2024, Chris Sanders (The Croods) -- download
A cargo ship loses some domestic service robots and they wash up on the shores of an unknown island which, based on the flora and fauna, is probably off the coast of BC. The robot wakes up expecting to meet a customer and only finds curious and/or fearful wildlife. She (well, we identify her as she because of voice, and... motherhood?) eventually learns the "language" of cartoon animals which doesn't make them less frightened, and in one escapade crushes a goose nest, leaving only one surviving egg, which, of course, hatches and imprints upon her. Time to raise a goose (Kit Connor, Heartsopper); she finally has an assigned task. Along the way she is guided / pestered by a fox named Fink (Pedro Pascal, The Mandalorian), and she is now called Roz (Lupita Nyong'o, The 355).
The movie is your typical heart warming story of family and love between those with great differences. The robot goes beyond her programming, the goose learns to be a goose from a fox and a robot, and all the animals, predators and prey alike, learn to get along when they have to. Its sweet. Its expected to be.
I loved that the movie used "circle of life" to horror and comedic effect, in that yes, cute animals kill and/or eat other cute animals. I was somewhat disappointed in the lack of world building, in that we know this is all around humans and their subservient robots, but, and I am sure it was intentional, we don't really see many humans come into play. I was kind of expecting the whole thing to take place in a distant future where all the humans the robots served were dead & gone and they were just continuing on with their assumed functions, but no... no such creativity. Still, there was some great voice work done, and in the end, once I look at most of the roster of Dreamworks, it was a successful movie.
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