Zombot (2013 Animated Film)

Zombot (know as Zombot: a Plants vs. Zombies film) is a 2013 American computer-animated science fiction film, produced by Colombia Pictures and distributed by Sony Pictures animation, directed by Tim Burton and Sam Raimi and George Fan serving as producers, starring Matt Damon, Nicolas Cage, Adam Sandler, Hugh Jackman, Andy Serkis and Tom Cruise, The story follows zombot, who was created to manipulate humanity, however, after being miscontrolled by one of his companions, he launches into a battle to stop Edgar Zomboss

Production on the film began in 25 August, 2008 after the success of Plants vs. Zombies, Dane Cook was originally hired to star in the film, but left the project a month later due to scheduling conflicts with Planes (2013). Following Dane Cook's departure, Matt Damon was finally hired to star. , Michael Keaton, Morgan Freeman, and Michael Cane were cast as the villain, before Andy Serkis was cast.

Zombot premiered on August 25, 2013 in Canada and premiered in the United States on August 26, 2013, received generally negative reviews from critics, criticizing the dark tone, lack of connection to the game, confusing models of some of the characters and lack of originality, although action sequenses, visual effects and voice perfomances ofDamon, Serkis and Cruise's were repeatedly praised, it was a box office bomb, grossing $ 157.6 Million on a budget of $ 120 Million and losing $ 85 Million, it received 5 Saturn Award nominations including Best Visual Effects, Best Movie and Best Photography, was nominated for 2 Stinkers Bad Movie Awards, (worst movie) and (painfully funny movie), after the poor results of box office and the poor reception of the film, a sequel scheduled for 2016 was canceled.

Sypnosis
A long time ago, Dr. edgar zomboss creates a robot just like his that was previously destroyed and was giant, but this time he makes it in human size and programs it to destroy humanity, however, one of them who were previously allies of the Dr Zomboss they are preparing to malfunction Zombot to make him destroy Dr Zomboss

Plot
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Cast

 * Matt Damon as Zombot-5000, a new green robot who was created by Dr. Edgar Zomboss to destroy humanity, when was malfuntion by one of his parthers, stands up to a battle to stop Dr. Zomboss


 * Nicolas Cage as Zombot-1000, was one of Dr. Zomboss's allies, until he was dismissed over disagreements


 * Adam Sandler as Zombot-500, also was one of Dr. Zomboss's allies, also was dismissed due disagreements


 * Hugh Jackman as Zombot-100, was the first Zombot of human size, was also have the same destiny as the others


 * Andy Serkis as Dr. Edgar Zomboss, a crazy doctor and scientist who was born deformed of the brain who plans to destroy humanity with the help of his creations until the creation and disposal of his Zombots


 * Tom Cruise as Andrew Smith, a rookie engineer who is a partner of Dr. Zomboss

Production
In 2008 PopCap announced that he was developing a movie of a lone character, George Fan had said "I may not have a chance to be a director, but I would still like to do something myself", He had previously made a deal with Warner Animation Group to produce The film, however, was scrapped for unknown reasons, PopCap had Illumination Entertainment and BlueSky Studios as a deal, until finally doing it with Sony Pictures Animation

Score
The score for the film was composed by Brian Tyler, although the film received criticism, the musician was well received, although in 2018 it was compared to The Mummy (2017)

Soundrack
The film doesn't use so many soundtracks, only Don't Stop Me Now by Queen and Under Pressure by Queen and David Bownie are the only Soundtracks

Release
Zombot was originally scheduled to be released anytime in 2011 by Warner Animation Group, but was delayed until May 13, 2014 due to the termination of the deal between Warner Bros and PopCap, finally delayed once again until 2016 in favor to BlueSky Studios to produce the movie, only to fast-forward to September 2013 when PopCap Games had already made a deal with Sony Pictures Animation, only to finally fast-forward once again to August 25, 2013.

Marketing
The poster was revealed on December 25, 2011, then on August 15, 2012 the first official trailer was revealed, on December 25 of the same year the second and last trailer for the film was revealed.

Home Media
Zombot was released on DVD on August 30, 2013, and on Blu-Ray on May 5, 2018.

Reception
Box Office

The film was an box office bomb, earning only $157.6 million with a budget of $120 Million, making Sony lose $85 Million,

Critical Response

The film received generally negative reviews from critics and public. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 37% based on 267 reviews, with an average rating of 5.04/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "So stupid, so silly and pointless, Zombot has no differences to the game that he was proud of and there is no doubt the confusion of the other characters, but Matt Damon and company deliver captivating voices to ease audiences". Metacritic calculated a weighted average score of 34 out of 100, based on 102 critics, indicating "Generally unfavorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B-" on an A+ to F scale.

Cancelled Sequel
While the animation of the film was being produced, Sony announced that it would develop a Quintology of the film, the cast signed a contract to give voice in 5 films, however, after poor box office results and negative reception of the film, Sony discontinued the production of the sequel and was eventually canceled after it was removed from the release schedule