Those in search of wholesome half-term fare will do no better than "The Wild Robot", "which is the best animated feature since 'Inside Out 2', and is good enough to be called an 'instant classic'", ...

"I would do literally anything for them... I'll clean their dirtiest corners." There's nothing humanity could use more right now than a few good laughs at technology. Don't worry, all this tech ...

There's a good chance The Wild Robot will be remembered as the best animated movie of 2024. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. I had ...

Peter Brown’s middle-grade book, about an intelligent robot living in the wilderness, had been sitting on the shelf at DreamWorks Animation for a bit. No one had quite figured it out. Then Sanders, ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Out of the lab and into the wild. The Wild Robot tells the story of ROZZUM unit 7134, aka Roz (Lupita Nyong’o), an advanced humanoid robot that washes up on a remote island after ...

The film opens on an uninhabited island in the near future, where a Universal Dynamics cargo ship has crashed and left boxes of ROZZUM utilitarian robots scattered across the shore. One, who dubs ...

Robots are often used in animated movies to cast light on uniquely human quirks, which helps explain why they are central to so many classic movies. Some of the best animated movies ever focus on ...

“Big Hero 6” is, shot after shot, an intelligent and artful creation. There’s a scene in which the filmmakers convey a funeral taking place with a medium shot of black umbrellas opening. They pull ...

“It’s pure cinema,” Guillermo del Toro tells me via email, “affecting and gorgeous, and because it’s animation, it is absolutely a creation and not a re-creation.” The revered Mexican director and ...

In another big year for animation, 2023 saw the return from retirement of one its true masters (Hayao Miyazaki, with the acclaimed “The Boy and the Heron”) while an animated feature scored the year’s ...

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