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Robinson Crusoe

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Belgium, France · 2016
Rated PG · 1h 30m
Director Vincent Kesteloot
Starring Ilka Bessin, Dieter Hallervorden, Matthias Schweighöfer, Aylin Tezel
Genre Adventure, Animation, Comedy, Family

An outgoing parrot named Tuesday lives with his quirky animal friends on a tiny island paradise. After a violent storm, Tuesday and his friends wake up to find a strange creature on the beach: Robinson Crusoe. Realizing they can both help each other, Tuesday and Crusoe learn to live together in harmony.

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TheWrap by Claudia Puig

Nothing feels remotely fresh, let alone savage or zany in The Wild Life. It’s a dull, uninspired and frantically tedious animated re-telling of the Robinson Crusoe story, complete with a menagerie of ditzy, caterwauling beasts.

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The A.V. Club by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky

The sort of uninspired international pre-sales item that usually goes straight from a basement booth at the Cannes film market to a Netflix parent’s peripheral vision. The sole interesting thing about NWave’s animation is its use of the camera, which plays to 3-D’s pop-out factor.

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The Hollywood Reporter by Jordan Mintzer

It’s all rather trite if easygoing entertainment aimed at the 6-and-under set, with A Turtle’s Tale creator Ben Stassen (credited as producer) and director Vincent Kesteloot delivering a colorful 3D adventure that lacks the sophistication of a Zootopia or Kung Fu Panda, but thankfully avoids some of their snark as well.

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Los Angeles Times by Katie Walsh

The Wild Life is a family-friendly take on the story of Crusoe, with a twist, and kids no doubt will be drawn to the colorful animal characters, but there's a lack of emotional connection that makes the film just another cartoon flick, not a special favorite or animated classic.

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Variety by Peter Debruge

Whether dangling characters off the edge of a cliff or zooming around Crusoe’s rickety wooden waterslide, the story is constantly on the go, launching objects and characters along the Z axis — and out over the audiences’ heads.

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Movie Nation by Roger Moore

The colors are vibrant, the sea, palm trees, birds, bird-feathers and Crusoe’s red hair are almost photo-realistic. But as a kids’ cartoon, Wild Life is a an utter dud.

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Austin Chronicle by Steve Davis

Any adult attending this film with a pre-K offspring may need to reassure the child afterward that little Tigger back home won’t devour him in his sleep. No kidding. They’re that scary. The Wild Life is an ailurophobe’s nightmare.

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