What's so aggravating here is the grievous lack of wit, imagination and plain old story.
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05/23/06
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.
Theatrical Release:26-05-2006
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
Top CriticThe 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
Top CriticThe 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
Perfectly enjoyable but nothing special
05/09/06
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
Top CriticWatchable 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
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 Wild is just more of the same old thing, wrapped in a just barely whisper-thin disguise.
04/12/06
As animated features go, it's strictly paint-by-numbers.
04/14/06
The Wild comes off as a toothless retread, even though it supposedly has been in the works for nine years.
04/13/06
What's truly wild, and sad, about The Wild is that Disney, once the icon of animated originality, has been reduced to releasing this retread.
04/13/06
There's little to recommend of The Wild, which, despite its title, is about as pedestrian as you can get.
05/06/06
Even acknowledging that children aren't the pickiest viewers, how many animated films about a band of sheltered, fractious New York zoo animals semi-accidentally escaping into the jungle does any viewer need over the course of a year?
04/13/06
I predict that audiences will not go wild over this one.
04/13/06
This is a movie to make you cherish Pixar all the more; where every pixel and plot turn in Finding Nemo snaps organically into place, The Wild strains just to get to the end of a scene.
04/14/06
Once again, Disney returns to its familiar button-pushing theme of child abandonment. For the studio crowned by The Lion King, the roars have turned to yawns.
04/20/06
For the adult who may very well have to experience this film, and who may have experienced Madagascar, The Wild is better.
05/06/06
I've never seen a less interesting animated film from that studio in 45 years, stretching all the way back to my first viewing of Dumbo in 1961.
04/14/06
The movie has a lot more action than Ice Age: The Meltdown, which was essentially one long trek.
04/14/06
Top CriticThere 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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