The Wild

This film shows why Disney put Pixar in charge of its animated division | Andrew Coffin

The Wild can best be understood, I think, as a direct message from Disney to its shareholders. "$7.4 billion may sound like a high price," the film seems to be saying, "but look where we'd be without Pixar."

Yes, buying the expensive but enormously successful team behind Toy Story, Finding Nemo, and The Incredibles and putting the Pixar folks in charge of Disney's entire animation division was about the best decision Disney CEO Bob Iger could have made. The Wild (rated G), Disney's new non-Pixar CGI animated feature, proves the point not because it's so bad—it's really not—but because the film displays so much creative potential without evidencing a hint of the creative vision that might make it more than just time filler.

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