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A review by ponch22
Robot Dreams by Sara Varon
4.0
One of the films nominated for this year's Best Animated Feature Academy Award is Robot Dreams & every year (for the past six years) I've watched every nominated film before Oscar night. When I realized my library had the graphic novel the film was based on, I immediately put a hold on it.
Sara Varon's Robot Dreams was adapted by writer-director Pablo Berger into something even more special than this novel. Told entirely without dialogue, it follows a lonely dog who orders a build-it-yourself robot to hang out with. After a fun day at the beach, Robot gets rusted and cannot move. Dog tries to save Robot but can't, so we follow both over the entire winter as Dog attempts to move on by making new friends and Robot dreams about ways to get back to Dog.
The graphic novel made me realize where the title of the film came from (I'm really slow sometimes) but the film broadened the world and made some of the character choices a little clearer. The novel makes it seem like Dog gives up & moves on too easily and the film uses Earth Wind & Fire's September as a wonderful motif to highlight their relationship.
Berger did a great job adapting/expanding this but it still was a quick, enjoyable metaphor for love, abandonment, and starting over.
Sara Varon's Robot Dreams was adapted by writer-director Pablo Berger into something even more special than this novel. Told entirely without dialogue, it follows a lonely dog who orders a build-it-yourself robot to hang out with. After a fun day at the beach, Robot gets rusted and cannot move. Dog tries to save Robot but can't, so we follow both over the entire winter as Dog attempts to move on by making new friends and Robot dreams about ways to get back to Dog.
The graphic novel made me realize where the title of the film came from (I'm really slow sometimes) but the film broadened the world and made some of the character choices a little clearer. The novel makes it seem like Dog gives up & moves on too easily and the film uses Earth Wind & Fire's September as a wonderful motif to highlight their relationship.
Berger did a great job adapting/expanding this but it still was a quick, enjoyable metaphor for love, abandonment, and starting over.