The Wild Robot

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"Sanders may pay tribute to the palette of Miyazaki and to classic Disney animation, but his nihilist reflex gives way to commercial sentimentality, reducing morality to manipulation." - Armond White (National Review).
Nothing to add. A disappointment. Period.
Mark: 5.5 / 10

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