From the very first scene of The Wild Robot, the new animated movie from director Chris Sanders (How to Train Your Dragon), adapted from the first in a trilogy of children's novels by Peter Brown, the viewer is plunged along with the protagonist into a new and alien world. A robot washes up on the shore of a lushly forested island, surrounded by the flotsam of some sort of wrecked vehicle--a plane? a spacecraft?--and immediately begins scanning the area for someone she can help. Rozzum Unit 7134, voiced by Lupita Nyong'o and soon to be known as "Roz," has been designed to, as she puts it, offer "integrated, multifaceted task accomplishment" to whatever human requests it of her. The problem is, the island where she's washed up has no human inhabitants, and the animals witnessing the arrival of this hulking metal biped regard Roz as nothing but a menacing predator to be either fought or fled. A witty time-lapse montage shows the robot powering down for a bit so her software can learn to decode the animal sounds around her, enabling her to communicate with all the island's denizens.