a passable movie because of its star, and because talking animals are funny
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04/13/06
The Wild (2006)
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Reviews Counted:109
Fresh:20
Rotten:89
Average Rating:4.5/10
Consensus: With a rehashed plot and unimpressive animation, there’s nothing wild about The Wild.
Runtime: 1 hr 34 mins
Genre: Education/General Interest
US Box Office: $37,310,059
Synopsis: Ryan, a lion cub, worships his father, Sampson (Kiefer Sutherland), the brawny, brave, uncontested king of a New York City zoo. The film opens as Ryan listens adoringly as Sampson recounts yet... [More]
Starring: Kiefer Sutherland, Jim Belushi, Eddie Izzard, Janeane Garofalo
Director: Steve "the Spaz" Williams
Reviews for The Wild
I predict that audiences will not go wild over this one.
04/13/06
You will not find a worse movie in Walt Disney's animated canon than The Wild
04/13/06
It may not be true that animals in a zoo feel jailed, but you'll feel that way if you sit through all 80 minutes of this sub-par animated Disney misfire.
04/13/06
Top Critic...a film that will appeal to younger kids but fails to reach that important demographic, for all ages.
04/13/06
Director Steve Spaz Williams, a former visual-effects artist, misses the exaggerated body language and visual quirks, let alone distinctive and unique features, that is animation's essential element.
04/13/06
The Wild comes off as a toothless retread, even though it supposedly has been in the works for nine years.
04/13/06
Most important, the story, even without the been-there-with-penguins feeling, is not very strong, leaving us wishing it was all a bit more...wild.
04/13/06
The Wild follows Samson the lion (voiced by Kiefer Sutherland) as he escapes from the zoo to rescue his cub who has stowed away on a ship bound for Africa.
04/13/06
Top CriticJamais consegue recriar os momentos de magia das produções da Pixar; até mesmo seu humor soa forçado, dependendo mais de efeitos sonoros engraçadinhos do que dos personagens.
04/13/06
Legal professors could stand [The Wild and Madagascar] side by side to demonstrate the concept of 'points of similarity' that help determine whether a work has been plagiarized.
04/13/06
The naturalistic animation is beautiful to watch, but may help make the violence too intense for the smallest children.
04/13/06
The too-cool-for-school humor carries on incessantly, relentlessly, as if the four credited scriptwriters were paid by the gag.
04/13/06
Top CriticThe digitally animated The Wild is an undemanding and unremarkable effort like Madagascar, which beat it to the screen with a similar theme.
04/13/06
Great animated films -- heck, great films in any medium -- have a theme that carries all the way through. But The Wild is a random assortment of vignettes connected by butt jokes and the half-idea of a lion cub rebelling against his dad.
04/13/06
While the creativity behind the animation is worth checking out -- in some scenes the animals look real -- the story is as tired as the aged wildebeest who plays the film's evildoer.
04/13/06
The filmmakers seem to think that noisy tumbling and colliding compensate for invention and wit.
04/13/06
It's a funny, compassionate, emotionally engaging movie that prompts both laughs and a lump in the throat.
04/13/06
New seems a bit of a misnomer for Disney's latest animated release, The Wild. A more honest choice? Finding Madagascar.
04/13/06
There are a lot of wisecracks in The Wild, but the script is less vital than the visual virtuosity.
04/13/06
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