THE WILD ROBOT is this year’s feature from DreamWorks Animation, and I’m not sure I would’ve guessed that without the logo. It’s a funny movie but not a smart alecky one, not a child of SHREK. Based on a 2016 young readers book by Peter Brown (first in a trilogy), it’s a simple, sweet tale with an elegant premise: a shipment of mass-manufactured helper robots crashes in the wilderness, one of them survives, accidentally imprints on an orphaned gosling runt and, since her programming requires her to complete all tasks, she becomes convinced that she must teach the goose to swim and fly before migration time in the winter. So there’s a goal to work toward and an inevitable sadness if it’s ever achieved. Good drama. (read the rest of this shit…)
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The Wild Robot
Monday, January 6th, 2025Tags: Chris Sanders, Dreamworks Animation, Kit Connor, Lupita Nyong'o, Pedro Pascal, Peter Brown, robots
Posted in Reviews, Cartoons and Shit, Family | 5 Comments »
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