The Wild Robot
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Review by Stone Patron

The Wild Robot 2024

★★★★½

Watched 26 Sep 2024

A beautiful way to send off Dreamwork’s last in-house animated film.

The Wild Robot feels like the next step in western animation. It combines the newly popular 2D/3D look with anime brush strokes. Every frame feels like a painting. You can see the artsy it took to make this. It doesn’t feel phoned in, and the same can be said about the story. Of course, this draws comparison to The Iron Giant and WALL·E; but this film’s unique connection with nature might make it the best of the bunch. A robot learns to go against protocol, by teaching animals to go against instincts…what a genius idea! There’s a surprising amount of dark humor sprinkled throughout the entire runtime, which is mostly affected; but it diminished the climax of the film. Yes, it’s sweet to see this animals live together in harmony; but when you’ve showed them constantly eating/killing each other for a laugh, it seems very unrealistic. The pacing is also very odd. There’s certain scenes that standout above others; but these are never next to each other. Emotionally, it felt like a rollercoaster, which is both a positive and negative. Still, there were tears to my left and right. You draw a connection to almost every single character. A feeling made possible by the incredible script, jaw dropping animation, and exceptional voice acting. I kinda wanted to howl at the end.

LOVED the fire color.

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