Movie Review: The Wild Robot

November 6, 2024

I am going to be honest right off the bat, if you do not want any spoilers, you need to turn back now. Go read some of my Peachtober short stories. There are plenty to catch up on. Please see this movie before reading this review. You will love it.

Okay, if you aren’t worried about spoiling it, than I am not.

This movie was excellent.

We follow ROZZUM 7134 who crash lands on an island and is wildly confused as to what her purpose is there. During her mission to figure out how she can help the animals on the island, she learns the language of the animals and ends up crashing into a nest and killing the mother and the majority of her eggs. All except for one. She takes the egg with her, after confirming that there was still life inside, and while walking back from the nest, she encounters a fox who is trying to eat the egg that Roz is trying to protect. She succeeds in rescuing the egg from the fox and grows a bond with the fox, and together with this fox, she raises the gosling that hatches from the egg and is very quickly thrusted into parenting the young goose.

Firstly, the voice actors casted in this film could not have been better chosen. I loved everyone for every role. Lupita Nyong’o played the role of the wild robot herself and Pedro Pascal played a spunky fox that was her companion throughout the film and Kit Connor ( who we know and love as Nick in HeartStopper which I will be posting the review for the third season later this week). All beautifully chosen for the roles they took on.

Secondly, this film was beautiful. It felt very natural and organic while we were in scenes on the island that Roz ( the wild robot herself ) landed on, and everything that was in the human part of the world, everything seems a little more sterile and less hand drawn.

Lastly, the story was stunning. Usually, when watching a movie that was based on a book, I do not feel the need to go back and read the book unless the movie was really bad and I wonder how anyone could possibly want to make this into a movie, but this is the exact opposite. I feel like I need to read this book because I loved the movie so much. It is labeled as a middle grade book, which is generally for early tweens to young teens, but this story was not for children - it is the story of adoption, parenthood, family (and what really makes a group a family), community, accepting differences in others and the beauty of our differences, love and the many forms it comes in and much more. I was sobbing for half the movie ( at least ). I am not a parent, but there were a lot of parents there with their children, and I can tell you right now, that I would not have been able to do that. I was already weeping, I cannot imagine watching this movie about parenthood with a small child of my own.

I could not reccomend this movie enough. I will watch this over and over as my life changes. Please see this movie at some point.