"With a little science and imagination, we could make the world a better place!" A twelve-year-old orphan inventor tells potential parents again and again. But nobody seems to want a spiky-haired science geek that keeps his baseball-loving roommate, Mike Yagoobian "Goob", up all night. But who COULD want him? Maybe... his mother who reluctantly gave him up to the orphanage doors! Lewis invents a memory scanner to bring up the memory of her to his mind. But who should show up, but a cop from the future, Wilbur Robinson! He warns Lewis to watch out for a tall man with a bowler hat (who stole his dad's time machine, but too late. The bowler hat guy sabotages and steals the invention to ruin Lewis's future. Wilbur takes Lewis on a wild ride on his Dad's time other time machine to the future, where he and the bowler hat guy are from. But due to a crash landing, Lewis has to fix the time machine, and so meets the Robinson family! Together they battle the bowler hat guy and his evil sidekick, Doris - or is it Doris and her evil sidekick, the bowler hat guy? With some secrets of the future and some perseverance, these inventions of a boy could change the world. You've just gotta keep moving forward!We watched this movie on our family's annual Egg Nog night this year. Everybody absolutely loved it! I would highly recommend it to anybody looking for a good family movie that adults and kids alike will enjoy.
As for those negative elements, the most blatant thing is name-calling. "Stupid" "Idiot" "Booger Breath" and "Pansy" are as descriptive as it gets. No cuss words, but when "helping hats" briefly take over the world, it may cause fright in some toddlers. Also when a dinosaur chases Lewis, but that ends in another funny moment. Even the bad guy is funny and nice in the end and his worst scemes in the movie are taking the broken memory scanner, calling a T-rex, getting a talking frog under his control, and toilet-papering buildings. All things considered, it is one of those movies that is rightly rated "G"!
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