The Wild Robot(2024)

Submitted by Jeremy

A helper robot, ROZZUM-7143, or “Roz” (voiced by Lupita Nyong’o), is washed up on an unknown island. After adapting to the language of the animals, she finds and adopts a gosling that she later names Brightbill (voiced by Kit Connor), after accidentally killing his mother and unhatched siblings. Roz and a fox named Fink (voiced by Pedro Pascal)raise Brightbill and teach him to swim, gather food, and fly, but Brightbill is disheartened to find out that Roz was responsible for what happened to his family.

Roz eventually helps Brightbill fly and join a flock of geese led by Longneck in their migration. Feeling sad over having to part with her “son”, Roz activates a beacon that sends a signal for her manufacturer, Universal Dynamics, to retrieve her, only to turn it off and shelter in a house she made for the winter. Later, Roz and Fink gather the other animals in the house to shelter them all, even having them form a truce to not attack each other.

Brightbill and the other geese return in the spring after losing Longneck when he sacrificed himself after they were attacked by armed UD bots. A UD ship led by a tentacled bot named Vontra comes to retrieve Roz and all the information she obtained on the island. After Roz changes her mind to stay with Brightbill, Vontra sends more armed bots after them. The animals fight back to protect Roz, but Vontra blows up the bots and sets the forest on fire. She takes Roz with her but Brightbill and the other geese lead a rescue after her. Brightbill turns Roz back on after Vontra tried to wipe her memories after he tells her she is his mom and he loves her. The two use a magnet to shut Vontra down while the other geese use the ship’s cannon on itself to destroy it. The other animals work together to bring down a large tree to redirect water from the river to put out the fire.

Roz willingly returns to UD for the protection of the other animals. Fink finds more friends among the other animals and continues to tell the kid animals stories of Roz. She is seen working at a UD greenhouse, seemingly reprogrammed, until Brightbill visits her, and she lovingly recognizes him.