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Wild and wacky animal
adventure
By FRANKLIN DAHTU KOLMA
'The Wild' is a wild and wacky
comedy-adventure about a lion named Samson (Fierce and imaginative
in his story telling), his son Ryan (a true hearted lion cub whose
only wish is to roar) and a bunch of other assorted animal friends
from the New York Zoo. This fun loving wacky characters consist
of: a squirrel named Benny (also Samson's best friend), an
anaconda named Larry (a belly crawling lizard whose every action
brinks on the edge of normality), a giraffe (who happens to be the
only female animal in the zoo that Benny tries hard to get) and a
koala named Nigel (whose sarcastic jokes and ways of behaving
always seem to lead him to the wrong side of situations.
Together, this crew set out to find one of their members after a
certain mistake leads him to an unknown place. It is during their
trying to rescue this particular member that the team goes through
an exhilarating as well as hilarious series of events, events that
challenge as well as demoralize the group of friends. However, it
is in their search for their lost ally that they come across an
uprising, an uprising so great in numbers and in courage, that the
only way to defeat this enemy is for the members to reach deep
into their hearts and find the courage to do what their minds
think is impossible. It is this in movie that truly shows how
friends can stand together even to the end.
This crew and many other animals portray an unimaginable world
where animals interact with each other and react to everything
that happens around them to the best of their abilities.
I mean, sure there have been thousands of other animated films
where talking animals make up the main cast, but this is
different. All the characters have their own personalities and
ways of interacting with their surroundings; everyone seems to be
funny in their own unique way and everyone seems to have something
to say at every turn.
This particular animated film has a lot of aspects to boast about
in terms of the animation quality. One aspect that really
interested me for sure was the very realistically recreated
character models, all the animals looked and moved so much like
their real life counterparts. Then there was the background and
scenery which clearly showed the amount of effort put into the
detailing of the smallest relevancies. The all around animation
quality had a lot of people talking during the first two weeks of
the films release and for me it was no different.
The other impressive factor about 'The Wild' is the people who
brought the movie to us through hard work and dedication. Walt
Disney Pictures (an animation revolutionizing giant) is the
company behind 'The Wild'. The director Steve Williams and
producer Clint Goldman, both worked day in and day out on
character personalities, attitudes, movements and dialogue, and
helped to revolutionize computer generated character animations.
The voice casting was also worth noting, with names such as;
Kiefer Sutherland, Jim Belushi, Greg Cipes and Eddie Izzard all
working in unison.
The most notable thing about this film is the fun and laughter
that is married to it (you can't watch it and not laugh, that
would be seen as a crime). The jokes are so brilliantly executed
and most of the jokes are interlinked to the main dialogue, which
illuminates the thought that must have gone into making up the
dialogue (Bill Cosby must've been inputting the scriptwriter
because the types of jokes were the types that he usually shared
with his audience and listeners).
The soundtracks on the film were totally awesome, because they
really told the story indirectly and showed the mood. I found
myself going back to the song parts after the movie; it was just
the sort of songs that carries you away to another plane.
There were many very notable lessons in this wonderful movie;
however, the main lesson in my point of view is that, everything
will be a whole lot less complicated if you don't lie because it
is when you lie, that you complicate matters for yourself.
 
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