Nominated for Best Original Score, Best Sound, and Best Animated Feature 
A helper robot named Roz (Lupita Nyong'o) crashes onto an island with wildlife as the only inhabitants. Her attempts to "help" the natives are met with fear, distrust, and in some cases, violence until she accidentally hatches a goose egg and the gosling imprints on her. Raising an infant of a non-programmed species is hard, so she enlists the help of Fink (Pedro Pascal), a fox, to fill in the gaps of her knowledge.
The moral of this story is Kindness is a Survival Skill, which is frankly a bold choice in this, the worst timeline. It's a little simplistic when you really scrutinize it (wtf is the lynx supposed to do in this socialist utopia? It can't just eat acorns) but for a kid's movie, it's a good baseline.
It does kind of feel like two movies smashed together. There's the expected "robot learns to feel" storyline which takes up the first half, and then it just...keeps going. This isn't necessarily a complaint. We've seen dozens of the "robot learns to feel" stories, but because the beats are so familiar going beyond them can almost feel like fatigue. Like when you watched the first half hour of Up and then you're like, Jesus, there's a whole-ass movie after this?? But life doesn't just stop once your kids leave the nest (ha ha, get it?) and it's nice that the movie acknowledges that.
It's streaming on Peacock.
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