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The Wild Robot, thoughts and some spoilers 

So I got to see The Wild Robot. Visually it's gorgeous, and predictably I wound up weeping at points, but the story's kind of disjointed. It's sort of like Dreamworks trying to make a Studio Ghibli film so there are places they pull punches and it feels disingenuous where a Miyazaki film would hurt like hell.

The initial storyline about a stranded robot and her fox companion moving from taking care of an orphaned gosling until he can survive by migrating during the winter REALLY works. The robot's just seeking a meaningful task, the fox trying a new scam, and the gosling is limited by being a runt, and all of them actually grow beyond their "programming."

Then there's an added storyline about the gosling becoming some sort of brave goose leader and the island's animals joining together during a terrible snowstorm, then to help the robot fight agents of her less than altruistic manufacturer when they come to retrieve her, and afterwards the animals are united by those experiences, and it's just a little *too* happy an ending and sort of misses with me if that makes sense.

The Wild Robot, thoughts and some spoilers 

@Leucrotta I am interested; I need to get out and see something in the theatres, it's been forever. :P

re: The Wild Robot, thoughts and some spoilers 

@Kusimanse It's BEAUTIFUL. Also, stay for the credits; there's a little outtake at the end but the credits themselves have little animations of the animals.

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