Life's a Jungle: Africa's Most Wanted (2012)
Pip thought he had it all, a pampered lifestyle, huge mansion and adoring owners, that is until the Taylor family booked an African safari. Pip finds himself separated from his clan, which forces him to reluctantly adapt to a new way of life in the jungle. As he bridges the divide between feuding wildlife he learns that caviar and manicures can never bring the same happiness as friendship.
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Just what I expected
I cannot think of one single thing that I would change about this film. The acting is incomparable, the directing deft, and the writing poignantly brilliant.
The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.
Worth seeing just to witness how winsome it is.
This is just a joke, this film is the worst piece of shit. The animation is just repetitive and uses everything over and over again, no real effort has been in this film, just a terrible hunk of garbage, the animation is also just choppy and this is just one the worst films ever in the history of man-kind.
That's a word you rarely see me use, except for movies so bad that it's impossible to find any entertainment or value in it. And Life's a Jungle is one such movie. Nothing good can be said about the animation, if you say it is poor you are being too kind. The colours are flat, the characters have nightmarish facial expressions are move so aimlessly it looks like they're moving in slow motion and the backgrounds are from start to finish blocky, as stiff as you could possibly get and looks like fast forward but significantly slowed down. The soundtrack has to be one of the worst of any animation, that it's plodding and with not one memorable moment is one thing but to incorporate sound effects that are so bizarre-sounding and used to both overdone effect and in all the wrong places makes things even worse. Life's a Jungle's script consists of humour so juvenile children and adults would feel their intelligence is being insulted, dialogue that is unfunny and awkward-sounding and jokes that are completely ruined by drawn-out pacing(that's including the most inspired of them, the flashback of a character's version of play fetch). The overlong pauses are extremely grating after a while. The story moves at a snail's pace and is so paper-thin it's almost plot-less, making the already too-long length twice as long. If you're looking for any charm or heart look elsewhere, you won't get either here. The characters are obnoxious and manage to be even flatter than the script, and the voice acting is terrible, not only do the voice actors sound bored but a lot of them don't fit at all with their characters. If you imagine a big dog having the voice of the smallest kitten, that's the effect the mismatching of the voices has. To conclude, execrable stuff with no redeeming merits and will provide absolutely no entertainment for anybody watching. 0/10 Bethany Cox
This movie may look cute, a wealthy puppy dog gets lost in the jungle and befriends jungle animals, but please, don't waste your time with it. It was poorly made, in fact, it looked like a video game probably done in 3 days. Just after 30 seconds of the movie you know it won't get much better. But, there were a few cute scenes as well, I must admit. Poor animation shows itself more times then one. Facial expressions are at times hard to read, when the ants come out of the anthill they disappear at the grass, right as the cranes are taking off in search of water, the 3rd one already has water in his bucket, rhinos walk through a table instead of over it, at times, the rhino houses had a glitch to make it look sparkly. And it got confusing at times, for instance, the rhinos are the self-appointed "Water Guardians" without explanation. Not a great movie, these are just a few errors listed above. I'm sure you can find more if you bother to watch this movie. Honestly, I'm not even sure the kids would like it. There are a few poop scenes as well. I rate this movie if I could "0.5". N-O.
I could tell this little animated flick was made on a low budget. It was definitely not a big studio film, so I didn't have major expectations. I think we get so used to all the super high quality Pixar level films. Those films cost up to $80 million to make. This film is not in that category. With that in mind, I sat back and watched my kid enjoying it. He laughed at the cute dog Pip, and he was glued to the TV. He wanted to watch it several times, it's really made for young kids. The film had some funny gags, cute moments and a good lesson for the kids. It teaches about friendship and getting along. The hyenas were characters, pulling pranks on Pip, and I like their interaction. There are a lot of other cute animals in this too, different from other jungle movies.