Ron’s Gone Wrong (2021)

In the terrifying future where kids can no longer make friends, the tech industry steps in and creates B-bots, the best friend they’ll ever have whose personality is based solely on an algorithm reading through their social media. What is a kid who can’t afford to keep up with the ever changing cost of new tech to do? They buy an off the truck, damaged version and try to make do. The film tries to sell a message that the best friends aren’t the ones who are artificially trained to like everything you like, but the result is still a sad commentary on modern reliance on technology and the ubiquitousness of being tethered to a piece of machinery all day every day. To really push that message, it’s rendered in the most generic computer animation possible. It could be Disney or Pixar or Illumination. Surprise, it’s none of those three.