It's a claim this delightful computer-animated film also proves. Like a surprising run of recent movies, "Meet the Robinsons" is based on a picture book (William Joyce's "A Day With Wilbur Robinson").

Here’s how. Meet the Robinsons premiered on March 30, 2007 and faced a daunting challenge at the box office. It was an original script (loosely based on a children’s book called A Day with ...