Wikipedia prefaces The Wild Robot as a survival film. I think it is a coming-of-age film. A robot – Rozzum (Roz) 7134 (Lupita Nyongo) is shipwrecked on an island wilderness. Looking for a controller, Roz figures out the ways of animals and their language too, but draws no empathy except from a somewhat conniving fox Fink (Pedro Pascal). An unlikely bond with a gosling – Brightbill (Kit Connor) – leads to the formal definition of a mission objective – to teach Brightbill to eat, to swim and to fly – in other words to be a parent. But bringing up a gosling much like bringing up a human child is no easy task, and both the robot regimen as well as the formative gosling undergo a makeover and find some true sense of purpose and lives well led. An interesting watch, expectedly heartwarming, good for a break, not a Dreamworks masterpiece
14.5/20
