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Mech believe: Fox/Blue Sky creates a watchmaker's world with mechanical CG people for its latest feature film, Robots.(computer graphics)
They don't follow Isaac Asimov's laws of robotics. They don't have to. The bots in Fox/Blue Sky Studios' film Robots live in an alternate world, a ball-and-socket, wheels-and-gears, mechanical universe where lampposts walk home in the morning and a character named Crank Casey is made from ... you've guessed it ... a crankcase. There's not a human in sight.
"We call the film Robots, but there's nothing in it that's science fiction or futuristic," says Chris Wedge, codirector with Carlos Saldanha. "It's a colorful, whimsical world of mechanical people, a comedy adventure."
The film, which puts the voices of Ewan McGregor, Halle Berry, Mel Brooks, Greg ...
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