Watched: 03/15/2025
Format: Peacock
Viewing: First
Director: Chris Sanders
Well, this is kind of funny. I wondered what had become of the writer/ director of Disney's Lilo & Stitch after watching the movie the other night, and here is as writer/ director of The Wild Robot (2024).
The biggest problem The Wild Robot has is that it came up against Flow in the same year in the Oscar race, and the two, curiously, share similar themes using animals as their analogy. But, luckily, I am not an award-granting body, and have place in my brain for both movies. And I liked this movie quite a lot.
Yes, The Wild Robot is worth seeing, if for no other reason than that the design of film is a wonder. It's some of the finest work I've seen from a US animation studio outside of Pixar or Disney, mixing realism with painterly flourishes, with classical film-making featuring inventive use of camera movement in a way that I just rarely feel anyone outside of Pixar, in particular, really lands (I'm still not over some of the imagery in Soul).
And, it's all in service to the story.