I appreciate you giving transformers one a mention to people who grew up with the franchise and are just happy to see what we’ve all wanted for nearly 40 years
A reminder that this movie will be one of if not the LAST movie to made by Dreamworks in house before every movie going forward will be outsourced to other animation studios. This also means that most of the artists behind this film don’t work at Dreamworks anymore.
@@brelonwy because to cut cost on movie budget on their future films. I personally would prefer them stop being so codependent on big celebrity voice cast but apparently Dreamworks thought the animation budget was the bigger issue
The way you could notice that Roz’s voice was becoming more and more emotionally charged and human over time was one of my favorite parts. So many little details went into showing her growth as a character
Sameee!! I also really love how Brightbill was influenced by her behavior and mannerisms, it shows the impacts of his imprinting and how animals can learn how to act based on the environments they grow into.
Clear example is when the animal (forgot who? Maybe Fink) mention about a howl. Roz went "aWOaWOaWO" at the start but at the fight with the other combot at the end, she went AWWOOOOO natually!
The scene where she looked at what ended up to be a corpse. She closes her eyes and buries it again. For a movie that showed death as simply part of nature and not take it too seriously, that went hard. Specially considers she has heart monitors, she would have passed by corpses. That mean the creature died right when Roz came to the rescue...
@@Dairunt1 not necessarily, the movie implied fink was the one initially tracking and helping to find them at first, im pretty sure he sniffed out the body and they only knew the animal was dead after digging them up
I really liked Fink, somehow my sister didn't like it for some odd reason, (maybe because it was 9:00 PM and she wanted to sleep), but she did still like it a little, i enjoyed the movie quite a lot, one new favorite movie added to my list.
I see this kinda positively. Rather have a few masterpieces to watch and garbage to ignore, than a studio that consistently releases subpar pieces, which I would probably all ignore.
look beside Shrek 3 and how to train your dragon 3, none of dreamworks movies are out right bad (cant remember a lot of shark tail even when I saw it as a kid and liked it), it is mostly the audience that overhate the "garbage" and overrate the "masterpieces", most of them are competent films with wildly deferent taste both as movie and the way the "sellout". also films like "turbo" and "bee movie" have cute harmless mistakes, ones that you can laugh with or at.
@@emonadeoSadly is always tragic because regardless of quality the end result the same everyone that did great job was burn out and left the industry as whole.
Roz, Johnny 5, Wall-E, Baymax, and those are just what I can remember on the spot, always love adding adorable robots that must be protected to the Pantheon
After getting screwed out of directing Bolt at Disney and having Call of the Wild really underperform, Chris Sanders really deserved a win with this movie.
I’m always going to be a sucker for the Found Family trope so that’s why I was drawn in XD so for those looking for the wholesome warm fuzzy moments this will definitely scratch that itch
The way I think of these tropes like "Found Family" is bascially Timeless Tropes. Tropes that no matter how many times it's done, if it tugs at your heartstrings a little, the Found Family trope works.
Dreamworks has stories that have some of the worst cliches ("You just have to believe" in Kung Fu Panda) and ("It's just the power of mother's love" for this one) yet they're so effective!
People probably still have gripes that this movie isn’t a silent movie like many people hoped. But as someone who just saw this movie (opening day), lemme tell you: this movie wouldn’t have worked if Rozz or the animals didn’t speak. If you watch the movie, you’ll know. Other than that, it was a really great movie! Beautiful animation, great voice acting, a good story. DreamWorks going out with a bang for 2024!
Honestly they incorporate the talking animals part well in which Rozz learns to speak with animals eventually understanding their language. It didn’t just pull the talking animals thing out of nowhere it connects to the main theme of the story.
It’s pretty dark for a movie to say that a living being comes to the realization that if their caretaker hadn’t accidentally killed your parents you would have died.
@@TheonlyRassledazit was because Brightbill was said to be a runt since he is smaller than the other geese in the movie. And Fink states that had Roz not accidentally killed his birth parents, his parents would have probably killed him or leave him for dead away because he was a runt, which is sadly true and common in the animal kingdom since if an animal is either smaller than their kind or has some kind of disability they are considered to be a weak link and are often killed off by their parents or their own kind.
@@xanderg.1070 Fink never said or implied his parents would have killed him, I watched it twice back to back since i liked it so much. Fink meant as the runt he wouldnt survive his environment or natural predators. Roz not only accidentally killed his parents but siblings as well. He never would have learned to fly through migration normally, his parents would've had their hands full with his siblings and not had the extra time or energy to teach him to fly like Roz did.
As someone who read the book years ago, Ross learning to talk to the animals is the biggest plot point of the Book, I was always confused by people wanting the movie to be silent.
American movie's often suffer from really corny dialogue. Like having characters verbally say how they are feeling instead of just showing it or using modern slang that doesn't fit the universe the characters inhabit, so I can understand where people are coming from.
They want another Wall-E... ...yet gaslighted themselves about Wall-E being a silent film. Just ask them about the later acts on that movie, and how there's actual dialogue there.
I saw this film yesterday and I bawled like 3-4 times! I really hope that even if it doesn’t get great box office, it’ll go the “Encanto” route and do super well on streaming! I’m also rooting for it to win “Best Animated Feature” at the 2025 Oscars!
@@greyblueme9711 Also IO2 has the advantage of being a sequel, it doesn't need to built up an entire premise from scratch, meanwhile TWR not only did that, but it made an excellent job at it.
I left the room telling my friend "This movie kicks most Disney movies in years" and I didn't know it was from DreamWorks, I didn't watch the trailer, i got a little late to the theater, i thought this was from an independent or smaller studio because I'm used to the formulaic design in animated movies, and i didn't expect a mainstream studio to break the "rules" of the family friendly animation formula, but i forgot that DreamWorks often don't play by the rules.
And because it’s actually from a series of _three_ books, and tried to adapt just the first and a bit of the second one while also avoiding a cliffhanger
I think it might be recency bias since I just got out of the theater, but I think Roz from Wild Robot belongs with Wall-E and Baymax, and the Iron Giant with fully worthwhile animated robots. I like that she gets to be the main character, I like how her arc highlights the transition from metaphor to text with feelings of love, and I just love how she moves. So much of the film is her just giving, first her time, and then later her leg, her chance to go home, and even her heart for her son. I'm so glad that all the scars stay, and the moss takes over her body as signs of age, even if it's only a year. I love that she doesn't make the replacement leg, that it's made or her by someone who actually notices the tole it's taken on her to be selfless. I love how the tone of the film shifts from dark to light in her presence once she actually figures out what she's doing, to the point that by the half way point of the film you can't see any of these animals hurting each other, until she doesn't have the strength to keep them at bay. I wish there was the pacing was just a smidge better. A cut of Long Neck spying on Roz and Bright Bill, before he introduces himself, and some better way to make it feel like there weren't three endings. Even still my wife cried, I had a great time. Dreamworks is free to just keep cooking.
I think it deserves to be on that group 👍🏻 of course Wall-E and The Iron Giant are on topping Baymax and Roz, but I do believe they belong there, good call.
The Last Wish and The Wild Robot are definitely in my top 3 favorite animated movies, they hit me SO hard and are so rich with their storytelling and animation!! Truly a pair of magnum opuses!
Honestly, if DreamWorks just up and disbanded today, I'd be satisfied with the note they ended on here (though I could say the same about HTTYD 3 and The Last Wish).
Too bad these two movies came out so close to each other. It's definitely hurting Transformers One's box office. As much as I'd love to see a proper Transformers film succeed I'm glad Wild Robot is making more. It's fresher since it's not an installment of a 40 year old franchise. Transformers already has great animated stories such as Prime. Even if we don't get a sequel to One I'm okay with it being a standalone flick. Even then it''s not like this disappointing box office will kill the franchise.
Saw this in theaters yesterday and I absolutely loved it. It feels refreshing having a movie that just tells a story and doesn't feel like an hour and a half of product placement. All the characters were written beautifully and further complimented by the animation.
As someone who read the first Wild Robot book, I do wish it stayed more faithful to the story beats of the book. I wish characters from the book were in the movie, like Loudwing and Thorn's sister and Mother. I do wish the movie was longer and paced a bit slower. These nitpicks however don't detract my love for this movie.
I'm glad I'm not the only person who thought the movie went too fast lol reading reviews made me feel like I was crazy cos so many said it was slow and I was like ???????? Are you sure we watched the same movie??????
@@fourcatsandagarden Yeah, I saw the scene where Paddler made Roz a new foot and I just thought "Why did he do that?" The movie never established a good reason for why he'd do that for Roz, unlike the book. The movie never explained why Thunderbolt would want to train Brightbill how to fly. A bunch of story beats would've made much more sense if Loudwing wasn't cut out of the movie.
@@jacobcox4565 Paddler could see that Roz was a mother struggling to teach her son to fly with just one foot and he took pity on her, it showed that he's not a total jerk.
As a parent, this movie means so much to me. As much as I loved Inside Out 2, this movie...no this film is perfect to me. I cried for what felt like half of the run time as I'm a One Piece fan, so crying comes easy to me but this has made cry even more then that show has. It's animation is perfect and so is it's pacing. I loved this film.
DreamWorks finally made a GREAT movie with a female lead! When was the last time that happened -- Chicken Run? I am happy. Disney should not imagine they have the market cornered on animated heroines (especially not while The Breadwinner and Wolfwalkers exist). YES! A Gravity Falls reference! I didn't think of it while I was watching the movie, but Fink's character really IS a lupine version of Stan Pines.
Fun fact, I'm pretty sure the film does infact show gore. Like, SERIOUS gore. I forgot the timestamp, but basically, it was during a fight I think in the film, and somewhere in it, a crow GETS BEHEADED and Roz just holds the head thinking the crow is alive AND YOU CAN SEE THE MUSCLE WHERE THE CROW'S NECK WAS. Edit : found the timestamp. 5:57 [of the movie]
Too bad they came out so close to each other. That as well as poor advertising is definitely hurting Transformers One. Wild Robot is extremely fresh and deserves the success. Transformers One getting a sequel would be awesome but there's already so many good Transformers stories like Prime and Bumblebee I'm fine with it being a one-off.
I’m in love with this movie I think my my favorite parts of the movie is the survival aspect Roz mimicking a crab to survive is such good subtle storytelling that didn’t need dialogue But I also love the camera shots here with that one scene in the snow especially My only issue is vontra should have gotten more screen time That’s literally it and yeah I do agree that it was a tad quick but it didn’t really in my opinion make the story and experience less great I also like that roz starts to become more human in expressions and voice acting props to the voice actor for portraying the change so smoothly Deff favorite movie of the year dare I say my favorite robot movie along with wall-E
This movie is a blessing to humanity! you will have one of the most wholesome, heartwarming, beautiful experience of life! A heartfelt Masterpiece! Simple yet Profound❤ Everything was just perfect! The music, vocal casting, animation, story, you name it! Such Perfection is Rare! A huge heartfelt thanks to each and every artist who has been part of this project, y'all made this movie nothing less than Perfect in everyway❤❤
This movie looks like The Last Bastion, but if Bastion could talk and also didn't have PTSD. I love robots with bird friends so much. Makes me think back to E103 Gamme from Sonic Adventure and again, Bastion from Overwatch.
I enjoyed this movie so much more than I expected. Every single frame is beautiful and I love how every character is given their time to shine. Whoever is letting DreamWorks cook in stylizing their animation and flex their creative muscles I hope they keep it up.
Me (after watching it): “Now you little blue fluffy director listen to me. You’re annoyingly sensitive. Stop making me cry with your cute family anecdotes!”❤
I saw this movie during a late evening screening on Friday, and I could barely sleep that night due to how much I had to process the magnitude of the masterpiece I had witnessed.
I watched this in an almost empty theater. There were only two others beside me who sat way ahead of me. Nevertheless, it felt like I was the only one there and I got to expressed my feelings so much freer than I'll usually do in public. All this to say, I cry like 5 times 🥲👍 Beautiful movie
Smartasses: “euhhhh this movie isn’t original! It’s based off a book!” Me(fellow smartass): yeah well so are 75% of every anime ever made and most Dreamworks movies. Shut up 😑
It's more original than a sequel to a pre-existing franchise. Plus some of the most iconic animated works of all time have been based on fairytales and books in some form. (Beauty and the Beast and Shrek are my prime examples.) Even Spiderverse was based on various comic stories.
@@bree4774Personally I would say The Wild Robot. Transformers is good but The Wild Robot is just on a whole other level. And this is coming from a lifelong Transformers fan!
I haven't watched your videos in a while, so after an initial shock of seeing that continental grin on your persona (since when does it have one? 😂) i had to click it lmao Good video btw, happy to see you still put out bangers
I went into this pretty blind and thought that it was cute. The shot composition was absolutely gorgeous but I didn’t really find the script or structure to be anything special. Jumped onto letterboxd and found everyone claiming that this was one of the best animated films of the decade, if not one of the best of all time. I’m overjoyed to see so many connecting to this cozy lil’ film. I just don’t see the apparent brilliance of it. Wish that I did!
I pretty much feel the same. Pacing in the first half was terrible and the script was fine but I can't help but adore this movie. The animation is drop-dead gorgeous and I love how the animals move and behave. It's such a cute movie!
@@daveharrenburg7670 That’s funny because the first half was the “better” half for me. I kinda wish that it was a more meditative and quiet experience overall. The first half wasn’t quite that but the second half is where the film really lost me.
@@BreatheForAMoment My issue with the first half was actually that it wasn't meditative and quiet enough! It went from action scene to action scene at a breakneck pace and never gave a chance to relax to really take in the world. Which is a shame when the world looks so good!
It's funny what sticks with people and what doesn't. Everyone raved about Puss in Boots, and while I did enjoy it I didn't think it left much of an impact on me. With this film I just let myself cry for pretty much the last hour of it
I went to see this with my mum and we both shed a tear. Do you think Fink loves Roz? Odd thing to wonder, but I'm stuck on that moment where Roz asks "How do you know you love someone?" and the fox gives her such a sad look and says "I wouldn't know." I would've like a little more focus on that relationship as it could be a great example of platonic love. Moana 2 - Not sure I'll ever see that as it seems like it was put together in a hurry by Disney and I'm worried they've overworked their animators.
i feel like the story being given away in the trailers for this movie in specific is completely fine because it is based on one of the biggest books ever so most people already know the story from that anyways
I've said this elsewhere but I think my favorite thing ever about The Wild Robot is its references to and thematic parallels with the 1920 play Rossum's Universal Robots, which was the first instance of the word "robot" ever being used in English and the first time robots as a concept were introduced into science fiction and pop culture, though there have been many "proto-robots" in fiction and folklore before then. For those who don't know: R.U.R. is a sci-fi play about a future where robots have been created to replace human labor and eventually gain sentience and overthrow humanity. Just like in The Wild Robot, R.U.R. asks the audience to think about what it means to have a purpose and whether or not purpose is something we are given or something that we must create, though the film and the play take very different approaches to that question. The fact that our protag Roz is named ROZZUM unit 7134 is a nice little nod to the book/movie's philosophical ancestor.
Saw this movie whilst being in a not great headspace, my friend and I sat there and bawled for an hour and 45 minutes we cried out eyes out. very therapeutic and definitely what I needed, shoutout to my other friend who told me i'd love it
Wild Robot and Overwatch handle the stories of sentient robots really well. Transformers is kind of different since they are robots who already earned sentience since birth.
I LOVED this movie! It had great pacing, character development, animation, and a lot of heart! I hope they make a sequel based on the second book in the trilogy!
As someone who was assigned the book in a book club & fell in love with it after reading it, I was beyond stoked when I learned it was getting a film adaptation & I’ll definitely look forward to watching it when it releases on streaming/dvd.
This is probably the single most beautiful 3D animated movie I've ever seen visually speaking. Really only the Spiderverse movies are on the same level in my eyes
I LOVED The Wild Robot. I didn't think I would. I thought I had already predicted the entire plot by the start of the movie and how it was gonna try to tug at my heartstrings and all that, but it just felt so raw and real that my partner and I cried on two separate occasions during the film. I love the humour in it as well, the jokes (and slight gosling abuse), I felt, were never out of place or overstayed their welcome. I was pleasantly surprised, and this is going to be an immediate recommendation for anyone even slightly interested :)
Just came back from watching and after hearing it was going to be released to streaming. I think this is one of Dreamworks' best films, honestly. The pacing was initially a bit quick for me but by the end I found it to be far more heartfelt than I had anticipated. I also watched it with my Mom, who's typically more critical of animation but she really enjoyed it, and she didn't say but I think she got teary eyed for it too. I hope more people will recognise it for its worth soon.
The Wild Robot is absolutely wonderful! I saw it yesterday with family and loved it! I cried three times. For me, it’s a great film when it hits me in the feels
I mainly forgot about this movie before going to see it, only seeing the original trailer, BUT I AM SO GLAD I DID. The feeling of not knowing the story going in is so much better!!!
Watched it on Saturday, and I think it is a good story with phenomenal execution. The visuals were a delight every moment and the score matched it to boot. It's certainly a must watch in my opinion.
while i do agree with you, the one thing i do have to say is that animation imo is heading in a renascence, while spider-verus wsa the beginning, i think since arcane, the amount of animated features has been far superior in quality that hasn't been since the 2000s. i think we are at a point where animation is taken more seriously by more peopl then before (except the golden globe or ocsars etc. )
I loved this movie; I loved how down-to-earth it felt, and I loved how it approached its themes of Family and Nature vs Nurture and Community. I liked it
The animation for The Wild Robot is INSANE You can literally take a screenshot of any random frame in the entire movie And they're all gonna be wallpaper worthy 😭
In my opinion, this film was one of the best I’ve seen this year, right up there with Inside out 2. It had a whole lot of heart, the characters had a lot of personality, and the art direction was breathtaking.
As I was watching, I got Leafie: A Hen in the Wild vibes. Like so many scenes made me think of it and I got way more emotional than I expected to. I’m glad it wasn’t completely the same film though. Not that I expected it to.
Visually stunning, score was wonderful, emotional at times, the best scene for me was "I can use a boost" the scene and score was so wonderful especially as a parent.
Things i loved about this movie: Animation Mostly painted backgrounds Embrace of death as a reality Emotionally driven Bear Expresses deep love in all its forms (im buried in my emotions and this movie understands me)
I didn't expect much from the movie, but after coming out of the theater, I knew without a doubt I'd be rewatching multiple times with the kiddos once it hits streaming. Heck, I might even get the DVD
I finished the book the same day i went to go see the movie, and honestly, the movie is good, but it removes a lot of the heartwarming aspects and character/world building in the book and left me disappointed and annoyed frequently. Just as one example, in the book, Brightbill calls Roz mom immediately and often. Their cute mother-son dynamic is established quickly so it can flourish throughout the rest of the book. Roz also isn't just like, "me robot, gosling is my TASK". It humanizes her in a way that gets lost in the early and middle part of the movie, and it makes the conflict when Brightbill runs away more sad than frustrating because it's fully one-sided. Roz never tries to get picked up by the company. She goes to find him in the robot graveyard instead and make things right. I'm tired of movies feeling like they need to shoehorn in conflict between main characters when there is already plenty of other opportunities in the source material to evoke "negative" emotions in the viewers (Longneck dying and the RECO robots coming to get Roz). They could have just made a mostly heartwarming movie with sad parts toward to end and a final conflict. Also, the movie portrays the company as evil. They are extremely neutral in the book and just trying to retrieve their valuable product (not sure if this comes from book 2, as I've read it's a bit of a combo between both). We don't have to attribute maliciousness everywhere and make everything black and white.
I guess some people are bailing early but I do talk about Transformers One at the end.
You’ve updated your style I see. You’re looking more expressive now.
I appreciate you giving transformers one a mention to people who grew up with the franchise and are just happy to see what we’ve all wanted for nearly 40 years
A reminder that this movie will be one of if not the LAST movie to made by Dreamworks in house before every movie going forward will be outsourced to other animation studios.
This also means that most of the artists behind this film don’t work at Dreamworks anymore.
Wait, really? Why is that?
Why's everything gonna be out sourced?
I heard it's likely due to them trying to save money
@@brelonwy because to cut cost on movie budget on their future films.
I personally would prefer them stop being so codependent on big celebrity voice cast but apparently Dreamworks thought the animation budget was the bigger issue
Btw, this is half fake news stop spreading this. DW wont stop animating by themselves
“what if i need to tell you something and you're not here?”
A lot of things in the film made me tear up, but this hit hard. I miss my mom.
"You can tell me,"
"And me"
"You can talk to me as well, if you must"
@@godzillaboy011 My heart couldnt take it anymore, that was just too dang sweet 😭
The way you could notice that Roz’s voice was becoming more and more emotionally charged and human over time was one of my favorite parts. So many little details went into showing her growth as a character
The little stutters when she talks to the other robots has some of the greatest contrast I've ever seen
Sameee!! I also really love how Brightbill was influenced by her behavior and mannerisms, it shows the impacts of his imprinting and how animals can learn how to act based on the environments they grow into.
She sounds more sassier too
Like when she says I have a kid to the other rossum
Clear example is when the animal (forgot who? Maybe Fink) mention about a howl. Roz went "aWOaWOaWO" at the start but at the fight with the other combot at the end, she went AWWOOOOO natually!
The sequence where Ros is saving all of the animals in the storm is so well made
my autistic, skunk-special-interested ass when a skunk had a single line in that scene:😮
The scene where she looked at what ended up to be a corpse. She closes her eyes and buries it again. For a movie that showed death as simply part of nature and not take it too seriously, that went hard.
Specially considers she has heart monitors, she would have passed by corpses. That mean the creature died right when Roz came to the rescue...
The First Law: A robot may not injure a -human- being or, through inaction, allow a -human- being to come to harm.
@@Dairunt1 not necessarily, the movie implied fink was the one initially tracking and helping to find them at first, im pretty sure he sniffed out the body and they only knew the animal was dead after digging them up
Pleasantly surprised by how much I ended up liking Fink.
Yeah, he seems like your typical sly, devious fox, but on the inside he's a sad, lonely fellow who just needs a hug.
I really liked Fink, somehow my sister didn't like it for some odd reason, (maybe because it was 9:00 PM and she wanted to sleep), but she did still like it a little, i enjoyed the movie quite a lot, one new favorite movie added to my list.
pedro pascal fox
I also loved how pedro pascal voiced him, you could tell he had fun with it
I was worried he'd be just a copy of Nick Wilde, but they ended up giving him his own unique character, so I was happy about that!
Making a dreams works movie is like flipping a coin, one side is the worst garbage you've ever seen and the other side is a master piece
I see this kinda positively. Rather have a few masterpieces to watch and garbage to ignore, than a studio that consistently releases subpar pieces, which I would probably all ignore.
look beside Shrek 3 and how to train your dragon 3, none of dreamworks movies are out right bad (cant remember a lot of shark tail even when I saw it as a kid and liked it), it is mostly the audience that overhate the "garbage" and overrate the "masterpieces", most of them are competent films with wildly deferent taste both as movie and the way the "sellout". also films like "turbo" and "bee movie" have cute harmless mistakes, ones that you can laugh with or at.
@@emonadeoSadly is always tragic because regardless of quality the end result the same everyone that did great job was burn out and left the industry as whole.
Shark Tale and Shrek 2 came out in the same year bruh. And I enjoy sharktale. But yep consistently inconsistent
@@daninogilexactly
Robots gaining sentience is my favorite trope ever and the fact that we got this right alongside transformers one means so much to me
I love sentient robot characters
Roz, Johnny 5, Wall-E, Baymax, and those are just what I can remember on the spot, always love adding adorable robots that must be protected to the Pantheon
Roz and Sophia
After getting screwed out of directing Bolt at Disney and having Call of the Wild really underperform, Chris Sanders really deserved a win with this movie.
I mean he's had huge wins like Lilo & Stitch and How to Train Your Dragon
Don't forget the Croods
I’m always going to be a sucker for the Found Family trope so that’s why I was drawn in XD so for those looking for the wholesome warm fuzzy moments this will definitely scratch that itch
The way I think of these tropes like "Found Family" is bascially Timeless Tropes. Tropes that no matter how many times it's done, if it tugs at your heartstrings a little, the Found Family trope works.
Dreamworks has stories that have some of the worst cliches ("You just have to believe" in Kung Fu Panda) and ("It's just the power of mother's love" for this one) yet they're so effective!
People probably still have gripes that this movie isn’t a silent movie like many people hoped. But as someone who just saw this movie (opening day), lemme tell you: this movie wouldn’t have worked if Rozz or the animals didn’t speak. If you watch the movie, you’ll know.
Other than that, it was a really great movie! Beautiful animation, great voice acting, a good story. DreamWorks going out with a bang for 2024!
Plus they talk in the book
@@mothmanafterdark5924exactly. But lot of people probably didn’t realize that
@@silashurd3597 don't blame em though. Lotta ppl probably just never seen or read the books
I wanted it to be silent but it still hit very close to home and was great even with speech
Honestly they incorporate the talking animals part well in which Rozz learns to speak with animals eventually understanding their language. It didn’t just pull the talking animals thing out of nowhere it connects to the main theme of the story.
It’s pretty dark for a movie to say that a living being comes to the realization that if their caretaker hadn’t accidentally killed your parents you would have died.
I love that this movie was able to teach such a real, difficult lesson. Sometimes your greatest tragedies create your most fortunate outcomes.
That’s what I like about dreamworks. They try to show a more real, harsh world unlike Disney
How would he have died though, i dont remember, wouldnt he just have lives with his real mother otherwise?
@@TheonlyRassledazit was because Brightbill was said to be a runt since he is smaller than the other geese in the movie. And Fink states that had Roz not accidentally killed his birth parents, his parents would have probably killed him or leave him for dead away because he was a runt, which is sadly true and common in the animal kingdom since if an animal is either smaller than their kind or has some kind of disability they are considered to be a weak link and are often killed off by their parents or their own kind.
@@xanderg.1070 Fink never said or implied his parents would have killed him, I watched it twice back to back since i liked it so much. Fink meant as the runt he wouldnt survive his environment or natural predators. Roz not only accidentally killed his parents but siblings as well. He never would have learned to fly through migration normally, his parents would've had their hands full with his siblings and not had the extra time or energy to teach him to fly like Roz did.
As someone who read the book years ago, Ross learning to talk to the animals is the biggest plot point of the Book, I was always confused by people wanting the movie to be silent.
American movie's often suffer from really corny dialogue. Like having characters verbally say how they are feeling instead of just showing it or using modern slang that doesn't fit the universe the characters inhabit, so I can understand where people are coming from.
They want another Wall-E...
...yet gaslighted themselves about Wall-E being a silent film. Just ask them about the later acts on that movie, and how there's actual dialogue there.
@@miserirken Most people didn't like the second half as much though
@@ScooterCat64 Yeah it's similar as how people remember Up! yet rarely talks about anything but the opening.
@@miserirkenit's just some people are idiotic snobs and will always be pessimistic about anything
The ROZZUM name is a reference to RUR (Rossum's Universal Robots), the 1920 play by Karel Čapek that gave us the word "robot".
No way... I was thinking of the literal word "Rozum" which means in a bunch of slavic languages, including my own, Ukrainian, an intelligence
@@beefufo It could be a double reference, to Rossum and Rozum!
@@nasabear absolutely!!
I unintentionally discovered this while doing research for the movie, and was shocked that almost no one was talking about it.
I saw this film yesterday and I bawled like 3-4 times! I really hope that even if it doesn’t get great box office, it’ll go the “Encanto” route and do super well on streaming! I’m also rooting for it to win “Best Animated Feature” at the 2025 Oscars!
Imma be real disappointed if Inside out 2 wins, it was good but Wild robot was just better, in my opinion
@@greyblueme9711 agree with you 💯
@@greyblueme9711 Also IO2 has the advantage of being a sequel, it doesn't need to built up an entire premise from scratch, meanwhile TWR not only did that, but it made an excellent job at it.
I left the room telling my friend "This movie kicks most Disney movies in years" and I didn't know it was from DreamWorks, I didn't watch the trailer, i got a little late to the theater, i thought this was from an independent or smaller studio because I'm used to the formulaic design in animated movies, and i didn't expect a mainstream studio to break the "rules" of the family friendly animation formula, but i forgot that DreamWorks often don't play by the rules.
I think the pacing was definitely a result of the film being based off a book, it definitely had a “chapter” type of story design
And because it’s actually from a series of _three_ books, and tried to adapt just the first and a bit of the second one while also avoiding a cliffhanger
I think it might be recency bias since I just got out of the theater, but I think Roz from Wild Robot belongs with Wall-E and Baymax, and the Iron Giant with fully worthwhile animated robots. I like that she gets to be the main character, I like how her arc highlights the transition from metaphor to text with feelings of love, and I just love how she moves. So much of the film is her just giving, first her time, and then later her leg, her chance to go home, and even her heart for her son. I'm so glad that all the scars stay, and the moss takes over her body as signs of age, even if it's only a year. I love that she doesn't make the replacement leg, that it's made or her by someone who actually notices the tole it's taken on her to be selfless. I love how the tone of the film shifts from dark to light in her presence once she actually figures out what she's doing, to the point that by the half way point of the film you can't see any of these animals hurting each other, until she doesn't have the strength to keep them at bay.
I wish there was the pacing was just a smidge better. A cut of Long Neck spying on Roz and Bright Bill, before he introduces himself, and some better way to make it feel like there weren't three endings. Even still my wife cried, I had a great time. Dreamworks is free to just keep cooking.
I think it deserves to be on that group 👍🏻 of course Wall-E and The Iron Giant are on topping Baymax and Roz, but I do believe they belong there, good call.
The Last Wish and The Wild Robot are definitely in my top 3 favorite animated movies, they hit me SO hard and are so rich with their storytelling and animation!! Truly a pair of magnum opuses!
Honestly, if DreamWorks just up and disbanded today, I'd be satisfied with the note they ended on here (though I could say the same about HTTYD 3 and The Last Wish).
This is definitely the best movie of the year along with Transformers one.
great year for robots with those and astrobot
Too bad these two movies came out so close to each other. It's definitely hurting Transformers One's box office. As much as I'd love to see a proper Transformers film succeed I'm glad Wild Robot is making more. It's fresher since it's not an installment of a 40 year old franchise. Transformers already has great animated stories such as Prime. Even if we don't get a sequel to One I'm okay with it being a standalone flick. Even then it''s not like this disappointing box office will kill the franchise.
Its amusing people were afraid transformers one would steal public from this in retrospect
Ironically this isn’t the first time a dream works movie has become the best ever. Anyone remember the prince of Egypt
I rewatched Prince of Egypt a few weeks ago and it was just as good the first time I saw it
Or captain underpants or megamind the first Madagascar flushed away those were the extra gems from dreamworks
I'm shocked you didnt say Puss In Boots The Last Wish, that one was INSANELY well received, for good reason
I showed Prince of Egypt to my kid and she thought it was a Disney movie; it's no Shrek or Kung Fu Panda that's for sure.
The Wild Robot 🤝 Leafie 🦆💔😭🤍
Saw this in theaters yesterday and I absolutely loved it.
It feels refreshing having a movie that just tells a story and doesn't feel like an hour and a half of product placement. All the characters were written beautifully and further complimented by the animation.
Yes, this should be the standard for children’s animation
As someone who read the first Wild Robot book, I do wish it stayed more faithful to the story beats of the book. I wish characters from the book were in the movie, like Loudwing and Thorn's sister and Mother. I do wish the movie was longer and paced a bit slower. These nitpicks however don't detract my love for this movie.
I'm glad I'm not the only person who thought the movie went too fast lol reading reviews made me feel like I was crazy cos so many said it was slow and I was like ???????? Are you sure we watched the same movie??????
@@fourcatsandagarden Yeah, I saw the scene where Paddler made Roz a new foot and I just thought "Why did he do that?" The movie never established a good reason for why he'd do that for Roz, unlike the book. The movie never explained why Thunderbolt would want to train Brightbill how to fly. A bunch of story beats would've made much more sense if Loudwing wasn't cut out of the movie.
@@jacobcox4565 Paddler could see that Roz was a mother struggling to teach her son to fly with just one foot and he took pity on her, it showed that he's not a total jerk.
@@cintronproductions9430 Yeah, but in the book Roz did something that helped Paddler and that made him respond in kind by making Roz a new foot.
@@jacobcox4565 Who’s Loudwing?
As a parent, this movie means so much to me. As much as I loved Inside Out 2, this movie...no this film is perfect to me. I cried for what felt like half of the run time as I'm a One Piece fan, so crying comes easy to me but this has made cry even more then that show has. It's animation is perfect and so is it's pacing. I loved this film.
The 🥩 riding goes hard
@Wuddizzup ok???
Scavengers Reign (on Netflix) does the "Robot learns to love nature and life" themes amazingly as well. Top tier animation there
DreamWorks finally made a GREAT movie with a female lead! When was the last time that happened -- Chicken Run? I am happy. Disney should not imagine they have the market cornered on animated heroines (especially not while The Breadwinner and Wolfwalkers exist).
YES! A Gravity Falls reference! I didn't think of it while I was watching the movie, but Fink's character really IS a lupine version of Stan Pines.
Fun fact, I'm pretty sure the film does infact show gore. Like, SERIOUS gore. I forgot the timestamp, but basically, it was during a fight I think in the film, and somewhere in it, a crow GETS BEHEADED and Roz just holds the head thinking the crow is alive AND YOU CAN SEE THE MUSCLE WHERE THE CROW'S NECK WAS.
Edit : found the timestamp. 5:57 [of the movie]
Both The Wild Robot and Transformers One or the two best animated movies of 2024
Good time to be a robot fan
(I'm not underselling TF One. It's a great film. Go watch it if it's peaked your curiosity).
@@leithaziz2716 exactly
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Transformers One is OK. The Wild Robot is amazing!
Too bad they came out so close to each other. That as well as poor advertising is definitely hurting Transformers One. Wild Robot is extremely fresh and deserves the success. Transformers One getting a sequel would be awesome but there's already so many good Transformers stories like Prime and Bumblebee I'm fine with it being a one-off.
I’m in love with this movie
I think my my favorite parts of the movie is the survival aspect
Roz mimicking a crab to survive is such good subtle storytelling that didn’t need dialogue
But I also love the camera shots here with that one scene in the snow especially
My only issue is vontra should have gotten more screen time
That’s literally it and yeah I do agree that it was a tad quick but it didn’t really in my opinion make the story and experience less great
I also like that roz starts to become more human in expressions and voice acting props to the voice actor for portraying the change so smoothly
Deff favorite movie of the year dare I say my favorite robot movie along with wall-E
I cried at least twice.
2:04 GOOD LORD that animation is GORGEOUS
Bro this was without a doubt one of the funniest and most emotional movies I’ve seen this year.
This movie is a blessing to humanity! you will have one of the most wholesome, heartwarming, beautiful experience of life! A heartfelt Masterpiece! Simple yet Profound❤ Everything was just perfect! The music, vocal casting, animation, story, you name it! Such Perfection is Rare! A huge heartfelt thanks to each and every artist who has been part of this project, y'all made this movie nothing less than Perfect in everyway❤❤
This movie looks like The Last Bastion, but if Bastion could talk and also didn't have PTSD.
I love robots with bird friends so much. Makes me think back to E103 Gamme from Sonic Adventure and again, Bastion from Overwatch.
I enjoyed this movie so much more than I expected. Every single frame is beautiful and I love how every character is given their time to shine. Whoever is letting DreamWorks cook in stylizing their animation and flex their creative muscles I hope they keep it up.
Me (after watching it): “Now you little blue fluffy director listen to me. You’re annoyingly sensitive. Stop making me cry with your cute family anecdotes!”❤
After I watch Transformers One for a third time I'm going to see this film.
I saw this movie during a late evening screening on Friday, and I could barely sleep that night due to how much I had to process the magnitude of the masterpiece I had witnessed.
I watched this in an almost empty theater. There were only two others beside me who sat way ahead of me. Nevertheless, it felt like I was the only one there and I got to expressed my feelings so much freer than I'll usually do in public. All this to say, I cry like 5 times 🥲👍 Beautiful movie
Every generation gets their own heartbreaking robot film
The Iron Giant (1999)
WALL-E (2008)
Big Hero 6 (2014)
The Wild Robot (2024)
Smartasses: “euhhhh this movie isn’t original! It’s based off a book!”
Me(fellow smartass): yeah well so are 75% of every anime ever made and most Dreamworks movies. Shut up 😑
and a good chunk of dreamworks movies.
It's more original than a sequel to a pre-existing franchise. Plus some of the most iconic animated works of all time have been based on fairytales and books in some form. (Beauty and the Beast and Shrek are my prime examples.)
Even Spiderverse was based on various comic stories.
Great point!
what, anime part doesnt make any sense, just say youre racist
Most anime are based on manga, genius. Quit trying to look for racism where none exists.
Over the Hedge walked so The Wild Robot could RUN!
The trailer made me cry. That bit of music was well chosen. It really was a perfect way to spike curiosity.
the trailer made me cry, looks amazing!
I'll save this video for later because Wild Robot isn't coming out in my country until october 10th 💀💀
Just saw the movie yesterday based on this review. One of the best animated films I've ever seen. Thank you.
Remember to go see Transformers as well
Which would you say is better? Trying to decide what to see!
@@bree4774 I’d say Transformers. Wild Robot’s geeat but Transformers is just on a whole other level
@@bree4774Personally I would say The Wild Robot. Transformers is good but The Wild Robot is just on a whole other level. And this is coming from a lifelong Transformers fan!
@@shortfuse9443I watched both of the films. In terms of writing, Wild Robot wins, but Transformers One was the best Transformers film we had for years
@@bree4774 transformers one is great BUT if you are going to see ONLY ONE... go watch the wild robot!
I haven't watched your videos in a while, so after an initial shock of seeing that continental grin on your persona (since when does it have one? 😂) i had to click it lmao
Good video btw, happy to see you still put out bangers
Welcome back!
I found this movie mimicked Return of the King. It was amazing with a lot of beautiful moments, but it had like 4-5 endings.
The Academy giving it to Frozen over When The Wind Rises still pisses me off
I went into this pretty blind and thought that it was cute. The shot composition was absolutely gorgeous but I didn’t really find the script or structure to be anything special. Jumped onto letterboxd and found everyone claiming that this was one of the best animated films of the decade, if not one of the best of all time.
I’m overjoyed to see so many connecting to this cozy lil’ film. I just don’t see the apparent brilliance of it. Wish that I did!
Same here, I've been seeing that people cried in this film, but I didn't. Sure I enjoyed it, but I didn't really see why it's really over praised
I pretty much feel the same. Pacing in the first half was terrible and the script was fine but I can't help but adore this movie. The animation is drop-dead gorgeous and I love how the animals move and behave. It's such a cute movie!
@@daveharrenburg7670 That’s funny because the first half was the “better” half for me. I kinda wish that it was a more meditative and quiet experience overall. The first half wasn’t quite that but the second half is where the film really lost me.
@@BreatheForAMoment My issue with the first half was actually that it wasn't meditative and quiet enough! It went from action scene to action scene at a breakneck pace and never gave a chance to relax to really take in the world. Which is a shame when the world looks so good!
It's funny what sticks with people and what doesn't. Everyone raved about Puss in Boots, and while I did enjoy it I didn't think it left much of an impact on me. With this film I just let myself cry for pretty much the last hour of it
I went to see this with my mum and we both shed a tear. Do you think Fink loves Roz? Odd thing to wonder, but I'm stuck on that moment where Roz asks "How do you know you love someone?" and the fox gives her such a sad look and says "I wouldn't know." I would've like a little more focus on that relationship as it could be a great example of platonic love.
Moana 2 - Not sure I'll ever see that as it seems like it was put together in a hurry by Disney and I'm worried they've overworked their animators.
Yeah, and he also says "You should tell them," like he's expecting her to say something to him.
i feel like the story being given away in the trailers for this movie in specific is completely fine because it is based on one of the biggest books ever so most people already know the story from that anyways
I've said this elsewhere but I think my favorite thing ever about The Wild Robot is its references to and thematic parallels with the 1920 play Rossum's Universal Robots, which was the first instance of the word "robot" ever being used in English and the first time robots as a concept were introduced into science fiction and pop culture, though there have been many "proto-robots" in fiction and folklore before then. For those who don't know: R.U.R. is a sci-fi play about a future where robots have been created to replace human labor and eventually gain sentience and overthrow humanity. Just like in The Wild Robot, R.U.R. asks the audience to think about what it means to have a purpose and whether or not purpose is something we are given or something that we must create, though the film and the play take very different approaches to that question. The fact that our protag Roz is named ROZZUM unit 7134 is a nice little nod to the book/movie's philosophical ancestor.
Great double feature with transformers one
The Wild Transformers
@@KaminoKatie better than The double feature we had last year.
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Saw this movie whilst being in a not great headspace, my friend and I sat there and bawled for an hour and 45 minutes we cried out eyes out. very therapeutic and definitely what I needed, shoutout to my other friend who told me i'd love it
Pedro Pascal was amazing as Fink. Possibly his best role. 😂
The. Songs. In the. Movie. And. The music. Soundtrack. Is. An banger!
Wild Robot and Overwatch handle the stories of sentient robots really well. Transformers is kind of different since they are robots who already earned sentience since birth.
I loved that the art felt like those old National park paintings and
Just old nature art
Transformers One and Wild Robot. Proof that robots don’t need human sidekicks to make a great movie.
Honestly, "Wish" should've had this type of animation.
I LOVED this movie! It had great pacing, character development, animation, and a lot of heart! I hope they make a sequel based on the second book in the trilogy!
Loved, “The Wild Robot.” Looked amazing, had some mature themes like death in nature, and got tears out of all of us.
Can’t wait to see this movie
Sad to find out it’s not out for nearly a month
As someone who was assigned the book in a book club & fell in love with it after reading it, I was beyond stoked when I learned it was getting a film adaptation & I’ll definitely look forward to watching it when it releases on streaming/dvd.
Thanks I'll try to catch a matinee of it and purchase it once it becomes available.
I realy cried at the migration scene and the last scene 😭🥲❤
I was already convinced by all the marketing, but you putting TWR above KFP2 is what TRULY sealed the deal.
This is probably the single most beautiful 3D animated movie I've ever seen visually speaking. Really only the Spiderverse movies are on the same level in my eyes
I feel like this is what the last wish tried to aim for, a painty like style just more with watercolour I think.
I LOVED The Wild Robot. I didn't think I would. I thought I had already predicted the entire plot by the start of the movie and how it was gonna try to tug at my heartstrings and all that, but it just felt so raw and real that my partner and I cried on two separate occasions during the film. I love the humour in it as well, the jokes (and slight gosling abuse), I felt, were never out of place or overstayed their welcome. I was pleasantly surprised, and this is going to be an immediate recommendation for anyone even slightly interested :)
Just came back from watching and after hearing it was going to be released to streaming. I think this is one of Dreamworks' best films, honestly. The pacing was initially a bit quick for me but by the end I found it to be far more heartfelt than I had anticipated. I also watched it with my Mom, who's typically more critical of animation but she really enjoyed it, and she didn't say but I think she got teary eyed for it too. I hope more people will recognise it for its worth soon.
The Wild Robot is absolutely wonderful! I saw it yesterday with family and loved it! I cried three times. For me, it’s a great film when it hits me in the feels
I cried 3 times at this movie
It was SO GOOD
I mainly forgot about this movie before going to see it, only seeing the original trailer, BUT I AM SO GLAD I DID. The feeling of not knowing the story going in is so much better!!!
Watched it on Saturday, and I think it is a good story with phenomenal execution. The visuals were a delight every moment and the score matched it to boot. It's certainly a must watch in my opinion.
while i do agree with you, the one thing i do have to say is that animation imo is heading in a renascence, while spider-verus wsa the beginning, i think since arcane, the amount of animated features has been far superior in quality that hasn't been since the 2000s. i think we are at a point where animation is taken more seriously by more peopl then before (except the golden globe or ocsars etc. )
6:53 Finally! Someone who also appreciates Antz!
I loved this movie; I loved how down-to-earth it felt, and I loved how it approached its themes of Family and Nature vs Nurture and Community. I liked it
The animation for The Wild Robot is INSANE
You can literally take a screenshot of any random frame in the entire movie
And they're all gonna be wallpaper worthy 😭
Maybe not the best ever, but still really good. Best animated film I've seen since Zootopia.
"how else are they gonna advertise it "
By having the wild robot screwing over leah duh 💀
It seems as if, at last, DreamWorks wins the Oscar again 😊
It won’t win.
In my opinion, this film was one of the best I’ve seen this year, right up there with Inside out 2. It had a whole lot of heart, the characters had a lot of personality, and the art direction was breathtaking.
Saw both and loved both. And plan on seeing them again as soon as my schedule allows. 😊
I would rank it above Inside Out 2 because its an original they took a chance on vs an established franchise.
The Wild Robot is based on a book but it also has a number of strong changes.
This is the movie Wish should have been. SO much emotions.
This movie is peak upon peak! Love seeing ur vids btw.
As I was watching, I got Leafie: A Hen in the Wild vibes.
Like so many scenes made me think of it and I got way more emotional than I expected to. I’m glad it wasn’t completely the same film though. Not that I expected it to.
Visually stunning, score was wonderful, emotional at times, the best scene for me was "I can use a boost" the scene and score was so wonderful especially as a parent.
I don't think I've seen a smile that big on CellSpex face before. Its well deserved because this movie is a masterpiece.
My only issue is not enough mark hamill
The Bad Guys underperformed? No, it didn't...
7:33 "It should have gone to Howl's Moving Castle", isn't that Ghibli's most mixed bag film ever?
Things i loved about this movie:
Animation
Mostly painted backgrounds
Embrace of death as a reality
Emotionally driven
Bear
Expresses deep love in all its forms (im buried in my emotions and this movie understands me)
I didn't expect much from the movie, but after coming out of the theater, I knew without a doubt I'd be rewatching multiple times with the kiddos once it hits streaming. Heck, I might even get the DVD
I finished the book the same day i went to go see the movie, and honestly, the movie is good, but it removes a lot of the heartwarming aspects and character/world building in the book and left me disappointed and annoyed frequently.
Just as one example, in the book, Brightbill calls Roz mom immediately and often. Their cute mother-son dynamic is established quickly so it can flourish throughout the rest of the book. Roz also isn't just like, "me robot, gosling is my TASK". It humanizes her in a way that gets lost in the early and middle part of the movie, and it makes the conflict when Brightbill runs away more sad than frustrating because it's fully one-sided. Roz never tries to get picked up by the company. She goes to find him in the robot graveyard instead and make things right.
I'm tired of movies feeling like they need to shoehorn in conflict between main characters when there is already plenty of other opportunities in the source material to evoke "negative" emotions in the viewers (Longneck dying and the RECO robots coming to get Roz). They could have just made a mostly heartwarming movie with sad parts toward to end and a final conflict.
Also, the movie portrays the company as evil. They are extremely neutral in the book and just trying to retrieve their valuable product (not sure if this comes from book 2, as I've read it's a bit of a combo between both). We don't have to attribute maliciousness everywhere and make everything black and white.
Had a lovely time with the wild robot, very much made me feel and kept me in the moment.
My favorite book EVER, this movie was a crazy blessing to discover about and enjoy.
i had no idea this movie was a thing but im real exited to see it tomorrow
judging by the comments im assuming everyone here has never seen another animated movie before aint no way this got yall actin up.