The Wild Robot

Lupita Nyong'o is doing fantastic voice work here. The whole cast is great.

It’s sentimental stuff, certainly, but the picture’s unexpectedly dark humour outweighs any maudlin tendencies.

It's got lots of lovely life lessons.

The stamp of human warmth lifts the film far above the familiar robot cuddle-fest it could easily have been.

Family audiences rejoice! The Oscar for Best Animated Film belongs right here in this enchanting tale of a robot, voiced by the amazing Lupita Nyong'o, who finds herself playing mother to a baby goose. The result is spectacular in every sense of the word.

All this is represented in gorgeous, fluid images that incline towards the painterly. Voice work is spot on. Nyong’o combines the otherworldly with an audible emotional catch.

THE WILD ROBOT is wholesome and beautifully animated.

The animation style is unique and storybook-esque, while themes are strong and multi-layered.

Almost feels like DreamWorks meets Studio Ghibli.

Lupita Nyong’o, Kit Connor, and Pedro Pascal form the emotional core of this heartfelt film. It’s a perfect family movie.

Sanders may pay tribute to the palette of Miyazaki and to classic Disney animation, but his nihilist reflex gives way to commercial sentimentality, reducing morality to manipulation.

Oscar-nominated for Best Animation, Sound and Original Score, Chris Sanders' tender-hearted, meaningful saga is the best family film of 2024. As for a sequel, it's inevitable since this encompasses only part one of Peter Brown's trilogy of YA novels.