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The Wild (2006)

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Average Rating: 4.5/10
Reviews Counted: 111
Fresh: 21 | Rotten: 90

With a rehashed plot and unimpressive animation, there's nothing wild about The Wild.

Average Rating: 4.8/10
Critic Reviews: 30
Fresh: 8 | Rotten: 22

With a rehashed plot and unimpressive animation, there's nothing wild about The Wild.

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A handful of zoo animals leave behind their well-protected environment for the streets of the big city in this computer-animated comedy. Sampson (voice of Kiefer Sutherland) is the king of a make-believe jungle far from the African plains -- he's a lion on display at a zoo in New York City's Central Park, and he lords it over the other animals, including Nigel (voice of Eddie Izzard), a testy koala bear; Larry, a dumb but well-meaning snake; ; Bridget (voice of Janeane Garofalo), a bright but

G, 1 hr. 22 min.

Action & Adventure, Animation, Kids & Family, Comedy

Directed By: Steve 'Spaz' Williams , Dominic Scott Kay

In Theaters: Apr 14, 2006 Wide

On DVD: Sep 12, 2006

Box Office:$37.3M

Buena Vista

The animation is exquisitely detailed, down to the lions' individually moving whiskers -- but when's the last time you enjoyed a cartoon for its realism?

April 18, 2006 Full Review Source: Village Voice

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Jim Ridley

Village Voice

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Another animated film from 2006 that's right in that average category.

April 17, 2006 Full Review Source: Ebert & Roeper

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Richard Roeper

Ebert & Roeper

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As a movie that kids will enjoy with a few adult-oriented gags to keep parents from going completely insane with boredom, The Wild accomplishes its unambitious mission.

April 14, 2006 Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle

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Peter Hartlaub

San Francisco Chronicle

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Technically, The Wild is impressive. Until you realize that the lifelike animated fur is the product of more professional care than the script.

April 14, 2006 Full Review Source: Toronto Star

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Geoff Pevere

Toronto Star

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The Wild may just be the most wildly derivative animated movie in ages.

April 14, 2006 Full Review Source: USA Today

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Claudia Puig

USA Today

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Kids under 6 will dig it -- though the alligators and wildebeests might scare them. Certainly they scared this groan-up.

April 14, 2006 Comment

Carrie Rickey

Philadelphia Inquirer

Top Critic

For all the rest of the film's unoriginality, The Wild moves along with solidly crafted wit.

March 1, 2007 Full Review Source: Film Journal International

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Frank Lovece

Film Journal International

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

November 17, 2006 Full Review Source: Christianity Today

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Peter T. Chattaway

Christianity Today Source: Christianity Today

Seems like a dull Madagascar ripoff.

October 9, 2006 Full Review Source: Reno Gazette-Journal

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Forrest Hartman

Reno Gazette-Journal Source: Reno Gazette-Journal

full review in Greek

October 3, 2006 Full Review Source: Movies for the Masses

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Joseph Proimakis

Movies for the Masses

The kids might be better off with a trip to a real zoo, if they haven't had their fill of Madagascar yet.

October 1, 2006 Full Review Source: 7M Pictures

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Kevin Carr

7M Pictures

The diverse animals are beautifully rendered, but this cliche-riddled Disney failure represents one too many trips to the CGI non-inkwell.

September 15, 2006 Comment

John Beifuss

Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN)

I found a good deal of The Wild visually appealing but even more of it narratively dry.

September 8, 2006 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis

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John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

The Wild is not really bad; it's just tired.

September 8, 2006 Full Review Source: Movie Metropolis

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John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

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.

June 24, 2006 Full Review Source: Time Out

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Derek Adams

Time Out

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.

June 12, 2006 Full Review | Comment

Todd Jorgenson

Denton Record Chronicle (TX)

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.

June 3, 2006 Full Review Source: FilmFocus

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Joe Utichi

FilmFocus

The Wild roars back from a rocky opening act to a storming last reel, just managing to claw its way above comparisons with Madagascar.

May 26, 2006 Full Review Source: Empire Magazine

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Helen OHara

Empire Magazine

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.

May 25, 2006 Full Review Source: ViewLondon

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Matthew Turner

ViewLondon

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Disneys way of trying to keep up with Dreamworks Madagascar. This was a boring a terrible film.

August 15, 2011

Brad Wright

Super Reviewer

It's quite simply a rip off of Dreamworks Madagascar, nothing is interesting and the characters are not at all original making this film one of the worst disney have created.

August 15, 2011

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