village voice
RSS/Podcast feed for Village Voice News Status Ain't Hood
Eerie Misanthropic Wednesday
City Gourmet
Win an Office Party from City Gourmet Eatery!
Latino Poets Society
Enter for your chance to win tickets to The Latino Poet’s Society Spoken Word Tour at The Cherry Lane Theater in Greenwich Village!
Jammin' with Jazz at Lincoln Center
Win admission for two to one performance at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, New York’s hottest jazz club, plus a collection of jazz CDs and more!
Carifest
Enter to win VIP tickets to the Carifests C.A.R.E.S AIDS Awareness Benefit Concert on Sunday, July 6th!
Bash'd
Enter to win tickets to a performance of Bash'd: A Gay Rap Opera!
Film
Tracking Shots
'The Wild'
by Jim Ridley
April 11th, 2006 12:00 AM
The Wild
Directed by Steve Williams
Walt Disney, in release
"It's not Pixar" is becoming the mantra of parents who dutifully shlep their tots to each new 3-D animated feature, and Disney's latest entry won't silence them. The premise combines a largely laugh-free variation on Madagascar with a landlocked Finding Nemo emotional arc: A domesticated daddy lion (voice of Kiefer Sutherland) confronts his own parenting issues when his sulky cub (Greg Cipes) is accidentally shipped from the New York Zoo to Africa. Along with Sutherland, reduced to directing his patented Jack Bauer bellow at a gassy cartoon hyrax, the voice cast includes Eddie Izzard, Janeane Garofalo, and William Shatner, but there's not a spark of chemistry among them. Which is too bad: They're the only personality the bland character designs have. Under Steve "Spaz" Williams' direction, the animation is exquisitely detailed, down to the lions' individually moving whiskers—but when's the last time you enjoyed a cartoon for its realism?
More Tracking Shots
Flash Point's Phony Gravitas
Almost fun when it plays dumb

Never Back Down: Better Than It Needs to Be
Throwdown would be proud

Horton Hears a Who!'s Blessed Reverence
Seuss, somehow not fucked up

Wetlands Preserved: An Appropriately Mellow Chronicle
No good nostalgia for a Tribeca hippie nightclub

Towards Darkness: The Bourne Opprobrium
Third-world kidnapping scourge as action-movie grist

Add a Comment

Not ? Login as a different user.

All reader comments are subject to our Terms of Use. By submitting a comment, you acknowledge that you have reviewed and agree to these Terms of Use.

Login or Register

Login or register to have a chance to win Free Stuff, subscribe to newsletters and much more!

Login Register


The Village Voice Ad Index
The Village Voice Guide To Atlantic City

» click here to see more...

The Village Voice Summer Guide 2008

» click here to see more...

The Village Voice Summer 2008 Education Supplement

» click here to see more...

The Village Voice Spring Arts Supplement

» click here to see more...