Starring: Lupita Nyong’o, Pedro Pascal, Catherine O’Hara, Bill Nighy, Kit Connor, Stephanie Hsu, Mark Hamill, Matt Berry, Ving Rhames
OUR RATING: ★★★★☆
Story: DreamWorks Animation sci-fi adventure written and directed by Chris Sanders. The Wild Robot (2024) centers on the journey of a robot ROZZUM unit 7134, “Roz” (Lupita Nyong’o) for short, that is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island and must learn to adapt to the harsh surroundings, gradually building relationships with the animals on the island and becoming the adoptive parent of an orphaned gosling.
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Most Touching and Heart-wrenching The Wild Robot Quotes
Roz: I am Rozzum 7134. A Rozzum always completes its task. Just ask.
Roz: [referring to Brightbill] That gosling stalks me, emits noise, and makes simple tasks more complicated or impossible.
Pinktail: As far as he’s concerned, you’re his mother now.
Roz: I do not have the programming to be a mother.
Pinktail: No one does. We just make it up.
Pinktail: As a mother of seven, six babies, it’s a full-time thing. But it’s not all bad. Just mostly bad.
Fink: I’m a fox. I do foxy things. It’s in my nature.
Roz: I’m a robot. I do roboty things. I seek tasks and ensure all essential needs have been met or exceeded.
Fink: Me, the bear, everybody, we’re all just trying to survive. And kindness is not a survival skill.
Roz: Eating this task is not the same as completing it.
Fink: Storytelling is lying-adjacent, and I lie for a living.
Roz: I will not leave until I have completed this task, which has delayed me, damaged me, and violated my protocols, potentially voiding my warranty.
Fink: [to Brightbill] Which is robot for, she loves you very much.
Fink: When you grow up without something, you spend a lot of time thinking about it.
Baby Opossum 1: Death’s proximity…
Baby Opossum 2: Makes life burn all the brighter.
Brightbill: [to Roz] You don’t understand anything. You don’t feel anything. You’re not my mom.
Roz: I’m just making stuff up. I don’t know what I’m doing, and I have to. I have to because he’s relying on me.
Roz: You are not a goose expert, are you?
Fink: I know how they taste. That’s about it.
Fink: [to Roz] Don’t take this the wrong way, but I’m not sure I’d want to see the sort of place you actually fit in.
Thunderbolt: [to Brightbill] So, you think small wings to be a disappointment? Small wings are teeth, the claws of the sky.
Longneck: [referring to Brightbill] He has a chance if, here his wings end, his heart can pay the balance.
Longneck: From what I’ve seen, Brightbill’s heart is much bigger on the inside than the outside. Endurance.
Longneck: The accident that killed your family saved you.
Brightbill: I never thought of it that way.
Longneck: Funny how life works.
Fink: [to Brightbill] Hey, little guy. Fly like you, not like them.
Roz: Brightbill is where he belongs. And now you can return to your solitary life of struggling to survive on an island where everything wants to kill and eat you.
Fink: Yeah! And you can go to that place you’ve never been and don’t know what’s going to happen to you.
Longneck: Sometimes hearts have their own conversations.
Fink: No one likes me.
Roz: Nor me, but right now we are their only chance. Funny how life works.
Fink: We all got one chance to see next spring. Because of her. The thing. The monster. Well, her name is Roz. And while you all ran from her, and stole from her, and made fun of her, all she’s been trying to do is raise her kid. The little one that no one gave a chance. Including me. She’s the one who got you out of the storm, built this place. And despite my suggestion that she let you all freeze, she risked everything to bring you here.
Roz: I know you all have instincts that keep you alive. But sometimes to survive, we must become more than we were programmed to be.
Roz: I am already home, thank you.
RECO: You do not belong here. This is a wilderness.
Roz: And I am a wild robot.
Brightbill: What happened was not your fault. But what you did to try and fix it is everything. I love you, Mom.
Roz: I love you too.
Roz: [to Brightbill] I was listening with a different part of myself. Wherever that is, that’s where I keep me. And I promise they’ll never, ever find it.
Roz: You gained far more than just saving me. You came together as an island.
Roz: This is my migration, and when it is time, I promise I will find my way home.
Fink: Roz. She had some strange ideas. Thought kindness was a survival skill. And you know what? She was right.
Roz: [as she sees Brightbill] Hello. I am Rozzum 7134. But you can call me Roz.