The Wild Robot (2024)
Directed by Chris Sanders
After a shipwreck, an intelligent robot called Roz is stranded on an uninhabited island. To survive the harsh environment, Roz bonds with the island's animals and cares for an orphaned baby goose.
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For Sanders, the benchmark of organic animated forests was set by Tyrus Wong’s animated backgrounds in Disney’s Bambi and the painted backgrounds of Hayao Miyazaki in My Neighbor Totoro and Spirited Away, and that is what the art style of The Wild Robot aspired to.
Movies that attempt to convey the bittersweet experience of parenting to a younger audience are usually Pixar’s department, but Sanders has dabbled in this area with How to Train Your Dragon and The Croods. The Wild Robot is closer to those movies – in tenderness, in the energy and variety of its character designs, in fluidity of its animation, and in reference-light humor – than many other DreamWorks productions, and, for that matter, it’s better than some Pixar movies, too.
Written and directed by Chris Sanders ("Lilo & Stitch," "How to Train Your Dragon"), "The Wild Robot" has earned moments of tenderness that it drowns out in its latter half with a treacly, overloud Maren Morris ballad and a cluttered climax which deals with a robot invasion that doesn't fit the tone of what came prior.
Director Chris Sanders, of "Lilo & Stitch" and "How to Train Your Dragon" fame, is at the helm here.
Chris Sanders, who is no stranger to directing crowd-pleasing animated movies that appeal to all ages from Lilo & Stitch (2002) to How to Train Your Dragon (2010) and The Croods (2013), knows well how to overcome a predictable plot with the strong dynamics between Roz, Brightbill, Fink and the rest of the animals on the island.
Chris Sanders (Lilo & Stitch, How to Train Your Dragon) adapted this poignant DreamWorks feature from Peter Brown’s affecting trilogy of the same name.
Movies that attempt to convey the bittersweet experience of parenting to a younger audience are usually Pixar’s department, but Sanders has dabbled in this area with How to Train Your Dragon and The Croods. The Wild Robot is closer to those movies – in tenderness, in the energy and variety of its character designs, in fluidity of its animation, and in reference-light humor – than many other DreamWorks productions, and, for that matter, it’s better than some Pixar movies, too.
Chris Sanders, who is no stranger to directing crowd-pleasing animated movies that appeal to all ages from Lilo & Stitch (2002) to How to Train Your Dragon (2010) and The Croods (2013), knows well how to overcome a predictable plot with the strong dynamics between Roz, Brightbill, Fink and the rest of the animals on the island.
Director Chris Sanders (whom we talked with on our podcast) has tackled the subject of family plenty in his previous movies: the difficult father-son relationship we find in How to Train Your Dragon; the surprisingly poignant father-daughter relationship in The Croods.