Wildwood IQ Score 152/200
Wildwood has an IQ Score of 152/200 on TV Intelligentsia's Intelligence Quotient rubric, placing it in the Stimulating tier.
Consistently challenges the viewer and rewards attention
Score Breakdown
IQ = round((Cognitive × 0.4 + Educational × 0.35 + Craft × 0.25) × 4)
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What these dimensions mean
- Cognitive Stimulation: observable narrative complexity, conceptual density, ambiguity, inference, and sustained intellectual demands in the work.
- Educational Value: the density and integration of substantive academic, historical, scientific, cultural, ethical, or practical information in the work.
- Craft & Quality: production excellence in service of the work, its direction, writing, performance, and aesthetic intent.
- SEL: social-emotional learning on the CASEL framework, self-awareness, regulation, social awareness, relationships, and decision-making. Does not affect the IQ Score.
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For parents
13+. Warnings: strong fantasy violence with some bloody images, a backstory involving suicide, brief partial nudity, and some language.
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- ReviewKids reviewTwo Paths Diverge in a Wildwood
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The TVI Take
LAIKA's Wildwood scores 152, and its craft carries more than its ideas. The stop-motion is flawless at feature length and the arcs pay off, but the plot is familiar, closer to Coraline than to anything new.
Its real subject is choice: two people who refuse to let go, one acting for herself and one for her brother, end in opposite places.
People & Production Travis Knight · Laika · United States 23 connections
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The Trailer
Official trailer, embedded from YouTube.
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We wrote a full editorial on Wildwood, on a sister who wants her brother back, a mother who wants her son, and who gets to decide what that love will cost.
Read the review →Named in 2026-27 Oscar coverage for Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Animated Feature Film. Key dates, the other contenders, and the nominees when they are announced.
See the Oscars 2027 tracker →The honest answer for families, scored on a public methodology shaped and reviewed by a Nationally Certified School Psychologist.
Is Wildwood OK for Kids? →Wildwood scored 152/200 (Stimulating tier) on TV Intelligentsia's published methodology. Source: tvintelligentsia.com/titles/wildwood/
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