Meet the Robinsons

Episode Summary


Erin and Rachel travel to a frenetic future to discuss Meet
the Robinsons (2007), a fever dream of a film that performed
poorly at the box office despite intervention from John Lasseter,
newly seated Chief Creative Officer of Walt Disney Animation
Studios. Sexist and fatphobic content are only minimally present,
but that doesn’t mean Erin and Rachel enjoyed this chaotic
whirlwind of characters and colors any more than the critics who
panned it in 2007. 


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