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2006 · action · adventure · animation · comedy

The Wild

Directed by Steve Williams1h 22m2006
ElsewhereIMDb5.229kRT50%Metacritic47
  • cosy
  • kinetic
  • gentle
  • redemptive
  • tender
  • epic-stakes
Movie DNA

Cosy, breathless, gentle action / adventure, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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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.

Our read · The Wild (2006) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive action · adventure · animation entry — gentle in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You need harmless kid-animal adventure noise in the background.

ends warmyou’ll be fine aftersteady all the waygrips from the openattention 2/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonightYou expect Pixar-tier wit; this is a weak Madagascar echo.

If The Wild is your film
Bolt (2008)
animal star crosses from safe world to wild
(you want barnyard ensemble comedy)
Over the Hedge (2006)
suburban creatures on a rescue road trip
(you need a zoo-to-jungle hook)
Madagascar (2005)
zoo animals abroad, the sharper version
(you already know that one)
DNA · twelve axes

The reading.

Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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