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From: moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com>
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Subject: Re: THE WILD ROBOT (no spoilers)
Date: Sun, 25 May 2025 11:31:42 -0400
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On 5/25/2025 1:29 AM, Your Name wrote:
> On 2025-05-25 02:37:18 +0000, moviePig said:
>>
>> 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 was okay, but not great. The storyline was simply too 'blah' to be 
> particularly interesting.

Being based on a kids' book probably allowed little story leeway.