I see this kinda positively. Rather have a few masterpieces to watch and garbage to ignore, than a studio that consistently releases subpar pieces, which I would probably all ignore.
look beside Shrek 3 and how to train your dragon 3, none of dreamworks movies are out right bad (cant remember a lot of shark tail even when I saw it as a kid and liked it), it is mostly the audience that overhate the "garbage" and overrate the "masterpieces", most of them are competent films with wildly deferent taste both as movie and the way the "sellout". also films like "turbo" and "bee movie" have cute harmless mistakes, ones that you can laugh with or at.
@@emonadeoSadly is always tragic because regardless of quality the end result the same everyone that did great job was burn out and left the industry as whole.
I really liked Fink, somehow my sister didn't like it for some odd reason, (maybe because it was 9:00 PM and she wanted to sleep), but she did still like it a little, i enjoyed the movie quite a lot, one new favorite movie added to my list.
I’m always going to be a sucker for the Found Family trope so that’s why I was drawn in XD so for those looking for the wholesome warm fuzzy moments this will definitely scratch that itch
The way I think of these tropes like "Found Family" is bascially Timeless Tropes. Tropes that no matter how many times it's done, if it tugs at your heartstrings a little, the Found Family trope works.
A reminder that this movie will be one of if not the LAST movie to made by Dreamworks in house before every movie going forward will be outsourced to other animation studios. This also means that most of the artists behind this film don’t work at Dreamworks anymore.
@@brelonwy because to cut cost on movie budget on their future films. I personally would prefer them stop being so codependent on big celebrity voice cast but apparently Dreamworks thought the animation budget was the bigger issue
People probably still have gripes that this movie isn’t a silent movie like many people hoped. But as someone who just saw this movie (opening day), lemme tell you: this movie wouldn’t have worked if Rozz or the animals didn’t speak. If you watch the movie, you’ll know. Other than that, it was a really great movie! Beautiful animation, great voice acting, a good story. DreamWorks going out with a bang for 2024!
Honestly they incorporate the talking animals part well in which Rozz learns to speak with animals eventually understanding their language. It didn’t just pull the talking animals thing out of nowhere it connects to the main theme of the story.
Too bad these two movies came out so close to each other. It's definitely hurting Transformers One's box office. As much as I'd love to see a proper Transformers film succeed I'm glad Wild Robot is making more. It's fresher since it's not an installment of a 40 year old franchise. Transformers already has great animated stories such as Prime. Even if we don't get a sequel to One I'm okay with it being a standalone flick. Even then it''s not like this disappointing box office will kill the franchise.
After getting screwed out of directing Bolt at Disney and having Call of the Wild really underperform, Chris Sanders really deserved a win with this movie.
I saw this film yesterday and I bawled like 3-4 times! I really hope that even if it doesn’t get great box office, it’ll go the “Encanto” route and do super well on streaming! I’m also rooting for it to win “Best Animated Feature” at the 2025 Oscars!
As someone who read the book years ago, Ross learning to talk to the animals is the biggest plot point of the Book, I was always confused by people wanting the movie to be silent.
American movie's often suffer from really corny dialogue. Like having characters verbally say how they are feeling instead of just showing it or using modern slang that doesn't fit the universe the characters inhabit, so I can understand where people are coming from.
They want another Wall-E... ...yet gaslighted themselves about Wall-E being a silent film. Just ask them about the later acts on that movie, and how there's actual dialogue there.
Smartasses: “euhhhh this movie isn’t original! It’s based off a book!” Me(fellow smartass): yeah well so are 75% of every anime ever made and most Dreamworks movies. Shut up 😑
It's more original than a sequel to a pre-existing franchise. Plus some of the most iconic animated works of all time have been based on fairytales and books in some form. (Beauty and the Beast and Shrek are my prime examples.) Even Spiderverse was based on various comic stories.
Too bad they came out so close to each other. That as well as poor advertising is definitely hurting Transformers One. Wild Robot is extremely fresh and deserves the success. Transformers One getting a sequel would be awesome but there's already so many good Transformers stories like Prime and Bumblebee I'm fine with it being a one-off.
@@bree4774Personally I would say The Wild Robot. Transformers is good but The Wild Robot is just on a whole other level. And this is coming from a lifelong Transformers fan!
I’m in love with this movie I think my my favorite parts of the movie is the survival aspect Roz mimicking a crab to survive is such good subtle storytelling that didn’t need dialogue But I also love the camera shots here with that one scene in the snow especially My only issue is vontra should have gotten more screen time That’s literally it and yeah I do agree that it was a tad quick but it didn’t really in my opinion make the story and experience less great I also like that roz starts to become more human in expressions and voice acting props to the voice actor for portraying the change so smoothly Deff favorite movie of the year dare I say my favorite robot movie along with wall-E
Me (after watching it): “Now you little blue fluffy director listen to me. You’re annoyingly sensitive. Stop making me cry with your cute family anecdotes!”❤
Finally, and still somehow.....we ignored TRANSFORMERS ONE.......ahhhh.....hope will come eventually, glad at least to see this review, I saw this film yesterday and was almost everything I wanted to be, Chris Sanders as usual the man brings his A+ game to everything he does, to be animation wise this is easily the BEST animated film this year, animation wise, the story was great but I agree would have love it a little more care with the pacing, but overall this is my second favorite film this year and I hope does well, and at least GET THAT OSCAR.....................Now I hope to see a review of my favorite animated film this year...................the one somehow still missing a review, and even got ignored when you mentioned the animated goods of this year been just Inside Out 2 when just a week ago we got a MUCH BETTER ANIMATED MOVIE...............................yes I still talking about TF ONE do that review, for god sakes............EDIT and now I feel stupid as you mentioned at the end, sad to hear you not plan on review it......I just feel sad that an animated channel not do more to get people aware of when an actual good animated film is OUT and need support, so sorry if I bother, hope you reconsider even if you aren't a TF fan, I feel not do a review on that one is kinda sad.
DreamWorks finally made a GREAT movie with a female lead! When was the last time that happened -- Chicken Run? I am happy. Disney should not imagine they have the market cornered on animated heroines (especially not while The Breadwinner and Wolfwalkers exist). YES! A Gravity Falls reference! I didn't think of it while I was watching the movie, but Fink's character really IS a lupine version of Stan Pines.
I went into this pretty blind and thought that it was cute. The shot composition was absolutely gorgeous but I didn’t really find the script or structure to be anything special. Jumped onto letterboxd and found everyone claiming that this was one of the best animated films of the decade, if not one of the best of all time. I’m overjoyed to see so many connecting to this cozy lil’ film. I just don’t see the apparent brilliance of it. Wish that I did!
I pretty much feel the same. Pacing in the first half was terrible and the script was fine but I can't help but adore this movie. The animation is drop-dead gorgeous and I love how the animals move and behave. It's such a cute movie!
@@daveharrenburg7670 That’s funny because the first half was the “better” half for me. I kinda wish that it was a more meditative and quiet experience overall. The first half wasn’t quite that but the second half is where the film really lost me.
@@BreatheForAMoment My issue with the first half was actually that it wasn't meditative and quiet enough! It went from action scene to action scene at a breakneck pace and never gave a chance to relax to really take in the world. Which is a shame when the world looks so good!
GOD HIMSELF SHREK IS BASED ON A BOOK. Same with How To Train Your Dragon. Heck, even the abysmal Boss Baby is based on a damn book! And the incoming Dogman movie too!
I haven't watched your videos in a while, so after an initial shock of seeing that continental grin on your persona (since when does it have one? 😂) i had to click it lmao Good video btw, happy to see you still put out bangers
I think it might be recency bias since I just got out of the theater, but I think Roz from Wild Robot belongs with Wall-E and Baymax, and the Iron Giant with fully worthwhile animated robots. I like that she gets to be the main character, I like how her arc highlights the transition from metaphor to text with feelings of love, and I just love how she moves. So much of the film is her just giving, first her time, and then later her leg, her chance to go home, and even her heart for her son. I'm so glad that all the scars stay, and the moss takes over her body as signs of age, even if it's only a year. I love that she doesn't make the replacement leg, that it's made or her by someone who actually notices the tole it's taken on her to be selfless. I love how the tone of the film shifts from dark to light in her presence once she actually figures out what she's doing, to the point that by the half way point of the film you can't see any of these animals hurting each other, until she doesn't have the strength to keep them at bay. I wish there was the pacing was just a smidge better. A cut of Long Neck spying on Roz and Bright Bill, before he introduces himself, and some better way to make it feel like there weren't three endings. Even still my wife cried, I had a great time. Dreamworks is free to just keep cooking.
Yeah but the book did the story Better. Too bad though it could have taken the the movie from Good to Great But I still Think it's the Best of the Year. Not that many Big Hitters this Year (NO Spiderverse)
As someone who read the first Wild Robot book, I do wish it stayed more faithful to the story beats of the book. I wish characters from the book were in the movie, like Loudwing and Thorn's sister and Mother. I do wish the movie was longer and paced a bit slower. These nitpicks however don't detract my love for this movie.
I'm glad I'm not the only person who thought the movie went too fast lol reading reviews made me feel like I was crazy cos so many said it was slow and I was like ???????? Are you sure we watched the same movie??????
@@fourcatsandagarden Yeah, I saw the scene where Paddler made Roz a new foot and I just thought "Why did he do that?" The movie never established a good reason for why he'd do that for Roz, unlike the book. The movie never explained why Thunderbolt would want to train Brightbill how to fly. A bunch of story beats would've made much more sense if Loudwing wasn't cut out of the movie.
@@jacobcox4565 Paddler could see that Roz was a mother struggling to teach her son to fly with just one foot and he took pity on her, it showed that he's not a total jerk.
Saw this in theaters yesterday and I absolutely loved it. It feels refreshing having a movie that just tells a story and doesn't feel like an hour and a half of product placement. All the characters were written beautifully and further complimented by the animation.
I LOVED this movie! It had great pacing, character development, animation, and a lot of heart! I hope they make a sequel based on the second book in the trilogy!
I thought Transformers One was adequate. It didn't do anything unexpected with the "friends to enemies" formula, and the character inconsistencies seemed forced by existing mythology, but the visuals were lavish and I did not fall asleep.
10:21 Hey now, Bumblebee (2018) was good, and I'll stick up for Rise of the Beasts at least because it was at least coherent in it's story if overstuffed But I'll be checking both TFOne and Wild Robot out at some point, but Transformers takes a bit more priority to me because I am a big fan of the series, and I DO NOT want to return to the dark times of the Bay films
My only critique is that the climax of the book was way longer and had me on the edge of my seat the whole time, and felt so much more grounded, whereas in the movie a bunch of critters destroy like 8 terminator robots in like 60 seconds
I was initially on the fence about the movie with the trailers because i felt that the talking animals thing was pointless (again, just from trailers alone) but after taking peaks at the movie in the theater I work at I gotta say it really charmed me
Watch transformers one it’s also Amazing and you don’t need to be a transformers fan to like it because it’s a origin story PLEASE DONT LET IT FLOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I mainly forgot about this movie before going to see it, only seeing the original trailer, BUT I AM SO GLAD I DID. The feeling of not knowing the story going in is so much better!!!
Hope people in the Animation Community won't DreamWorks's The Wild Robot on the pedestal while starting the toxic trend of "DreamWorks is great again, no more crappy movies" like how people did with The Last Wish. While Ruby Gillman and Orion and The Dark are fairly good, it's still heartless and unfair for the community to keep doing this.
I think everyone is sleeping on Look Back. Which I understand since it's going to be in theaters only for one week. But please see it. Don't let the fact that it's an anime deter you from seeing this movie. Support this lovely film. Created by the same guy who made Chainsaw Man. Support this film about creation, friendship, and tragedy. I think this will be the best animated movie of the year. And it's only around 70-80 minutes long.
Imma be honest... I had only seen one teaser trailer before going, so I went in basically blind. And got whiplash by a talking robot and animals. While enjoyable, I do think it suffers from pacing.
9:20 - Thanks for sharing your thoughts on Transformers One, and yes, it is an infinitely better film than any of the bayformer movies Also, I got to see Wild Robot over the weekend, and very much enjoyed it
The way you spoke about Wild Robot made me think it's already ending its run and I somehow missed it, but no, it's only coming to Ukrainian cinemas in two weeks and a half. Can't wait for it, even so I rarely go see films on the big screens.
It’s pretty dark for a movie to say that a living being comes to the realization that if their caretaker hadn’t accidentally your parents you would have died.
@CellSpex I’ve been waiting for you thoughts on this movie as the wild robot as I gave it a shot but I knew I would love it knowing that creator of Lilo and stitch was the one whom made the wild robot plus this movie will hold special place in my heart as well I’ve felt like a fish out the water knowing that I’ve moved out of my parents place and are now waiting for courts to get involved against my parents for all of the horrible stuff that they have done to me and how they would literally try to on top of entering adult hood we’ll still be autistic doesn’t help at all unfortunately. the wild robot is the third animated movie I’ve seen all year I loved it
I saw this movie during a late evening screening on Friday, and I could barely sleep that night due to how much I had to process the magnitude of the masterpiece I had witnessed.
The animation and music were very nice. But I was ultimately underwhelmed. found the script to be too... direct? I felt like there was a good amount of explaining what would have been better shown rather than told. I dunno, maybe I set too high expectations.
It sounds like you had a mixed experience with The Wild Robot. The animation and music definitely have their own charm, but I can see how a script that leans too heavily on exposition could be disappointing. Sometimes, subtle storytelling can make a narrative more engaging. It’s tough when expectations run high; adaptations can really vary in how they capture the spirit of the source material. What parts did you feel could have been shown more effectively?
@@EpicPixel2024 I find that just creates expectations that end up ruining the sense of discovery that often comes with experiencing the arts. If you want to watch the film then do so. Develop your own opinions before searching for a more detailed explanation of those held by others.
Say what you want about Dreamworks nowadays, but I feel like as the years went on they been playing it a lot more safe when it comes to movie releases. Back then, even though it was a mix bag of quality, it was a risky mixed bag of quality. But after they got brought by Universal in 2016, while we were able to get occasional bangers, it was mostly pretty safe. It was either sequel to pre established franchise and books like Shrek 5 and the bad guys or stuff that makes me think Universal is turning Dream works into the new Illumination like Boss Baby and Trolls. Plus the few times they did do something original it was done dirty. While I do think Dreamworks is still very profitable and successful it’s still subtle decline in quality feeling more mid
It felt like the animation was unfinished. I loved the movie, but it seemed like the pixels weren’t fully rendered. I watched it in Dolby, so maybe that’s how it was intended, but it came off as a bit odd. Anyone else felt the same?
This one exceeded my expectations by MILES :3 It might not be the best animated film ever, or even DreamWorks' best (krhm The Prince of Egypt krhm) but I found it funny, really touching, and gorgeous!
Great movie movie indeed. While I do support animation getting fair treatment from things like academy awards. I wouldn't go as far to say Wild Robot was better than the best live actions films of the year (like Dune Part 2 or Kinds Of Kindness). However I'd be very grateful if this film got Dreamwork's a BAF win. Given that they always have the misfortune of going up against at least one film that some would argue deserved the win (like Walle in 2008 or Rango in 2011). Whatever happens, great job Dreamwork's, I know I'd give your film BAF.
This movie looks like The Last Bastion, but if Bastion could talk and also didn't have PTSD. I love robots with bird friends so much. Makes me think back to E103 Gamme from Sonic Adventure and again, Bastion from Overwatch.
This movie made me cry for HOURS! I was crying in moments during the movie, I was crying at the end of the movie, I was sobbing in the parking lot and then screaming in my car. Even my partner cried and Violet Evergarden can’t bring him to tears. I’m a wreck. I’m watching this movie again
Big respect on being honest and saying it's not "THE BEST animated movie ever made." Not even I think that and I have a STRONG connection with this movie. I do however strongly believe it deserves a place on a list of the best animated movies of all time whether that be on a top 50 or 100 list, and even if that's still debatable the movie being extremely good and more than plausibly being the animated movie of the year is enough~ Leafie a hen into the wild will forever be one of the best animated movies for me and this is the closest the west has gotten to scratching that same itch for me.
Just got out from watching this film. It’s a masterpiece, however the first two acts are the film are waaayyy too similar to the animated korean film “Leafie, A Hen into the Wild.” The third act is where they are different.
I saw Wild Robot a few days ago with my sisters and I really loved it. Dreamworks is one of my all time favorite animation studios (I really love HTTYD and Kung fu Panda), and I’m so glad lots of other people love it too. I love animation. I love this channel, I’ve been introduced to some of my favorite films of all time through this channel, like A Silent Voice, In This Corner of the World and Wolf Children.
Thank goodness I didn’t see any trailer past the teaser. I was actually surprised how the animals and robot talk when I first got to the movie. It was offputting at first, but I ended up loving it.
I'm really glad I saw this movie, namely for the heart behind Roz, Fink and Bright Bill, and the gorgeous, painterly animation. Not to mention how well everything came together in the end with the titular robot helping all the forest animals and vice versa. As for making the animals talk, I found it pretty annoying at times, mostly before Bright Bill hatched. I was fine with giving the animals dialogue as a way to communicate with Roz, but the way they talked felt too contemporary and made me question if they knew anything about human civilization. If they trimmed a little of the dialogue and wrote it in a more timeless manner, then it would've worked better for the forest setting and could've added more to the contrast between it and the robotic nature of Roz (and Bright Bill to an extent). So yeah, I can't say it's among Dreamworks' best films because of that one major issue. That said, it's still a very worthwhile movie and one of the best animated films this year so far, along with "Inside Out 2," "Transformers One," and "Mars Express."
Nah Inside Out 2 & Transformers One are better. But 3rd place is pretty nice too Edit: to whoever keeps liking and then immediately unliking my comments, I will find out who you are.
