The Wild Robot
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The Wild Robot

2024
★★★★ Liked

Watched 08 Oct 2024

Beavers are stunningly remarkable animals, and let me tell you why. Their ever-growing incisors are perfectly evolved to be able to strip through bark and chew on the softer underside of tree wood, and the digestive process (which involves eating their own droppings) is equally fascinating. From those tree leftovers, they construct dams, and in doing so change the ecology of the forest into a thriving wetland habitat. Beavers are an example of a keystone species; in other words, if they were to be removed from their environment, it would have a severe negative impact on every other species in the ecosystem. This is not at all the point of this movie, but when you're a big fan of beavers, it makes a particular moment towards the end of this film all the more impactful!

When I first saw this trailer several months ago, I told my partner it looked generically engineered in a lab to make people cry, and cry we did. Not all of those moments felt like they had the time to earn the proper emotional build up, but when you're dealing with a small and adorable runt of the gaggle, a task-oriented robot overcoming its programing to learn how to love, and Catherine O'Hara playing yet another snarky mom, it's easy to get attached to everyone in the beautifully animated wild.

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