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Name: The Wild
Released: 2006-4-14
Cast: Kiefer Sutherland, Jim Belushi, Eddie Izzard, Janeane Garofalo, William Shatner

The Wild

G
1h 25m
2006

19%

age 6+

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Disney uncages the laughs in the hip and hilarious comedy The Wild. When a band of furry friends escape from the city zoo, they discover that New York City is the biggest, craziest jungle of all. Now, faced with a new journey and the challenge of a lifetime, they must work together if they are going to survive on the outside. The Wild is ferocious fun that will have your whole family roaring with laughter.

Director:

Steve Williams

Producer:

Clint Goldman, Beau Flynn

Writer:

Ed Decter, John Strauss, Mark Gibson, Philip Halprin

Cast:

Kiefer Sutherland, Jim Belushi, Eddie Izzard, Janeane Garofalo, William Shatner, Richard Kind, Greg Cipes

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

19%

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

Reviews

TheIndependentCritic.com

Richard Propes

It's frightening to me to think that a group of studio executives sat around a room and green-lighted this film.

Film Journal International

Frank Lovece

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.

June 21, 2017

FULL REVIEW

Common Sense Media

age 6+

Common Sense Says

Unoriginal, sometimes scary animated animal movie for kids.

What Parents Need to Know

Parents need to know that film includes some scenes where the lion cub is frightened by noises, darkness, and a storm at sea. The primary villains are hostile, shadowy wildebeests who perform "African" ritual dances and chants, with comic choreography, and announce an intention to seize power by becoming "predators" and "carnivores." Their efforts to eat the other characters lead to a conflict. The wildebeests live in a volcano cave, so lighting is red and fiery; eventually the volcano explodes and the friends barely escape (some tension created). A squirrel with a crush on a female giraffe makes a couple of sexual references (he rides a goose "bareback" and uses this moment to make a sexual advance toward her; he considers his size in comparison to the giraffe). The father lion lies to his son about his own past, and must eventually confess and be forgiven. Characters are stereotyped by nationality or ethnicity: a Canadian goose says "Eh"; an "East Indian" pigeon speaks with accent and dances as if in a Bollywood movie; a British koala bear is snobbish.