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Robby the Robot: Engineering a Sci-Fi Icon

November. 14,2006
Rating:
6.3
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A short documentary about Robby the Robot.

Joe Dante as  Self
Ben Burtt as  Self
Earl Holliman as  Self
Rudy Behlmer as  Self
William Malone as  Self
Anne Francis as  Self
John Carpenter as  Self
Leslie Nielsen as  Self

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zimbo_the_donkey_boy
2006/11/14

I'm not prepared to write a real review this morning but, to follow my own rule, I'll dash one off just because nobody else has. This was fun to watch along with the other material stuck onto the Forbidden Planet's 50th Anniversary DVD but I am satisfied just seeing it once rather than owning it.It features interviews of the guy who designed the thing for Forbidden Planet. It shows a lot of the process going into figuring out what the thing would be like in the first place. It mentions the various other films and TV shows Robby ended up in, as he was so popular (Leslie Nielsen even delivering a quote to the effect that, when he first saw Robby, he realized that ROBBY was gonna be the real star of Forbidden Planet--or was that in Watch the Skies?). It features others who worked on creating the "robot". It goes into what robots were like in other flicks. It also features a lot of interviewing of a guy who (today) makes & sells recreations of Robby replicas. Was it meant as a commercial for his biz? Was that how the documentarians got him to talk to them and provide the (admittedly interesting) robots to look at? Whatever. It was interesting seeing the original drawings and hearing the old stories in any case.

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