Awards Season is in full swing, and I am personally attempting to make amends for the 2025 Oscar nominees. That is what led me to watching the brand new Dreamworks flick The Wild Robotic, which is streaming with a Peacock subscription). The Greatest Animated function nominee was an excellent watch, with motion and tender emotionality at its coronary heart. And whereas I actually loved the film, I additionally discovered it completely terrifying for various causes.
To be clear, numerous these points have largely to due with phobias of my very own. So if I look like a loopy individual, that is in all probability why. Particularly, an irrational fever I’ve of possums, in addition to raccoons and skunks. All three of those creatures go bump within the night time, and are closely featured all through The Wild Robotic. And that is saying nothing of the thrills which might be really included within the 2024 animated film.
All through the film’s 102-minute runtime, Lupita Nyong’o’s titular character Roz interacts with a wide range of woodland creatures on the island she discovered herself on. However whereas Mark Hamill’s Grizzly Bear Thorn was meant to be the scariest, I discovered myself far more freaked out by the smaller animals strolling round on 4 legs. That features a notable scene the place Roz is attacked by a vicious group of raccoons, which is principally what I believe goes to occur to me any time I stroll previous considered one of them in my everyday life.
Nothing scares me greater than possums, and sadly for me they’re licensed scene stealers within the new Dreamworks movie. The Wild Robotic‘s forged consists of the nice Catherine O’Hara as a mom Possum named Pinktail. She and her numerous infants are completely hilarious all through the film, partaking in gallows humor and attempting (and failing) to efficiently play useless.
Given my phobia of possums, this made The Wild Robotic stuffed with unintended leap scares for myself. And extra confusingly, there was normally a strong chuckle that got here afterward. Discuss a rollercoaster of feelings.
After all, the film itself really had loads of scary moments. The topic and risk of loss of life appeared to looming over Package Connor’s Brightbill. CinemaBlend’s Wild Robotic evaluation overwhelmingly praised the film, which is definitely fairly motion packed. So whereas I may need streamed the film on a sleepy Sunday morning, I used to be handled to far more thrills than I may have anticipated… particularly from the possums, raccoons, and skunks. Phobias do not normally make logical sense, though I’ve to imagine that somebody on the market had an analogous expertise watching the Oscar nominee.
The Wild Robotic is streaming on Peacock, and we’ll need to see if it manages to grab an Academy Award on March 2nd. Let’s simply hope Academy voters haven’t got the identical phobia as me.