What is it that makes Chris Sanders' animated films? For beginners, here is their visual acuity. His characteristic debut, "Lilo and Stitch", which Sanders wrote and directed with Dean Unbloys, has warm and invited background watercolors to suit rich, earthy tones and an incredible 3D Flying Sequendors of Sofi -Momorial Sanders and Sanders' Sanders, "Another of the highest achievements of DreamWorks animation). Even the slightly underestimated "Korods" (a movie that Sanders is co-softly with Kirk Demiko) brings its prehistoric setting to life with striking, vibrant shades.

Sanders also has a nessube to strange and apostates who form surprising relationships with each other, whether they are a strange, time girl who hangs out with someone else's wrong or cunning, Viking Viking with the living dragon. In a greater sense, his films are for families (whether they are formed by blood or choice) and communities that transcend their differences to help each other survive in front of the non -urgent and often threatening worlds in which they live. It is these elements that make his films as spiritual as they are happy (and, in their darker moments, even fatal).

Accordingly, for his first live action, Sanders chose to adjust the "wildlife call". The original novel of the 1903 adventure novel Jackec London certainly hit many of the director's favorite blows, from the strange friendship with couples in his core to the way he portrayed nature as a force that is astonishing and frightening. Also, a little miracle of the 20th century, Fox saw this as a potential crowd, going so far as the green light with a significant budget in the range of $ 125-150 million.

Unfortunately, even to have Harrison Ford as her (human) leadership was not enough to prevent the film from being sabotaged by a number of factors in the box office.

After acquiring the "Call of the Wild" through the 2019 Disney Fox deal, there was no good reason why the mouse house should not have turned the film into a hit. It's a movie where Harrison Ford plays a cute 19th -century border that becomes friends with a dog for Pete! If the film reaches the theaters of Christmas 2019 as originally planned, one imagines families looking for some healthy entertainment activities of all adults, maybe they have turned it into legal success in box office.

There lies one of the many problems with Disney possess everything. Has already dropped that framework for "Starwalks War: Episode IX - the rise of Skywalker" (Harrison Ford's inferior film in this script), The mouse house did not feel the need to compete with it by releasing the "wildlife call" at the same time. (Obviously, the studio also had more driving on the former than the latter, with Sanders adaptation to be another company's hand.) Instead, it gave the previous date of the movie "Blue Sky" lists, a fox that was postponed several times. If Disney's goal was to position the animated spy flick-on which Will Smith turns into a pigeon, in case you forget-like counter-program of the latest "Starwell War", however, it didn't work correctly; Ton brought just $ 172 million to the box office against the $ 100 million price.

Meanwhile, the "wildlife call" was deleted several months by the end of February, a framework that was historically something at a landfill. Surely, the film was missed by a $ 111 million theatrical takeover, which was not even half of what Lilo and Stitch did 18 years earlier. Of course, the Kovid-19 pandemic hurt the film further when the theaters closed a few weeks later, but by that point, more damage was already done. In an article published on March 1, 2020, Diversity It has announced that the film is "expected to lose about $ 50 million", based on its performance to that point.

To paraphrase a different movie by Harrison Ford, "That's How Success)!"

Obviously, the blame for the "call of the wild" does not fall on Mickey Mouse's shoulders. The film reviews were also more mixed compared to those of Sanders' animated contributions, with most critics agreeing that the CGI CGI co-star on Ford, Buck, has little Also Much of the unwanted valley is looking at him. Making the character to life through digital animation was probably a necessary Gambit given the suffering of the poor that covers them during his journey, but it only attracts attention to the central flaw of the film: it just had to be a fully animated feature. Indeed, as is often the case with Disney's live remuneration of his animated classics, the "wildlife call" contains a lot of pictures, tonic shifts, and even characters that feel like they would play better in the intensified area of ​​animation.

Those warnings aside, the "call of the wild" still stands on the head and shoulders above the most live retelling of the mouse. Even some CGI creatures and the work of the green screen can deter so much of the stunning visual film that the film serves because it follows Buck on his way through the undiscovered Yukon, creating a sense of majesty and danger that fits the story of Jackec London. Ford also has to boast that he devoted himself to his role as sad potential, carrying the gravitates of a character who could otherwise come across a type of Matka stock. (His moving mutually with Buck is more impressive when you remember Ford passed all shoots starring the opposite maestro notary of movement of movement, Terry notary In a nasty suit for heavy skin, pretending to be a dog.)

May not be ranked among his biggest efforts (Including the animated instant-class that is the "wild robot"), but the "wildlife call" is proof that even less Chris Sanders is still good. Yes, yet good.