Among the many wonderful things about Pablo Berger’s Robot Dreams is one that particularly hit home for this reviewer: its evocation of 1980s New York City. Movies flashing back to that time and place often emphasize its dark, crime-ridden side (which certainly did exist), but having spent four years of college in lower Manhattan during the latter part of the decade, I can tell you it also had its great joys. Many of them are explored and evoked over the course of this animated fable, which uses the city as a backdrop for a very human story told with an animal and mechanical cast.
