The kid-friendly journey asks whether technology can replace human friendship, and eventually turns into a mission against the ubiquitous presence of the same
ron got it wrong Begins on a dystopian idea of the future where friends are replaced by robots. Even though the concept is a bit creepy, as the film delves into the plot, it becomes sociable.
Bubble, a tech giant, invents a robot buddy called the Bubble Bot that is designed to help kids make friends. They’re cute R2-D2-sized robot friends (their voices are nothing like R2-D2) who connect with other robot friends, download information about a human owner/friend, share photos, and more. do everything that a social medium currently does.
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Barney (Jack Dylan Grazer), a kid who lives in a barn house, learns he’s the only one at school who can’t buy a bubble bot. While everyone at school is busy leaving their digital footprint online, befriending unknown people around the world, Barney rocks, goats, his widowed father Graham (Ed Helms) and his strange-but-fun grandmother Donka (Olivia Coleman). ) tries to work with. ) Eventually, seeing Barney sad, his father gives Barney a cheap, useless bubble bot as a birthday present; One that accidentally fell from a van and went a bit on the fritz.
ron got it wrong
- Director: Sarah Smith, Jean-Philippe Vines
- Voice Cast: Zach Galifianakis, Jack Dylan Grazer, Ed Helms, Justice Smith, Rob Delaney
- The Story: The coming-of-age story of Barney, a socially awkward middle-schooler, and Ron, his supposed “best friend out of the box”.
This Bee bot, now named Ron (an incredibly funny Zach Galifianakis) – unlike the others – adapts to old ideas of friendship, remembers what Barney likes, befriends people manually. and saves Barney from threats. On a journey of scripting a code of his own, Ron makes Barney realize that friendship is something you find yourself in at times without any digital help. After a series of chaotic-yet-fun events, Bubble tries to get Ron back by correcting the wrong code.
Under the guise of this friendship, we have also been made to compromise on the amount and privacy of our data available with the tech giants. When Bubble’s owner Andrew (Rob Delaney) says that the whole idea of harvesting data was to increase consumerism and make kids dependent on technology, an uncomfortable truth shows on our faces as to the kind of privacy we’ve had. is used. For the tech giants in this digital age. The engineer who invented the Bee Bot, Mark (Justice Smith) – an interesting name – helps Barney in his mission to save the world from the tech giant.
This is where the film starts getting a bit confusing, as it spins everywhere. Even though the initial question asked was whether technology could replace human friendship, ultimately the mission turns into a fight against the ubiquitous presence of technology.
The feelings of friendship between the two also do not go beyond the surface; Even though the voice-acting, characters’ emotions and animation are on point, the connection is skin-deep at best. Remember how emotional Woody was when he raced to prove his loyalty against Buzz’s arrival toy Story, or when WALL-E falls in love with EVE?
Despite the film’s overall fascinating nature, Bubble’s headquarters is a giant bubble that looks very colorful on the surface, but its users’ data is stored in a dark underground, pointing to the deep web of our connections with social media. does. A thought leaves its indelible mark till the end. That it’s not impossible to have robot-friends out-of-the-box as best friends in the future… and that can’t be a totally bad thing?
Ron Gone Wrong is currently streaming on Disney+ Hotstar
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