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THE WILD ROBOT MOVIE REVIEW
Dreamworks Animation is here with another big prestige project, The Wild Robot. With Chris Sanders at the helm, who directed Lilo & Stitch, How To Train Your Dragon, and The Croods, you can be reasonably sure it’s going to be a good one. And lo, it delivers. The story takes place on Earth in the future. A cargo ship carrying utilitarian ‘helper’ robots wash up on the shore of an uninhabited island. Only one is functional, “Roz” (Lupita Nyong’o) who immediately sets upon interrogating all the woodland creatures around her to find out what her assignment is. After going into a learning mode to observe her environment, she is able to communicate with all the wildlife who definitely want nothing to do with her. When she accidentally destroys a goose nest, the single egg that survives hatches and the gosling imprints on her. With the help of a wily fox (Pedro Pascal) she decides her assignment is to make sure that the tiny Brightbill (Kit Connor) survives and learns to swim and then fly in time to make the trip south for winter. Wright and Chris only got the one animated film in this year at Fantastic Fest, but they are here to weigh in on it.
DIRECTED BY: Chris Sanders
STARRING: Lupita Nyong’o, Pedro Pascal, Kit Connor, Boone Storme, Catherine O’Hara, Bill Nighy, Stephanie Hsu, Mark Hamill, Matt Berry, Ving Rhames
YOUR REVIEWERS
Christopher Lawrence Cox (Founder, Da Boss)
Born in the wilds of northern Virginia, Chris managed to put all of his survival skills to use and barely escaped with his life to Austin Texas in 1992 where ever since he’s dabbled in everything from plumber’s assistant to sandwich maker, from band to bar management. An opportunity to see theatrical release films for free by becoming a critic on a local public access show called “The Reel Deal” turned into a full-time job when Chris and his friends decided to take it to the internet. They built the site Spill.com, adding multiple podcasts and animated features, to no small amount of success. During this time, a fortuitous friendship sprung up between Chris and young Brian Salisbury, who was also a local film critic, and they merged their forces of will, and their laundry list of ideas for shows, to eventually build this community of critics. While Brian eventually followed his heart to a new family, Chris continues on with a cast of colorful folks from all over the country (and a few others). You can also check out Chris in his videocast, along with Martin Thomas and Danni Danger, that One Of Us does with our friends at Bell of Lost Souls: Crossover Event. He also regularly guests on the video game website Rage Select. Follow Chris on Twitter and Facebook and check out his Amazon Wish List.
Wright Sulek (Screener Squad, Digital Noise, Highly Suspect Reviews, Trash in the Can, Audio Editor)
Wright hails from the northern suburbs of Dallas, Texas. His passion for filmmaking brought him to Austin to study and make movies. Since then he’s had his hand in acting, writing, and directing his own short films with numerous like-minded film geeks he’s met along his journey. His newest interest has brought him into the podcasting world. He co-hosted a few different movie related podcasts such as ‘And Now This’ and ‘The Match Cut’. He currently co-hosts with longtime friend, Eric Samaniego, where they talk shop about the grimiest, trashiest, lost gems of movies on their show, ‘Trash in the Can’. Wright also guests and hosts reviews on Screener Squad and Highly Suspect Reviews as well as co-hosts Digital Noise with Chris Cox.
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