The Wild Robot

The Wild Robot is a wonderful adventure for the whole family. It will make you laugh. It will make you cry. It will make you question how dark your humor can be, especially when watching an animated movie mostly targeted at kids.

The Wild Robot is set in the near future, where humanity has confined itself to habitation pods in a planned city. Within this city, they use helper robots to maintain their lifestyle. Unfortunately, during a storm, one of the shipments of these robots was lost. And in the ensuing chaos, one of the robots became trapped on an island. And that is where the story of The Wild Robot begins.

The beginning of the movie introduces us to ROZZUM all-purpose utilitarian robot 7134. We watch as the wildlife of the island activates robot 7134. After activating, robot 7134 attempts to find a task by advertising her services to all the island's creatures. However, she only succeeds in terrifying the various wildlife on the island. This gives her the reputation of being a monster to the island’s wildlife. After failing to find a task, robot 7134 shuts down while she runs a learning program to learn how to communicate with the island’s residents.

After learning how to translate the language of every animal on the island, robot 7134, now calling herself Roz, is still unable to find a task. Accepting her failure, she sets out to find a high spot on the island to transmit a signal for her manufacturers to pick her up. Unfortunately while attempting this, she falls into a goose nest, destroying most of it. However, there is one egg that survives.

After defending the surviving egg from Fink the fox, Roz accepts the task given to her by Pinktail, the mother of the island’s opossums. Roz’s task from Pinktail is to raise the surviving goose and to teach him to eat, swim, and fly. To accomplish this task, Roz must teach the gosling, whom she names Brightbill, to do all three things before he has to make the winter migration with the rest of the geese.

To accomplish her tasks, Roz enlists the help of some of the animals on the island. First, to teach Brightbill how to eat, she recruits her former nemesis Fink to show her how to catch food for Brightbill. With this task accomplished, Roz and Fink set out to teach Brightbill how to swim. This unfortunately ends with Brightbill learning the truth of how Roz came into his life. All is set right when Longneck, an elderly goose, encourages Roz to keep on helping Brightbill prepare for his journey.

At the end of fall, Brightbill joins the rest of the goose flock in their seasonal migration. On their way, they are forced to shelter in one of Universal Dynamics’ greenhouses. While stuck in the greenhouse, the geese mistake the other ROZZUM bots as being friendly. However, the robots trigger an alarm that brings Universal Dynamics’ security bots in to attack the geese. This leads Brightbill to become the flock's leader to escape the compound.

After escaping, the flock eventually returns to the island after the winter to find that Roz and all the animals of the island have sheltered in the home that Roz built for Brightbill, Fink, and herself. Unfortunately, though, Vontra, the leader of Universal Dynamics’ bots, has arrived in an attempt to retrieve Roz. In the ensuing battle, Brightbill and the other birds of the island succeed in defeating Vontra but are unable to save Roz’s memory. It is revealed at the end to Brightbill that Roz has some memory of Brightbill when he goes to visit her in the greenhouse.

In the end, The Wild Robot is a great family film that is enjoyable for all ages. It has a mix of adventure that will excite and delight all ages.

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