r/The10thDentist • u/madeat1am • 1d ago
TV/Movies/Fiction Wild robot wasn't that good of a movie
When Wild Robot came out there was all those raving reviews how it was Dream works best movie ever and amazing
Found it online and decided to watch it. Like it didn't suck, it was fine as a movie. The villian fight had me shocked that was the villian fight. Like oh its over. Oh that was it.
Nothing super admirable or special about the wild Robot. Just another kids movie.
It wasn't a bad terrible movie that no one should watch cos I hate it. I just don't understand why everyone was raving how it was the greatest movie dreams works had ever created. Which people online where definitely saying. Have they only been watching dream works teenage kraken movies and didn't watch their how to train your dragon or something like that?
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u/DiggityDog6 1d ago
Could not disagree more, it made me ugly cry in the theater and it was genuinely one of my favorite movies ever
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u/kinney_sucks 1d ago
I had an ugly cry at home but I kinda agree with OP it wasn't anything ground breaking
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u/DiggityDog6 1d ago
I don’t really think something HAS to be groundbreaking to be spectacular. It’s true, there are plenty of movies where the main plot is “robot gets feelings,” and there are plenty of movies about fun talking animals. The thing that makes The Wild Robot so great to me is that it builds to be something beyond its basic premise
The movie isn’t just “robot gets feelings.” The movie is specifically about Roz learning how to love Brightbill. It shows the hardships of their specific situation. It shows Roz’s struggles with where she should belong in the world and not understanding how to show her newly acquired feelings. It shows Brightbills uncertainty and distrust of Roz, while still conveying that she has done so much for him and showing how conflicted he is. It gets me to care about these characters as if they were people I knew, people I actually wanted to see be happy
That’s what makes this movie so special to me. Let’s take a movie I like but not really love, like Aladdin. I like Aladdin a lot, but I don’t really care about the characters. I like watching the adventure and I understand the emotions that the characters are feeling, but I don’t feel like I’m right there with them, wanting them to succeed. I feel like I’m watching events unfold rather than truly feeling it
This is the major difference between movies I like and movies I love. Take another movie I love, Terminator 2. I care about all of those characters. I felt immense sadness when anyone I cared about died. I wanted them to succeed. I wasn’t just watching a big scary robot kill things. There was heart, there was soul poured into that movie
And that’s that “it” factor that The Wild Robot has that makes me regard it as a masterpiece. It’s not an original story, it doesn’t really have anything that you haven’t seen before, but it has heart. It knows exactly what it needs to do to pull at your heartstrings, and that’s why it’s amazing. I didn’t need it to reinvent the wheel, I just needed it to get me to care. And it did that beautifully
Hopefully this makes sense, I’m no movie reviewer, but this was the best way I could articulate why I love this movie so incredibly much
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u/Bundle0fClowns 1d ago
It was okay, I thought it was a pretty movie for sure. But plot wise I lost a bit of interest. Nothing to write home about, but I wouldn’t call it a bad movie.
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u/UrMomDotCom666 1d ago
it was an okay watch, but it felt a bit awkwardly paced and disingenuous. i liked the fox character tho
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u/YourLocalAlien57 1d ago
Yeah i thought the pacing was a bit weird too, kind of jarring. The animation was good tho
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u/Chilifille 1d ago
It's my new favorite animated movie. This new Dreamworks artstyle looks gorgeous in a forest environment and the soundtrack is great as well. I also really love how it managed to handle the topic of death in such a straightforward manner. That's unlike anything I've seen in any other animated kid's film, at least the western ones. But most importantly, it's the mother/son relationship between Roz and Brightbill that really works for me. Such a beautiful tribute to motherhood.
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u/shocktagon 1d ago
Goddamn is this whole subreddit just “I didn’t like this [media]” what the actual fuck, you’re not a special snowflake for not liking something
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u/Maleficent_Apple4169 1d ago
i liked it but i expected it to be more like the book which dragged it down to me
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u/coci222 1d ago
I'm surprised you are the only one to comment on the book vs the movie. I read the book back around 2017 and I thought it was amazing. I was excited when I saw they were releasing a movie. When I saw it, I was a bit disappointed. It kind of fell flat. I'm so glad I read the book first
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u/Noxturnum2 1d ago
I am immune to crying from any sort of media but I half-disagree. Wasn't dreamwork's best movie but it was still pretty good.
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u/LiquifiedSpam 1d ago
The worst element was doing the tired trope of caring for the baby animal. I’ve just seen it so many times and it didn’t stand out here much because it was undercooked
Great movie overall though
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u/EfficientAd9765 23h ago
It was definitely on of the better "foumd family" kids movies I have seen. But thats exactly it. It just a well done version of a thing you have seen a million times before.
Also, all the animals turning into friends in the end feels pretty forced and weird
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u/madeat1am 1d ago
Don't be like you're not the target audience you're an adult. Obviously I'm not the target audience I do truely enjoy cartoons and watching them. I wasn't bored by it it just didn't deserve the 'dream works best movie ' people.kept gibing it
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u/CarbonAlligator 1d ago
Move was bad lots of plot holes and inconsistencies but it made me cry and think about how much I love my mom regardless
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u/Neurotic_Z 1d ago
Exactly!!! Thank you. It was kinda boring, predictable and not unique. Direct to DVD type. I don't understand the hype. The Lazer gun shooting villain battles were lame too. The villain was lame. There is so much to say about this meh film.
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u/madeat1am 1d ago
The bad guys reminded me of the first half of wall.e. so we got half a wall.e movie with animals
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u/Mydreall 1d ago
If you think how to train your dragon was better than wild robot…. We just have wildly different tastes in kids movies. Good day and enjoy your upvote
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u/madeat1am 1d ago
I'll admit I'm a little biased about httyd I mean I just 2 hours yesterday carefully arranging and naming all the episodes of thr TV series so I can have it all on my computer and I do own a massive poster of thr 3rd movie in my room and own all the books so I'm a little 🤏like httyd more then a normal amount
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u/No_Asparagus7129 1d ago
I haven't seen The Wild Robot, but there's no way it's Dreamworks' greatest movie, because that spot will forever belong to Megamind
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u/YogurtclosetDull2380 1d ago
One of the most try-hard pieces of shit in recent memory. I'm honestly quite embarrassed for the adults who found it to be a sweet movie, because it was all so terribly contrived.
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u/madeat1am 1d ago
It felt like it was trying to copy WALL.E but without anything actually interesting
Also the bullies were really cringey and badly written it was hard to watch at how hard they tried ro write them
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u/GenericGaming 1d ago
It felt like it was trying to copy WALL.E but without anything actually interesting
literally the only similarities to WALL.E are:
main character is a robot
the villain is another robot
nature is a theme
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u/Luxating-Patella 1d ago
Quite. You might as well say that The Wild Robot is a knock off of Terminator 2.
Main character is a robot
Villain is a robot
Parenthood is a theme
Plus in both films the protagonist robot becomes a parental figure to an organic and sacrifices themselves for the good of their adopted family.
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u/WrongKindaGrowth 1d ago
Lol. You found it online? Sounds like you stuffed domino's pizza in and cynically watched a cartoon on Christmas alone.
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u/madeat1am 1d ago
I watched it like last week I was just remembering my opinions it
Also posted this on the day after Christmas so nothing you said is correct
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u/WrongKindaGrowth 1d ago
Sure
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u/madeat1am 1d ago
It's the 26th of December mate and has been fot the past 10 and a half hours
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u/WrongKindaGrowth 1d ago
Yea if I google the date I'll get the 25th. You know how timezones work?
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u/madeat1am 1d ago
Do you know how they work? Cos you can't claim to me it's Christmas when it hasn't been Christmas since yesterday
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u/yakayummi 1d ago
I really didn’t like wild robot either, and I don’t mean it like I’m not the target audience, I mean i don’t think it’s a very good kids movie either. it was at best a safe albeit boring family movie that looked nice, and at worst a plagiarism filled snooze fest with cringe inducing dialogue and a millennial pop imagine dragons esque soundtrack. I had no idea why it had garnered so much praise, its message was very lukewarm I thought (animals should be nicer to each other), and its portrayal of motherhood was just okay. But the writing is really what held it back in my opinion. the line where she’s like “I had to delete a line of my code so I could be a mom” or some bullshit just sounded so cheesy to me. and don’t get me started on the “I am the wild robot™️” line ugh.
visually speaking it looked fine but it also did not have a distinct style, it looked like a rip off of every successful kids animated movie of the last 20 years (zootopia, walle, iron giant, even the sort of hand sketched vibe of spiderverse). the music as I mentioned before was extremely forgettable and copy paste uplifting pop.
maybe this unfair to do, but compare wild robot to wall-e, and you’ll see how there are practically no stakes here (like the robot has to go home and leave the animals back in nature? Ok??). wall-e on the other hand has a very nuanced and powerful message about technological dependence and consumerism while also being a lighthearted and funny kids movie. I’m not saying all kids movies need to have some deep complex theme or even have some unique distinctive animation style like spiderverse or princess kaguya or something, but I think the best kids movies are just as enjoyable for adults as they are for children. maybe im just blinded by nostalgia, but then again there are kids movies that I still really appreciate as an adult.
A great example of this is the Pixar movie Soul, I watched it with my younger cousins and I enjoyed it just as much as them because of the creativity and maturity of its themes, as WELL as the humor/wit. it’s a very existential movie by nature, but even so there was a lot of originality in its message I think. watching the wild robot nearly felt like watching a movie for babies in a way but idk.
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u/qualityvote2 1d ago edited 9h ago
u/madeat1am, there weren't enough votes to determine the quality of your post...