Wild animal

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Movie
German title Wild animal
Original title The wild
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Country of production United States
original language English
Publishing year 2006
length approx. 81 minutes
Age rating FSK o. A.
JMK 0
Rod
Director Steve "Spaz" Williams
script Ed Decter
John J. Strauss
production Beau Flynn
Clint Goldman
music Alan Silvestri
cut Scott Balcerek
Steven L. Wagner
synchronization

The Wild (AKA The Wild ) is a CGI - animated film of the Walt Disney Company , in which Steve "Spaz" Williams directed.

action

Young Leo Ryan is depressed that his roar still doesn't sound as impressive as his father's voice. Now he's the mockery of the whole New York zoo . Although his father Samson tries to animate him with his adventures from the wilderness, Ryan manages nothing but a low croak. Believing his father learned how to roar in the wilderness, Ryan decides to run away after an argument with his father and hide in a green shipping container. Before Ryan has changed his mind, the container is locked and taken away.

When Samson notices Ryan's cries for help, it's too late. Immediately he breaks out of the zoo with the squirrel Benny, the koala Nigel, the giraffe Bridget and the anaconda Larry in order to save Ryan. You go to the New York harbor and have to watch that Ryan is involuntarily loaded onto a huge container ship. Without further ado, Samson and his friends take control of a smaller ship lying in the harbor and follow Ryan's trail with the help of flying geese.

They are stranded on the shores of the African continent and while searching for Ryan they discover that the containers are being used for a major rescue operation to protect the animals of the wilderness from an imminent volcanic eruption. Samson follows his frightened son into the jungle, but loses his trail. When he admits to his friends that he did not grow up in the wilderness, but in a circus, the friends part ways. A little later, the rest of the group of wild wildebeest is captured under the leadership of the evil Kazar. The wildebeest consider Nigel to be their god, since a long time ago a cloth koala - from an airplane - fell from the sky and saved Kazar from a dangerous situation when confronting several cubs. Since then, Kazar has been preaching the belief that eating a lion can reverse the food chain, with the wildebeest becoming a hunter and the lion being degraded to prey.

Samson has meanwhile found Ryan, confesses his true origins to him and helplessly witnesses how his son is captured by the wildebeest and brought to the volcano, where he is to be eaten by the wildebeest. With the help of some chameleons, who have the gift of camouflaging him to the point of invisibility, Samson manages to sneak into the cave of the wildebeest and free his friends. But Samson himself gets into a fight with Kazar, which he seems to be losing. Ryan's courageous intervention puts his son's life in danger and sets Samson free, with which he can initially fight back Kazar. But the herd of wildebeest seems overwhelming. To everyone's surprise, she takes Samson's side, because she was deeply impressed by the rescue of his son. They are also tired of Kazar's dictatorship and no longer want to pretend that they are not what they are by nature - prey animals. Kazar wants to kill the lions in a final fight and is finally defeated by Samson's roar that causes the cave to burst. Shortly before the volcano erupts, the New York zoo residents can flee the island with the wildebeest herd on the small ship.

criticism

According to the verdict of the Lexikon des Internationale Films , Tierisch wild is an “animated adventure that has been cleverly designed using computer technology, but the effects of which cannot hide the lack of ideas in the story. At best, a few pretty fringe episodes enhance the maudlin plot. "

synchronization

The FFS Film & TV sync GmbH was responsible for the synchronization. Axel Malzacher wrote the dialogue book and directed the dialogue.

role animal Original speaker German synchronization
Samson lion Kiefer Sutherland Martin Umbach
Benny squirrel James Belushi Thomas Danneberg
Nigel Koala bear Eddie Izzard Lutz Schnell
Bridget giraffe Janeane Garofalo Mirja Boes
Larry anaconda Richard child Guido Cantz
Ryan Lion cub Greg Cipes Raban Bieling
Kazar gnu William Shatner Jochen Striebeck
commentator penguin Don Cherry Hartmut Neugebauer
Stan alligator David Cowgill Dietmar miracle
Carmine alligator Lenny Venito Charles Rettinghaus

background

The film premiered on April 6, 2006 in Israel. On April 14, 2006, the film had in the United States premiere and played in the first week, 22.2 million US dollars one, which are already on the opening weekend well 9.6 million US dollars. The film opened in Germany and Austria on June 1, 2006, and almost half a million viewers saw it in German cinemas.

The film is Canada's largest animation production, involving more than 400 animators . The ideas for the film came up between 1991 and 2006.

  • The ship that can be seen in the film is named "Hannah W", which is an allusion to the daughter Hannah of the director Williams.
  • Two other ships, "The Lily Maia" and "Nicolai", bear the names of the daughter Lily of the production designer Chris Farmer and the producer's son Nick .
  • The hyrax , almost eaten by Samson on the island, was voiced by a member of the production team who was known to occasionally slip into a British accent.

publication

  • Disney Classics 46: Wild animal . Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment. 2018. (DVD, BD)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Age rating for wild animals . Youth Media Commission .
  2. ↑ Wild animal. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed December 17, 2017 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | Wild animal. Retrieved February 23, 2018 .
  4. ↑ a b c Start dates according to the Internet Movie Database
  5. ↑ a b budget and box office results according to the Internet Movie Database
  6. ↑ a b c d e background information according to the Internet Movie Database

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