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Ron’s Gone Wrong will feature a touching and hilarious look at the budding friendship between a middle-school boy and his faulty robot. It tells the story of Barney, a socially awkward middle-schooler and Ron, his new walking, talking, digitally-connected device, which is supposed to be his “Best Friend Out of the Box.” Ron’s hilarious malfunctions, set against the backdrop of the social media age, launch them into an action-packed journey in which boy and robot come to terms with the wonderful messiness of true friendship.The animated comedy adventure features the voices of Zach Galifianakis (Missing Link), Jack Dylan Grazer (Luca), Olivia Colman (The Mitchells vs. The Machines), Ed Helms (The Office), Justice Smith (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom), Rob Delaney (Deadpool 2), Kylie Cantrall (Gabby Duran and the Unsittables), Ricardo Hurtado (The Goldbergs), Marcus Scribner (Black-ish), Thomas Barbusca (Chad). (synopsis (c) Coming Soon)
Friends – we all need them and are grateful to have them.
But finding them can be tough, especially when you’re a kid and life hasn’t exactly showered you with friendship opportunities.
That’s the case with Barney, voiced by Jack Dylan Grazer, who wants friends but finds them hard to come by, something with which this writer is very familiar, having been bullied all the way through school, finding in the process that people aren’t exactly lining to be your friend because of the taint of ostracisation.
So I get why the bots in Ron’s Gone Wrong would be so attractive and also Ron not being quite what the advertising blurb promised, might be disappointing to Barnet … until, of course, he discovers what real friendship actually is and gloriously messy and untidy and wonderful it is in reality.
This looks like its going to be a chaotically heartwarming delight and I can’t wait to check it out when it opens in Australia on 21 October 2021 and in USA on 22 October.