Thanks for the "man on the street" review. Probably saved me about $50-$75, between dinner and two tickets. Just need to convince the wife that there really is nothing worth paying money for this week.
‘The Call of the Wild’ Review: Arctic Meltdown
A CG pooch is the liveliest part of a production that otherwise goes to the dogs.
They got it all wrong in “The Call of the Wild,” a woefully inept retelling, or re-re-retelling, of the Jack London story about a comfortably domesticated California dog named Buck finding his true feral self in the Yukon during the Gold Rush. This latest iteration of Buck is so lifelike, thanks to the wonders of computer animation, and the people around him are such lifeless caricatures, that the studio should have given the pooch the gift of speech and kept the humans mercifully mute.