Rent Robot Dreams (2023)

Should Have Charged the Batteries Up Earlier - Robot Dreams review by Strovey

This film has no actors or voice artists in the credits because there is no dialogue. Apparently, some of the on-screen noises were made by Ivan Labanda but no credits were given.

The film therefore lives and dies on its animation, here it is of the cutesy style instilled with realistic situations, so anthropomorphic animals live in New York but like every stripe of beast the real inhabitants are.

The open montage of Dog making Robot is superb and reminded me so much of making furniture and other items that have been delivered to me over the years, it was, I would say, perfect.

From here on in you get what is basically a love story with friends who become firm friends and get into adventures but then end up in a difficult situation that sees them separated and from there on in what happens.

To the writers and director’s credit for a cartoon that youngsters can watch the story resolves fairly realistically, or non-Hollywood.

So saying the story was interesting and adult in style, fun and sad, and the animation was good where is the problem?

Length and meandering.

Being subjective to get from the Start A, to the resolution of say G, the story goes to every letter in between when to get the point across it could have been A to D at the least.

To sum up, what started as interesting and fun at the beginning, started to lag seriously in the middle, my attention wandered, but picked up near the end. I would say this was a huge minus point on what was a fun, well-made, interesting animation, telling a different story that a lot of adult viewers could relate to.

Maybe worth a watch and if your viewing patience is better than mine, all the better for you.