by Noah Lopez Salazar

From reading the book The Wild Robot when I was younger to finally watching it in theaters it meant a lot. The Wild Robot was turned into a film focused on nature as well as motherly love. It came out Sept. 27 2024 and I was ready to watch with the books giving me high expectations. 

The movie starts off with a futuristic robot named Roz accidentally arriving on an island full of wildlife trying to do its programming and help any person in need trying to complete its task. Roz starts to understand animal language. The animals in the forest have only rude things to say about Roz just because she’s different from them. Roz tries to leave but finds a duck egg by itself. 

She found a task to complete which is to care for the egg with the help of a fox who wanted to help for selfish reasons but turned soft after a while. The main conflict in the story is how to raise a duck as a robot and robots like Roz trying to take her back home from the island.  

This animated film has great quality with having the animators from Puss in Boots The Last Wish. Roz was Lupita Nyong’o who did a great impression of a robotic voice. Pedro Pascal playing the fox called Fink had a great personality in his voice that was way different from him in person. Kit Connor as Bright Bill was pretty good.

The story was heartfelt, which gives you a fuzzy feeling with a whirlwind of emotions with a 97% rating on Rotten Tomatoes with 260 reviews, 8.2/IMDb the most talked about detail was their animation and how beautifully they portrayed the book.