Dir: Chris Wedge, Carlos Saldanha
Starring: Ewan McGregor, Halle Berry, Robin Williams, Mel Brooks, Jim Broadbent, Paul Giamatti (among many others!)

Robots, a 20th Century Fox production, from the makers of Ice Age has conveniently been released just for the start of the Easter holidays; so, anyone with a screaming younger sibling who's driving them insane could do better than to take them along to the cinema and sit them in front of Robots for 90 minutes.

We were treated to an advanced screening in the enormous IMAX cinema in the Science museum in South Kensington. The screen is as tall as FOUR (count them) double-decker buses stacked on top of one another. Although we only watched the film in 2D, this was more than enough as the screen itself is wider than peripheral vision, so when the film started there were frantic head movements from all the audience members just to take in all the action.

Robots is (as the title suggests) a film where the whole world is totally imagined, 'a wondrous clanky universe populated solely by mechanical beings.' What impressed me so much was the sheer breadth of Chris Wedge (the director's) imagination. Everything in the world comes from scratch; there are no reference points for the setting like there were for Ice Age or other animated feature films.

Robots tells the story of Rodney Copperbottom, (voiced by Ewan McGregor) a young 'bot' with a dream of being an inventor. So Rodney leaves Mum and Dad Copperbottom for Robot city to follow his dream.

And so the story unfolds with much hilarity and, (on occasion) a little too much 'American Dream' esq lines. My 20 year old friends and I found some of the innuendoes really side-splitting, so this is definitely a film with something for kids and their parents.

Robin Williams voices the character of Fender, whom definitely had the best one-liners. (Memories of him voicing of the Genie in Aladdin were recalled more than once). Other star voices came from the likes of Halle Berry, Mel Brooks, Greg Kinnear and Jim Broadbent, with cameos from Chris Moyles, Cat Deeley, Vernon Kay, Terry Wogan and Eamonn Holmes.

The animation of Robots is what most impressed me, the CGI were really ground-breaking, with the action moving so fast in places that it actually made me feel dizzy because it was so hard to keep up with on the giant IMAX screen.

Overall, I would give this film 4/5 stars, but part of this would be due to the amazing IMAX experience that really carried the movie.

Certificate U, 91 minutes

For more information on Robots go to www.robotsmovie.com
For more information on the IMAX Cinema, go to www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/imax

Reviewed by Sophie Nocton - Biatches and Cream, Mondays 1.30pm - 3pm