THE WILD ROBOT
RELEASED 18 OCTOBER U | 102 minutes
Director Chris Sanders
Cast Lupita Nyong’o, Pedro Pascal, Kit Connor, Stephanie Hsu
Chris Sanders previously
co-directed two exceptional animated films: Lilo & Stitch and How To Train Your Dragon. Now he’s directed The Wild Robot, which is bold, spectacular and very enjoyable, but whose story is harder to buy into than its predecessors. A robot that’s designed to serve humans accidentally falls onto a verdant island, with no people but abundant wildlife. The animals violently reject the newcomer, but Roz, as the robot comes to call itself, transforms its own programming when it “adopts” and raises a gosling.