The Wild (2006)
19 %
Reviews Counted: 108 Fresh: 20 Rotten:88 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
Theatrical Release: Apr 14, 2006 Wide
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 another tale of roaring wildebeests into submission on the African savannah. While the zoo animals... [More]
Genre: Childrens
Starring: Kiefer Sutherland, Jim Belushi, Eddie Izzard, Janeane Garofalo, William Shatner
Director: Steve "the Spaz" Williams
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Reviews
For all the rest of the film's unoriginality, The Wild moves along with solidly crafted wit.
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03/01/07
The Wild is pretty tame, and in the increasingly crowded, competitive, survival-of-the-fittest world of computer animation, it meows but does not roar
11/17/06
The kids might be better off with a trip to a real zoo, if they haven't had their fill of Madagascar yet.
10/01/06
The diverse animals are beautifully rendered, but this cliche-riddled Disney failure represents one too many trips to the CGI non-inkwell.
09/15/06
The animation here impresses more than in the equally defunct Madagascar, but everything else smacks of an easy money-making exercise of such dimwitted inanity even the youngest kids will see through it.
06/24/06
A decade ago, this sort of thing would have felt cuter, fresher and funnier than today, when the bar for CGI animation has been raised considerably.
06/12/06
The film is ultimately noise and its story is so overdone at this point that far from being swept up in it, we're only hoping that the next plot point isn't as predictable as the last. But things never do work out that way.
06/03/06
The Wild roars back from a rocky opening act to a storming last reel, just managing to claw its way above comparisons with Madagascar.
05/26/06
Watchable animated adventure with one eye on the cuddly toy market, though you've got to love a film that casts William Shatner as a wildebeest.
05/25/06
What's so aggravating here is the grievous lack of wit, imagination and plain old story.
05/23/06
Much of it is so rote and so predictably crushed into the prefabricated Disney mold that it's impossible to kick off the unpleasant aroma of 'been there, done that.'
05/06/06
There's little to recommend of The Wild, which, despite its title, is about as pedestrian as you can get.
05/06/06
The Wild, for example, looks pretty good, but the script is just plain bad and the jokes are just plain awful.
05/06/06
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