just watch it!

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Amazing worth wacthing. So good. Biased but well made with many good points.

As Disney's supposed counterpart to DreamWorks' "Madagascar" released about a year before, The Wild is anything but wild. The story is bland with action, heart, and humor that at best can barely trigger and at worst can induce cringes, predictable with so many clichés found in better films like Ice Age, and despite offering a few twists, the execution of them was just awful. Of the characters, Benny was the sole one I liked, due to how he acts as a wonderful mentor and provided what few laughs I eked when watching this movie, with the rest being quite insipid or unsuccessful at providing what they were meant to, mainly because of the story. The animation was the near saving grace of this movie, as it looked pretty nice for 2006 (if not to the level of Cars, Flushed Away, or Over The Hedge) with wonderful detail on the animals and the settings looking lush. The mixture of cartoony facial expressions with the realistic bodies, however, makes the character designs run-of-the-mill. That's also without mentioning the depiction of advertising (I know that it's New York, but at least Madagascar didn't really shove it in the audience's face), including two scenes with a poster for The Lion King on Broadway. My recommendation would be to pass this movie in favor of some better stuff that Disney would release in the years to follow.

I'm proof of how this movie is forgettable: I had the misfortune to watch this thing in theater with my dad 10 years ago and I forgot absolutely everything in this movie only 2 hours after leaving the theater. I only remembered its existence literely now, when I saw this poster.The story, which I obviously don't remember too, is about animals that escape from a zoo and the old nonsense conflicts between father and son. We also had to endure this boring conflict with "Chicken Little," another atrocious Disney film, but more memorable - although I don't know if that's an advantage.The characters are ridiculous and dull imitations of Madagascar and The Lion King. I mean, look well for the design these animals. They just look so boring and generic.

Probably contains some spoilers, but the plot is so predictable it's not like there's much to spoil. I watched this film for the first time shortly after it was released in 2006, during the relative lull in Disney proper's output, between the end of the "Renaissance" with Tarzan and their return to the mainstream with Princess and the Frog and Tangled. During this time, Pixar flourished, but Disney came out with such flops as Home on the Range and Chicken Little. This is from a sub-studio of Disney (it's not part of the proper cannon). I recall watching this as a fairly young kid and deciding it was worse than the comparable Madagascar but not horrible. I'll start with the plot. YMMV, but I think it's exactly Madagascar with elements of Finding Nemo and the Lion King. I know Madagascar and The Wild came out at about the same time, but without question Madagascar won this fight. Madagascar didn't feel like it was ripping off other Dreamworks films, or Disney. Where Madagascar had characters I enjoyed being around, this gang seems too clichéd to be likable. Let's see, there's a koala (Nigel - Eddie Izzard) who was at times generally funny but kinda seemed like the creators were trying to push him to be this film's Olaf or Genie - pushing a breakout character is not a good idea, and I tired of Nigel quickly. There's a squirrel (Benny - Jim Belushi) that disappeared for some strange reason for about 20-30 minutes in the middle of the film and reappears in a weird way and time that I never really got to know. Then there's the only girl in the entire film, a giraffe (Bridget - Janeane Garofalo) acts like you expect the only girl to act, and that stupid snake (Larry - Richard Kind) weighed everything down, and the two of them disappear weirdly for another 20-30 minutes near the end. The heroes, lions Samson (Kiefer Sutherland) and Ryan (Greg Cipes) were generic and forgettable. I'll give them that the wildebeest dance team villains were at least something I've never seen before, but that doesn't make them good villains, which they aren't. The animation is kinda off putting - feels a little animal uncanny- valley-like. Nothing horrible, but nothing great. The comedy fell a little flat. Nigel was pushed as the comic center and thus became it as the only character with any real jokes. Samson, Ryan, and the others didn't feel like very good straight men as they weren't very good comics either. The one line I laughed at came from Bridget on the purpose of giraffes - when Nigel was miles away from them. All in all, not a very good film, but I'd say it's watchable. It's probably not worth your money, but maybe if it's on the Disney Channel. But don't expect anything that good. If you don't want to watch them both, watch Madagascar.

Having seen Madagascar previous to this film, I wasn't sure what to expect. Probably just a badly ripped off film or something. But nope, it starts off completely different and ends still different. I found a few spots to be similar but for the most part it was to rescue a tiger cub.I have to admit it wasn't the greatest of films and I didn't get emotional or anything, but there was a nice story to tell and watching the cub roar and the father roar super loud was cool. But the ending wasn't as great and they basically just milked the joke with the buffalo or whatever the animals were who were basically stupid or something as the Koala was their "God" or whatever.Anyway, it's not the greatest and could have been better, but wasn't the worst. I rate it 6/10.