The Wild Robot
Matthew Roth

Review by Matthew Roth

The Wild Robot 2024

★★★★★

Watched 05 Oct 2024

😢 That was beautiful.
I was looking forward to this because not only is this Dreamworks’ last in house animated movie but also of the director, Chris Sanders who brought us Lilo and Stitch and How to Train Your Dragon. This is most certainly another bona fide classic from him. We’ve seen this type of story before of a robot understanding emotions, raising an infant into a grown adult, and learning to adapt to wilderness but this does it in such a sweet emotional and powerful way that only Chris Sanders can do and we’ve seen him take old stories we’ve seen before but put unique spins on them. And what we have is emotional, you care about these woodland creatures and how they perceive not only human kind but also robots as monsters at first but come to accept them as friends, phenomenal voice acting especially from Lupita Nyong’o as Roz who just brings this robot to life, amazing animation for Dreamworks’ final in house production, and a powerful score by Kris Bowers who I swear thought it was John Powell at first, but when I saw the credits I was like oh that’s who did it? Cool. This robot and her migration sure made me teary eyed at certain points I’m not going to lie. Well done Dreamworks and Chris Sanders. You made us proud.

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