Life's a Jungle: Africa's Most Wanted (2012) User Reviews

I Can not watch anything Else than this masterpeace

[jonflottorp · 1/10 · 8 August 2021]

After watching ass a 100 year old you will Be reborn.

Best moment of my life and the worst because you are not abel watch anything Else go watch thi Even if you are in a funeral.

Terrible and repetitive.

[ashtonbird-65186 · 1/10 · 11 January 2018]

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.

Don't see it

[Bluekeet · 1/10 · 5 August 2012]

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.

Execrable

[TheLittleSongbird · 1/10 · 12 July 2014]

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

Ok I DON'T GET HOW PEOPLE RATED THIS A TEN

[nikkebaby · 1/10 · 1 May 2021]

One of the worst movies ever me my brother and my sister all like to watch bad movies together and there always so bad laugh but life's a jungle WAS THE MOST BORING MOVIE EVER!!!!!!!!

Worse for the eye then 2 girls 1 cup

[Rsingactdan · 1/10 · 3 March 2014]

It's sucks when I can't even describe this movie. I am more offended by the fact that My friends thought I would like this than I would be if a homeless man grabbed my privates on the train, announced that two of were to be married and then successfully argued in court that said proclamation constitutes a verbal contract. Furthermore, if I were to marry aforementioned bum and subsequently be cheated on multiple times by my forced same sex partner, I would still be less offended by that that I am by the fact that I would like this movie. If GOD himself came down to Earth and announced to the world that I am the creation he is least proud off (including Lucifer) and I am to walk the Earth for eternity for the expressed purpose of demonstrating to the rest of creation what happens when you have the misfortune of being a loathsome wretched creation so hideous that you are an affront o the creator, I would be less offend than I am by the fact that My friends though I would like this. AND YOU SOCIETY SHOULD BE ASHAMED FOR ALLOWING THIS TO Exist! In other words if you see life's a jungle Africa's most wanted ANYWHERE do NOT watch it. Consider this review a life saver.

This is one of the worst.

[brailsford · 1/10 · 1 August 2012]

I know this is made for kids, but really? The animation is horribly choppy, the story felt more like it was made for a video game (it would almost be forgivable in the form of a game).

The very cliché story follows the story of a pampered pooch who is forced into unfamiliar territory and forced to adapt. He makes "friends" with a panther, her cub and two hyenas. The hyena agree to protect him if he proves to be of value to them. He proceeds to help them with their problem getting water and the is later accepted as he comes up with a ways to get them water while avoiding their enemies the gators... the gators respond by enlisting the help of their allies the rhinos... Why the gators were hoarding the water was anyones guess though. Ultimately the dog overcomes numerous challenges, has several flashbacks that drag out the torture and makes the choice that he likes his new life with his friends (who let him leave to go off alone after his one plan backfires) once he unites all the animals he's met... his family from New England promising to visit each year.

Now the big issues, Animation... characters look like they are moving in slow motion, the sloth is supposed to be slow, but do to the bad animation you probably wouldn't know that as he moves the same speed as everyone else. The physics in this universe is very foreign to our own making it harder to relate to the characters problems.

Sound effects is the next big issue. They are very badly done, also the sound effects characters make don't fit their voices at all. Pip talks like a British gentlemen but makes Scooby sound effects. The baby panther doesn't make cub sounds... it makes generic baby sounds.

Story is a kids story, not a very good one, but not the worst story either, I won't call it on that

but that coupled with the other problems makes it almost painful to watch.

I won't recommend this one for the average viewer unless they have a friend with a younger child who you really want to punish said parent for some reason or you teach a computer animation class and want a "what not to do" movie to show before a Dreamworks film.

This movie is a jungle of awfulness!

[TheTwilightPrincess · 1/10 · 2 October 2018]

This has to be one of the worst mockbusters I've seen. The animation is awkward and looks like a low-budget game made for the PlayStation 2, which is a bad thing considering that this was released in 2012, the jokes sucked and were immature, and I couldn't bring myself to care for any of the characters or the plot. Go watch the Madagascar movies instead of this cheap, soulless cash grab.

oh the torture this movie brings

[beemanmc · 1/10 · 31 May 2015]

this, well if you can call it a actual "movie" well my little sister decided to watch this movie and i was going for a ride alright. I actually witnessed the whole entire movie with both my eyes, and man, my eyes when from clean to black and green S#*%! the movie was obviously on a small budget but why waste money and time trying to make a film. this is what you were to call a week starter for a animated film, not a full movie! every second of this torture is just rubbish!! the story is just unusual and lame, the characters are horrifying, the animation is the worst and i cannot believe this came out in 2012. I've watched Food Fight and I have to say Food Fight was much more better than this ugly film. (SPOILER) in one scene the animals were playing soccer or something, they won a game and that black little cat was jumping up and down and there was no sound, like not nothing at all, no cheering sounds as i expected. this is the worst animated movie i have ever seen.

Certainly one of the most boring movies ever

[maddoxsmith-79121 · 1/10 · 3 May 2021]

Life's a Jungle:Africa's most wanted is shamlessly trying to capitalize on the success of the Madagascar franchise. It was made to ripoff the third film, Madagascar: Europe's Most Wanted, despite having nothing to do with the Madagascar movies at all. This animation is easily worse then that of Food fight!(2012) and has a script worse than that of almost any movie I've ever seen. This movie nearly put me to sleep and I having seen over 1000 films and shows find it impressive that such a boring movie could be made. Its nearly 2 hours long! And I only made it in 20 minutes! This is easily among the worst ripoffs of all time,the worst animated movies of all time,the most boring movies of all time and just simply the worst movies of all time. Do not waste your time trying to watch this.

Ironic enjoyment

[pugglesreid · 10/10 · 10 September 2018]

I couldn't stop laughing at this wreck I need more entertainment like this

Some people just don't get it...

[lars-viebrock · 1/10 · 27 December 2019]

This movie is an utter masterpiece. Like any piece of art, it decides opinions. Some hate it, some love it. The Movie portrays harsh social commentary in a smart, satirical way. The Protagonist, Pip, however often pronounced as "poo" is a muscular Jack Russel, aka. a jacked Russell. He goes from his pampered, secured life as a pullover wearing doggie, to having to survive in the wild. An epic adventure akin to Raiders of the Lost arc, but with the emotions of Pixar's Coco. I don't want to spoiler too much, but there are Hippos in the movie that are disguised as Rhinos. This of course is to be understood as a critique of the affects of modern commercialism on our society. I feel very sorry for everyone who doesn't understand this deeper meaning. Or the poor souls who actually watched this piece.

Enjoyable overall.

[foxmusk · 5/10 · 30 August 2019]

The scenes are a bit long at times and they feel exceptionally drawn out, but there's a scene where one of the hyenas licks his own feet and I found that especially funny. Worth rewinding and watching again!

Apparently, I have a diploma now

[chrismulkeyisgod · 15 February 2014]

I watched this movie with an increasingly intense eye and noticed that the children (directly descended from me, one could safely reason) were keen on watching it too. Keen we all were, you could say, for several reasons (the first one being a little bit technical for laypersons but please. Bear with me).

The speed of sound through air is about 340 meters per second. (The speed of sound in water is about 4 times faster than this). The speed of light in air is about 300 million meters per second. I learned this theory, rather indirectly one could say, from U.K. University of Physics.

These theories are facts, and facts cannot be ignored by a good film maker (as an aside, these facts are, in fact, ignored far too often. One could say. Ha, ha, ha...). If you watch this film, you will see--nay, notice--that Robert D. Hanna has most definitely the firmest grasp on the newest ideas being bandied about the upper-most circles of The United Kingdom, and has made some daring (though appropriate) corrections to the translation of live-action CGI towards the big screen.

The end result is that We (long live The Queen!) are no longer barraged with simultaneously occurring sound and visuals. There is finally order, and Hollywood, pay attention, please. For the sake of progress.

There are many haters reviewing this film but I must suggest that these people are frightened off by scientific clarity--of actually having ample time to process every intricacy of what they are seeing and hearing.

Moving on, I loved the visuals in this movie. What I wouldn't give to have a bulb garden similar to the one in the film, and now that I've seen Africa in all of it's glory I might suggest that we as a nation might want to pay attention. They have some very lovely land.

It is my deepest, most real and sincere hope that Robert D. Hanna finds his own very special, nice-smelling girlfriend. One who will not only threaten to withhold sex from him, but from all of us. It just might be our last hope for world peace.

Absolute rubbish

[jennywendt-02466 · 1/10 · 1 January 2019]

Ohh my god, it's so unbelievably bad, i can't even put words that describes the terribleness of this movie, i quite frankly don't know what to say.

The Story: it's about this dog and his owner being on some sort of safari. Already, 3 minutes in, you get introduced with blurry backgrounds that look like if they were terribly green screened on, bad sound quality, bad sound design and all around bad animation. There are many more things wrong that you can point out but i think you got the gist of it.

All of these bad things follows through the rest of the movie. The first word spoken happens first 3 minutes into the movie. Which is normally not that bad but since nothing really happens within these opening minutes and it's just silence along with some bad sound design.... it makes it so it just feels a little off.

Then an awkward quiet goes on for another 5 minutes....... This movie is one hour and forty minutes long. This movie was made in 2012, and that wasn't even that long ago. 2012 was the year when wreck it ralph, brave and paranorman were released. It was only made to capitalize on the third madagascar movie released the same year. The movie is 5 minutes longer than madagascar 3, that's 5 minutes longer than the movie they are ripping of.

I believe the minimum length to be considered as a feature film is any film longer than 40 minutes depending on which definition you go after. I can't really find one definitive source.

What counts as being a feature film often varies from 40 to 50, some companies claim 70 or 80 minutes is the minimum length. I believe to be able to sell a movie on dvd or blu ray it has to at least be approximately 45 minutes long.

You gotta ask yourself why they even bothered making the movie this long when they could have gotten away with making the movie 45 minutes.

Later on we have this wild rhino chilling by himself away from the rest of the herd, the rhino then for some reason proceeds to get all upset and runs into their safari jeep. It's really not important, it's only there to serve to the "plot". Our main character, the dog named "pip", gets flung out of the vehicle and proceeds to get absolutely destroyed, and is left in the wilderness all by himself.

The Message: Thereafter we are flung into some sort of flashback scene showing that he before lived quite a posh life. This movie literally has the least subtle message i've ever seen displayed within a movie in a very long time.

There's a scene that exclaims that he was very happy about the luxury he used to live with. But of course he later takes things for granted which i believe is the message of the movie, you know, to not take things for granted. I believe that's the reason why he is left behind in the movie, for him to learn not to take things for granted and that some people has it so much worse than he does. To accept change and that all good things don't necessarily last forever

I mean, i really don't know, i'm just grasping at straws trying to make sense of this jarbeled mess.

I mean, i guess that's a cute little message that's sprinkled in there, but showing this movie to your kid is no use when there are far better informative family/kids movies that reflect these sort of messages to their mostly young audience. For example you have Toy story one and two that include similar important life messages perfect for a child or kid that's at a young age to learn, and to add on top of that, they as well are really good movies, well, at least compared to the monstrosity that is Life's a jungle.

The Continuity: On the safari we see rhinos living in houses which i guess they built themselves, how? Did humans build those houses for the rhinos, why? Why would rhinos be in need for housing in any way imaginable? They are rhinos, they are animals that live in the wild, how would building small houses for them help them in any way? Would it be for protecting them for something, from other animals or so? They are bloody rhinos, they don't need to be protected from other animals really. Like, is it made for shielding them from the rain?

Also, i'm pretty sure that rhinos don't live in the jungle, i know their preferred habitat varies, from savannas to dense forests in tropical as well as subtropical regions. But that doesn't look like a dense forest, as the title suggests, it just looks like a straight out normal jungle.

They stand upright with a straight back, they stand and walk just like humans. How can they do that?, same goes for the dog that is the "main protagonist" sort of speak. The humans act like if its normal, the humans see them as just animals, yet they live in houses, stand and walks on two legs and they use their arms to wave at the people driving bye. They don't really have an established universe with straight forward rules to what is normal and what isn't.

Conclusion: It might be fun to watch if you're drunk and/or are with friends, but otherwise don't watch it. And don't let your kids see it either, there are far better family/kids movies out there.

Terrible

[lorandgyorgy-96671 · 1/10 · 6 May 2020]

Garbage animation, stupid plot, unfunny jokes and bland characters.

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[adriajgray · 1/10 · 7 November 2020]

This movie is just... sigh.

I understand some kids might completely disregard the animation and various other problems I had with the film but I'm not one of those kids.

The animation style is horrible and kind of weird. I don't like how this dog (Pip, was he called?) wears a shirt and stands on two stubby things that are supposed to be legs. Also, that rhinoceros that "knocked over" their car didn't look like they even touched the car. It's also quite hard to see anything, but it might just be my streaming platform. Pip's face also looks unnervingly smug.

There are some plotholes. How did the dog's owners not notice him fall straight out of the car? After being hit by a rhinoceros they definitely should've stopped or something. The dog keeps yearning to go home to his mansion or something and then when he finally gets a chance to return home he just decides to stay?

After watching the movie I watched the trailer (for some reason) and you can find out all you need to know from there.

It probably would've been a really nice movie if not for the terrible animation and little plotholes.

This film feels like it's playing in slow motion.

[worldsworstwryter · 1/10 · 29 December 2021]

This film feels like it's playing in slow motion. Maybe that's why the running time is an absolutely RIDICULOUS 1hr 40 minutes!

Seriously, everything that could be bad about a movie is bad here. Voice acting, story, writing, dialogue, pacing, music, animation... Everything is wrong.

The music. Oh god the music. It's bizarre, and it all sounds like really bad stock music. The animation is the worst thing I think though. It's got some of the ugliest, wonkiest, most disturbing and uncanny visuals I've ever seen.

So that's why it's so distressing that it all drags by soooooo slowly... A walking scene that lasts for 40 seconds, reaction shots that linger after the talking is over, movements so slow that they look like they're underwater... It's painful.

That would be bad enough if it only lasted for 45 minutes or so, like most of these animated monstrosities. But 1hr 40 is just torture.

That's longer than 12 Angry Men. Or for another animated film, it's longer than My Neighbour Totoro and Grave of the Fireflies. That's what a movie can achieve within that time limit. Instead, what we are given in this movie, is LITERALLY an hour and a half of utter nonsense with no relevance to anything. It's not an exaggeration to say there's only around maybe 4 scenes of actual 'plot', and the rest of the running time is filled up with montages and bizarre party scenes which are stretched out with that frustratingly slow editing.

There's a lot (A LOT) of other things wrong with this (the voice acting in particular is hilarious but also embarrassing) but I have to stop thinking about this film now because it's making me hysterical again and the laughter is starting to hurt.

Overall this is the 2nd worst animated film I've ever seen and I'd give it a 0/10 if I could.

My favorite movie ever

[karebear-15366 · 10/10 · 2 June 2021]

I've watched the like 30 times and shown it to all my friends. 10/10 recommend.

Masterpiece

[emmetlol · 10/10 · 2 January 2018]

This movie is one of the best movies ever created, if not the best movie ever created. It has more story depth than Schindler's list, and it has a better perspective of crime than the Godfather. This movie will make you feel emotions like you've never felt before. With, action, romance and comedy, this movie will truly blow you away.

A religion

[shierkr · 10/10 · 12 February 2020]

I vibe with this film so much. The flawless animation, the impeccable character design, the satisfying sound design, everything anyone could ask for.

Pog

[sakmojohnson · 10/10 · 23 November 2020]

Worlds greatest movie. the entire thing sucks, but its the best because the hyenas sound like Italian mobsters

good kid flick

[khartford88-420-300627 · 8/10 · 11 July 2012]

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.

Absolutely epic

[InfrontOfTheMeme · 10/10 · 15 April 2019]

This film is an epic tale about a dog called Pip that gets lost in the Jungle. This film truly made me understand the struggle of life in the jungle and has changed me as a person to become more epic.

Life's a Jungle: A thrilling, exciting spectacle

[zacharyhickman-92815 · 10/10 · 3 September 2019]

Most Hollywood blockbusters these days are just the same old schlock, pressed over again. But 'Life's a Jungle: Africa's Most Wanted' uses it's star-studded cast to push the boundaries of what is possible in the world of cinema. It's a must-watch from me, and I'd put it in my top 3 movies of all time, alongside the likes of 'Tappy Toes' and 'Turkish Star Wars.'

10/10, masterpiece