The international implications of Robots (2005)

[@georgie8276]

No you actually don’t understand. The yassification of the ‘Hit Me Baby One More Time’ scene transformed my internal cultural fabric at age 6. To hear you review it has truly sent tremors through the cosmos. With respect, this was a slay.

[@strawberrycherrybaby]

This scene did in fact make me gay

[@dannyrestrepo4500]

I would rewatch the movie only to see that scene

[@EpicGabby24]

​@@dannyrestrepo4500 same!! It changed me!!

[@yraco1232]

@@dannyrestrepo4500 Honestly same and somehow I didn't know I was fruity

[@jtroxler8]

Fender actually invented slaying; fun fact.

[@k4t]

“Well we can’t call her Aunt Booty” changed my entire world. I was 7 when this movie came out and I have thought of that line every single day since then

[@pip-pip5029]

HAHAHAHAHA

[@nailinthefashion]

Dayum

[@eddieisverygay7937]

@@nailinthefashion omg i see you all the time in ow comment sections

[@nailinthefashion]

@@eddieisverygay7937 periodt. I just unlocked Lifeweaver's cure spray lmao 🌸💕

[@Wahoowa855]

Only someone with a masters degree in mechanical engineering is qualified to discuss the thematic and global implications of this movie xx

[@nailinthefashion]

So true

[@punishanpika]

​@@nailinthefashion You could say 🗣️ that

[@katherinehardy9984]

lololol the lil ‘xx’ made me holler 🤣

[@zandeis]

Ah but you forget if you have a masters degree in eng lit there's nothing you can't handle... 💀

[@Minecraftineer998]

SOMEONE WITH THESE QUALIFICATIONS PLEASE HELP MY BRAIN IS HAVING A CHERNOBYL

[@karolinahes3913]

Ratchet’s mum says “use those brains I stole for you”, which suggests robots can swap in different brains. What does that imply about personality and consciousness in the robot world?

[@itsnotaricaria]

Well I guess they would just keep the harddrive right? So they would just switch out cpu and ram

[@florisnail3528]

The first thing that came to my mind was that with this knowledge you could steal anothers intellectual property by swapping brains there's other stuff related but it's 1:00am and I'm tired so BYE

[@luisvelazquez4565]

I'd assume it would translate intosomething like "I illegally downloaded these big brain apps for you sweaty ❤️"

[@tornadodee148]

@@luisvelazquez4565 probably off of sketchy sites since Ratchet is actually not the sharpest tool in the shed (badum-tss)

[@Cruxin]

Probably processing power rather than data storage

[@Jmorris3265]

Honestly the idea of age being a by product of parts becoming harder to find and models becoming “outmoded” is such good world building.

[@cricketjuices]

I swear you could blink and miss seven consecutive Mike's Mic jokes, this man is relentlessly funny lmao

[@emilybell6703]

This is the most accurate description of Mike's Mic content yes

[@psycherevivedby]

and so effortless too

[@wiredweird]

YES so rewatchable ✨️

[@hornbeam]

i cannot express the impact this movie had on developing my personality into the horror that it is today

[@ryeowzin]

just like me fr🤩

[@ra2oo2]

Real

[@lonesomestcowboy]

me with Barnyard (2006)

[@greenbee09]

@@lonesomestcowboy fucking BARNYARD. Oh my god, I felt like my dad and I were the only people who actually watched this 😂😂

[@lost_my_shape]

@@lonesomestcowboy OH MY GOD

[@wissert]

I kind of love how the 'they eat nuts and bolts, but they're also made of nuts and bolts' part is the perfect example of what it would be like for aliens to interpret what humans are like if they only had a base level knowledge of Earth lore from a single movie, and by extension the way a lot of world building plotholes just exist in reality. They eat meat BUT HOLD ON... they're made of meat!

[@xTetraMuffinsx]

I literally though that as well! "The carbon life forms are eating GASP carbon!"

[@stacie1595]

and if they saw us eat a prepared steak, how would they know its source? It could look like anything to them!

[@sycadora5019]

This reminds me of people being shocked that birds eat birds and fish eat fish, and that it's not cannibalism. 😂

[@LoraCoggins]

Yes, but you can use nuts and bolts for other things, but you can't use meat for anything other than eating.

[@willowFFMPEG]

@@LoraCoggins how about those times when doctor's transplant a pig's heart into a person. how about that. you fool

[@samuellasky7771]

Something that struck me is that they have the "we wanted a boy, right?" joke during Rodney's assembly which pretty explicitly means that there is a certain "piece" that makes someone a boy (at least according to Rodney's parents), which happens to be placed between the legs. Now - when Fender switches legs at the Chop Shop for a pair of heels with a skirt, he must have lost that "boy piece". And what's more, when the rest of the gang sees him at the train station, Piper exclaims "I have a sister!" but the there's like. No questions about his masculinity. He walks around with girl's parts for the rest of the film and there's not even a throwaway line about trying to get him another boy piece.

[@moratolca]

i guess since there's no need for boy or girl pieces for robots to reproduce, they're just a cosmetic thing ? 🤔

[@alt7837]

trans fender real

[@joonapukarinen1153]

God I fucking love fender now my little meow meow. My blorbo.

[@lrizzard]

trans representation yaas

[@lexthequeer]

you're so right and honestly? slay.

[@jimbolips4458]

Interesting to note, I had the Robots video game. And in it theres a npc with a piece of dialogue where he describes how one day years ago it rained, supposedly killing thousands, he also states that the rain will one day return.

[@kthemaster1999]

Robots Extended Universe lore

[@axis1198]

WAIT THERES A GAME????

[@alentjanestetico3014]

Yes, a PS2 game at the very least

[@Fuhjcfffeewww]

The cosmic horror of robots (2005)

[@claire5558]

the fact that master of mechanical engineering michael microphone reviewed robots is truly the perfect culmination of this channel. it's christmas let's go home

[@xoxogossipgoat21]

Exaaaactlyyyyy

[@jessicaschlueter3]

It’s Christmas let’s go home

[@carolynfergus-callahan4194]

It’s Christmas let’s go home 😭

[@crimbleland]

Omg what was the OG video of “it’s Christmas let’s go home” At this point I remember only the joke not the video 😂

[@dahuntre]

Read this before watching, didn’t question it, didn’t realize my mistake until he mentioned his Gossip Girl video and not his engineering related video

[@michetti_r]

i think the canon is that there's a projection robot at the cinema, as well as popcorn maker and soda dispenser, and the building is only a building. in fact, being a projection robot is a highly valued artistic career, almost performance art, because the heat of the lamp is unbearable, but that is a sacrifice they're willing to make for cinema.

[@floridaflamingogirl3119]

In the old days of cinema, working in a projection room was an incredibly risky job. You had to (manually) keep the machine operating constantly and smoothly or else it would catch on fire. The movie "Cinema Paradiso" explores what this job looked like and what happens when it goes wrong.

[@maddieb.4282]

@@floridaflamingogirl3119partially because the celluloid they used for reels was highly unstable and very easy to light on fire, in fact as it degrades slowly in storage it can create a fire spontaneously. This is why a lot of early films have been lost

[@xGalladeLuigix]

by portraying fender and piper as brother and sister we can actually examine really easily the concept of family as a social construct. even if theyre not from the same parents, they are found family and i am here for that.

[@brodstarpadpen6949]

Wouldn't they be brother and sister because they were built by the same parents? They may be different models but just being built by the same person would make them related

[@ramonavisconti674]

there's a picture of their parents in fender's room, fender looks like his dad and piper like the mom

[@samuellasky7771]

Pretty sure they have the same last name, Pinwheeler, so they are related

[@ambiguoussarcasm]

Still kinda holds up? They "made" them who they are even if they're not the same model, like an allegory for adoption, which (to me) sits in between a bio family and a chosen family ​@@brodstarpadpen6949

[@AverytheCubanAmerican]

You forgot to mention when Rodney is delivered, he comes in a cardboard box. Implying the existence of trees somewhere…which would also need water to survive and grow! One of my favorite jokes in the movie happens while Bigweld is out of it and Rodney is driving him around the city trying to fix him, he starts singing Daisy Bell. Which is actually the first song ever sung by a computer, the IBM 704 all the way back in 1961. It's a sweet song, and I think it's a really sweet anecdote, that one of the very early things we tried to do with computers was to make them sing and make music. The song was originally written by Harry Dacre who was from the Isle of Man! Little did Harry knew the success his song would achieve. Had this movie on DVD growing up and this was the DVD we selected to watch on the night that the disastrous Hurricane Sandy hit us when we lived in Jersey City, New Jersey back in 2012...the TV only flickered once but we didn't lose power that night...and we ended up being the only block in our neighborhood that STILL had power after the storm. This movie was a good luck charm.

[@maddieb.4282]

….. have you seen 2001: A Space Odyssey?

[@KabbalahSherry]

​@@maddieb.4282- Was thinking about "Hal" from 2001 Space Odyssey as well! 😏🤖

[@elonk4life]

Thank you for sharing this information! I remember at school when I was 7 they would always play this movie whenever there was a bad storm and we couldn’t go outside to play during breaks. I saw the beginning of this movie so many times but never finished it.

[@littelcreatchure506]

I can't believe robots literally saved you from hurricane Sandy

[@SupremeLeaderKimJong-un]

Rust actually comes from a reaction between metal and oxygen, not with water in liquid form like rain. Moisture is needed but it can come from just high humidity in the air, and considering there is fire in the movie (a product from combustion is water vapor) there definitely is at least water in gas form. I think there’s just humidity in the air and the rust implies how long the parts have been in contact with it showing old age or something like that. Just some food for thought. This movie was a visual landmark, and it was miles ahead of what anyone else was doing. Tons of dynamic reflections and lighting, metal rigid body clanky characters with perfectly rusty or metallic looking surfaces with the slightest of blemishes visible, full motion blur and very elaborate high polygon count towns. I think the idea of making a setting where everything and everyone is made out of metal was a pretty good idea for CGI at the time. I love how this movie took the Toy Story and Zelda Wind Waker approach of "let's make the graphical style and setting something that our current technology can already do well, so that the visuals don't succumb to the flow of time."

[@imbenzenker]

Thank you! Came here to say this.

[@UntamedStrange]

Good for you.

[@thilypad557]

okay so in universe what would be the implication of ending world rust? getting rid of humidity?? getting rid of oxygen?? Would it be more akin to wrinkles and less world hunger, or more like a disease? The statement “end world rust” makes it sound like it’s an avoidable but deadly condition so I’d be inclined to think it’s more like a disease…

[@SyntheticSpy]

@@thilypad557maybe it can be thought of akin to cancer? They can get it on presumably any body part, and your odds increase depending on exposure to certain environments and age. It spreads if left alone, and will result in the death of the robot A cure might be preventative coatings, or cleaning procedures, or just allowing for cheap and plentiful replacement parts for old ones

[@iqcool]

On the topic of the visuals of the film, I think the art direction is why I like art deco so much today. It's almost like they saw those weirdly proportioned drawings of art deco people and thought "yeah, what if they were robots too?"

[@townfool4682]

during my undergrad, my friends had an ongoing bit of asking "how long has it been since you thought about the movie Robots?" periodically in group settings. Its one of my favourite questions to ask strangers now lol.

[@vgamemaster99]

I love this and I’m absolutely going to use this.

[@christyyay7441]

i feel like 90% of the population in 2005 missed this masterpiece somehow.

[@ember9361]

well not me i watched it nine times in theatre with my cousin who has since developed ptsd from this movie

[@BananaPhoPhilly]

Were you alive in 2005? I feel like everyone talked about it lol maybe because I was the target demo, 6 years old

[@quinnkimbell3378]

I remember watching the Garfield (2004) movie a lot on VHS and one of the trailers was for Robots. Loved the trailer, but never saw the movie :((((

[@ember9361]

@a k she lived lol (just don't ask about the movie lol)

[@eoin8450]

Really? I just assumed everyone watched this movie

[@nicolenoi]

the chokehold that the "hit me baby one more time" scene still has on me to this day. i didn't even know who britney was but after this scene, i had no choice but to stan.

[@spenceduggs]

I literally think about that scene at least once a week.

[@Aceywacy444]

One time I did ketamine (monitored by dr, it was completely legal and a treatment for depression) and when I was tripping I was dragged by big weld himself through a series of pitch black tunnels that collapsed around me and took me to the recycling place. It was terrifying, and I have a personal vendetta against big weld. Great video though 😁👍

[@juliet4093]

Mate no one cares if it’s legal or not, you are fine! Don’t worry about it. Lmao

[@private755]

Was it completely legal and monitored by a doctor and vital for your depression or were you an evil druggie I’m supposed to hate

[@ambiguoussarcasm]

But did the K work for your depression? Genuinely curious

[@vintagev3000]

How fucking much did you do you had hallucinations?

[@AbielMiller-o7x]

Holy guacamole this a whole ass journey

[@nicovado]

When I was a kid I didn’t know how to skip forward but I liked that Britney Spears scene so much that id just watch the whole movie from the start just so I can see that serve again.

[@glossygorl5737]

when i was a kid we didnt have cable but we had robots on dvd and i watched it so many times that the whole plot is permanently engrained in my brain

[@xNeonRobotx]

Same! We had the DVD and my sister and I watched it a lot. I've seen this movie at least 10 times

[@moongirl8807]

Me too! We had cable but this DVD was a go-to, others too but I watched this movie MANY times

[@KaylahH]

Literally me too omg

[@ezfree.z651]

i relate so hard with this lol. i’ve found my people 🙇‍♀️

[@Sh12pen]

I watched it on tv

[@lovecherryzoldyck]

so freaking delighted how seriously you analyze this very unserious movie. as someone that works in animation, it's really gratifying to see you point out all the details that go into visual worldbuilding that are not even necessarily meant to be noticed but inform the movie as a whole. another michael's analysis for the history books!

[@whatanuglycolorcombo276]

Thats so cool! What’s it like working in animation? I’ve been thinking about possibly pursuing a career in animation after high school cuz I honestly really wanna work at Pixar.

[@Tyler-sf4kv]

@@whatanuglycolorcombo276 replying cause I would like to know as well

[@audreyw9784]

@@Tyler-sf4kv yes! Me too!

[@LiarJudas666]

it may be unserious but it always struck me very much as a labor of love and I hope it did well financially. as a kid who loved robots in general from my earliest memories, I could tell this movie was made by people who also just think they're cool as heck.

[@lovecherryzoldyck]

@@LiarJudas666 yes you can tell how much fun and freedom they had making this!! it makes it feel timelessly funny honestly

[@HeisenbergFam]

1:27 I love how casually Mike returned after a month just to remind a character that "our beef is not over", what a charismatic mad lad

[@-Scrapper-]

Hello mark

[@fucno6924]

You’re here

[@elliboo7990]

he said that at WHAT time

[@nailinthefashion]

Iconistry. Visionary

[@LisaFrank39]

😂 what's the beef with the ice age baby?

[@2kategibbons]

my younger sister was OBSESSED with this movie. so much so my mom asked the movie theater for the cut out robots and we had three life sized cardboard robots in our home

[@no-lifenoah7861]

Hell yeah

[@hannahclarke7677]

I AM SO JEALOUS

[@realkingofantarctica]

I'm starting to realise how goated of a movie Robots must have been for the parents who had to watch it with their children. It really feels like it was "built" for them first.

[@paigeppppppp]

michael never failing to surprise me with his content choices

[@nailinthefashion]

For me its always a surprise in a way

[@justnone9809]

exactly

[@JC_Cali]

That's M for Mike to you Mx.!

[@clarakf]

the domino scene has lived rent free in my mind for YEARS

[@pip-pip5029]

SAME

[@richieswar3139]

Same but I could not for the life of me remember what it came from. Finally after all these years, my question's been answered

[@KimberleyDelgado112]

For me its the: "Upgrades people upgrades"

[@luthientinuviel3883]

For sure, that is the ONLY thing I remember from this movie

[@maxluvscats]

can u explain it to me plz 💔

[@jordysyoutubechannel]

this is one of those iconic masterpieces that if you were in the 1% of society who saw it, it altered the trajectory of your life in the best way

[@elio7610]

That might be a bit hyperbolic.

[@hwagner717]

no but FR this movie totally altered how I see the world (in a good way)

[@joshzuker8308]

Forgot how beautiful this movie looks. The art design is very unique and memorable.

[@Cyancat123]

18:05 out of all the mind bending creative choices, insane animation, and ludicrous story, hearing Natasha Lyonne without her accent is still the craziest thing about this movie for me.

[@bridgetbernet3463]

You could also call Rodney the domino’s delivery guy because he’s the one to set the chain of events in motion to enact change for his community and also helped Bigweld rediscover his passion and purpose. Rodney knocked down the first domino after all

[@Rickyblobby]

THE LEVELS

[@foxbuns]

your mind is powerful

[@brinka7918]

jokes in early 2000 kids movies were so easy flowing and so contextual it’s crazy

[@Julia-vg3lq]

i actually wrote a goofy little essay about this movie for one of my political theory seminars. wihtin the logic of the capitalist mode of production the whole machine parts/grease/cannibalism question becomes even more interesting bc in that frame they're all just means of production (so the lines between the real-world labor force, raw material and manufacturing spaces are blurred in a kind of egalizing way). ratchet appropriates these means of production as the bad capitalist, resulting in a revolution as marx had imagined it (started by leaders within the proletariat). seeing that other systems of oppresion (i. e. sexism, racism) weren't really part of the robots world (or weren't directly touched on) acutally aligns with marx' theory as well since he was mostly very ignorant about these issues. yes i was manic at the time i wrote that essay.

[@allyson--]

you slayed

[@stardoogalaxie9314]

And you would be correct!!!

[@Jack-ib9kc]

honestly work... just wondering what your grade was and if your teacher realized the magnitude of your literary power

[@itsmj3103]

They're eating the machine parts, bolts and all, of other robot species. Like we eat the meat and organs of other animals. Or it could straight up be cannibalism, there's no wrong answer.

[@willowbryn1069]

please can you publish and/or send me this directly

[@beenannon]

absolutely needed this in my life. so sick of not having any fellow besties who enjoy picking apart and studying the heck out of things that have no business being studied. have no idea how people can just watch something like Robots and then just move on with no desire for discourse. also you absolutely sent me with the "fender et al." 😆 love love love your humour!

[@acaciahariklia4268]

The way “couldn’t call her aunt booty” shaped my entire sense of humour since a wee child, I owe that line my life

[@meganknight5262]

Fun fact: when I was learning to walk, I was only able to do it when I was holding a Rodney Copperbottom figurine that I got in a McDonalds happy meal. Kinda slay if I may say

[@karacoconutag]

Every single Mike's Mic video is iconically unhinged and entertaining. He could review thermostats and I would be here to watch.

[@nailinthefashion]

That would make sense now that he has a masters in engineering

[@punishanpika]

Truth ✅💱

[@quenepacrossing4675]

Literally

[@Mecharnie_Dobbs]

Is that the plan? Is that why there is a thermostat on the right side of his wall-display. Between the top and 2nd row of posters?

[@magdalenehagey4079]

I feel this in my soul.

[@ilpensatore1462]

20:56 i think the whole greese issue is that we look at it from a human point of view where we separate food we ingest and blood that fuels us, while obviously a car filled with greese/gas is just that: It's fueled by the gas, it cycles giving it energy and then it's discarded

[@emilypeoples6386]

I have vivid memories of watching the “Hit Me Baby One More Time” scene as kids and my friend and I LOSING. OUR. MINDS. 😂 that scene hit different back in 2005

[@daisyprayers]

I absolutely ADORED this goofy little movie when it came out. I had little action figures of the robots and you could switch their arms/legs/heads to make your own robot. Thank you for this nostalgia!

[@stephenbarrett5357]

this is my favorite mikes mic video easily. it was a lecture, a kiki, a meditation on existence, a parisian salon.

[@jennydied]

I think the rust yearbook quote was kinda an equivalent to "end world poverty" cuz if there is no water it takes an infinitely longer time for metal to rust, which means the only robots who go long enough with the same parts for them to rust, are poor robots.

[@maddieb.4282]

Eh it’s more of a direct correlation with aging. She wants to create immortality

[@breathoffreshair7795]

@@maddieb.4282everything in the film shows direct correlations between the disgusting rich and the classes below them. Government and citizens have no power in a system that is run by corporations. Thats our real world environment currently and has been for most of human history. In the film the main storyline is rodney inevitably having to destroy the existing “political” system to be able to restart and provide the people their needs..

[@sunnysydney8177]

I was thinking it could be cancer, maybe? Being that you are more likely to get it the more you live, and rich robots would easily switch out the rusty parts (access healthcare) while poor robots would be stuck with rust spreading uncontrollably until they were rendered useless. But I think your idea works best as a translation of a yearbook from Robots to a human yearbook. PS. I know this is a year late but I liked your idea and had to chime in.

[@Maguspwns2]

I was a non-engineer at an engineering school and so much of this reminds me of all my engineer friends tearing movies to shreds

[@simpleton3781]

My mom bought this movie for me and a in car DVD player to keep me entertained on our 3hr drives to the coast to see my grandmother. I remember being so obsessed with this movie I would watch it after school. I watched this movie about 9 times every 2-3 months for 3 years. And when I tell you that I love any and all discord around this movie I just ugh thank you Mike. I felt this in my inner child

[@simpleton3781]

@Vlisw Toei how are you going to open with that magnificent TEDtalk material and not continue ?????????????? Bc honestly babes you're not wrong

[@ahmedbanaga8185]

My theory about the cannibalism is that it's like how humans eat meat but are also made of meat so it's not really cannibalism because the nuts and bolts may be the equivalent to the chicken and beef

[@punishanpika]

Truth ✅💱

[@kc3464]

Robots is one of the best animated movies and the cast sends me off the rails every time. Loving the Stanley Tucci Ewan McGreggor Robin Williams collab

[@Emily-xr6ny]

there’s no reason for the casts of animated movies to be so star studded but they always are?

[@averyeml]

This movie had entirely too big of an impact on me as a child, I need to watch it again. It was weird and goofy and just absolutely nuts to me as a kid and then over the years I admired the art- I’ve gotten a big appreciation for William Joyce’s work over the years.

[@forthefrogs]

same here!! not to mention robin williams in a main role and he's killing it :)

[@mangoliys]

absolutely nuts 🔩

[@NinetiesBB]

I have always remembered and loved the “hit me baby one more time” moment and I’m so glad to see it get recognized

[@cheesypies]

Ah yes the film that made me very scared of street cleaning trucks when I was young, with many nightmares to follow. I love this film so much

[@PhazeParsnip]

glad I'm not the only one who almost felt like this movie was just some sort of fever dream i had as a child! It feels greatly validating to hear my fave insider breaking it down for me

[@ughisaa]

FR

[@britnicox3929]

I’ve always liked the fact that oil seemed to serve the same function as water for the robots - we are made up of a lot of water, we have to drink water, water rains down from the sky etc. etc. Robots is such a great movie and I’m glad to see you giving the slightly unhinged recognition that it deserves!

[@loki_is_tired]

Funfact about my childhood connection with the movie robots! In the early 2010s, me and my sibling lived on a bunk bed in the attic room together, and we had one of those small box TVs with the curved screens. However, we had no remote for it. And the only movie we had that would play without the remote was Robots. So, for multiple months, we rewatched Robots once every few days. We can both quote this movie almost entirely. It's insane. We know it so well. The older I've gotten, the more my brain comes up with a random quote from it in the middle of the conversation and I've realised just how many adult jokes were packed into this movie. Bonus story that I think is funny - we did eventually find the remote for the TV again, and the next memory I have (I was like 6 and it's just out of my reach of memory lmao) after finding it is that I put on Land Before Time and snuck onto my sibling's bunk bed (the top bunk, which I was not allowed on) to watch it. Then I heard my dad come upstairs, and I jumped off the bed, fell face first and tried not to cry so he wouldn't find out that I was on the bunk. Anyway I had to go to the hospital because I almost broke my nose, and it is the only time I have ever been to the hospital. But here's where it ties in - when we got back home, my parents let us put a movie on because I was hurt. And what did I put on? That's right, it was Robots. My parents actually got mad at me because I got so enthusiastic while saying the lines at the same time as the movie (I don't know what to call that to be honest) but it was totally worth it that movie was great and the "Upgrades, people, upgrades!" meme is from it. I need to see if we still have that disc somewhere lmao. 10/10 movie, seeped in memories and nostalgia.

[@allyson--]

Amazing... the robotification of your life

[@Cat-tastrophee]

That's a cute story ☺️ If you're asking what it's called when you repeat/recite lines from a movie, I've usually called "parroting," but if it's an autism trait it's called "echolalia." There's a piece of mostly useless information! 😂

[@loki_is_tired]

@@Cat-tastrophee Oh my god, of blumin' course it's an autism trait. I'm telling my mum this, she'll find it hilarious lmfao. Thank you for your mostly useless information! I love facts. I devour mostly-useless information like a student trying to fill out an essay word count.

[@theoriginalglitchqueen2544]

@@loki_is_tired haha yeah I do that same thing 😅 for me it has to do with how nice it sounds when I can get all the words and inflections right 😂

[@JuniperArcher]

You should write fiction, your style of storytelling is actually super cute and flows well

[@asinglecrouton]

I still cant get over the fact that I had just finished writing about the inherit class struggles that the characters from Robots were facing for an English essay not even a month ago and now this pops up in my recommended. I should have known I had struck gold writing that essay lmao

[@jazmineworthy2010]

👏🏾👏🏾

[@lukeshields8760]

My first Mike's mic video ever. Reminding me of this insanely anti capitist movie from nearly 20 years ago is everything i need. Love it.

[@treacherous-doctor]

I was utterly terrified of this movie when I was a kid, but after rewatching it recently, I can safely say that it has become one of my favourites and is so incredibly underappreciated

[@ag00714]

Literally like the first time I watched the movie was at a sleepover and omfg I was so scared

[@Kai-xb1iw]

I came looking for this comment

[@umagatilla]

This was so unexpected from Mike and yet the way this movie lives rent free in my head and has not gotten enough recognition from society. I feel so seen. Mike's really going through the pop culture trenches to give credit where credit be due.

[@kmjc1213]

This movie is soooooo underrated. It was one of my favorites growing up and I feel like it aged surprisingly well. Also the voice casting is iconic and the soundtrack is epic.

[@nikiash620]

I unironically loved this movie as a child, and now I can't help but question my parents allowing me to repeatedly view this fever dream. 💀

[@diegogarduno2657]

“Who we find out is Ratchet’s mum, the mother of Ratchet.” 11:57

[@samantha-bv9cm]

16:42 “who is that lady because she square root of 64ed” I think more people need to be appreciating the genius behind this because OMG SHAKESPEARE COULD NEVER

[@bemodreamy]

The world of Robots is still less of a mindfuck than the world of Cars

[@nailinthefashion]

Personally they're on par and Cars is on my all time favourite movies list

[@darkslice679]

I’d say this is even more confusing because you can’t even guess what objects are alive 😂

[@kierabelson4021]

i loved this film as a kid omg i also thought it was a fever dream until i rewatched it with my friends a few months ago :)) why is it such a good film haha

[@honeydragon3909]

I’m actually obsessed with this movie, I watched it so many times in my childhood. Anytime someone posts Robots (2005) content I go feral

[@ramengirl983]

I’m so happy other people appreciate the pure GENIUS of this movie. The comedy is top tier, a modern day classic, there is no other like it. Fender alone is one of the best characters ever created in cinema

[@gastllyxo]

“Inside of you is a fashion model just waiting to throw up” actually made me double take lmfao

[@mmilcz833]

This was my absolute favorite movie as a kid, it changed my life forever and revisiting it now, everything makes sense

[@ashknight6696]

people act like i'm joking when i say this is one of my favorite movies. everyone who remembers it remembers it as a silly movie for kids, and it is, but it's legitimately an amazing piece of animation and storytelling with a timeless message that anyone can enjoy.

[@ellasorellabrella]

mike creaking open my skull to show my robots (2005) memories sunlight for the first time in almost 20 years. i think about "fusion of jazz and funk" near-daily

[@Pizzacade]

Can we talk about how clever the ice cream stand is though. "Auntie Freeze". Good car humor.

[@rebajoe]

I don't know why but this reminds me of the movie Repo: The Genetic Opera, where people have to pay for organ replacements due to a organ failure epidemic and they get hacked if they miss a payment. This makes me think of a potential sequel for that where organ replacement isn't enough anymore and the rates have gone up, so certain people have been secretly building prosthetics from whatever they can find(scrap/junk/whatever)and eventually that evolved into the 'Robots' civilization cos the robots needing spare parts and getting captured to go to the chop shop works the same way.

[@bloodraven1437]

Zydrate comes in a lil glass vial

[@luco5769]

​@@bloodraven1437 A little glass vial?

[@rebajoe]

@@luco5769 A Little Glass Vial

[@fruitygarlic3601]

Wild how Repo! is completely unrelated to Repo Men (not to be confused with Repo Man), even though they basically have the same premise. And Jude Law is both in Repo Men and Gattaca, another movie vaguely similar to Robots but with human characters. All of these movies slay so hard.

[@noreaeron]

@@fruitygarlic3601 ive never been more confused in my life x

[@lauravankan6408]

Crying laughing at the phrase "sassy little doorbitch" 😂💀

[@KaptenSpork]

I loved this movie as a kid, it’s so weird and the universe is insane. (The talking toilet messed me up). My favourite scene was when they’re in the Chop Shop and “Underground” by Tom Waits plays and I still think about it!! baby me never understood that they are chopping up CORPSES. Also, CANNIBALISM?!

[@gedeonnunes5626]

A great allegory to how capitalism kidnaps revolutionary discourse and absorbs anti-systemic figures to itself. An underapreciated masterpiece.

[@spate7207]

stop how did you perfectly elucidate my thought process smh. Rodney had such an exceptional opportunity to take down the capitalist system with the proletariat backing him up, and then he sells out to be reformist with a cushy job in the large corporation :(

[@realbrooklyn2093]

Fender saying "we'll ignore the gossip" and giggling about sharing a room with Rodney. Zoom. Straight over my head as a kid. But I love that! So funny 😂

[@hannahrose414]

More insightful literary critique in one 20 minute video about a 2005 animated kids movie than in all high school English classes across the globe

[@glandulaoxidante7743]

Mike out-did himself on this one, I have to say. Robots is a masterpiece by itself, this is a masterpiece²

[@daisypets5694]

why does it feel like I shouldn't be allowed here?

[@asmaaa.6163]

because you're not ???? 🔫🔫🔫 /j

[@zt3853]

@@asmaaa.6163 yeah‼️‼️ leave‼️ /srs

[@austinsmerud8596]

WHAT HAPPENED

[@djungelskog132]

What

[@rebajoe]

There's a chance we all probably feel like that.

[@burridi]

“Stopping world rust” implies that there are third world robot cities that are overtaken by rust

[@annoyingkid48]

This was one of my absolute favorite movies when I was a kid, so glad someone is recognizing its genius

[@annoyingkid48]

Piper was my favorite for sureeeee

[@annoyingkid48]

And also the silver gal with the wheel shoes, she absolutely destroyed and I wanted to be her so bad

[@paiger]

I was not expecting a deeply interrogative, philosophical discussion when I clicked on this vid but I'm so here for it

[@mearameow6142]

The fact that I’ve seen this movie ONCE and my feelings about it are sooo powerful. I loved this movie with a passion and think about it often still.

[@sweetmother2406]

This movie is such a hidden gem! My family grew up watching it on dvd. The cast is incredible but like no one has heard of it

[@henlex6424]

Now if you'd asked me if I'd seen this film at the beginning of this video I would've said no, but now I'm most of the way through and I in fact remember most of this movie just with no context. Amazing

[@moongirl8807]

We had this one on DVD and this was one of the movies we just watched like every week or month. I still love it and later watched it again as an adult, and it's just a good movie even removing the nostalgia. But it's still a weird memory bc I don't remember anyone else of my friends or family knowing this and even when I got into commentary KZbin it felt like this movie never existed. I still have no idea if it was a secret underrated masterpiece for it's time or a smash hit or just one of those movies in between that are loved by most people but fade into the back of your memory after a while.

[@Lukas208]

I've been casually obsessed with this movie since I first saw it when I was 8. Seeing it even be acknowledged online is a gift!

[@arijanaaa]

I absolutely love your mind!! movie review era is honestly my comfort series ❤️

[@jules6731]

I was absolutely obsessed with this movie when I was little! I thought it was popular but no one I know has watched it lmao. ALSOOO, I never forgot the scene where the red robot is iconic and dances to Britney Spears + the iconic Get Up Offa That Thing song at the end!!! You always get it, Mike 😌

[@pnytailgrl]

I love that you reviewed this movie. I loved it as a kid and almost no one I know has seen it.

[@Mgmorris98]

they don’t make movies like this anymore and it’s tragic. Fender is one of the funniest characters from my childhood, absolutely genius

[@dirtybadwrong]

this was so essential thank you for covering it

[@gabrielsb3092]

this movie is so dear to my heart kind of like how Michael Microphone's KZbin channel is now

[@analusilvaj]

That's so sweet!

[@nailinthefashion]

Not the government name.....

[@UmbranGrace]

6:46 Perhaps the connotation of curing “rust” in the robot world could be relating to some sort of finding cure for life-threatening/terminal diseases? Nevertheless. We stan a robot woman in STEM 🤖💅🔬🧪✨

[@555starangel_]

Yesss, your mind! Like “cure cancer” or something.

[@bea8861]

That's what I thought! Metal can rust in moist environments without direct water and some metals are more likely to rust than others after all.

[@richieswar3139]

And did you see her nickname? 'Swivelhips' - Tammy is THE girlboss!!

[@im_in_your_walls_besticle]

​@@richieswar3139 she was popping her robussy 😍✨🤖💅

[@adi_Iastname]

@@im_in_your_walls_besticle IM SCREAMING

[@hotash26]

Me and my brother would quote this movie allllll the time as kids and I swear no one else knew it existed. We couldn’t find it on streaming services so we bought it on DVD because it’s a necessity hahaha

[@jamesgames9804]

i’ve gained a new level of appreciation for this movie! Tysm Mike

[@clarav9627]

"But!✋✋✋✋✋" 10:25 thanks for bringing my memories of this movie back to life, together with Bugs (worthy of a video essay too btw) it was a movie that I watched 1384293475893 times but I didn't think about it in the last 15 years of my existence

[@LaurennM360]

I feel like I just need your review of every movie ever made 😂😂 your commentary is gold, and it always makes my day.

[@TheRayquaza11]

I forgot how many of these robot girlies absolutely SLAYED and left no crumbs. Iconic then, iconic now 🤭🤭

[@citrinethecorgi]

I'm loving this new era for mike, also he's been reviewing tons of movies from my childhood and it makes me feel so seen. thank you 🙏

[@melodi2036]

20:47 this movie, this scene, is where I first heard this song. Didn't even know it was a real song at the time

[@voadicia9593]

In the Robots video game for Xbox, a random npc will say periodically "One good rain and this whole town will go to rust." This certainly implies that rain exists at least as a concept, and one to be feared. It also implies that there hasn't been rain in quite some time, considering the catastrophic implications.

[@chaotickreg7024]

There's also the class situation with stainless steel.

[@spenceduggs]

​@@chaotickreg7024Oh my gosh, I never considered that.