Film: The Wild Robot
Cast: Lupita Nyong’o, Pedro Pascal, Kit Connor, Bill Nighy, Stephanie Hsu, Mark Hamill, Catherine O'Hara, Ving Rhames
Director: Chris Sanders
Rating: 3.5/5
Runtime: 102 min.

Oscar-nominated filmmaker Chris Sanders who made his directorial debut at Walt Disney Animation with ‘Lilo & Stitch’ in 2002, takes a wonderfully tender, compassionate break from animation stereotype with Dreamworks’ ‘The Wild Robot.’ This film has a beautifully streamlined uncluttered story and is immensely captivating because of it.

The screenplay by Sanders, adapted from the acclaimed children’s books by Peter Brown, is both emotionally moving and humorously entertaining. There’s also a whole lot of messaging hidden within its folds - some of which are conveyed with an unapologetic heavy hand. Teamwork, cooperation, coexistence, acceptance of those different from you, nurturing, surrogacy, adoption of those less fortunate, choosing love and caring over violence, protection of the ecosystem for survival of the species - are just some of the messages that come through powerfully enough.