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From: moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: THE WILD ROBOT (no spoilers)
Date: Sat, 24 May 2025 23:22:01 -0400
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On 5/24/2025 11:07 PM, Ted Nolan <tednolan> wrote:
> In article <100tvov$15j0g$2@dont-email.me>,
> moviePig  <nobody@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>> Shipwrecked on a forested island, a robot learns to talk to the animals.
>>   Although Dreamworks's THE WILD ROBOT, on Netflix, was well-received by
>> critics and audiences, it didn't quite rise above my cloy threshold.
>> (It's no IRON GIANT.)  However, it's been a while since I've watched
>> state-of-the-art animation, and I was transfixed.  Recommended.
> 
> It kind of jumped the shark for me when the animals pledged to stop
> eating each other and started building fires.

My inner shark had hopes early on when the baby possum got eaten.  But 
then, 10 seconds later...