Where the Robots Grow

It's hard to explain just how bad this movie is. Let's start with a positive: I applaud the creators for attempting to use AI as a creative tool. Whether we like it or not, AI will increasingly help film makers with arduous tasks like rotoscoping, storyboarding, shot and sound fixes, etc. And in the right creative hands, the creation of images, scenes, characters, etc. In the wrong hands, you get a movie like this.

In the first ten minutes I thought the horrible writing, voice acting and pacing were intentional and would, in time, reveal a clever creative technique that pays off as the film progresses. That never happened. The film is badly executed on almost every level: writing, editing, sound mixing, flat and lifeless voice acting almost is if no one gave the "actors" any direction. The AI animation stutters, as if the frame rate is mismatched somewhere in the pipeline.

While some of the imagery is quite striking, beautiful, etc. It simply cannot compensate for the above mentioned flaws - there's just nothing to hang on to or care about, which is a shame.

This movie is ugly to look at. I understand that the stylistic destine might not be for me but I can't for the life of me understand why they made this movie look so soulless and uninspired. I look at the cast and feel nothing the movie feels like nobody put any love into the characters or background. I had to force myself to watch this all the way through this movie because i could not stay invested with the cast. I can not for the life of me tell you anything that was happening or the names of anything in the movie. Stuff just happened because it could Skip this movie it is soulless, lacks creativity ,and motivation. Skip this movie its not worth your time.

Genuinely God awful.

Every scene is drawn out and boring, which doesn't help that the characters within said scene look bland. They have no sense of personality at all.

Plus, AI? Really? Sad.

It really hurts to see that this film ended up so poorly. I really do like the premise, despite it being rather basic in all honesty.

The script seems near-completely AI generated, like someone asked ChatGPT to ''write a script similar to the Wild Robot'' and didn't reread what ChatGPT wrote. It's that basic.

I wouldn't recommend this to anyone. Visuals could've saved this trainwreck, but even those were generated by AI.

Well this is it, 1/10 is now reserved for the A. I. trash compactor from now on out. Because now even the worst of the worst movies should reserve a higher score for having actual effort. Birdemic, The Emoji Movie, Disaster Movie etc. They're trash but at least someone actually went through the effort.

Slaving yourself to a machine's output is now the lowest human morale. Beats rehashing sequels, terrible remakes, terrible CGI. This is the new rock bottom.

"Where the Robots Grow is film for all the family. Set in a future where Earth's last survivors send robots to farm a new world called Oracle. The latest model of robot, Cru, finds his purpose in life redefined by a pod carrying the last human baby. The first release by AiMation Studios"

I've seen cursed artwork generated with artificial intelligence, seen animations created with artificial intelligence (thanks to Showrunner), and even used artificial intelligence to make music...but...this is it. I've reached the bottom of the barrel. I was so shocked by this that I nearly fainted. As a hater of AI, I couldn't believe that an animated movie out of all things can be made with artificial intelligence.

This movie was generated using, you guessed it, artificial intelligence. And I thought Disney, Rovio, and Coca-Cola were already on board with artificial intelligence. However, making an AI-GENERATED MOVIE is going things too far. Like the other items that can be generated using AI, this AI animated movie is incredibly dull and lifeless, particularly the voice acting, which is extremely dull. I have already disliked this idea ever since the trailer came out, and also still hate it when it was released on October 2024.

It's a film that even those who despise artificial intelligence might watch. Don't even watch this film.