{"id":12957,"date":"2018-10-30T14:04:03","date_gmt":"2018-10-30T18:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=12957"},"modified":"2018-10-30T14:04:03","modified_gmt":"2018-10-30T18:04:03","slug":"next-gen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/next-gen\/","title":{"rendered":"Next Gen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{4\/5} &#8220;What a team we make. A broken robot and a broken little girl.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Next Gen<\/strong>, released in 2018<\/p>\n<p>Mai is a teenager who is always angry. Her mom pays more attention to her robot than to her, and her dad is gone. She comes across a robot that&#8217;s different than others &#8212; it seems like he could be her friend. Maybe he could even help her with the school bullies.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the predictable nature of the plot, I enjoyed this movie. The characters of Mai and 7723 are interesting and will pull you through the movie.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about friendship.<\/p>\n<p>Stars the voices of John Krasinski, Michael Pe\u00f1a, and David Cross. Directed by&nbsp;Kevin R. Adams (layout artist on <strong>The Emperor&#8217;s New Groove<\/strong>) and&nbsp;Joe Ksander (animation director on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/nine\/\"><strong>9<\/strong><\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{4\/5} &#8220;What a team we make. A broken robot and a broken little girl.&#8221; Next Gen, released in 2018 Mai is a teenager who is always angry. Her mom pays more attention to her robot than to her, and her dad is gone. She comes across a robot that&#8217;s different than others &#8212; it seems [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[68,6,5,8],"class_list":["post-12957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","tag-animation","tag-movie","tag-review","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12957"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12958,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12957\/revisions\/12958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}