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.
Apr 14, 2006 Wide
Sep 12, 2006
$37.3M
Buena Vista
All Critics (114) | Top Critics (30) | Fresh (21) | Rotten (92) | DVD (15)
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?
Another animated film from 2006 that's right in that average category.
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.
Technically, The Wild is impressive. Until you realize that the lifelike animated fur is the product of more professional care than the script.
The Wild may just be the most wildly derivative animated movie in ages.
Kids under 6 will dig it -- though the alligators and wildebeests might scare them. Certainly they scared this groan-up.
For all the rest of the film's unoriginality, The Wild moves along with solidly crafted wit.
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
Seems like a dull Madagascar ripoff.
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The kids might be better off with a trip to a real zoo, if they haven't had their fill of Madagascar yet.
The diverse animals are beautifully rendered, but this cliche-riddled Disney failure represents one too many trips to the CGI non-inkwell.
I found a good deal of The Wild visually appealing but even more of it narratively dry.
The Wild is not really bad; it's just tired.
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.
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.
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.
The Wild roars back from a rocky opening act to a storming last reel, just managing to claw its way above comparisons with Madagascar.
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.
Disneys way of trying to keep up with Dreamworks Madagascar. This was a boring a terrible film.
August 15, 2011
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
Super Reviewer
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