The Wild Robot came and went here in September 2024. But it did well worldwide. The Wild Robot grossed $325 million worldwide at the box office, making it the sixth-highest grossing animated film of 2024.

A storm causes a Universal Dynamics cargo ship to lose ROZZUM service robots, which wash up on an isolated island. ROZZUM Unit 7134 (aka, Ron) attempts to find a purpose and ends up trying to raise a gosling. Lupita Nyong’o voices Roz as she frequently overrides her programming to accomplish her task. Rob makes friends with a snarky fox, Fink, voiced by Pedro Pascal. Together, Rob and Fink help the gosling, Brightbill (Kit Connor) learn to swim and fly.

I liked Catherine O’Hara as Pinktail, a maternal Virginia opossum who gives Roz some advice on raising Brightbill, Bill Nighy as Longneck, an elderly barnacle goose who helps Roz understand teaching Brightbill how to fly, and Mark Hamill as Thorn, a grizzly bear and the island’s most feared predator.

I’m a fan of robots so The Wild Robot entertained me. I suspect many of you would enjoy it, too. GRADE: B+