POSITIVES…
While there is a general familiarity to this premise, characters, and even the themes of the story, this animated movie still manages to be very entertaining. Once you jump into the plot, how do you not want to see it play out until the end?
The relationship between Barney and Ron is clearly at the heart of this tale. With that said, it’s really Ron that absolutely wins this movie above everything else. Ron is just too enjoyable of a character. Gotta love that little robot!
Certain sequences were so much fun to watch, especially that one particular scene during school recess.
This movie has some good recurring jokes, from registered user’s name, best friend out of the box, to rocks. Not THE Rock, but rocks. Just rocks.
Speaking of jokes, “Mad Max meets Sesame Street.” This isn’t just a kid’s movie, there are references that only adults will get. I mean they play the sound of a dial-up modem, and I don’t think kids nowadays know what that sounds like.
NEGATIVES…
Said it already, but there is a derivativeness to this movie that can’t be ignored. Expect some familiar plot tropes to pop up.
Plotwise, there’s a lot of things you can easily nitpick at.
Final act gets far more convoluted than it needed to be. It already had an ending at a certain point, but then they just stretched it out even more unnecessarily!
Arguably too heavy handed and unoriginal of a thematic lesson.
Ron looks a little too inspired by certain other white robots with round figures from certain other animated movies.
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