

2021·Animation·1h 47m
6.5
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In a world where walking, talking, digitally connected bots have become children's best friends, an 11-year-old finds that his robot buddy doesn't quite work the same as the others do.
Directed by Sarah Smith and Jean-Philippe Vine
family
best friend forever
Rank
#130 in 2021·#4896 overall

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Cast

Jack Dylan Grazer
Barney (voice)

Zach Galifianakis
Ron (voice)

Ed Helms
Graham (voice)

Olivia Colman
Donka (voice)

Rob Delaney
Andrew (voice)

Justice Smith
Marc (voice)

Kylie Cantrall
Savannah (voice)

Ricardo Hurtado
Rich (voice)

Cullen McCarthy
Noah (voice)

Ava Morse
Ava (voice)

Marcus Scribner
Alex (voice)

Thomas Barbusca
Jayden (voice)
Crew

Sarah Smith
Director

Jean-Philippe Vine
Director

Octavio E. Rodriguez
Co-Director

Sarah Smith
Writer

Peter Baynham
Writer

Henry Jackman
Original Music Composer

David Burrows
Editor

Sarah Smith
Executive Producer

Peter Baynham
Executive Producer

Julie Lockhart
Producer

Till Nowak
Art Direction

Christian Kaplan
Casting
Popular Reviews
789 reviews
Scr4wnymf
7.0★ · 04/01/26

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Grettel
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8.0★ · 05/21/26

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Zoe Sigma
2.0★ · 05/12/26

Ron's Gone Wrong has a message that is clearly trying to be heartfelt, but the execution felt too forced and repetitive for me to really connect with it.
The movie constantly pushes its themes about friendship, technology, and social media in ways that feel overly obvious instead of natural. Rather than letting the emotional moments speak for themselves, it keeps explaining its point over and over until it starts to lose impact.
Some of the humor landed, and Ron himself has a few genuinely funny moments, but a lot of the film feels loud in a way that became exhausting more than entertaining. Certain emotional scenes also felt rushed, making it harder to get invested in the relationships.
I can understand why younger audiences might enjoy it, especially because of its energy and premise, but personally it just did not click with me. The ideas are good on paper, but the movie never fully trusted them enough to let them breathe.
A well intentioned film with some charm, but one that felt more overwhelming than meaningful.
The movie constantly pushes its themes about friendship, technology, and social media in ways that feel overly obvious instead of natural. Rather than letting the emotional moments speak for themselves, it keeps explaining its point over and over until it starts to lose impact.
Some of the humor landed, and Ron himself has a few genuinely funny moments, but a lot of the film feels loud in a way that became exhausting more than entertaining. Certain emotional scenes also felt rushed, making it harder to get invested in the relationships.
I can understand why younger audiences might enjoy it, especially because of its energy and premise, but personally it just did not click with me. The ideas are good on paper, but the movie never fully trusted them enough to let them breathe.
A well intentioned film with some charm, but one that felt more overwhelming than meaningful.
Ron's Gone Wrong has a message that is clearly trying to be heartfelt, but the execution felt too forced and repetitive for me to really connect with it.
The movie constantly pushes its themes about friendship, technology, and social media in ways that feel overly obvious instead of natural. Rather than letting the emotional moments speak for themselves, it keeps explaining its point over and over until it starts to lose impact.
Some of the humor landed, and Ron himself has a few genuinely funny moments, but a lot of the film feels loud in a way that became exhausting more than entertaining. Certain emotional scenes also felt rushed, making it harder to get invested in the relationships.
I can understand why younger audiences might enjoy it, especially because of its energy and premise, but personally it just did not click with me. The ideas are good on paper, but the movie never fully trusted them enough to let them breathe.
A well intentioned film with some charm, but one that felt more overwhelming than meaningful.
The movie constantly pushes its themes about friendship, technology, and social media in ways that feel overly obvious instead of natural. Rather than letting the emotional moments speak for themselves, it keeps explaining its point over and over until it starts to lose impact.
Some of the humor landed, and Ron himself has a few genuinely funny moments, but a lot of the film feels loud in a way that became exhausting more than entertaining. Certain emotional scenes also felt rushed, making it harder to get invested in the relationships.
I can understand why younger audiences might enjoy it, especially because of its energy and premise, but personally it just did not click with me. The ideas are good on paper, but the movie never fully trusted them enough to let them breathe.
A well intentioned film with some charm, but one that felt more overwhelming than meaningful.
anthonii
3.0★ · 05/07/26

Is it just me or do I find this film weirdly dystopian, especially when the target audience is children. I'm sorry but I mostly don't enjoy this for how badly it executes the message of "being yourself and having a social life outside of technology". Boy, you can't fucking tell a robot to "be themselves", it's a goddamn robot? Social life is still heavily relied on technology because in the end, we can see the robots making the first move to come up to strangers and introduce their owner to them, WOW IT REALLY SHOWED HOW BETTER THEIR SOCIAL LIFE IS NOW. I understand that the disfunction of the robot acting weird was to promote that "being themselves" was the only way to true friendship but that still doesn't make sense when the main character had genuine friends even BEFORE he had a robot. It makes sense that the robots are basically a representation of modern day phones, but there is a difference between a technology device that was built for safety and less isolation, compared to something with more freedom of usage. Like the fact that the film shows children having the most fun is when their robot isn't having any safety restrictions or parental controls is quite the opposite of real life parents wanting their kid to be influenced by. I also absolutely HATE the character who was the CEO of the robots, if he intended on making the robots a "best-friend-out-of-the-box" for children, WHY IS THERE A WHOLE SYSTEM OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN ROBOTS WHEN THE PRIMARY FOCUS WAS TO ONLY CONNECT THE OWNERS AND NOT OTHER PEOPLE?? Especially when the whole company marketing their robots on just that slogan but it's mostly used for anything else than that, wtf is the CEO doing. For the good things, loved the pacing and wholesome feel the film shows. The ending was okay, it was cute. Loved they casted Zach Galifianakis as Ron, I think he's the perfect actors for that character. The concept and design of the robot are interesting and adorable, they remind me of Baymax. The mocking noise that the robot does is so funny, ngl, I do the same when I was animations. I'd still recommend this though despite my thoughts. Ron's Gone Wrong is a heart-warming, sweet, charming film that'll middle schoolers scared of highschool
Is it just me or do I find this film weirdly dystopian, especially when the target audience is children. I'm sorry but I mostly don't enjoy this for how badly it executes the message of "being yourself and having a social life outside of technology". Boy, you can't fucking tell a robot to "be themselves", it's a goddamn robot? Social life is still heavily relied on technology because in the end, we can see the robots making the first move to come up to strangers and introduce their owner to them, WOW IT REALLY SHOWED HOW BETTER THEIR SOCIAL LIFE IS NOW. I understand that the disfunction of the robot acting weird was to promote that "being themselves" was the only way to true friendship but that still doesn't make sense when the main character had genuine friends even BEFORE he had a robot. It makes sense that the robots are basically a representation of modern day phones, but there is a difference between a technology device that was built for safety and less isolation, compared to something with more freedom of usage. Like the fact that the film shows children having the most fun is when their robot isn't having any safety restrictions or parental controls is quite the opposite of real life parents wanting their kid to be influenced by. I also absolutely HATE the character who was the CEO of the robots, if he intended on making the robots a "best-friend-out-of-the-box" for children, WHY IS THERE A WHOLE SYSTEM OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN ROBOTS WHEN THE PRIMARY FOCUS WAS TO ONLY CONNECT THE OWNERS AND NOT OTHER PEOPLE?? Especially when the whole company marketing their robots on just that slogan but it's mostly used for anything else than that, wtf is the CEO doing. For the good things, loved the pacing and wholesome feel the film shows. The ending was okay, it was cute. Loved they casted Zach Galifianakis as Ron, I think he's the perfect actors for that character. The concept and design of the robot are interesting and adorable, they remind me of Baymax. The mocking noise that the robot does is so funny, ngl, I do the same when I was animations. I'd still recommend this though despite my thoughts. Ron's Gone Wrong is a heart-warming, sweet, charming film that'll middle schoolers scared of highschool