{"id":93425,"date":"2026-10-16T14:52:59","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T06:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=93425"},"modified":"2026-10-16T14:52:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T06:52:59","slug":"review-klara-and-the-sun-review-jenna-ortega-is-an-android-in-upbeat-but-saccharine-sci-fi-fable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=93425","title":{"rendered":"Review | Klara and the Sun review: Jenna Ortega is an android in upbeat but saccharine sci-fi fable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1280x720\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/10\/16\/e6ed46da-5d9c-41ea-a1a8-527910a4589f_a943af09.jpg?itok=Z1bJHzqL&amp;v=1792121280\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\"><strong data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa17\">3\/5 stars<\/strong><\/p>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\"><span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Taika Waititi<\/span>, the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind <span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\"><em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Jojo Rabbit<\/em><\/span> (2019), brings his trademark quirk to <em data-qa=\"ContentSchemaRender-defaultRenderMapFunctions-Component\" class=\"css-1mniedq ex3nmsa15\">Klara and the Sun<\/em>, a sunny-side-up sci-fi fable that occasionally delivers flashes of darkness.<\/div>\n<div datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1xdhyk6 ec74h0k0\">Based on Kazuo Ishiguro\u2019s 2021 novel of the same name, the film is set in a future where AI companions are the norm. The effervescent Klara (<span data-qa=\"Component-Text\" class=\"css-0 ef9u0v00\">Jenna Ortega<\/span>) is one such android, albeit a discontinued B1 model now being hawked from a city discount store.<\/div>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Klara\u2019s escape comes when a young girl, Josie (Mia Tharia), petitions her mother, Chrissie (Amy Adams), to buy her. Whisked off to their countryside home, the synthetic companion must learn to be Josie\u2019s friend.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/lifestyle\/entertainment\/article\/3371093\/klara-and-sun-review-jenna-ortega-android-upbeat-saccharine-sci-fi-fable?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3\/5 stars Taika Waititi, the Oscar-winning filmmaker behind Jojo Rabbit (2019), brings his trademark quirk to Klara and the Sun, a sunny-side-up sci-fi fable that&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[5386,7119,31781,31780,31782,28,31784,5469,2582,31783],"class_list":["post-93425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bored-interesting","tag-android","tag-fable","tag-jenna","tag-klara","tag-ortega","tag-review","tag-saccharine","tag-scifi","tag-sun","tag-upbeat","wpcat-33-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/93426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}