The Wild Robot Parents Guide

I wrote this The Wild Robot Parents Guide to help you know what is in the movie. All opinions are my own.

Right from the start you are pulled into this mutery and fun adventure. There is a lot of humor – both for kids and adults – but there is a great emotional balance to the movie. You feel a variety of emotions during the movie. There is something for every level and for all ages.

The Wild Robot movie is raw and real. The storyline keeps you engaged from the first second it starts, and you really dont’ want it to end. There is great character development, storyline, depth, meaning, and all the feels.

I love the theme of the movie – that one “person” can truly make a difference – and to just be who you are. This can speak to everyone in any part of their lives, male or female. It is SO important to be ourselves. But we also want to feel loved and accepted – so we do that by being who we are and that is seen, even if just by one other.

The animation is spot on – I really enjoyed the way they did the whole movie. From the music to the characters, it was way better than I expected. I appreciate that it is uplifting and clean.

The Wild Robot is only in theaters on 9/27/24

The Wild Robot is rated PG for action/peril and thematic elements. It runs for 1hr 41m.

There is ONE end-credit scene for The Wild Robot.

Sex & Nudity & Innuendos – 0/5 – None

Violence & Gore – 1/5 – Roz lands on a nest and accidentlly kills the mother and all the eggs but one. It shows her lifting a limp wing, sorting through broken shells, and then finding the egg. It shows an “x-ray” of the baby bird in the egg.

A possum is eaten by a predator off screen, sound effects are a little wild. Shellfish are crawling around and then thrown into hot water to boil and then eaten.

Profanity – 1/5 – 2 use of God. Use of other words like sucks, weirdo, etc.

Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking – 0/5 – none

Frightening & Intense Scenes – 1/5 – There are a few scenes where it can be frightening or intense – but only for very young viewers. A bear chase scene, a scene where the birds are getting shot at, another scene where robots are attacking the animals to get to ROZ, and a fire.

Other things to note – There are a couple of times the robot is learning and so she says things like “Humor is based on misfortune” and things similar to that, so you might have to talk to your kids about those things to make sure they understand that that is not the right way.

THE WILD ROBOT is a fantastic adventure about learning who you are and helping as many as possible along the way!

THE WILD ROBOT Parents Guide

About THE WILD ROBOT:

Genre: Animated Drama

Starring: Lupita Nyong’o, Pedro Pascal, Catherine O’Hara, Bill Nighy, Kit Connor, and Stephanie Hsu, with Mark Hamill, Matt Berry, and Ving Rhames

Based on: The Wild Robot novel by Peter Brown

Written and directed by: Chris Sanders

Producer: Jeff Hermann

From DreamWorks Animation comes a new adaptation of a literary sensation, Peter Brown’s beloved, award-winning, #1 New York Times bestseller, The Wild Robot.

The epic adventure follows the journey of a robot—ROZZUM unit 7134, “Roz” 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.

The Wild Robot stars Academy Award^® winner Lupita Nyong’o (Us, The Black Panther franchise) as robot Roz; Emmy and Golden Globe nominee Pedro Pascal (The Last of Us, The Mandalorian) as fox Fink; Emmy winner Catherine O’Hara (Schitt’s Creek, Best in Show) as opossum Pinktail; Oscar^® nominee Bill Nighy (Living, Love Actually) as goose Longneck; Kit Connor (Heartstopper, Rocketman) as gosling Brightbill and Oscar^® nominee Stephanie Hsu (Everything Everywhere All at Once, this summer’s The Fall Guy) as Vontra, a robot that will intersect with Roz’s life on the island.

The film also features the voice talents of Emmy-winning pop-culture icon Mark Hamill (Star Wars franchise, The Boy and the Heron), Matt Berry (What We Do in the Shadows, The SpongeBob Movie franchise), and Golden Globe winner and Emmy nominee Ving Rhames (Mission: Impossible films, Pulp Fiction).

A powerful story about the discovery of self, a thrilling examination of the bridge between technology and nature and a moving exploration of what it means to be alive and connected to all living things, The Wild Robot is written and directed by three-time Oscar^® nominee Chris Sanders—the writer-director of DreamWorks Animation’s How to Train Your Dragon, The Croods, and Disney’s Lilo & Stitch—and is produced by Jeff Hermann (DreamWorks Animation’s The Boss Baby 2: Family Business; co-producer, Kung Fu Panda franchise).

Peter Brown’s The Wild Robot, an illustrated middle-grade novel first published in 2016, became a phenomenon, rocketing to #1 on the New York Times bestseller list. The book has since inspired a trilogy that now includes The Wild Robot Escapes and The Wild Robot Protects. Brown’s work on the Wild Robot series and his other bestselling books have earned him a Caldecott Honor, a Horn Book Award, two E.B. White Awards, two E.B. White Honors, a Children’s Choice Award for Illustrator of the Year, two Irma Black Honors, a Golden Kite Award and a New York Times Best Illustrated Book Award.