Legendary Oscar nominated filmmaker Chris Sanders had triumphed in feature animation once again. After directing an adaptation of Jack London's classic The Call of the Wild, Sanders adapted an number 1 bestselling novel by Peter Brown called The Wild Robot, it's a heartwarming tearjerking science fiction drama about a robot named Roz, who is stranded in a uninhabited island, and must learn to adapt the surroundings and have responsibility of adopting a young orphaned gosling named Brightbill.
Sanders, who wrote and directed the film made the film a masterpiece, with his longtime collaborating partner and executive producer Dean DeBois, and producer Jeff Hermann, Sanders had joined forces with Dreamworks Animation, the studio that made Ruby Gillman: Teenage Kraken, to create this groundbreaking animated masterpiece.
With Oscar Winner Lupita Nyongo in the lead as Roz, along with an all star voice cast, groundbreaking animation, and a heartwarming story that brings the literary phenomenon to life.
With the visual story telling were influenced by films like James Cameron's Avatar films, Brad Bird's Iron Giant, Zemiecks's Cast Away and Kirk DeMicco & Faryn Pearl's Ruby Gillman Teenage Kraken. Sanders, and the film's Head of Story Heidi Jo Gilbert had developed the emotional relationship between Roz & Brightbill.
The voice cast were amazingly well picked, with Lupita as Roz, along with newcomer and British sensation Kit Connor as Brightbill, Pedro Pascal as Flick, and many others, they give their best performance that could give this film an potential Oscar front runner for best animated feature.
Sanders had assembled a team of animators, artists, and VFx designers to create a revolutionary and groundbreaking style that was influence by some of the recent innovations in feature animation with stylized 2d/3d hybrid looks to bring Roz and the world of The Wild Robot to life.
The music and songs were beautiful written and performed, with academy award winner Kris Bowers chosen to write the score and songs alongside pop star and singer-songwriter Maren Morris performing 2 songs written for the film, which includes the indie-folk ballad Kiss The Sky, which is very important to the film.
The film message of tech, climate, survival and tearjerking drama made this film a true winner out of all of the other animated films released this year.
It's one of the best animated films of the year, an unforgettable landmark in feature animation since last year's Across the Spider Verse.
It's a winner.