Talk:The Wild

message: It's pretty much common knowledge in the film industry that Madagascar went into production after The Wild. Can someone please update this section with more links like this: http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=416a2a1b-6e47-4310-9613-23e591475939&k=3248
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more likely, indeed:  animation is far smoother and characters are no mere cubes or cylinders, but round and crisp.  These things take a lot more time to render properly.  The only original and creative feature film so far from Dreamworks is Shreck, but it rips from the Grim Brothers, H.C.Andersen and a few others rather than Disney...
it sucks when competition means similar products in movies.  It's ok with shoes and clothes, but with movies and any storytelling media, it really sucks...
It also sucks when the movie that Dreamworks ripped off from Disney is recieved better and made more money.
IMO, I like the animation of Madagascar better than that of The Wild,as well as the story and general presentation. Emerald 18:39, 29 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: @Emerald2000 Flashbackstory Samson Young 1996 & Kazar 1998 Omen Koala Plush 2400:AC40:610:4303:8C09:4573:F34B:FEB1 (talk) 14:31, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Production Timeline 

message: I just read some of the article, and noticed lots of errors.  Down at the bottom, there are a few blatantly misspelled words in the Box Office section, plus "it's" used for possession.  Also, the Soundtrack section makes almost no sense grammatically and generally.
:If you're savvy enough to know how to post in the discussion page, you're able to correct such errors on the main page.  I'll be doing a few post-haste, but suggest you do the same should you note errors in the future. Student Driver 16:55, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lots of errors and confusion 

message: Who's the hippopotamus and who's the kangaroo? Dora Nichov 23:24, 24 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Duke And Eze

message: The article mentions a scant handful of promotional efforts from a few manufacturers and publishers.  What counts as a promotinoal effort?  3M did character adhesive bandages (under the Nexcare brand) in multiple packages featuring characters from the film, and decorated PoP displays were available before Christmas 2005.  Is this "promotional" or merely "licensed"? Student Driver 16:58, 23 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Promotional Efforts

message: This list is pointless.  Surely a more important inaccuracy is 'Animals can't really talk'. 81.136.125.120 12:11, 2 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: "The Koala has a British accent". Australians talk with a similar accent. 67.188.172.165 17:56, 29 October 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: No they don't. The Sky May Be 07:34, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inaccuracies 

message: "She is perfect of being physical."
What does this mean...? --60.229.153.165 08:34, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bridget the Giraffe 

message: I removed the Inaccuracies section. This film is not meant to educate (as opposed to, say, a movie documenting a historical event or a documentary). Any film portraying TALKING ANIMALS is likely to be zoologically inaccurate.
STOP, NOW! "Animals can't talk" really is too nitpicky. You...! Even babies know that animals (other than humans) can't talk in human languages. Oh, you think someone doesn't? Dora Nichov 05:44, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Inaccuracies Section 

message: I've trimmed the exceedingly long plot summary, which had been tagged as such since July, 2007, using a briefer summary from an earlier revision . --Tony Sidaway 14:35, 7 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Plot summary

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BetacommandBot (talk) 02:39, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: @BetacommandBot Bus Poster Is Good Animal Driver The Wild 2 Movies Canada world 2400:AC40:610:4303:8C09:4573:F34B:FEB1 (talk) 14:35, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:The Wild poster.jpg

message: I just wanted to point out to everyone that the statement made by some people, that The Wild can be seen as a clone of Madagascar is TOTAL NONSENSE !!!
Just take a close look at the animal graphic details,that should give everyone a clue or six!
The lion in Madagascar is a bad cartoon character compared to Samson the lion in The Wild.
If the development and design team wanted to make a madagascar "clone" they would have been able to release the movie
a year or two earlier, in short.......
The Wild is a real gem to view and i think that Madagascar is just a funny animation flick,...sorry fans!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.136.238.251 (talk) 19:15, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  a madagascar clone???  

message: It's atrocious. Someone sort it out.--Editor510 drop us a line, mate 08:57, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Spelling in plot 

message: Any idea why an Australian mammal is British in this film ? -- Beardo (talk) 04:04, 17 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: @Beardo Nickname King Of Wildebeest Right Ok 2400:AC40:610:4303:8C09:4573:F34B:FEB1 (talk) 14:33, 23 June 2022 (UTC)

text: But why choose a British actor to voice an Australian animal ? -- Beardo (talk) 17:43, 23 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Nigel 

message: Reading the plot, does that mean that Kazhar the wildebeest died in the volcano eruption?80.108.31.215 (talk) 17:45, 9 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  I Hate Kazhar 

message: (First off, please know that I have not seen either "The Wild" of "Madagascar" and do not plan to see either any time soon, so I really have no personal stake in this issue whatsoever.)
I just removed the following text from the aforementioned section:
:"This would not be the first time for Disney and DreamWorks that two films with a similar theme were released in proximity timewise. In the fall of 1998, DreamWorks released its talking bug film Antz mere weeks before Disney/Pixar released A Bug's Life. A similar scheduling occurred in 2000 when DreamWorks released The Road to El Dorado against Disney's The Emperor's New Groove, both set in Central/South America. In 2001, Pixar released Monsters Inc. almost simultaneously with Dreamworks' Shrek, both telling stories about monsters. Later on in 2004, DreamWorks released Shark Tale, which had an underwater theme resembling that of Pixar's Finding Nemo (2003)."
I did so mainly because this information is really just a trivia list of comparisons in a paragraph form which bears absolutely no relevance to this article about the film "The Wild." The fact that some people out there (who are not referenced in this article) feel there are similarities between "Shark Tale" and "Finding Nemo" has no bearing on a section about the comparability of "The Wild" and "Madagascar." The paragraph also reads a little too much like a press release and does not contain the proper formatting of film titles.
In all honesty, this entire section has some pretty major POV issues. The information given reads as pure opinion that is not backed up with a single credible citation. The first reference in the section directs to a general link to the Movies.com homepage and the second is a consensus statement from Rotten Tomatoes that belongs in the the "Reception" section (as it, too, has absolutely nothing to do with the issue of similarity here.) 
So I've removed the paragraph shown above and added a few tags. Hopefully that will guide others in to add references if they have them or relocate information to more appropriate places. But this section - as it stands - is on my radar. I plan to delete it entirely (save for the Rotten Tomatoes quote, which will be moved) if no alterations are made. As always, I'll allow for two weeks of consensus-building, so let me know if you have any problems with this or have any questions. 
(My only motivation remains to make Wikipedia a professional, neutral, clear, and uniform source of information to protect the site's own integrity. I operate under the assumption that silence is agreement. See also: WP:CONLIMITED) ocrasaroon (talk) 06:12, 15 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: "Similarities to Madagascar..." edits

message: On the cast section, somebody added the Rainforest Cafe mascots. Somebody please remove that.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.137.239.7 (talk) 19:54, 30 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism 

message: In the character description, it says Ryan is the eleven year old son of Samson. Correct me if I am wrong, but I am pretty certain an eleven year old lion would be fully matured. Urjak (talk) 00:14, 13 November 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: That's true. I have removed that info, and unless reliable sources are provided for it, it will stay removed. Monkeys 9711 (talk) 21:14, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Eleven year old son? 

message: An IP user (see page history, 21:52, 24 January 2012 205.133.211.107) has vandalised this page incredibly. I am very surprised that no other user has fixed it by now. I have fixed the vandalism, (which took a long time) and I would appreciate if it does not happen again. Monkeys 9711 (talk) 21:12, 29 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism 

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thread_title:  External links modified (January 2018) 

message: I'm just curious  — Preceding unsigned comment added by TysonTyson666 (talk • contribs) 22:36, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: , the Internet Archive shows no reviews on 4/11/2006 and then 11 reviews (10 negative, 1 positive) on 4/13/2006. So it does not seem like it. Erik (talk | contrib) (ping me) 23:04, 30 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  I'm wondering if the movie started at 5000000000000000000000000000% on Rotten Tomatoes, just like [[The Emoji Movie]] [[Turning Red]] did