The Wild [Soundtrack]

Alan Silvestri (Artist), Various Artists (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (April 11, 2006)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Soundtrack
• Label: Walt Disney Records
• ASIN: B000EOTF3K
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #107,197 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

It's tough to be wild--truly wild--when the MPAA has tagged the film you're singing for with a G-rating, but the quartet of acts tasked with getting The Wild's likable jungle party started try their best. Everlife, for its part, vamps it up on opener "Real Wild Child," one of those Disney-pop numbers that makes advances at rock and then scurries away; Lifehouse's "Good Enough" lingers in the mind for its skilled melancholy (5-year-olds will need no help recalling its placement in the sad scene); "Big Time Boppin' (Go Man Go)" jumps and jives in a manner befitting the band bold enough to call itself Big Bad Voodoo Daddy; and Eric Idle and John Du Prez's Lion King-like "Really Nice Day," reprised at the end of this disc, delivers young listeners with wild imaginations directly into a friendly savannah where rhythm is king. The rest of The Wild soundtrack is score, but switching it off is like buying a movie ticket just for the previews: Alan Silvestri, who composed and conducted, stitches together bright sparkling moments with dark thundering ones and then, in the space of nine short-seeming tracks, sweeps it all away faster than a herd of talking zoo escapees can trace a fallen comrade. The epic-adventure element comes through, but so does the fun. Sometimes, even classical musicians indulge their wild sides. --Tammy La Gorce

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars The kids couldn't stop dancing!, November 17, 2006

By	Elisa M. Richardson "scrapcat" (Ferndale, MI) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Wild (Audio CD)

I think The Wild was one of the most underrated movies of this year- shame because it was SO funny! The soundtrack is great too!

Track 1- Real Wild Child is performed by Everlife: You can't help but start moving in your seat while driving along to this one.

Track 2- Good Enough by Lifehouse: This group keeps coming up with the most unexpected but beautiful songs. LOVE IT!

Track 3- Big Time Boppin' by Big Bad VooDoo Daddy: fun.

Track 4- Really Nice Day by Eric Idle: I enjoy listening to this because, now that I'm not watching the movie and can concentrate on the words I realize how funny it really is.

The rest of the tracks are musical scores from the soundtrack in the Disney tradition. FUN!

4 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Wild- Alan Silvestri, July 1, 2006

By	Lewis Becker (Barnegat, NJ United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Wild (Audio CD)

i ENJOYED LISTENING TOO THIS ALBUM. ESPECIALLY THE FIRST SONG.

0 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not for me, January 5, 2007

By	Spollon Corrado "Corrado70" (Padova, Italy) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This review is from: The Wild (Audio CD)

I bought this cd only 'cause I'm a Lifehouse fan and "Good enough" is a beautiful song. The other songs are fun but the rest of the cd is mainly a score by Alan Silvestri, and I really don't like this kind of cds.