The Wild Truth

The Wild Reveiw
Writen By
Dr. Stranglove
Source: Militant Salvation Army Daily Press

This is a dilapidated tale woven once before in a little animated film called “Madagascar”. The Wild deals with the undying love that a lion has for his cub and the quest to find him. The lion (Kiefer Sutherland) brings four of his most favorite food groups along for the adventure: a giraffe (Janeane Garofalo), a squirrel (Jim Belushi), an anaconda (Richard Kind) and a koala (Eddie Izzard). The odd bunch of friends must rescue the lion’s cub (Greg Cipes) after he wonders off and is mistakenly shipped to the wild.

Disney sure delivers it this time! A wild lion that isn’t wild, but lies to his son and friends while making up story’s of some far of adventurous life that he never had, leaving his son in a deep shadow. And His son’s longing to make his father proud which can only be done with, a mighty roar. In the mean time the squirrel is in constant heat for the giraffe (AKA comic relief, that wasn’t comedic) putting the koala in a position to search for whitey one liners that are seemingly harder to find than you might think.

If you don’t mind paying to sit through 85 minutes of excruciating dialogue and a hop-a-long plot that takes you from the New York Zoo, to a winter game, to the sewers of New York, to the New York docs, to some unknown island in Africa, in one long drawn out boring bound, then you wont feel as cheated as I did paying to see this Film.

Now I know what you are saying, “hey it’s for children not adults”. True as that may be, I swear to you that my four year old was banging his head against the back of his chair before the movie was three quarters of the way over. That is a definite sign of extreme boredom. Not the kind of boredom you feel sitting in class waiting for the bell to ring either; no this was worse. Why? You ask. Because you paid eight bucks for it.

On the upside the candy was good and I had plenty of butter on my
Popcorn