The Wild Robot — You Dead Fucking Robot
One of us cried watching The Wild Robot on a plane. Another didn’t cry at all, and got a text from the next room calling him a dead fucking robot.
Pacco picked this one. It’s Chris Sanders’ 2024 DreamWorks adaptation of Peter Brown’s book: a service robot called Roz washes up on an island full of animals, accidentally orphans a gosling, and has to work out how to raise him. Lupita Nyong’o voices Roz, and Pedro Pascal is the fox, which some of us only clocked when the credits rolled.
Along the way there’s a possum mum who loses track of her own kids, the Australian animal that throws its young…
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