Member review

So The Wild Robot.

It's a film that I sadly missed in 2024, either I'm a couch potato or drain my bank account.

So I decided to find that movie in my local shop HMV and got a copy Dvd of it.

Leonard:"Um Matthew. If you don't have a Dvd player then why get a Dvd copy anyways and you can just use the streaming platform!"

No Leonard, as always. Ha,hahaha WRONG!

I want a Dvd copy because my Xbox series can play Dvds and yes it's not a 4k but that's okay and I just want to get an unquie experience with the movie. I want The Wild Robot pacifically because I haven't seen the movie yet, so after watching it, was it worth for £9.99? Spoiler alert :yes.

But before you read: This review will contain SPOILERS so better not read it if haven't seen the movie (which you should see it). Also I'm aware it's based on a book and I haven't read, the book, just saying something there to clarify and just being aware.

So without a further-a-do lets get into it:

Review:

I think what makes this movie so great is the characters, what subverted my expectations is Roz (just a quick mention the voice actor Lupita Nyong'o is incredible and so is everyone else and they all fit the role). In our world we tend to make robots as "Evil", heartless and soulless husk that are a piece of tin.

Roz is an exception (the only other robots that subverted this is Wall E and Optimus Prime on top of my head) ,in the world that everyone only cares of getting the job done rather then showing humanity to the robots, as little the screen time the human gets. I think you can tell they just care about their jobs and get over with.

As a fish out of water story concept, I think what makes well is that the movie takes an obscured concept that I don't ever see films do, the concept (in the first act) Nature vs Machine.

We usually see Man vs Nature or Man vs Machine or Man vs Society but never Machine vs Nature.

What also makes this movie great is as the movie rogresses Roz become less robotic and by the numbers and become a mother figure as she killed Brightbill's family.

It's a very feminine (or masculine) trait that we look up to and their dynamics is so heartwarming.

She first thoughs where stilited and unaware and only thinking everyone must be served but as she has Brightbill, this give her a purpose of looking after him but after Brightbill left it was incredibly heart breaking for me because its the embodiment of mother (or parent in general) looking after their and if they grew up out of the world, what is their purpose now?

Yes the movie makes a good point that if she stays, she'll rusted away and the ending where she left is so sad and her meeting her son once again gives me goosebumps I almost cried.

At first the whole talking animal gets but as I watched more, it becomes enduring because all this animals behaviors are from the personas actually animals e.g cunning fox or cheeky possum and etc.

I thought it's a really detail I didn't realised and it dose have a purpose for the narrative, the animals acts like, wild animals.

They show a bird head cut off and not to mention this movie mentions death a lot showing that yes these animals only purpose is surviving but as Roz and the fox grew they become friends and everyone gets befriended (yes, even the Beaver of all animals).

The animation is outstanding, despite the Puss in Boots art style I think movie stands on its two feet and just the colouring of the environment which a appericated a lot but really what really strikes to me is the eyes. The expressions and the eyes connected with each other and just something about the eyes just look, cute in some way.

Closing Thoughts: Well I don't this movie holds the brilliance of Wall E with a simliar story structure but I do think this movie is great, I'm grateful of purchasing it and it was worth my time. Its an modern classic that, I'll appreciate over time.

Though I'm ticked off I watched Kung Fu Panda 4 over this!

>:(

So that's everything I got to say!