Robots

These are the days such movies as Robots are made of. The process of creating a contemporary animated film—essentially, a bunch of guys who take a story idea, sketch some characters and then spend months sitting in front of computers to animate them—inherently limits what can be done and shown in DVD supplements, but Fox has done as well as could be expected with the Robots disc. The 18-minute featurette "You Can Shine No Matter What You're Made Of," produced by Bryan Johnson, supplies the obligatory talking-head footage, production drawings and breakdowns of the computer-animation process. The film itself, in which Ewan McGregor voices a small-town robot who comes to the big city in search of fame and fortune, comes with two commentaries: one featuring director Chris Wedge and producer/production designer William Joyce, another featuring seven designers and animators from Blue Sky Studios. There's also a six-minute short about the movie's sound design and musical score and a new animated short titled "Aunt Fanny's Tour of Booty," directed by Chris Gilligan and featuring Jennifer Coolidge as the voice of this booty-licious bucket of bolts. An extra that kids will enjoy is a selection of animated dance sequences featuring one of the robots.