I’ve been waiting since Inside Out 2 to take the kiddos back to the movie theater and honestly not much has been worth my money, time, and patience. I was excited to see The Wild Robot preview months ago so when I noticed it was coming to our theater I made sure to add it to the calendar. Popcorn, candy, drinks, and food acquired, the littles and I settled into our seats to watch what turned out to be an absolutely wonderful story.

The Wild Robot follows the story of a robot that washes up on an island with no human inhabitants.  The robot wanders around the island trying to find a problem to solve, a task to do. She ends up taking care of a little gosling and the story follows her trying to get it to maturity and off on it’s first migration.

Throughout the movie, Roz (the robot) takes care of her little gosling that she names Brightbill with the unlikely help of a fox named Fink. As she learns how to care for him she has to constantly re-write her programming to achieve results. At the beginning of her journey Roz has very strict programming that tells her she is supposed to solve a problem and then move on to the next task. But during her months caring for Brightbill all the rewriting of her programming leads her to struggle when the task is complete.

She decides to remain on the island and ends up being the savior to all the animals that thought of her as a monster by bringing them to her shelter during a very harsh storm. Eventually she gets to reunite with Brightbill and the other geese return but then learns that her presence puts the island in danger. She makes the choice to return to where she was supposed to be but retains the part of herself that changed and became capable of emotion.

Yes, okay fine. I cried a couple times during the movie. Especially as a mother The Wild Robot will tug at your heart strings. But I’ll continue to blame Smallz for waterboarding my voodoo doll while I was in the theater cause pffft obviously I don’t have feelings.

You should definitely go see it on the big screen if you can, just for the experience. Who knows when it’ll arrive on Disney!