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Original title: Wild, The
Release Date
• USA: Apr 14, 2006
BoxOffice: $37.3M
Official Website:
The Wild Website
Running Time
1 hour, 34 minutes
Country USA
Production Companies
C.O.R.E. Feature Animation, Contrafilm, Hoytyboy Pictures, Walt Disney Pictures
Studio Buena Vista Pictures
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Other Titles
• The Wild (2006)
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Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family
Tagline: A whole new breed of tourist.
Plot: 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 another tale of roaring wildebeests into submission on the African savannah. While the zoo animals cavort, Ryan slips into a metal crate bound overseas for a chance to see "the wild" for himself. Now Sampson, with the help of his loyal friends Benny the squirrel (James Belushi), Nigel the koala bear (Eddie Izzard), Bridget the giraffe (Janeane Garafalo), and Larry the snake (Richard Kind), must brave the New York City jungle and then the actual jungle to save his son from the clutches of a crazed wildebeest with aspirations to carnivorousness (William Shatner). To make things worse, Sampson confesses that his heroic stories were fabrications; he's completely lost in his wild surroundings, unable to fight off a rabid poodle or eat a sassy hyrax.Since ANTZ hit the cineplexes in 1993, computer-animated films about chatty animals have proliferated, but THE WILD is perhaps the first that is heavily influenced by its immediate predecessors, taking a little plot from MADAGASCAR, adding healthy doses of the ICE AGE films, and borrowing heavily from the father-son sentiments of THE LION KING (the
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Do yourself a favor. Pay for Ice Age instead this weekend and refresh your memory.  --Sean O'Connell (FilmCritic.com)
Ending with a sputter, “Wild” still remains an engaging creation, and successful against incredible odds. Here’s a note to Disney and Dreamworks: You can stop making the same movies now. There are plenty of stories to go around.  --Brian Orndorf (eFilmCritic.com)
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Ed Decter
There's Something About Mary, Head Over Heels, The Lizzie McGuire Movie | |
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 | James Belushi
Trading Places, Little Shop of Horrors, Jingle All the Way |
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 | William Shatner
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story, Miss Congeniality, Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan |
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Alan Silvestri
Forrest Gump, Back to the Future, Back to the Future Part III |
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