Author: Dorsey Velasquez.

While flipping through channels on satellite tv from www.direct.tv the other day, I found myself watching an animated movie for the 1st time in years called Meet the Robinsons. The story follows a young orphan inventor named Lewis, who is consistently passed over for adoption due to his weirdness and age. His roommate is a little boy named Mike Yagoobian, or Goob for short, who is unable to sleep thanks to the noise Lewis creates while building his inventions. He becomes determined to find his mother and runs into a boy from the future named Wilbur Robinson. Wilbur claims to be a time cop who is searching for a stolen time machine. The machine is stolen by the Bowler hat guy who also damages Lewis’ invention at the science fair. Lewis intends to quit, but Wilbur claims that Lewis needs to fix his machine as he is headed for great things. Lewis is skeptical, so Wilbur decides to take Lewis into the future, showing him a world filled with remarkable technological advancements and a family (the Robinsons) full of love and happiness. Unfortunately, the Bowler hat guy and his pet robot Doris also return to the future in an attempt to get Lewis to show them how his science fair invention works. I love how Lewis comes full circle and is able to accept himself for who he is.