It’s bogus fantasy which stretches credulity too much.
Peter Veugelaers: EntertainmentNutz

 This Walt Disney animation is distracting when the ideas speak louder than the pictures.  It poses the idea of attaining foresight in human dealings, but it takes a young lad, inventor-orphan Lewis, to encounter the future to realise that.  

 The Jetsons set its fantasy family of the future in the future. In Meet the Robinsons, the latest incarnation of the futuristic family, called the Robinsons, takes us through a time warp to the future and back again.

 The future at stake here is a technologically progressive one. The villainous Goob is bent on controlling it with slavery aplomb and evil sneer. Goob’s from the future and promotes Lewis’s invention – a memory scanner – with draconian intent, to a company responsible for many of the upcoming computer advancements. It’s stolen from Lewis who created it for a science fair to recall the moment he knew his mother who abandoned him at the doorstep of a wealthy home. Wilbur Robinson is from the future and must retrieve Lewis to bring him forward a few centuries to beat the villain at his game.  

 Like Back to the Future classically showed, a character goes forward in time to alter the present. There are two issues with Meet the Robinsons in this formula.

 This movie makes me uncomfortable when the older and the younger versions of the same character are in the same shot together. Back to the Future, which is hinted at in Robinsons, convinced in its time warp premise and story telling without making you attentive to the improbable science which Meet the Robinsons lacks.

 Secondly, a statement seems to be made about how positive change for the future is found in a technologically enhanced society which results in happy, albeit whacky, family units. The two don’t necessarily mix. The truth is that technology can separate personal contact in families as last year’s so-called family movie RV more truthfully noted.

 But when it comes to Lewis’ personal life the theme is more agreeable and malleable. He’s an orphan who has tried to get adopted but every time unsuccessfully. Inventing a memory scanner he hopes to remember when he meets his mother because he thinks she won’t disown him. So, he goes to work. There is some sticky sentiment herein but it ends touchingly.