Ugh. Why didn’t someone tell me all the animals were CGI *before* I went to see this?!?! I’m of the mindset that animated animals are great inside animated films, but if a movie is live-action, I want REAL animals. I can’t get emotionally involved in a CGI dog when it takes place inside the real world.
But let’s put that aside.
Who was directing this mess?!?!?! Oh yeah, Chris Sanders, whose three previous directing projects were: The Croods, How To Train Your Dragon, and Lilo & Stitch. That's explains a lot. His version of The Call Of The Wild is shot like a cartoon.
The story is rambling and doesn’t really go anywhere. Random scenes were inserted without explanation. There are throwaway characters galore. Action sequences are preposterous. Little made sense. It’s a hot mess in a cold climate.
Rating: D-
It’s always baffled me how audiences root and cheer for the good guys taking out the bad guys despite a massive body count of collateral damage. The opening 20 minutes of action saw property damage on the scale of a Midwestern tornado with pedestrians getting slaughtered willy nilly.
Ugh. Why didn’t someone tell me all the animals were CGI *before* I went to see this?!?! I’m of the mindset that animated animals are great inside animated films, but if a movie is live-action, I want REAL animals. I can’t get emotionally involved in a CGI dog when it takes place inside the real world.
But let’s put that aside. 
