The latest case in point: The Call of the Wild, directed by animation veteran Chris Sanders, which is released today by the Walt Disney Company’s 20th Century Studios (formerly 20th Century Fox).

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The latest in a string of visually sumptuous, richly-detailed folklore fantasies from studio Cartoon Saloon – also based in Kilkenny – it is a rapturous ode to nature, unruly childhoods, and the joy ...

Most of them are a dog’s dinner. But the so-so “The Call of the Wild” can at least boast some literary cred. It’s based on Jack London’s 1903 novel about a Saint Bernard-Scotch collie ...

While watching the canine-centered action-adventure "The Call of the Wild" (in theaters Friday), we couldn't help but wonder: Why is the star dog Buck a lumbering St. Bernard mix and instead of ...