentInnuendo: "''Making'' the baby is the fun part!" [[LiteralMetaphor Rodney's parents then assemble him from a kit.]]
-->'''Rodney's Dad:''' PUSH!
-->'''Rodney's Mom:''' Uggghh!
-->''Cut to them having difficulty putting two pieces of the robot baby together''
** Then again, considering the huge amount of things they got past the radar, it might not have been so unintentional...
* InsultBackfire
* IWasQuiteALooker: Aunt Fanny, referring to Cappy, wistfully muses that she once had a figure like hers. All the robots double-take at the revelation.
* {{Jerkass}}: Tim the Gate Guard.
* KarmicDeath: [[spoiler:Madame Gasket gets tossed into her own incinerator, parts flying out everywhere.]]
* KillThePoor: Madame Gasket is revealed to be melting down lower-class robots into products for her son's company to sell.
* LarynxDissonance: Jim Broadbent, playing [[BigBad Ratchet's mother]].
* MeaningfulName: Ample-reared Aunt Fanny (who became Aunt Fan in the UK, since 'fanny' in this country refers to a... nearby, yet [[CountryMatters different portion]] of the anatomy).
** Also {{Lampshaded}}:
--->'''[[TheLancer Fender]]:''' Aunt ''Faaaaaaannnnnny!'' We brought someone!
--->'''[[TheHero Rodney]]:''' Are you sure your aunt won't mind?
--->'''Fender:''' Relax, she's not my aunt. She just takes in bots who are...[[{{Pun}} broke]].
--->'''Rodney:''' Well then, why is she called Aunt Fanny?
--->'''Fender:''' *cuts to Aunt Fanny and her large backside* Couldn't call her "Aunt Booty"!
* MechanicalLifeforms
* MisanthropeSupreme: Madame Gasket, who wants to eliminate all outmodes, never mind the fact that she ''is'' one.
* MisfitMobilizationMoment
* MyBelovedSmother: [[BigBad Madame Gasket]].
* NeverHeardThatOneBefore: On the Bigweld Show Rodney watches in his childhood, Bigweld asks Tim the Gate Guard, "Who closed this gate? You know we never close this gate!" When Rodney meets Tim in real life, years later, he asks this same question--and gets cut off with an irritable "Yeah, yeah."
* NiceCharacterMeanActor: In-universe; On TV, Tim the Gate Guard is a cheerful-sounding puppet-like robot who guards Bigweld's main gate. The real Tim... [[JerkAss not so much]].
* NoodleIncident:
-->'''Fender'''(nonchalantly}: It (the expressway) used to be a ''lot'' worse. They used to have this ''giant'' hammer, that would...
-->'''Rodney''': ''(Yelps in panic, scrambles to climb out of way of something)''
-->'''Fender''' ''(Looks over shoulder, notices giant hammer barreling down on them, still nonchalant)'': Oh! Looks like they've brought it back!
* NotHelpingYourCase: When Bigweld fires Ratchet, Ratchet begs for mercy, claiming, "The lies I've told, the lives I've ruined!...Wait a minute, this isn't helping me!"
* PursueTheDreamJob: Rodney's father wants to be a musician. At the end of the movie, he gets his big chance. [[spoiler: Turns out he can't play.]]
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: The Rusties.
* RidiculouslyHumanRobots: Like, for example, how they "grow up" exactly like humans (by getting larger), even if they have to use hand-me-down body pieces?
** ...and for that matter, are there any robots with personalities who have the same appearance? Wouldn't you expect a lot of robots to, you know, be based on the same model?
*** That most likely would have been a result of the plan the BigBad had laid out, though more as a side effect than the objective. If the thing had succeeded, that is.
*** Actually, if they're hand-built rather than mass produced, it ''is'' likely that most would be physically unique.
*** And you have to take into account that the Robots might start as packaged, "basic" models, and a life time of dents, scrapes, repaintings and modifications might result in a varied population.
** Not to mention that Rodney and the rest of the Rusties can inexplicably perform armpit farts despite not having any human skin or oil to create the necessary friction to make the sound.
*** This is pointed out by Fender saying it is a skill even though they are made of metal.
* RoboFamily: Since this is a world of robots, robots can have their own family units and even 'make' their own children.
* SceneryPorn: With much BenevolentArchitecture, like the tracks used at the very beginning.
* ScreenShake: You expect it during explosions and fight scenes. Then there's when Aunty Fanny causes it to happen.
* ShoutOut: To everything from ''StarWars'' to ''ASpaceOdyssey''.
* SitOnTheCamera: Aunt Fanny crushes Rodney with her you-know-what.
* StealthHiBye: Despite her appearance, Madame Gasket can slink in and out of places rather subtly. It gives Ratchet a heart attack every time she pulls this stunt on him.
* ThisIsMyNameOnForeign: Fender claims he was called 'Bumper' before he immigrated.
* UnplannedCrossdressing: While Fender was [[spoiler:trying to escape the chop shop]], his legs fell off. He tried carrying on without them until he found some legs that fit him. Said legs are female.
* UrineTrouble: The fire hydrant is sentient and tells the robotic dog "Don't you dare!"
* UnsettlingGenderReveal: During the finale.
--> '''Madame Gasket''' Who are these losers?
--> '''Fender''': We, sir-
--> '''Madame Gasket''' (completely deadpan): I'm a ''woman''.
--> '''Fender''' Ouch.
* VillainousBreakdown: Ratchet loses it when Bigweld returns.
* WideEyedIdealist: [[TheHero Rodney]]
** Lampshaded, and rather nastily, by Tim:
---> Man, when you pick a lost cause you REALLY commit! Where do they build dreamers like you? ''GET LOST, FREAK!!!''
* TheVoiceless: Diesel, and for some inexplicable reason, Fender in the short ''Aunt Fanny's Tour Of Booty!''
* WindUpKey
* YouWontFeelAThing: After Rodney is assembled, an extra piece is found.
-->'''Mr. Copperbottom''': [chuckles] We did want a boy, right? [He takes the piece and a hammer] This won't hurt a bit, son. [He hammers the piece in, Rodney cries]
* {{Zeerust}}: Invoked. Countless robots have distinctly retro designs.
* ZergRush: The Outmodes all ZergRush the Chop Shop and engage in a pitched battle with the chopper bots. It quickly turns into a CurbStompBattle, until the brand new Sweepers suddenly join the fight...
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