The Reel Rejects - THE WILD ROBOT (2024) IS SO DANG TOUCHING!! MOVIE REVIEW!!

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Starting point is 00:02:03 folks you're saying you don't like ROSS I do love Roz I wish she could join the team and then they could all work together there we go that's what I meant to say Roxanne how you feeling

Starting point is 00:02:18 Post-Robot. You know what's so weird is like, and obviously we're going to talk about it, but I don't think there's anything we can say about that movie. Like, it's in my soul. Yeah. You know, like it spoke perfectly. It left it all out on the table.

Starting point is 00:02:38 Yeah. I can't imagine the soul who watches that and doesn't feel how we feel, which is just like full in my heart in yearning for friendship. loving kindness and autonomy over your own choices and just I think it was just a perfect movie it needs it needs no it needs no explain it's perfect as is like it's kind of all right there yeah it's just it's it's all nicely contained within the exact expression that it is like to To break it down is almost to state a lot of the obvious. I know. Isn't that so strange?

Starting point is 00:03:22 Because usually I like love really diving into like, oh, my thoughts on this, my thoughts on this. But like I feel like we share one mind for this because how could you not have the same mind? It's just like I get why this was this couldn't have been hyped enough, you know? and it's just such great characters it was perfect it's perfect

Starting point is 00:03:50 I don't have any no notes this is like an absolute perfect movie honestly it should have been nominated for Best Picture I would not have bad in an eye of that if they had

Starting point is 00:04:02 this was yeah really sweeping and really affecting and really graceful I would say because yeah it starts off I like the way they put you into Roz's POV that way

Starting point is 00:04:14 where it's like you're falling out of the sky and then all of a sudden you're waking up and there's no real transition between those things you're just sort of cutting from one to the next and so it has yeah this this sort of charming gradual unfolding that it goes through and then pretty soon yeah it becomes this big sweeping epic

Starting point is 00:04:32 you know tale of coming of age and discovering the world and fitting in and you know overriding whatever programming you perceive, whether that be genetic or, you know, your environments or the, you know, food chain circle of life or literal digital programming. And I mean, you know, there are a lot of movies about love, but I thought the way that this spoke to that without getting, it's not unclear and it's not like, you know, apakly subtle, but it's like the way it handles just like that idea of love and how indescribable it is. and how it's just built off of experience and it's just this thing that you understand somewhere else other than your logical mind.

Starting point is 00:05:17 It's just really lovely and like really nicely articulated. Yes. As a movie, this felt really well proportioned and well-paced. And it did just enough. Like, I really like that we didn't do too much. Kind of as a Wallyish, I'm sure Wally has been like a touchstone for people in comparison. And this is a lot warmer than Wally.

Starting point is 00:05:38 I honestly think I preferred this to Wally. I would put them on for a different reason, but I mean, I get why. Totally. This is way, it's bittersweet for sure. And it, you know,

Starting point is 00:05:49 obviously is a bit of a tearjerker. And Wally has that too, but Wally is like much more outwardly melancholy for much of it. I'm just saying because people think of Wally is one of the best animated films of all time. And I honestly, from this touched me more.

Starting point is 00:06:04 Sure. I can see, I could absolutely do that. I mean, this has, it's been a, I would love to do like a rewatch of Wally at some point, because I haven't seen it in so long.

Starting point is 00:06:11 And I remember leaving a big impression on me. But yeah. It's like the first 45 minutes are silent and it's so impactful and gorgeous. This is no shade on Wally. This is just me saying that this, the messaging of this story was just perfect for me. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. It just the heart swell is so tangible and again, so affecting.

Starting point is 00:06:30 And yeah, like I could imagine that being sort of a comparison point. But I thought that, yeah, this, oh, post toasties. squirrels you leave that fresh new tree alone hands off the sapling Greg loves squirrels yes yeah you had a pet squirrel for a minute RIP little Ricky but yeah I like that we didn't we thought we did just enough with the rest of you know we don't really see people very much at all except for like a couple of them and whatever that control room is and the rest of what we see is all robots and stuff And so, like, you know, Wally has a certain amount of that.

Starting point is 00:07:12 And I feel like that movie has, like, sort of two halves. Whereas this felt very gradual and natural. And, yeah, like, the structure is, it's, I'd be curious to go back and watch it again from a structural point of view because, you know, you do have these multiple stories happening. And every movie has multiple plot lines. But just, yeah, the way that you have a story happening in a linear fashion for Bright Bill that's sort of on one wavelength. And that's a big part of what Roz's story is, but then after he leaves and he goes on migration, you know, she's left there to kind of seek purpose. And like there's so many little intersecting things. It's like through Bright Bill's story, you can see, you know, themes of like, you know, discovering you've been adopted or, or, you know, you've lost your parents or something and you've been raised by someone else and you're just finding these things out. And from a parent's perspective, like when is a good time to communicate harsh truths? And, you know, you've lost your parents or something. And, you've been raised by someone else. And you're just finding these things out and, how do you, you know, honor the love that you feel deep, deep down intrinsically while also dealing with just the roughness that can be coming of age and your immediate surroundings?

Starting point is 00:08:22 And of course, being that this is in the animal kingdom, you're very quickly hipped to the idea that, like, oh, we might be eaten. We might die. Like, you know, the little possum kids are all sort of humorously morbid. Yeah, they're awesome. Yeah. Yeah. But I totally get exactly, like, I'm so with you on everything you're saying. I also think that the part that resonated with me the most and that is the most powerful to think about is like, you know, I think it's interesting on this channel and this happens a lot in life where people who have experienced extreme loss when they're young tend to join together. I think that there's a reason that there's seven main people of us on the channel and Greg, Tara, Andrew, and myself all lost a parent when we were children or very young.

Starting point is 00:09:04 So it's kind of interesting to see how that grief in this movie they talk about you wouldn't be who you are, you wouldn't have survived had you not lost your family. And I do think about that all the time. I think it's why it's one of the tropes with the Disney princesses and with a lot of heroic characters where as much as I can sit here and say I would cut off a limb in order to have my mom back. I also know I wouldn't have been the person I am today and would very likely be a significant worse person if I hadn't experienced what I had because I was not on a, and that's not me speaking on their behalf, but for me, I was on a path to not be the best version of myself and needed a major, I needed to, you know, my, my hero's journey or whatever the hell it is that I'm on, but yeah, because I'm the hero, John, that's what I'm trying to

Starting point is 00:10:00 I know, but you know what I mean. Just sometimes you can't be the person you're meant to be unless certain things happen in that life or the person or the best version of yourself. And I think it was really interesting the point that they continue to make here because they could have not, which is that you were the run to the litter and had your family survived, you would have not. And that I think is true for a lot of people in life. Had certain things not happened that were completely tragic, you would not be you. Yeah. And we wouldn't have had Bright Bill. and Bright Bill wouldn't have been the leader that Bright Bill was.

Starting point is 00:10:32 Bright Bill wouldn't have had the energy to deal with all of this hatred from everybody else. Bright Bill, who was othered, wouldn't have had the ability to withstand that. And wouldn't have been able to see outside the box the same way. Right, exactly. So, you know, what Bright Bill probably thought was the most tragic, horrible thing in his life. And is, is also the reason. There's two truths at once. It's also the reason he's here.

Starting point is 00:10:57 And it's also the reason that he is able to do. do all the beautiful things that he's done. So I think that that was a really beautiful lesson in this. There's so many more, obviously. And I think it's cool that people like me can grab onto one thing while somebody else can grab on to like living your truth. You know, maybe people relate more to Raws. And it's like your whole life you're being told to do one thing.

Starting point is 00:11:21 You're here for one thing. And you have to wake up one day and make the active decision to not listen to be, to not live the life that other people are telling you to live. and to live your own life or maybe you relate more to think which is like you've told yourself your own story your whole life you've never had love never had friendship and you think it's always going to be that way

Starting point is 00:11:40 and maybe you need to open your eyes to what the possibilities are around you and stop telling yourself the same story so I think that they had just such strong characters that you can really just a lot of us will see ourselves in yeah and too I mean the stuff like with there's so many lovely again intersections Because, too, I like the duality of, you know, Bright Bill's coming of age.

Starting point is 00:12:05 Bright Bill is upset about certain truths and realities and is at that age where you're, you know, kind of discovering the world. And the more you learn, the more you think you know. And then on the opposite side, you have Roz, who is also dealing with, like, again, just kind of the, I think the awakening we all have to life in that there's like, oh, there's no real track for things. And even though there's like a system in place that everyone keeps telling me. me about or in this case like the program keeps insisting upon me like clearly that is not the case and now i have to improvise and i have to get creative and especially when it comes to like her becoming a mother you know and the constant like i don't know what to do what do what is the programming here and everyone's like i don't know we just kind of make it up because like the other

Starting point is 00:12:46 mother character get that was so cool to see her be like i don't know like yeah it's not it's not programmed there's no just sequence of commands that is the exact right execution and yeah like there there was a nice like kind of broad swath of themes that were all very applicable from multiple angles and even if you're not in one specific position in your own life you can take from those but also there's probably something that does match a position you are in or have been in through one or some of these characters and yes like the when you mentioned that of course new parents you start by figuring out what are their basic needs here it's eat food swim fly right and so I'm sure that this relates a lot to new parents.

Starting point is 00:13:29 People who are adopted, as you mentioned, people who are othered. So maybe you've been stripped from your community, and now you need to go back to your community and people treat you like you are an other, and so you don't have an exact place in don't know what your community really is. Kind of like reminded me a lot of how my mixed friends feel, who are like, where do I belong? So there's just so many, I feel like they really were like, what do people know? need and let's put that in this character this storyline this location this relationship um this

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Starting point is 00:17:16 Yop. Yeah. And it makes sense to like every character who delivers one of those bars. like it makes sense it's not feel like especially if you have a movie that has a lot of those snappy little phrases and things like that can go wrong it can't feel like you're aiming

Starting point is 00:17:31 to be profound and this never felt like that this really felt like it earned every moment and every little nod to any kind of theme or principle it threw in there and just I don't know like the way it conceived itself I really really loved like the idea of yeah a wild robot what happens

Starting point is 00:17:47 and the whole thing is kicked off by like an accidental circumstance like yeah this transport ship happened to drop like six of these things. And one of them was in good enough working order just to kind of get up and look around and start, you know, running on the program and soon discovering like, yeah, what happens if you are, you know, a machine built to learn, which all living beings in some way are? And you just put in an environment, you just kind of got to learn it. And I love that, yeah, she sits forever and just kind of takes in the animals and eventually learns how to communicate with all of them. and from there without having to be a bad

Starting point is 00:18:25 like this is it's really I think kind of elegant in that I mean easily you could put this in front of any kind of viewer I feel like and have you know an immersive result from a young child to an older person

Starting point is 00:18:39 I feel like this has to be you know potentially resonate with anybody but I feel like they they do so much to just kind of it never feels like it's telling you or like it's trying to do all that stuff that's just kind of kind of naturally unfurls from the circumstances.

Starting point is 00:18:54 So unforced, John. And it's not about like, oh, it's an AI story. But in a way, you are sort of like, yeah, if you plopped a super intelligent learning machine into an environment, I bet it would kind of become an animal. Because what else would you do? What else would it do? And, you know, even the stuff with the circle of life,

Starting point is 00:19:12 even if you find yourself at the end going like, so if they're not going to eat each other? Like what happens to the... I did. I was thinking like, are we going to go of a vegetarian? I was like, yeah, what happens to the environment? But either way, like, I like that, yeah, you... It's about not torturing each other, not making each other, you know, like, even if they do eat each other, like, I just don't think that they're trying to make each other's lives worse.

Starting point is 00:19:30 Yeah, there's less animosity. We've all become this sort of found family. And I think the island as a setting and discovering, oh, this is an island, it's kind of blocked off from everything. Kind of helps that, too. Yes, absolutely. I agree. And without being about global warming or something like that, it does feel like you're in this kind of world where obviously humans, have figured it out to some degree because when we go to you know that big farm you know orchard

Starting point is 00:19:56 thing that they're all and it seems like we're doing okay but you have those we were triggered by the we were both like fire yeah but the fire yeah right and forest fires we know they spread get the fire out that and i was like is this going to like wreck the entire island are you guys going to all have to migrate what did the bear's going to do you know but these little subtle things of like you know you're flying and you see the tops of what looks to be like the golden gate bridge or whatever and then a few moments later you realize like oh the bridge itself is submerged and it just leaves these spires that hold up the cables and stuff or yeah there's like a city off in the distance the two is like sort of submerged and so like there are so many remnants of technological human

Starting point is 00:20:36 society and so it takes on this interesting quality where like the whole it feels very of nature even though there's robotics and future tech so true yeah yeah i i i I also wanted to briefly shout out what I think might be my favorite character or the one that I think we can all learn the most from, which is Bill Nighy's character. Yeah, man. Because I think that something that we all forget about is the power that we have within. It reminded me a lot of, you saw it wicked. Yes. It reminded me a lot of that dance scene where we finally get the two girls, like, you know, everybody's making fun of how she's dancing.

Starting point is 00:21:17 of how alpha and then Glinda you know they kind of yeah and it's like that's like that moment where it's like the queen B is acknowledging your existence even though it's not a one for one because Alphabet kind of got in that position partially because of Glinda but whatever in that moment Glinda is saying I see you and I and I'm going to help you in this moment and that's the start of the relationship and I feel like we needed Bill Nye's character to say to to Roz, you've been doing an amazing job and then really to put his neck out for Bright Bill, because he's like, if he hadn't done that, Bright Bill wouldn't have been invited to go on the migration. And he's like, you're going to fly next to me and I'm taking you on. And he's like, and your

Starting point is 00:22:10 mom did an amazing job. And by the way, kiddo, I know you're awkward with your mom right now, but if she didn't help you, you would have died. And honestly, if she hadn't had that accident happened, you would have died because you were the run. And I think that character, all of us need to be on the lookout in life for who we can take, who might not have gotten the opportunity to do certain things and just needs a little help. One person in their corner, anybody. Like, I just loved him. And he was kind of a minor character, honestly, not minor, but he wasn't one of our big three.

Starting point is 00:22:44 He's impact. But he was so impactful. Yeah. Instance of, and they don't, I like that throughout the movie, there's so many things that hit really hard and bring out really vivid emotion without having to like punctuate the moment in the text of the movie. It's like when he makes that sacrifice, it's all in such a fast succession of moments that you don't get to kind of relish in the impact of it.

Starting point is 00:23:09 And I think that's kind of, again, nice in a way because we're still going to feel the weight of the sacrifice but it doesn't have to go like oh my god he he gave of himself you know like we feel it anyway and when they get back and and think is like where's long neck you know we get it anyway and you can still feel like the toll of that whilst also kind of realizing that yeah like you know clearly he had a level head too and was willing to make this sacrifice and really believed in you and like was a mentor and yeah he leaves this huge impact even though he's yeah like a small character by terms of screen time and presence and yeah like i just thought that this so naturally this movie felt like it was just kind of growing and unfolding and just behaving and letting us

Starting point is 00:23:55 you know kind of feel just based off that you know it's like yeah the themes of love and i think this too also earned the little bits of magic the sort of like they powered me down but i was still able to kind of feel and sense you somehow because i've grown beyond a soul yeah and like stuff like that I think is really nicely earned and like yeah this made me cry a bunch of times and it's like the music like you know the music and the art are really beautiful and I love

Starting point is 00:24:21 that they animated this in such a way where obviously it's a computer animated movie but there are multiple kinds of factions all at work at the same time because Roz is so clean and polished at the start of the movie and the environments feel like there are a kind of mixture of

Starting point is 00:24:37 like you know water and stuff maybe looks a little more photo reel but you'll have like moss and rocks and wood and it all feels like it's been painted by if not hand at least with brush strokes of some kind like it has a lot of art in the visual construction and then i thought the score did a nice job to kind of play off that and to and i remember chris bowers saying like compared to other things he had worked on they were pretty welcoming of him being a part of the overall sound you know formation of the movie with the sound effects and you know applying the music and so you have like a handful of melodies that come in and that grow and shift depending

Starting point is 00:25:16 on where in the story and what is happening and yeah like just the the soaring quality of especially that one motif that plays a bunch of times that it's like so again sweeping and it's a little sad but it's also you know it has this uplift to it it sort of sores and it feels like you know catharsis and catharsis can be relief but it can also be you know the letting out of just heavy intense emotion and this movie had like tons of all of that yeah like it's super sweet and lovely and you know perilous and heartbreaking and there's like action and stuff but it just doesn't feel like a typical movie at all and it feels just so well proportioned at the time it comes in on like it doesn't feel too short doesn't feel too long it doesn't feel like it's too much anything

Starting point is 00:26:07 or like it's trying too hard for anything, you know? Yeah. I see that it says Oscar Street Time nominee. Was it, did this not win best animated movie? I think Flo did. This way I think was probably expected to win. I didn't see Flo, so I don't know. I'm excited to see Flo.

Starting point is 00:26:24 Me too. Should we do that one next? I would love that. Comment below if you would like it. I mean, you know, and Flo from what I understand is also, there might not be any actual, I don't know if there's any dialogue in it at all. I mean, like, this is cool because like there is dialogue. But it's not always dialogue reliant, and it is the kind of movie that kind of dips in between just sort of being visual and sensory, and then there is a story, there is a plot, there is dialogue. I think flow. The montage sequence in this was so wild. Yeah. I have no dialogue. I think flow is basically about animals all working together in the midst of a flood. And so I think there's probably a similar element of, again, sort of like removal from human society and, you know, again, banding together against just physical stakes.

Starting point is 00:27:07 your environment. I don't know much about it beyond that aside from the fact that this is kind of, they're kind of inverse things because this was obviously made with the full array of tools at the disposal of DreamWorks and there was ILM in there. And Flow was made on like open source animation software. Like like the kind of software you could download for free, I believe, and like just start messing around with. And they made a whole feature film in that.

Starting point is 00:27:32 Yeah, yeah. So I mean, both sound really lovely and amazing. But, you know, seeing this and and feeling. how affected we both were by it i am like well damn i guess flowed that would be pretty damn good yeah yeah because yeah on any other year and i was a huge fan of you know i always love a wallace and grommet movie uh and stuff but from the other animated out too it was really good and people loved inside out too which i still need to see yeah um but this i i certainly would have put money on you know at the time uh had i had seen it before the oscars or whatever yeah and yeah like even beside that

Starting point is 00:28:06 like definitely worthy of whatever praise and recognition it's gotten because yeah like and especially for DreamWorks and DreamWorks has done a lot of stuff that I do enjoy but this feels very different from what I would normally expect their tone to be and uh I mean it feels more like a Pixar movie than some of the recent Pixar movies uh and I thought yeah the voice cast also did a lovely job and like props to Lupita yeah go Lupita especially because I want to go back and listen because I can't even hear her. She does such a, yeah, and she does, it's like in hindsight, I can totally see it, but I wouldn't have guessed in the moment. And I think it's also a testament to her abilities because she has to emote and portray this growth journey.

Starting point is 00:28:52 As a robot. As a robot who by nature has this very upbeat delivery. And as always speaking, you know, in a way that is supposed to inspire a sense of, you know, calm and productive, you know, ease. and the way that her performance both continually reflects that because it's of her nature but also changes on top of that given what she is taken in through nurture is just really beautiful. You know, it's like you could easily fall into a trap where there's not enough emotion there or there's too much emotion there. And it's the perfect for me, as of this viewing, it's the perfect middle ground to sell what the character is

Starting point is 00:29:31 and what is happening here. I agree. And they leave just enough little things. off screen and stuff and yeah like toward the end I was concerned like I don't know maybe this plan to get her back and to you know like dissect her and learn from her is going to go too far and it was like just enough it's like I get why they would want to do that because she is clearly an extraordinary case and yeah I liked what it ultimately created for all the animals sort of banding together and we didn't need too much I didn't need like an entire act three where it's like

Starting point is 00:30:00 okay now we all got to go out to human world and like stage a height like there's there's elements of that because like yeah bright bill you know follows her and all that stuff but but yeah we don't I can imagine a version of this movie that's a little bit more uh animated kids movie instead of like just in a beautiful piece of animated storytelling that this is with you yeah so any more stray ideas before that's me that's it let's do a quick uh let's let's see if there's any interesting triv if you you look while I stand for a sec yes yes get your blood pumping your new uh mission is to circulate your blood that's how it feels all right wild robot imdb i do i do appreciate like the subtle post apocalyptic and it's i mean i guess i don't know if that's the exact right word to describe it because there are still people around but subtle post apocalypse is always fun according to author peter brown the inspiration for the wild robot came from a sketch he did of a robot in a tree. He then asked a question, what would an intelligent robot do in the wilderness?

Starting point is 00:31:13 I think that's... And then we saw it. Great question. Robots name is Rosam, shortened to Roz. The author of the book, the movie is based on Peter Brown, had written that this is a nod to the 1920 science fiction stage play, Rosam's Universal Robots, written by Czech writer Carol Capic. Capic, if I'm saying that wrong, I'm sorry. And his brother Joseph introduced the word robot into the English language and into science fiction.

Starting point is 00:31:40 That's crazy. The words drawn from the Slavic root robot meaning labor. What year was that? Translation's slave. 1920? Yeah. There was no word for robot before 1920? I guess not.

Starting point is 00:31:55 I mean, they might have called him automaton or something like that. That's amazing. The play was also the first. use of the word to denote a mechanical humanoid. The main processor the robots use is designated Alpha 113, a reference to room A113 in the California Institute of Arts used by graphic design and character animation students. It's also the room where writer-director Chris Sanders and head of story, Heidi Joe Gilbert, study to Cal Arts. This is the first time that Easter egg has been used in an animation film from DreamWorks, because I think that is, is that the one that always

Starting point is 00:32:29 appears in Pixar. There's a, there's, it may be a 113. There's, it's, it's one of those and I think it it is that, because there's a classroom they often bring up along with like, oh, pizza planet or whatever else. Uh, Thunderbolt, the Falcon was not in the novel. The basalt Kate of on the island is modeled after Rania's Fiora Black Sand Beach in Iceland. The Fox noises made by Fink were created from recordings of actual foxes owned by the Minnesota Rescue and YouTube channel, Save a Fox. Oh, let's see. What do we? we got in the spoilers only a couple

Starting point is 00:33:02 there's not much trivia on this movie actually it's interesting in the scene where Brightville migrates at the other geese the golden gate bridge can be seen largely intact but submerged in water suggesting a future climate change impact so excited well yeah and I like that that's all they did they didn't have to make it like oh it's this way

Starting point is 00:33:19 because of us it's like people seem like they're doing fine but also just to note the bridge is submerged so clearly we've lost to mice caps near the end of the movie the joke the bear tells the fox about chasing him again tomorrow is the joke that richard prior had made up in his stand in his stand-up comedy special wanted live in concert interesting that's one for the parents that's cool oh what a lovely wild movie i haven't it's been a minute

Starting point is 00:33:46 since i cried this much yeah did not expect you know i do i think it does hit especially hard when yeah you're watching a bunch of stuff and it's just like oh they just love each other so much and there's so much life in the way. Just love. Just be together. I feel you. Okay. If you feel what we're feeling,

Starting point is 00:34:05 leave it in the comments below. Did you get to see this in the theaters? I hope I do at some point. And yeah, leave us any and all of your wild robot related thoughts, any other animated flicks you would like for us to check out

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