My thoughts on "The Wild Robot" by Dreamworks

Okay, I know that I said I would quit, and this is just gonna be a giant nothing burger of an issue, but I recently just watched "The Wild Robot" with my sister and dad (because I was force to), and guys...

I should NOT be getting this angry over a kid's movie. It fucking sucked. 

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So, for those who are unaware, "The Wild Robot" is a movie made by DreamWorks about this assistant robot thingy called Roz, that's similar to an Alexa (except if it had a body) and Roz gets stranded on this uninhabited island in god knows where (ooh how original, and creative...), and after learning the (PG friendly) basics about how to survive in the wild, it accidentally kills this mama goose and decides to take care of the little baby goose (who's called bright bill), and then Roz eventually gets attached to it and this random fox that decided it was gonna be a father for some reason (even though at the beginning it nearly tried to kill Bright bill, as a fox would), and then the rest of the movie is just this robot being a mom to Bright bill and shit with every basic modern day Disney mom movie trope known to man, and near the end, the mom eventually returns home basically abandoning her kid and shit, and that's basically the whole movie, everyone lives happily ever after.

If you think that this movie is one of those would make you yawn and get bored halfway though, that's because it is. 

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First of all, there's that VERY OBVIOUS pro-parent propaganda that pushes the narrative that all parents are these amazing superhero kind of people that are the only people you can rely on for anything and that you should be grateful with their presence because they saved your ass from being obliterated by a laser gun or whatever.

Spoiler alert: NOT EVERYONE HAS A GOOD RELATIONSHIP WITH THEIR PARENTS IN THE REAL WORLD! 

I don't really like being around my parents because they make me feel like I'm only 8 years old and can't think for myself simply because I have autism. And they wanna say that they care about me, but whenever I try to talk to them about how I'm feeling genuinely, they always shut it down by trauma dumping on me and blaming me for any of the problems I have (and then they wonder why I stopped venting to them...), and because of my BPD, I tend to split from them often, sometimes it ends in arguments with me locking myself in my room and crying for over 5 minutes

And that's just my experience with my parents. I can't even imagine how bad it must be for kids that get physically abused by their parents that feel completely helpless because of these movies that push this narrative onto EVERYONE. 

And before any of you little shits say "oh, well I have a good relationship with my parents, so I don't see your point", this post isn't about you, not everyone is as lucky as you.

(funny how an untreated narcissist with an inflated ego happens to have a more open mindset about this topic..)

Also, not to be woke or whatever, but am I the only that's starting to get bothered by the lack of single parent representation that's in these movies or am I just delusional?? Like for some reason this movie also pushes the idea that you HAVE to have both a mom AND a dad in order to live a good life or whatever. 

Of course your life isn't gonna be 100% perfect because you only have one parent, HELL, my life isn't all that great even with BOTH parental figures present in my childhood, but that doesn't mean that every single parent is some neglectful asshole that can't take care of a kid without the other present. And there's a ton of movies made a whole 10 YEARS ago that are better at depicting single parents than the shit made today.

Look at the first fucking despicable me movie. Gru basically had nobody because he was a villain, yet he was able to raise THREE KIDS just as well as families with 2 parents. 

Look at fucking Hotel Transylvania. Dude's wife dies after Mavis was born and there were no other vampires that could help him, yet just like Gru, also did a good job at raising his kid. 

Cloudy with a chance of meatballs, Finding Nemo, Big Hero 6, How to Train your Dragon (the first movie specifically) FUCKING STEVEN UNIVERSE, the list goes on. 

All of those movies and TV shows that I listed have great representation of single parents (with some being better than others), so why did "The Wild Robot" have to get rid of that? 

OH WAIT! because that doesn't make money. So why would they make Roz a single parent when they can just make this fucking fox a dad instead?? 

Obviously, I have both of my parents in my life, so idk what it's actually like as a single parent, but I still feel like this shit needs to be addressed.

UGH, this movie just keeps getting stupider the more I think about it.... 

Setting aside those criticisms for a hot second, this movie also has a VERY basic plot that I've already seen a bazillion times already since 2018, has pro-AI content in it (knew I could count on film theory for predicting this shit), the animation doesn't feel that different from modern-day Disney movies (keep in mind this the same studio that made Puss n Boots: the last wish), the characters are flat as hell (including the main characters, which are supposed to be the most lore-based out of everyone in the film) to the point that it makes me believe that all of them were written by ChatGPT, it's uncomfortably unrealistic to the point where it just irritates (I know it's a kid's movie, but still, there's a difference between "kid-friendly" and just straight up bullshit), along with many other things.

Basically this movie only makes me think about ONE thing: how the film industry is so oversaturated with this ONE plot idea that was successful one time but eventually gets annoying after a while, to the point that EVERYONE is the following the same basic millennial pro-parent bullshit for all of their movies, leaving no room for creative ideas. 

Seriously, what happened to kids movies actually being GOOD? Like, where is the soul being put into these things???? Shit..

All I know is that the minute anyone outside of the stereotypical Disney mom demographic gets attached to this movies, every single streaming service is gonna take it down and replace it with some AI slop that's 10x worse. 

No wonder why media literacy is dead, everything is brainless slop with a copy-and-paste plot, all the actually good movies are being obliterated from the planet, and the millennial moms got their kids addicted to the iPad.

Honestly the only reason why I didn't just get up and sneak back into my room to watch anime instead was because I was smoking weed with my dad while we were watching this, and I was exhausted from going out and getting snacks (and it was the first time I left the house in a while, too, so it took a LOT out of me..)

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Overall, I'd give this movie a 2/10, only because the art style was at least somewhat original. It would've been much better as a short film on Disney+ or some shit like that. 

Idk guys, I'm just so fucking sick of these movies, and I say we bring back all of the movies we used to watch as a kid like the other examples I listed above, and SpongeBob SquarePants, The Land before time, Tinkerbell, EVEN shit from the 80s and 90s like fucking Jem and the Holograms or Transformers for all I care. Just whatever it takes to stop feeding these kids with this ChatGPT ass shit.

Well, that's all from me, I'm gonna go back to bedrotting and watching Shinji from Evangelion getting absolutely traumatized for the billionth time.

see ya nerds! >:p

PS, apologies for all of the cussing, I just do that a lot when something pisses me off (like anyone else would).