The Wild Robot

The Wild Robot

From the creator of Lilo and Stitch, How To Train Your Dragon and The Croods comes one of the best animated movies in recent memory. This is practically what happens when you get plot elements from Wall E, The Iron Giant and the Short Circuit duology.

The premise is about an intelligent robot who after getting shipwrecked on an island, starts learning to bond with the animals and takes care of an orphaned goose.

ROZZUM-7134 (aka Roz) is a well written and likable protagonist who's like a cross between Johnny 5, Wall-E and The Iron Giant, and I loved how she starts bonding with the wildlife around her. I also did like Fink the mischievous fox who kinda reminded me of Nick from Zootropolis. Brightbill is a pretty tragic and sympathetic character who goes from losing his real family and later discovering the truth of what Roz did to learning how to fly properly and becoming a great leader.

Even though she doesn't appear until the last 25 minutes of the film, Vontra is a pretty fearsome and menacing yet charismatic villain who wants to take Roz back to Universal Dynamics, steal her memories and kill the wildlife on the island.

I loved the gorgeous looking animation for the film. As if I was watching a child's storybook come to life and the dynamic camera angles it uses to show the scale of the environment. Not to mention, it's use of solid colour grading. The musical score composed by Kris Bowers is a mixture of beauty, emotion and drama which also features "Kiss the Sky" by Maren Morris. Lupita Nyong'o, Pedro Pascal, Kit Connor, Bill Nighy, Stephanie Hsu, Mark Hamill and Ving Rhames all give amazing vocal performances in their respective roles.

The film also has plenty of emotional and dramatic moments, such as Brightbill learning that Roz accidentally killed his family and Roz suddenly feeling emotional and runs to see BrightBill fly before he is out of sight. This is what emotion and drama in a film should always be like.

Overall, The Wild Robot is a solid and fantastic animated film that is worth checking out if you're a fan of Chris Sanders' work. I'm going to give it a perfect 10 out of 10.

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