Movie review: 'Wild Robot' delivers more emotional robot dreams

LOS ANGELES, Sept. 23 (UPI) -- Robots in film tend to be vehicles for exploring humanity. In animation particularly, The Wild Robot joins The Iron Giant and Wall-E as a poignant tale of human growth through the eyes of a sentient robot.

Rossum-7134, or Roz (Lupito Nyong'o) for short, crashes on a future Earth. In the forest with only animals around, Roz tries to adapt her task as a human assistant to nature.

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