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The film opens with Herb Copperbottom (Stanley Tucci), a robot containing artificial intelligence technology, racing across the dimly-lit, futuristic Rivet Town, ignoring the thousands of harvested human brains he passes in Brain Banks on the strip mall. He had his "wife," Lydia (Dianne Wiest), construct yet another anti-humanistic killing machine, our antagonist, named Rodney (Ewan McGregor). Or so it seems. But deep in the rubble of the humans' capital, a baby's cry can be heard, a symbol that there may be hope for humanity after all, foreshadowing a potential sequel.

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  • The film opens with Herb Copperbottom (Stanley Tucci), a robot containing artificial intelligence technology, racing across the dimly-lit, futuristic Rivet Town, ignoring the thousands of harvested human brains he passes in Brain Banks on the strip mall. He had his "wife," Lydia (Dianne Wiest), construct yet another anti-humanistic killing machine, our antagonist, named Rodney (Ewan McGregor). Or so it seems. But deep in the rubble of the humans' capital, a baby's cry can be heard, a symbol that there may be hope for humanity after all, foreshadowing a potential sequel.
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  • The film opens with Herb Copperbottom (Stanley Tucci), a robot containing artificial intelligence technology, racing across the dimly-lit, futuristic Rivet Town, ignoring the thousands of harvested human brains he passes in Brain Banks on the strip mall. He had his "wife," Lydia (Dianne Wiest), construct yet another anti-humanistic killing machine, our antagonist, named Rodney (Ewan McGregor). Rodney grows up idolizing Big Weld (Mel Brooks), a large steam roller-like bot that runs Robot City, the center of the chaos. When he is old enough, he travels there, only to find that the rebellious humans, led by Phineas Ratchet (Greg Kinnear), have nearly destroyed the city and have monopolized the robot parts market, and that Big Weld has disappeared. They are funded by collecting robots in the futuristic equivalents of trash sweepers, melting them down in an underground factory, and resold as expensive upgrades. Rodney is surprised to find life so bad, as he had never been part of a minority before. Rodney sets off to find Big Weld along with his friends Fender (Robin Williams), Cappy (Halle Berry), and Piper (Amanda Bynes), in an attempt to free himself and his fellow bots of the oppression. He finds Big Weld, now a recluse, living among dominoes in his condo and tries to convince him to help conspire, but Weld claims to be too old and brittle for such adventure. The human security officers break into the building and arrest Rodney and his companions. All hope seems to be lost for the robots, effectively restoring peace and order to Robot City, when many of the other prisoners, freed while guard was pointed at Rodney, surround the humans and attack. The battle is easily won by the automatons, ending the last of organic life on Earth. The emotionlessness of Rodney's face is emphasized when the last blood-stained tear drips from the eye of the human ruler. All life has ended. Or so it seems. But deep in the rubble of the humans' capital, a baby's cry can be heard, a symbol that there may be hope for humanity after all, foreshadowing a potential sequel.
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