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the wild robot is the new film from
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Dreamworks Animation stars leita nango
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as the voice of the robot Allan tell me
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the story of the wild
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robot far into the future on a dystopian
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Earth ravaged by uh environmental and
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climate change disasters uh a a cargo
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ship uh crashes by a in in a forest and
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in that ship is one surviving robot
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named Raz uh voiced by Lupita nango uh
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she awakens she is basically a a
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household robot uh she is given tasks
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and she completes those tasks and when
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she wakes up uh there's no one to give
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her test uh there's animals running
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around her trying to steal her Parts uh
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but uh and she she tries to shoe them
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off she tries to understand them and uh
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at one point during her frenetic uh
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existence she accidentally kills a
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Mother Goose and her eggs all but one
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egg
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and here feels obligated to raise this
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goling and uh with the help of thinkink
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the fox uh portrayed by of course Pedro
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Pascal uh they go on this adventure to
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raise uh to raise this Gosling and teach
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the Gosling how to uh eat uh how to fly
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and then how to migrate I think that's
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the three that's yeah okay uh and to and
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to rejoin the rest of her uh the the
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flock and uh this movie is essentially a
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story of family uh of a family that uh
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an unlikely family and it's also a story
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of friendship and uh I will say this
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this is from Chris Sanders who brought
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us Lilo and Stitch um the movie uh the
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movie is very simple
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uh and I like that especially for kids
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the other thing is the art art design in
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this book uh in this movie is beautiful
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it's gorgeous uh it's it's kind of like
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uh pastel paintings uh that's that's the
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way everything is drawn you can kind of
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see it in the poster here um you know
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Disney's wish tried to be a 2d cartoon
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with 3D tools uh it tried to be
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stylistic and and uh and have this
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incredible art design it failed on every
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measure this movie succeeds where
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Disney's wish uh failed um again it's
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very simple story I think the first half
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of the movie uh you you've kind of seen
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it before it's it's uh you know a robot
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a very naive uh robot who knows nothing
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about nature trying to teach a goling
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how to seems fairly familiar uh but then
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when the robot attack occurs um that's
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when it really becomes this really wild
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roller coaster of a story yeah don't
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don't please don't go any I w't go that
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into those details I the second half of
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the movie you don't really see much of
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that in the trailers and I appreciate it
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uh I'll tell you this uh I really love
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this film it's very sweet it's um a
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parental Story the robot becomes
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something of a mother uh you know to
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actually learns to become a mother she
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learns to become a mother mother
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basically saying admitting I don't know
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what being a mother is but learns to
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become a mother
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and it it could it's inspired by a
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children's book MH so that's what it's
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based on um and my God it's so good it's
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got all those elements of a heartfelt
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Simple Story there's nothing now you
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don't really learn much about the world
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except there's been some uh it's not
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preachy is what I'm trying to say
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there's nothing preachy about this movie
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it's a very simple story those kind of
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stories I'm gonna be honest really hit
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me when they are about parental
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relationships to kids like it gets me in
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the fields I saw the film with my
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daughter she loved it I loved it people
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were getting choked up it was a pack
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screening um I I I you know where the
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Disney has failed this movie Soares it's
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so good and the ending such a good
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payoff um I don't even know what the
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running time was it didn't feel over I'm
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pretty sure it's an hour and a half yeah
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it it felt just right but um and the
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voice and the sort of strangeness of
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this this robot learning to become have
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some aspects of humanity um finding not
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only Humanity but being apparent and
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what that means
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and I I don't want to get into it
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because the second half is where a lot
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of the stuff happen yeah I I really like
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that second half yeah the second half is
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so good it's so yeah so out out there
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but it
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works I I'll say this um what was I GNA
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say
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uh now I now I lost it I the um here let
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me here so this is what okay you're
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malfunctioning like a robot Alan
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malfunctioning Allen malfunctioning
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Allen yeah there is uh there is this
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realism to this to this movie it takes
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place in nature um amongst the circle of
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Life uh where there are predators and
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there prey uh and it doesn't hold
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anything back yeah there is there is uh
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just side side eyee death that occurs in
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this movie that is so funny um and it's
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so real because that's that's especially
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when the pawsum family that's the only
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thing I'll say about it oh I love the P
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that was that moment was hilarious and
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it was tragic it was tragic and
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hilarious uh I I'll say this I I don't
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know about your screening but uh there
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were a lot of children at my screening
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uh children were just eating this up Yep
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this movie is for kids take your kids to
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see this movie also this movie is cute
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as hell um they when children weren't
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reacting it was the adults with the a a
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no no but also it it is for children but
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adults will not be bored they're they're
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really good and Universal themes no one
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I mean this this movie is not it just it
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it's um it's not Disney let's say that
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it's not Disney Dream works the thing is
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this Disney can't do Disney anymore
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right whereas Disney was a trusted brand
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to tell Universal stories Disney cannot
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do that now yeah Chris Sanders Chris
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Sanders created Lilo and Stitch uh an
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original an original property he he made
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them a lot of money from the movie and
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from the TV show and they and Disney let
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him go and DreamWorks has the guy and he
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makes this movie yeah um the the other
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I'll say this as something you'll never
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see in a in an animated feature but it I
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mentioned the realism before about the
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death but also what happens to RW over
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time uh there are things that you would
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say to yourself well if I was a robot
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living in the woods what if this happens
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what if that happens all of that happens
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and Ros finds a way to uh you know it's
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not like she's a super robot that can
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repair herself completely uh she has to
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make do she has to improvise yeah and
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robot ages you would say you she ages
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and becomes a victim to the environment
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because it's out in the wilderness and
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there's and and all that pays off at the
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end let's just put it that way uh it's a
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beautiful story uh I think kids again
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kids are gonna love it uh highly
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recommend it yeah so um yeah I I same I
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recommend it probably one of the best
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animated movies of the year
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and uh really fantastic definitely
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better than inside out to and that one
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made a billi better than inside out to
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for sure um and I did get choked up at
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the end yeah I get choked up when it
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comes to
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B any sort of parent to a child I get
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choked up yeah and you may Cho so kids
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and adults will love it I think we both
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strongly recommend yes
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