As our Robot Dreams review explains, this animated movie might even make your heart break at times with its gorgeous animation.
Most kids remember forever the books they were given about cute animals, like Tarka the Otter or Charlotte’s Web, in which, after the author spent the entire book triggering empathy for fellow living things, they lead to a tragic ending in which the major critter character dies. To a youngster, that can feel sadistic, and hell, probably at least some percentage of you reading this aren’t over the death of a fictional character you identified within a story like that.
Dog’s life is instantly better. He and Robot go out for dinner, they dance in the park, hold hands, go to Coney Island, and even swim underwater in the ocean. That last one proves a severe miscalculation, though. After both of them come ashore and fall asleep on the beach, they awaken after dark to find it closed and Robot rusted stiff. Dog can’t move him but vows to come back the next day with tools to fix him.
Nobody kisses or has sex in this cartoon, and it wouldn’t be outside the pale to imagine it as a tool to teach young children about divorce if one must. Yet its reliance on unspoken feelings and lack of entirely satisfactory resolution feels more grown-up, like life as an adult when friends move away become preoccupied with something else, or stop communicating for a thousand different reasons.
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