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Movie review: 'The Wild Life,' animated adventure inspired by 'Robinson Crusoe' is forgettable and bland

Edit The Miami Herald 12 Sep 2016
There's quite a lot of peril. storms, a shipwreck, fires, narrow escapes, etc ... Armed pirates shoot muskets and cannons and throw knives, and they also swig enough rum to look and act drunk ... Mak's island friends include sweet-but-suspicious kingfisher Kiki (Lindsay Torrance); Rosie (Laila Berzins), a perpetually hungry Tapir; Scrubby (Joey Camen), a half-blind old goat; clever chameleon Carmello (Colin Metzger); and others ... Quality ... Genre....

Movie review: ‘The Wild Life,’ animated adventure inspired by ‘Robinson Crusoe’ is forgettable and bland

Edit The Oklahoman 12 Sep 2016
There’s quite a lot of peril. storms, a shipwreck, fires, narrow escapes, etc ... Armed pirates shoot muskets and cannons and throw knives, and they also swig enough rum to look and act drunk ... Mak’s island friends include sweet-but-suspicious kingfisher Kiki (Lindsay Torrance); Rosie (Laila Berzins), a perpetually hungry Tapir; Scrubby (Joey Camen), a half-blind old goat; clever chameleon Carmello (Colin Metzger); and others ... Quality ... Genre....

Movie Review: Dearth of mirth renders Crusoe so-so

Edit Star Advertiser 09 Sep 2016
“The Wild Life”. Rated PG (1.30). **. Opens today ... Struggling to survive, he soon befriends the curious Tuesday and his skeptical group of exotic island animal pals, including a chameleon, hedgehog, tapir, goat, pangolin and a very suspicious seabird ... There are some very impressive elements of the animation — the roiling waves during a storm and whipping jungle leaves are rendered with near photorealism ... ....

‘The Wild Life’ Review: Robinson Crusoe Tale Shipwrecked on Bad Writing

Edit The Wrap 08 Sep 2016
They include a goat, a tapir, a chameleon, a kingfisher and a pangolin — an intriguing breed not seen in any animated movie in recent memory ... Similarly, the tapir’s chubby anatomy serves as the source of several ill-conceived attempts at humor ... Tuesday/Mak the parrot, sounds like Jesse Eisenberg in “Rio,” and Rosie the tapir, ......

Movie review: ‘Wild Life’ imagines Robinson Crusoe tale from animals’ perspective

Edit The Spokesman-Review 08 Sep 2016
The tale of Robinson Crusoe, loosely based on the real life experiences of castaway Alexander Selkirk, has been told for hundreds of years, since Daniel Defoe’s 1719 epistolary novel ... Struggling to survive, he soon befriends the curious Tuesday, and his skeptical group of exotic island animal pals, including a chameleon, hedgehog, tapir, goat, pangolin and a very suspicious sea bird ... That’s a bit of a problem with the whole film ... ....

Watch: Venezuela pets go hungry as economic crisis deepens

Edit Independent Online 08 Sep 2016
Carlos Parra used to love waking up to see his pet albino boxer, Nina. Now, seeing her skeletal body on the floor next to his bed has become a daily reminder of the economic crisis engulfing Venezuela. His other dog's thick fur barely hides her ribcage as Parra struggles to feed his pets after losing his job at a shoe store ... Zoo workers in Caracas say they do not have enough food for large mammals like tigers and tapirs ... ....

Movie review: 'Wild Life' imagines Robinson Crusoe tale from animals' perspective

Edit The Miami Herald 07 Sep 2016
The tale of Robinson Crusoe, loosely based on the real life experiences of castaway Alexander Selkirk, has been told for hundreds of years, since Daniel Defoe's 1719 epistolary novel ... Struggling to survive, he soon befriends the curious Tuesday, and his skeptical group of exotic island animal pals, including a chameleon, hedgehog, tapir, goat, pangolin and a very suspicious sea bird ... That's a bit of a problem with the whole film ... Cast ... ....

Venezuela pets go hungry as economic crisis deepens

Edit Rocky Mount Telegram 07 Sep 2016
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Carlos Parra used to love waking up to see his pet albino boxer, Nina. Now, seeing her skeletal body on the floor next to his bed has become a daily reminder of the economic crisis engulfing Venezuela ... let their pets starve or abandon them in the streets ... Up to about a year ago there were almost none ... Zoo workers in Caracas say they do not have enough food for large mammals like tigers and tapirs ... ....

'The Wild Life': Robinson Crusoe, talking animals and paradise found (Review)

Edit Cleveland 06 Sep 2016
REVIEW. The Wild Life. Who. Directed by Vincent Kesteloot, Ben Stassen. With Yuri Lowenthal, Ron Allen, George Babbit, Laila Berzins. Rated. PG for mild action/peril and some rude humor. Running time. 90 minutes. When. Opens Friday. Where. Area theaters. Grade. B- ... In fact, chatty parrot Mak, food-loving tapir Rosie, wise-old goat Scrubby, cool chameleon Carmello and their friends have established a pretty paradise-like set-up on their island....

What does the meat you eat say about you?

Edit The Guardian 28 Aug 2016
b) tapir (a large mammal used for food in some South American cultures) ... A recent study conducted at Lancaster University found that (meat-eating) participants rated it as morally worse to eat an animal that is commonly used for food in a different culture (eg tapir) than their own culture (eg chicken) ... than tapirs?....

Pokémon Gone: why the summer’s most popular app lost over 12 million users in a month

Edit New Statesman 24 Aug 2016
Four ex-players of Niantic's record-breaking game explain why they stopped trying to Catch ’Em All. " data-adaptive-image-768-img="" data-adaptive-image-1024-img="" data-adaptive-image-max-img="">. Drowzees. That’s the short answer. The tapir-like psychic Pokémon wiggles its short trunk and stubby yellow fingers all across the land, meaning anyone on a mission to Catch ’Em All inevitably encounters hundreds of the critters ... Maybe.” ... Ugh....

We went to Longleat, but even paying £83 could not make the lions appear

Edit The Guardian 21 Aug 2016
An ongoing £1.5m refurbishment at the safari park meant the kings of the jungle were out of sight. I bought three tickets (total cost £83.55) for my family, including my 10-year-old grand-daughter, to see the lions of Longleat in July ... All the other animals within its safari park were out and about as usual – more than 1,000 in total – including giraffes, zebras, wildebeest, tapirs, flamingo, vultures, monkeys and rhinos ... ....

Ecology on the runway (The University of Utah)

Edit Public Technologies 10 Aug 2016
(Source. The University of Utah). University of Utah ecologist Nalini Nadkarni is no fashion mogul ... On Aug ... All enthusiastically said yes ... Tachinni had never heard of diatoms or tapirs before, but said that as he worked on the project, 'he understood that real scientists studied these things, and that it wasn't so odd to him that they studied them because they were really beautiful and they invoke a sense of wonder,' Nadkarni reported....
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