Ladies And Gentlemen… Robin Williams!

Note to self: If Empire ever has the good fortune to be cast in a major Hollywood animated feature (and let's face it, if Kate bloody Thornton can get a part in Shrek 2 then anything's possible) we will absolutely not allow Robin Williams to be cast alongside us. What's the one and only thing people remember about Aladdin? Alright, apart from the cute monkey in the fez. Yes, that's right: Robin Williams. And from the look of the new trailer for Robots, he's upstaging all and sundry once again. The film ostensibly focuses on Ewan McGregor's Rodney Copperbottom, a young genius in the robot world with a big heart and lofty ambitions who travels to Robot City in order to make the world a better place. His plans are thwarted by Mel Brooks' corporate tyrant, Big Weld, but he still has his hyperactive, highly eccentric and not entirely honest guide (played by the effervescent Williams) to help him out. From what we could tell (the trailer was about two centimetres wide thanks to the curse of the Windows Media format) the world of Robots is truly a sight to behold, with a thousand different things going on in the background of every shot. It's the characters that make or break these films though, and Robots' star attraction is almost certainly Williams