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Rufus Wainwright - Meet the Robinsons Audio CD

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Rufus Wainwright Band: Rufus Wainwright
Title: Meet the Robinsons
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Release Date: 2007-03-27
Media: Audio CD

Tracks: 1: Another Believer [As Used in the Film Meet the Robinsons] - Rufus Wainwright 2: Little Wonders 3: Future Has Arrived [As Used in the Film Meet the Robinsons] 4: Where Is Your Heart At? [As Used in the Film Meet the Robinsons] 5: Motion Waltz (Emotional Commotion) [As Used in the Film Meet the Robins 6: Give Me the Simple Life [As Used in the Film Meet the Robinsons] 7: Prologue 8: To the Future! 9: Science Fair 10: Meeting the Robinsons 11: Goob's Story - They Might Be Giants 12: Family United - Jonas Brothers 13: Pop Quiz and the Time Machine Montage - Rob Thomas 14: Evil Plan - The All-American Rejects, 15: Doris Has Her Day - Jamie Cullum 16: Setting Things Right - Rufus Wainwright 17: There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow [As Used in the Film Meet the Ro - Jamie Cullum 18: Kids of the Future [As Used in the Film Meet the Robinsons]

If you enjoyed the music during the movie...
. . you will enjoy the music on its own. This one is a good mix!.


Meet the Robinsons a good listen
But I recently watched it again (and stayed awake this time) and liked it much better and discovered there was a variety of good music in there as well. I saw Meet the Robinsons when it first came out and it didn't thrill me (plus I may have slept through part of it). I guess I was drawn to this soundtrack by Rob Thomas' Small Wonders, but have come to appreciate much of the other music by Rufus Wainwright, Jamie Callum, the ALl-American Losers, and of course Danny Elfman. There's a range of styles from pop/rock to Rat-Packish big band to Elman's usually energetic, yet strangly reto score. (I'm 45, so the Jonas Brothers song doesn't do much for me, but it's there as well. ) This is lyrics-heavy soundtrack, but it's become a disc I listen to usually all the way through again and again in my car. One complaint for me is the cover art, which certainly didn't draw me and doesn't evoke the spirit of the film for me.


Great reflection of the movie
It really is a great CD but a little heavy on the orchestra side. This was another CD I bought for my little one and it was a big hit! At first it was great to get the initial excitment and believe me the screams from the back seat #18, #18!!! A Jonas brothers song, became a headache, but also one I could play in the office as well. .


Great Music!
I like the song, "The Future Has Arrived". This music is cool. if you get this thing. I would suggest getting Meet the Robinsons Movie

The movie is so cool!.


Madcap Elfman
It tells the story of a young orphan inventor named Lewis, who embarks on a series of extravagant, time-traveling adventures with various members of the futuristic Robinson family as he attempts to find his real family. Walt Disney's 46th feature length animation, and their major animated effort for 2007, Meet the Robinsons surprisingly fell under the radar, and was a comparative box office failure. The film was directed by Steve Anderson and featured the voice talents of the likes of Angela Bassett and Tom Selleck, as well as an original score by Danny Elfman. The film sees Elfman in what one could call "madcap mode", in much the same way as he was on scores such as Flubber and Mars Attacks. The score see-saws between emotional, heartfelt orchestral themes - notably "The Prologue", "A Family United" and the sumptuous finale "Setting Things Right" - and Elfman's brand of patented wackiness. The zaniness first emerges in the quirkily helter-skelter "To the Future", and continues through the funky retro grooves of "Meeting the Robinsons" and the rampaging Beetlejuician tones of "The Science Fair". There's even a duet between a Theremin and Elfman's patented la-la choir in "Pop Quiz and The Time Machine Montage", in case you had forgotten which composer had written the music and needed a reminder. It's all fun, undemanding stuff, and firmly rooted in the offbeat Elfman sound that many people love, but when compared to Elfman's wider body of work it seems a little insubstantial. The songs which pad out the CD running time are actually all pretty decent, ranging from cover versions by the sultry-voiced Jamie Cullum to the quirky title track, "Another Believer", by singer-songwriter Rufus Wainwright, which will likely be up or Oscar consideration.


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