Lifestyle Don't miss out on the headlines from Lifestyle. Followed categories will be added to My News. When a blockbuster movie that’s based on a New York Times best-selling book is released, the stakes are high before anyone even steps into the cinema.
This is the case - and then some - with DreamWorks Animation’s latest offering, The Wild Robot , a 2016 book that is the first in a much-loved trilogy by Peter Brown. Want more TV news? Sign up to Kidspot’s Talking TV newsletter for all the up-to-date news sent straight to your inbox. ‘The Wild Robot’ is like no other animated film.
Image: Supplied What "The Wild Robot" is about Just like the children’s novels, the film follows the adventures of a robot named ROZZUM unit 7134, or Roz for short (Lupita Nyong’o), who was thrown from a shipping vessel in a storm and landed on an island inhabited only by animals, and must learn to adapt to their unfamiliar surroundings. The first living creature Roz meets is an unhatched gosling whose family members were all killed in the storm. When the egg cracks, the adorable little bird that emerges immediately imprints on the robot as his mum, and she names him Brightbill (Kit Connor).
Roz, however, is not mum-material at all. She is a high-tech robot-of-the-future who is programmed to complete tasks such as housework and landscaping. Okay, well she has some practical skills handy for parenting but caring for the orphaned creature emotionally is something she cannot compute.
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