We also saw Meet the Robinsons.

We had long promised the kids that we would take them to see Meet the Robinsons on the very first day. We looked at a few of the reviews and were not so sure we wanted to do it.

Plot: This one is going to be tough to sketch, so I'm going to have to do it very, very vaguely, because there are lots of "OH!" moments in this movie. Basically, there's this kid named Lewis who can invent things. He's an orphan, abandoned at an orphanage as a baby. He's had 124 adoption interviews and never been adopted. He decides he wants to find his birth mother and starts inventing a "Memory Scanner" so he can delve into his memory and see what she looks like (it's not clear how seeing what his mom looks like is going to help him find her, but hey - this is a kid's movie). It just so happens that a big company called Inventco is going to give the winner of the elementary school science fair an internship with their company, so Lewis plans to demonstrate his Memory Scanner there for the first time. The only problem with this is that a man has come back in time to foil his plan and ruin his life. And a boy named Wilbur Robinson has come back to stop that man. Lewis ends up going into the future with Wilbur and meeting Wilbur's crazy family, which was, to me, the best part of the movie. Because it's Disney, it all works out fine in the end (and had the whole theater crying happy tears for Lewis), but I'm not going to tell you HOW. It would spoil it.

The reviews said that there were seven screenwriters for this movie, and that you could really tell. Yes, it's frenetic, but it's supposed to be. And Mike and I boiled it down to this as we walked out of the theater:

This is a movie for geeks. If you are now, or have ever been, a geek, you will LOVE this movie.

Because we live in a small Texas town, there weren't too many geeks in attendance at our showing, and hence, a lot of really confused people walking out of the theater. We weren't at all confused. Maddy and Major BOTH just LOVED it, and Major was able to repeat back to us all the main plot points. It hit on all the right levels.

On a scale of Clifford the Big Red Dog: The Movie to Narnia, it's right up next to Narnia. It might even become the new benchmark. I laughed SO HARD at this movie, because I'm a total geek.