Lewis is a young genius inventor who lives at an orphanage and
makes inventions that constantly scare off would-be adoptive
parents. One day, deciding his biological mother is the only one
who loves him, he builds a memory machine to locate her, and
keeps his room mate, Michael "Goob" Yagoobian awake all night
causing him to fall asleep during a Little League Game. Taking
his invention to the school science fair, he meets Wilbur
Robinson, a time cop claiming to be from the future. He takes
Lewis to the year 2037 only to discover that Wilbur is his son
and his own time machine was stolen by a grown up Goon, after
his game loss 30 years ago caused him to become depressed and
bitter. Lewis, key to getting back to his own time and restoring
the future version of his dysfunctional family is to get the
time machine back.