“HEARTFELT, ENTERTAINING MOTHER”
WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW:
WILD ROBOT is a very special movie. It delightfully affirms motherly love. Also, Roz the robot clearly has Christological, allegorical elements. She teaches the animals to love one another and clearly dies and appears to clearly resurrect. That said, her major characteristic is learning to overcome her cold, pre-programmed nature to develop a loving heart. When the company tries to re-program her, the heart takes over, but that’s not the end of the story. There are many animated action violence situations in WILD ROBOT, including animals consuming one another to survive. However, none of these situations are cruel or violent in a scary, troubling way. So, MOVIEGUIDE® recommends WILD ROBOT for children aged six and up. Adults also will love this story, if they have a heart.
CONTENT:
Very strong affirmation of heartfelt motherly love on behalf of a very Christologically, allegorical character showing that motherhood brings out the best and even a pre-programmed robot who develops a heart which can’t be destroyed and who shows everyone that kindness is the ultimate survival tool, all of which will make you cry and laugh;
Two very funny, light obscenities such as robot talking in robot terms about animal excrement and a bird’s butt feathers;
Robot in a box falls from a plane in a storm to a very isolated island, robot falls down cliffs and through woods and has several other serious crashes and falls, animals consume each other to survive in non-upsetting ways, baby goose gosling has several pratfalls and escapes from danger while learning how to swim and fly, several animals chase animals and robot, robot manufacturing company tries to capture rogue robot and unleashes a slew of warrior robots who shoot at everything and are defeated by animals protecting rogue robot, robot lands on a goose nest and accidentally kills the family except for the baby gosling, geese seek shelter in the robot manufacturing domed city so guard robots try to shoot them;
No sex;
No human nudity;
No alcohol use;
No smoking or drugs; and,
A fox gives the titular robot misinformation and tries to eat the gosling, but the robot stops the fox and saves the gosling.
MORE DETAIL:
THE WILD ROBOT is an incredibly heartfelt, entertaining, humorous story about a robot falling from a plane in a storm and eventually having to take care of a young, orphaned gosling on an isolated island. WILD ROBOT is a very strong, adorable affirmation of a mother’s love and of kindness being a virtue, with strong elements of a Christological allegory.
In the beginning, a box falls to a little island beach. The box bears the name of a company and breaks open to reveal the latest robot built to assist people. However, on the island there are no people but plenty of different species of animals. The robot, who soon has the nickname Roz, tries to tell each animal she meets that she’s programmed to help them fulfill whatever task they have for her. The animals don’t understand and react by running away and sometimes by attacking her.
Eventually, Roz uses her linguistic program to learn how to speak to each species of animal. When she does, several of them chase her, including a badger, a possum, a racoon, and finally a big bear who chases and causes Roz to fall over a cliff into a goose nest where she kills everything but a little egg, whom she tries to protect. A mother possum with her little possums tells Roz that she has the task now of raising the kittle gosling. Also, she has to teach the gosling, whom she calls Brightbill, how to eat, how to swim and how to fly, so the gosling can leave with the other geese in a few months on their annual migration. Each task presents a multitude of problems. A little fox named Fink pretends to help Roz so he can eat Brightbill, but after being bested by Roz, Fink becomes a real helper.
Eventually, Roz develops a heart for Brightbill, which causes her to go above and beyond her programming. This brings the manufacturer, in a very modernistic plane, to the little island to try to capture Roz to find out why she’s gone rogue.
So, now the jeopardy of training Brightbill is increased dramatically by the jeopardy of Roz trying to avoid capture so she can train Brightbill to join the migration.
WILD ROBOT is a very special movie. It delightfully portrays a strong affirmation of motherly love. Also, Roz the robot clearly has Christological, allegorical elements. She teaches the animals to love one another and appears to clearly die and resurrect. That said, her major characteristic is learning to overcome her cold, pre-programmed nature to develop a heart that actually loves Brightbill and others. When the company tries to re-program her, the heart takes over, but that’s not the end of the story.
There are many animated action violence situations in WILD ROBOT, including animals consuming one another to survive, but none of these situations are cruel or violent in a frightening, scary, troubling way. So, MOVIEGUIDE® recommends WILD ROBOT for children aged six and up and wants to note that adults will love this story too, if they have a heart.