Now, 20th Century Studios has done it with Jack London’s classic novel, The Call of the Wild, and, perhaps taking a note from The Lion King backlash, leaned into a cartoon version of CGI Buck.

Jack London’s “The Call of the Wild” is the OG of anthropomorphized ... engrossing protagonist without turning him into a primal cartoon. The epic 19th century tale of Buck, the domesticated ...

Last week in my “Sonic the Hedgehog” review, I lamented that the title character was a cleaned-up cartoon rather than ... This week, with “The Call of the Wild,” we do indeed get a ...

If I want to see a dog turned into a cartoon, I’d rather watch a cartoon. “The Call of the Wild,” an adaptation of the Jack London classic that’s true to the spirit, if not always the ...

Our Take: This Call of the Wild is a cynicism test ... nice-but-broken old men who need a friend and sneering cartoon villains. I could see children being entertained by this sanitized version ...

Is Jack London’s The Call of the Wild a stirring defense of Social Darwinism or a critique of American individualism? In the latest in Nathaniel Rich’s 'American Dreams' series, he reviews ...

Jack London amassed more than 600 rejections and endured a frigid Yukon winter before he found success thanks to ‘The Call of the Wild’—which also got him accused of plagiarism. As a young ...

It’s physical, tangible, and real. So, when a film like The Call of the Wild comes along with a CG dog, achieved via motion-capture, at the side of very real human characters, an integral part ...