"The Wild"

[Tiki_Tiki_Tiki]

to me this movie looks like it is going to resemble "Madagascar" a bit too much


for once disney wasn't the first to come up with an idea for a movie and it disappoints me that disney is following in Universal's tracks and repeating their ideas to compete

 

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to me this movie looks like it is going to resemble "Madagascar" a bit too much


for once disney wasn't the first to come up with an idea for a movie and it disappoints me that disney is following in Universal's tracks and repeating their ideas to compete

Ohhhh God.

 

[ArielBelle]

Ohhhh God.

i wouldn't be so quick to disagree. I was with my 3 cousins this past week, 11, 9, and 6...and we saw a commercial for "The Wild" a couple times and each of them said to their parents, "look, it's just like madagascar"

 

[peter11435]

Actually the Wild was in production long before Madagascar. However due to many problems it was delayed for years. While Madagascar was the better product and the first to come out. It was technically a copy of The Wild.

 

[Pongo]

And The Wild wasn't created by Disney. It was created by a seperate company (I can't remember the name... it was four letters long, I think) when Disney was looking for a Pixar replacement. Just like Valiant.

Luckily, Disney didn't end up needing the replacement.

 

[peter11435]

And The Wild wasn't created by Disney. It was created by a seperate company (I can't remember the name... it was four letters long, I think) when Disney was looking for a Pixar replacement. Just like Valiant.

Luckily, Disney didn't end up needing the replacement.

My understanding is that the Wild was started by Disney in the late 90's. Due to many story problems the project was repeatedly delayed. Eventually Disney pushed off the project to a small relatively unknown animation company in Canada to finish. CORE animation was to finish the film and Disney would distribute it. . The idea being to finish the film as cheaply as possible and get back as much of their investment as possible. At the same time DreamWorks was making a movie with the exact same story. CORE was supposed to have the film ready to come out before Madagascar. However due to many problems CORE did not finish the film until about 15 months after they were supposed to. Thus the movie came out long after Madagascar.

 

[Unplugged]

Parallel situation.....

And we flashback to the release of Bugs Life followed shortly by Antz. I suppose once an investment is made in a story that has had a lengthy green light for development, it only makes sense to throw it out there and try to recoupe some of the investment.

Cars.....now there's something I doubt Dreamworks will have a dupe of....for a few months anyway.

 

[Valawen9]

to me this movie looks like it is going to resemble "Madagascar" a bit too much

thats what i was thinking

 

[the-reason14]

It looks very similar to valiant, and if its done by the same people and is anything like valiant, then this movie is gonna stink. Did valiant even do that good?

 

[CaptainMichael]

Cars.....now there's something I doubt Dreamworks will have a dupe of....for a few months anyway.

Sadly, I'm not sold on Cars...

 

[Pongo]

And we flashback to the release of Bugs Life followed shortly by Antz. I suppose once an investment is made in a story that has had a lengthy green light for development, it only makes sense to throw it out there and try to recoupe some of the investment.

Cars.....now there's something I doubt Dreamworks will have a dupe of....for a few months anyway.

Although, Antz and A Bug's Life didn't really have that much in common storywise, except for the fact that they were about ants.

 

[dizneycrazy09]

It looks very similar to valiant, and if its done by the same people and is anything like valiant, then this movie is gonna stink. Did valiant even do that good?

Valiant was a box office tank, and sadly the Wild hasn't done too well in the theaters this week either. It brought in only a little under 10 million opening weekend. IMO Disney HAS GOT TO STOP distributing these low-cost, lack-of-story films. It's bad when you see Disney's name on something that isn't all that good. IMO these mediocre films are not Disney at all, just a film that they decided to throw their name on to try and sell it. It's a shame. Again, just my opinion.

 

[Captain Chaos]

Actually the Wild was in production long before Madagascar. However due to many problems it was delayed for years. While Madagascar was the better product and the first to come out. It was technically a copy of The Wild.

Peter is right.... The Wild was in development long before Madagascar... And who started C.O.R.E?? William Shatner!!!!! The Wild was written and developed by Disney.. C.O.R.E. was brought on to help with the CGI of the movie.

 

[Captain Chaos]

Valiant was a box office tank, and sadly the Wild hasn't done too well in the theaters this week either. It brought in only a little under 10 million opening weekend. IMO Disney HAS GOT TO STOP distributing these low-cost, lack-of-story films. It's bad when you see Disney's name on something that isn't all that good. IMO these mediocre films are not Disney at all, just a film that they decided to throw their name on to try and sell it. It's a shame. Again, just my opinion.

Valiant was a box off bomb, but the movie was not all that bad.. I own the DVD and enjoyed the movie... And it was not a Disney movie, they just distributed it... Vanguard Animation created Valiant... But I do agree... Disney needs to stop these lowly movies.

 

[Rotel1026]

So since both Valiant and The Wild were distribution deals, does anyone know if Disney had a multiple picture distribution agreement with either one of these companies?

 

[WhyteAL]

So since both Valiant and The Wild were distribution deals, does anyone know if Disney had a multiple picture distribution agreement with either one of these companies?

I hope not, because Valient is not so good, and if numbers tell us anything at theaters then The Wild should be on the backside of the Valient DVD (what! reusable resource less space taken up in the landfill :lookaroun J/K) but really they should not tag their name onto stuff like this.

 

[MomofKatie]

DD and I went to see The Wild this past weekend. We thought it was cute, but not written very well. I thought the CG animation was pretty good, though.

The Wild seemed like a smushed up mixture of Madagascar (a lion, giraffe, and other animals on a ship to Africa), The Lion King (a lion cub and his dad), and Finding Nemo (timid dad must go on a quest to find his son who gets taken away). There were a few funny scenes, but overall, not too good. We should have waited to rent it when it came out on DVD.

 

[Trizz41999]

I agree

 

[MouseMadness]

The Wild was awful awful awful awful. I went in hoping for something fun, but honestly, I was never moved at all by the story, and only chuckled twice. :-\

 

[peter11435]

So since both Valiant and The Wild were distribution deals, does anyone know if Disney had a multiple picture distribution agreement with either one of these companies?

Th Wild was not really a distribution deal. Disney did not distribute another animation companies movie. They had another animation company make there movie.