Wilbur admits to lying to Lewis about taking him back to see his mom, causing Lewis to run off in disgust. The Robinsons offer to adopt Lewis, but change their mind when they learn that he is from the past. Having followed Lewis, the Bowler Hat Guy and Doris try to kidnap him, but the Robinsons beat them back. Lewis accidentally leaves, however, and ends up meeting the rest of the Robinson family except for Cornelius, Wilbur's father and the main creator of most of the time's inventions, who is away on a business trip. Reluctantly, Wilbur agrees and hides Lewis in the garage. Wilbur asks Lewis to fix the time machine, and Lewis agrees on the condition that Wilbur has to take him to visit his mother afterwards. When they arrive, Lewis realizes he can simply use the time machine to meet his mother the resulting argument makes them crash. Lewis agrees to do so only if Wilbur can prove he is telling the truth, which Wilbur does by taking them in a second time machine to the year 2037, which is extremely advanced technologically. Wilbur meets Lewis at the orphanage and asks him to repair the scanner. Lewis leaves while the Bowler Hat Guy, with the help of a robotic bowler hat named Doris, repairs and steals the scanner. Lewis tries to demonstrate the scanner, but it has been sabotaged by the Bowler Hat Guy and falls apart, throwing the science fair into chaos. Wilbur needs to recover a time machine that a man wearing a bowler hat has stolen. While taking the scanner to his school's science fair, Lewis meets 13-year-old Wilbur Robinson, a mysterious boy claiming to be a time cop from the future. He works all night on a machine to scan his memory to locate his birth mother, who abandoned him at the orphanage when he was a baby. Lewis is an aspiring 12-year-old inventor who grew up in an orphanage, whose energy and eccentricity has been scaring off potential parents. On an estimated budget of $150 million, it earned $169.3 million at the box office. The film received generally positive reviews from critics. Meet the Robinsons was released in standard and Disney Digital 3-D versions on Main the United States and Main the United Kingdom. The film follows Lewis, a 12-year-old inventor boy, who is whisk away by Wilbur, a young time-traveler, to spend a day in the future with Wilbur's eccentric family and uncover an amazing secret at the same time, while trying to prevent DOR-15 from destroying the future.ĭirected by Stephen Anderson, the film's voice cast includes Anderson, Daniel Hansen, Jordan Fry, Wesley Singerman, Angela Bassett, Tom Selleck, Harland Williams, Laurie Metcalf, Nicole Sullivan, Adam West, Ethan Sandler, and Tom Kenny.
The 47th animated film produced by the studio, it is loosely based on the 1990 children's book A Day with Wilbur Robinson by William Joyce. Meet the Robinsons is a 2007 American computer-animated science-fiction comedy film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures.