The Wild
An adolescent lion is accidentally shipped from the New York Zoo to Africa. Now running free, his zoo pals must put aside their differences to help bring him back.
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- Cast:
- Kiefer Sutherland , Jim Belushi , Eddie Izzard , Janeane Garofalo , William Shatner , Richard Kind , Greg Cipes
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Must See Movie...
A Masterpiece!
It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.
One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.
For some reason I saw this movie in theaters. Its really bad and makes no sense. I wouldn't recommend it.
Let me tell you this, What if the executives at Disney saw DreamWorks' 11-month prior "Madagascar" and said "Let's remake DreamWorks' Madagascar but make it less funny, add in forgettable characters and stereotypes, slam-dunk some pop-culture references (Star Wars. Titanic, Passion of the Christ, Looney Tunes, etc.), overuse cartoon sound effects, copy-paste the plot from Finding Nemo, and pretend ours is better than DreamWorks, Don't forget the generic fart joke!"? If they did, I wouldn't be surprised, So yeah, As you can expect, It's just Finding Nemo mixed in a blender with Madagascar and The Lion King, plus some filler and racist stereotypes, It's about Discount Alex, Discount Blinky Bill, Discount Speaking Scrat, and Discount Female Melman finding Discount Simba/Lion Nemo while going to the jungle, and I forgot what happens (I'm so glad I forgot), Did I ever mention that they pulled a "Star Wars" after the Coldplay scene? And the animation, My oh my, It's over-detailed and creepy, Looks like something out of Robert Zemeckis' motion-capture movies (Polar Express, Beowulf, A Christmas Carol), The writing is below average (and so as the music, not hating on your work, Alan!), and the script is actually just a list of stereotypes and Looney Tunes sound effects. Go watch Madagasacar, or Finding Nemo, or any good Disney movie you can think of (The Lion King, Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, Toy Story, Cars, The Incredibles). Perfect for confused grandmas everywhere.OVERALL MOVIE: 4/10, At least it doesn't deserve the DTV sequel treatment.
This is quite possibly one of the worst films I have ever had the displeasure of seeing, I don't know what made me want to see this, but everyone was saying how terrible it was so I had to see what the fuss was about. And I should have just stayed at home, this wasn't even remotely fun, or funny. The character are awful with no interest or morals. The animation is atrocious, and looks like a five year old did it, I actually a five year old could do better. I mean, my gosh talk about getting all the joy sucked out of me in the very intent the movie comes on. I'm serious avoid this at all costs, unless you want to see what the fuss is about, then go ahead, but I will warn you, this is a 20 dollar bill you will never get back. After this I will say I'm glad I own How to Train Your Dragon, because after watching this piece of horse manure I needed to get my faith back into animation. I needed something to get my mind off this terrible excuse of a movie. Lets hope this is the last time we get an animated film this bad well at least in a long time. And the last thing, should kids see this? No. Not that its bad with inappropriate innuendos or jokes, its just kids will get bored with this. The kids in my theater were running up and down the aisle and a family sitting next to me left the theater. So if the film's target audience is in disarray, then imagine how you will feel, and how I felt watching this awful, disgusting, mess of a film. The animation is unimpressive, story sucks and its not original, there is no memorable scenes or lines, and makes Madagascar, Ice Age and Anastasia look like they never existed. THIS MOVIE SHOULD BE BANNED FROM THE WHOLE WORLD!!!! Oh, and those rodent characters that try to be the minions, I have one thing to say. Screw you!!!! Now to grade. Animation: F- Characters: F Story: D+ For Kids: No Music: C- Voice Acting: F Overall: F-. So yeah. It really is a ripoff of Madagascar, Ice Age, Anastasia and The Lion King!! That's why is sucks GARBAGE!!!!
The beginning of the 2000s (2000-2006) is one of the weakest era of Disney (the first era is from 1972 to 1984) with many boring and weak animations like Dinosaur (2000), Brother Bear (2003), Chicken Little (2005) and some poor sequels like 102 Dalmatians (2000), The Jungle Book 2 (2003)... Well, The Wild is the last animation of this era and Meet the Robinsons (2007) is the beginning of the new golden age of Disney. When I and my brother saw the poster of The Wild, he said that it look like Madagascar. We wanted to see it. After we saw it, I feel disappointed. It wasted my time, too boring. I couldn't laugh although it is comedy. The Wild is the mix of Madagascar and Lion King: +Madagascar: Characters: Samson like Alex (Lion) and Bridger like Melman (Giraffe but different gender). +Lion King: Characters: Ryan like Simba (young). Both of them can't roar and want to show their power. Finally, they can roar (Simba can roar when he graduated). Kazar like Scar. Both of them are the main enemy. In the end of the battle of 2 movies, Kazar and Scar were killed by his army. Roger Ebert said: "This is the third animated feature in a row (after "Curious George" and "Ice Age: The Meltdown") which aims at children and has no serious ambition to be all things to all people, i.e., their parents. But for kids, it's OK". I agree, this animation for kids, only kids love it. Adults and teenagers like me couldn't love it, too hard.