A friendship with a top-secret robot turns a lonely girl's life into a thrilling adventure as they take on bullies, evil bots and a scheming madman.... (Full plot summary below)
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A friendship with a top-secret robot turns a lonely girl's life into a thrilling adventure as they take on bullies, evil bots and a scheming madman.
Leave your thoughts about Next Gen.
| 54disneyreviews.comRachel WagnerThe PG rating is pushed so it may not be for small children but overall I enjoyed it |
| Common Sense MediaRenee SchonfeldGreat animation, solid messages; lots of cartoon violence. |
| DeciderJoel KellerGreat voice performances, some funny moments, and a central relationship that will immediately suck you in makes Next Gen a fun watch for the entire family. |
| The Daily DotEddie StraitYes, it shares many similarities with The Iron Giant (also available on Netflix). No, it's not as good as that Brad Bird film. But Next Gen has its charms. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperOne certainly can't fault [it] for playing it safe or taking its foot off the accelerator.There's a LOT going on in this ambitious, visually impressive, sometimes entertaining but ultimately overstuffed and overlong adventure. |
| User ReviewWrena PLoved it! Main character was annoying and selfish but hey thats probably a true depiction of todays teens. |
| User ReviewHeather G5 stars seems a heavy rating to give a film, but I honestly believe it deserves 5 stars. Thanks to it being a Netflix original, this animated film was not bound by the limitations of a cast of well known, strict producers. And yet, despite this, they also manage to not make the whole film a not safe for work mess that animated adult content tend to sadly fall into (looking at you, sausage party). It's not exactly an "adult" film, but it's not "for kids" either. This film knows who it's audience is. Closer in audience to Coco, but with more bleeped out cussing. It takes all the tropes that past robot animated films have had, combines them, and multiplies the good parts by ten. A rebellious little kid with abandonment issues (who even shows this in ways real kids with those issues do) in need of a support system. A confused, killer robot who is sweet as can be, who wants to be that support system. An evil looming in the background, not clearly defined until the last half of the movie. Fights are had, mistakes are made, but never once did I find the character building to be tedious to watch. Because there is a LOT of character building moments here, a lot more than most animated films in my opinion. Character building is the good stuff. It's the meat, the core of the film, it's what makes you grow insanely attached till the end. They reeeally did right by me in that aspect. I was enamored by their antics for the first chunk of the film. The tone is not that love of technology is bad, but that you should not neglect real world responsibilities because of it, and that in the wrong hands it can be used to abuse others. In the right hands, it can not only be a tool for good, but be your best friend. There's also some lessons about letting others help you when you're suffering, about being able to lean on someone else for support when you've gone through emotional trauma like the main character did. The morals don't feel super in your face or preachy, which I very much liked. It's just a story that happens to have a few lessons in it. As a final word, I just wanna say how sweet the girl and robot's relationship is. She's kinda a jerk to him at a point because her abandonment issues have messed up her moral judgement, but then he makes it clear he never intends to leave her. The affection between she and her robot friend is so blatant and cloy, and I can't remember the last time I've seen that in a robot film, if ever, outside of WALL-E (but that was romance and this is not). Really pulled at my heartstrings. I can't believe something this amazing came out of Chinese rage comics. |
| User ReviewGaneus TI absolutely loved this movie. Not only are the visuals in this movie stellar across the board, but they manage to create an incredibly emotion ride with themes and characters that are very mature and important to understand, especially for children. I'd even go as far as to say that PIXAR would struggle to make this movie as good as it is. Watch it however you can, I promise, you won't regret it! |
| User ReviewRachel AThe film delivers a great message throughout its run. Great voice casting, wonderful music; beautiful visuals. Next gen tops everything. I really enjoyed it from beginning to end. People compares it to big hero 6 and the iron giant but Next gen has its own charm. A great film to watch with the family. |
| User ReviewGoreTony LAmazing from beginning to End. The Animation is superb loving the touch of realism for it being an animation. |
