Despite its machine-and-animal cast, “The Wild Robot” is a welcome step toward humanity for big-budget, studio animation. This story originally appeared in Los Angeles Times.

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(Pedro Pascal, Catherine O’Hara, Matt Berry, Ving Rhames and Mark Hamill voice some of the animals.) But the question remains: does “The Wild Robot” have a post-credits scene? As you’ll ...

“Roz sees the animals as having individual programming, which is just her way of looking at things. She puts their behavior in terms she can understand.” Indeed, the robot’s accidental crash ...

Well, it’s uninhabited by people, but it is teeming with animal life. As the robot attempts to activate the beacon that will help the company that made it to locate it, the animals investigate ...

In the opening scenes of “The Wild Robot,” a chirpy metal android with a state-of-the-art processing unit wanders around a forest asking confused animals if it can help them, offering discount ...

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Despite its machine-and-animal cast, “The Wild Robot” is a welcome step toward humanity for big-budget, studio animation.

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