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Here’s How You Can Stream THE WILD ROBOT for Your Next Family Movie Night

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Here’s How You Can Stream THE WILD ROBOT for Your Next Family Movie Night

By Movieguide® Contributor

Teddy Bear Award® nominee and September’s No. 1 movie THE WILD ROBOT is finally available to stream.

Based on Peter Brown’s award-winning book of the same name, THE WILD ROBOT highlights themes of motherhood, love and kindness, making it the perfect family movie available to stream on Peacock or to rent or buy on Apple TV or Prime Video.

“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 logline reads.

For director Chris Sanders, the theme of motherhood sold him on the story.

“It was certainly Peter Brown’s [2016] book, which centers around a lost robot,” Sanders said at The Hollywood Reporter’s Animation Roundtable in 2024. “Of course, I love robots, and the idea of a robot that doesn’t even know it’s lost is just really charming and compelling. But the cherry at the center was the mom story [voiced by Lupita Nyong’o]. I never get to work on things like that. The idea at the very core of THE WILD ROBOT was a mom, and that for me was a really intriguing and compelling challenge.”

READ MORE: WHY THE WILD ROBOT EMBRACED AND CELEBRATED MOTHERHOOD

The film stars Lupita Nyong’o, Pedro Pascal, Bill Nighy, Stephanie Hsu, Matt Berry, Ving Rhames, Mark Hamill and Catherine O’Hara.

“Well, I think Roz 7134 makes us cry because number one, she doesn’t have facial expressions,” Nyong’o told CBN. “What she has is a mission to be of help, and we get that from the very start of the movie, and she goes about trying to do that, but in order to do that, she’s a fish out of water. She’s an alien in this environment, and she has to adapt to it in order to actually finally achieve her goal.”

Thanks to its uplifting themes, Movieguide® nominated THE WILD ROBOT for a Teddy Bear Award®:

WILD ROBOT is a very special movie. It delightfully affirms motherly love. Also, Roz the robot clearly has Christological, allegorical elements. She teaches the animals to love one another and clearly dies and appears to clearly resurrect. That said, her major characteristic is learning to overcome her cold, pre-programmed nature to develop a loving heart. When the company tries to re-program her, the heart takes over, but that’s not the end of the story. There are many animated action violence situations in WILD ROBOT, including animals consuming one another to survive. However, none of these situations are cruel or violent in a scary, troubling way. So, MOVIEGUIDE® recommends WILD ROBOT for children aged six and up. Adults also will love this story, if they have a heart.

READ MORE: THE WILD ROBOT REVIEW


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