Robinson Crusoe: The Wild Life is a handbook of mistakes -- although I can't say whether the problem was lack of budget, time, or simply judgment.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 28, 2016

Kids might be amused, but adults will find the jokes weak, the narrative bleak and little to pass the time between animal chase scenes.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 13, 2016

contemporary relevance doesn't make this movie any more interesting. It just floats by on flat characters and predictable gags, a functional distraction for kids who are bound to forget it as soon as they hit the next episode of Dora The Explorer.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 9, 2016

There's always a lot to look at. The script is so-so, but the total lack of snark and cynicism in the film is refreshing.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 9, 2016

The animation is quite good but the voice talent is poor, the characters are dull, and the story and script start out badly and go downhill from there.

| Original Score: C | Sep 9, 2016

It's no great shock when a movie based on a beloved book falls short of the original, but few fail as confoundingly as "The Wild Life."

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 9, 2016

Has a handful of novel 3-D effects, lots of bright colours, competent animation and little else.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 9, 2016

"The Wild Life" is an import from Belgium that should have been left at customs.

| Original Score: D | Sep 9, 2016

Almost completely unfunny and mostly uninspired, The Wild Life coasts by on attractive visuals alone. Otherwise, this is a painful 90 minutes.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Sep 9, 2016

Belgians may have bragging rights on waffles, but judging from "The Wild Life," their animated fare needs help.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 8, 2016

"The Wild Life" is pretty to look at, with its skies and ocean, calm or stormy, and it has a driving soundtrack. But the story lacks that extra layer of complexity and meaning that parents can appreciate.

| Sep 8, 2016

It's like the generic version of a Disney movie.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 8, 2016

A dull, uninspired and frantically tedious animated re-telling of the Robinson Crusoe story, complete with a menagerie of ditzy, caterwauling beasts. Consequently, this cacophonous misfire feels a good deal longer than its 91-minute running time.

| Sep 8, 2016

Though hardly terrible, the movie is imminently forgettable. Once it's over, it feels as if it never happened.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 8, 2016

All things considered, this pitifully plotted Belgian-French production represents the nadir of animated movies released so far this year, a farrago of frantic action and mindless cacophony.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 8, 2016

A confused, charmless take on the Robinson Crusoe story.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 8, 2016

The animators are clearly trying to craft something bubbly, but they misguidedly go all in on imitating the contemporary Disney model - or DreamWorks', at least - rather than offering anything different.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 8, 2016

It exists in the kids-only zone where parents go to pay for their sins or, hopefully, get a nap.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 8, 2016

The sort of uninspired international pre-sales item that usually goes straight from a basement booth at the Cannes film market to a Netflix parent's peripheral vision.

| Original Score: D | Sep 8, 2016

Save a final swashbuckling sequence in which Crusoe and chums fend off pirates, there's nothing to match, say, that spooky moment when the hero finds footprints in the sand.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 8, 2016