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RoboRex

PG

2014

1 hr. 35 min.

Fantasy

Sci-Fi

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35%

Fewer than 50 Ratings

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An 11-year-old boy and his beloved golden retriever join forces with a robot dog sent from the future to try to prevent a maniacal professor and his mechanical cat from taking over the world.

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JAMES C

Bad acting, unrealistic circumstances, and just a bad plot. Low budget, garbage movie.

Rated 1 out of 5 stars

08/19/22

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Where to start? The acting, kids and adults alike, is woeful. The premise - using cat and dog robot advetsaries - is hopeless and the CGI looks massively dated even just 4 years on. It had promise, the idea of using a robot dog from the future to resolve an issue in a lonely boy's life, but it's handled so clumsily. It's one of those '. .. but if he can do that why can't he....' type things. And aren't we past the mad scientist mixing bubbling potions in a lab thing? Even my nine year old is more sophisticated in his expectations of evil scientist than that. Remember, it's trying to appeal to a demographic that has watched Marvel films. They should have just kept it simpler and made it a story about a boy and his top spec dog. With better actors.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/23/23

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It was awful movie and had a horrible storyline. It was so generic and unrealistic.

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

01/23/23

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it look like a good moive

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

02/10/23

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It's a fun movie to riff on because it keeps a straight face though out the entire movie and takes itself very serious considering the plot is a ripoff of the terminator movies

Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars

02/02/23

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Alright, so its a kid's movie. You have to watch them every so often when there's a kid in the family. Thankfully, some of these movies are actually decent movies. Now, there are, of course, some very predictable elements to this movie: the kid is a motherless, lonely youth with a well-meaning but out-of-touch father. The kid is brilliant, yet loves his Goldberg machines too much. The villains are clearly villains and things that should never otherwise happen because plot demands it. Still, for all that, the movie is engaging and really fun to watch. Even with the clichés, I found the movie creative. And, heck, I even got teary at the end there. It's not a perfect movie, but it's fun, kids will like it, and you might, too.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/31/23

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Stephen Shimek

Director

Ben Browder

Robert Miller

Kalvin Stinger

James Miller

Ethan Phillips

Randy Jenkins

Maggie Scott

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Sci-fi family flick has some violence, tween taunting.

Rated: 3/5

Mar 11, 2015

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Synopsis

An 11-year-old boy and his beloved golden retriever join forces with a robot dog sent from the future to try to prevent a maniacal professor and his mechanical cat from taking over the world.

Director: Stephen Shimek
Screenwriter: Kristi Shimek, Stephen Shimek
Production Co: Escapology, Wulf / Gourley Productions
Rating: PG (Some Mild Action)
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Original Language: English
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 5, 2016

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