The Call of the Wild (2020)

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  Creeper3455

  7 / 10

  The 20th Century Studios logo, compared to Buck (in terms of VFX), is horrifying. Still hard to believe Disney wanted to chunk Fox off their logos to get "mooarrr companyyyysss".
  
  Well, uhh... Congrats to Chris Sanders. He may be the only director I know who successfully translated from Animation (with stuff like Lilo & Stich and The Croods) to Live-Action since...I don't know, Henry Selick? (remember Monkeybone?)
  
  Because, while it has his problems, The Call Of The Wild so much feels like it wants to become an epic while it's surrounded by the "Kids Movie" territory that blocks it from reaching its full potential, especially when it has moments of interchangeable pacing that feel hollow or random at times.
  
  An epic that features a CG Dog that may bother a lot of the Audience (it didn't to me), but at the same time resonate WITH the Audience, thanks to the fact that it's essentially a Dog hybrid of Forrest Gump and Cast Away...oh, and it has Harrison Ford narrating too.
  
  And it's not that Buck bothered me because it was everything else that was bothering me. Either the rest of the animals is CG, there's a colossal waste of Karen Gillian (who's in it just as much as a Stan Lee cameo in an MCU Flick) and a rather bizarre and cartoonish plot point in the 3rd Act.
  
  But again, it's all salvaged by the journey of Buck, which is fueled by a nice message about "finding your place in the world" and the fact that A-listers like Harrison Ford and Omar Sy are there to carry the movie "somewhere", since a major part of the movie is just stuff happening for no reason (despite knowing the mission of selected part).
  
  Not only that but also the fact that Dan Stevens plays more of a beast in here than the actual Beast in the Beauty And The Beast remake, playing this selfish, idiotic Circus(?) leader who hates everything but that sweet sweet gold.
  
  So yeah, I liked The Call Of The Wild, and while I'm sure you won't love it or something (the Box Office speaks for itself), at least you can't deny that it had a story and a really good one at that.

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