The animation by Toronto's CORE Digital Pictures fared only slightly better with critics than the film itself when Disney's The Wild opened to across-the-board bad reviews on April 21. Variety's Justin Chang took a dim view of its "uninspired" and "inconsistent" character animation - going on to single out the mane of a lead character, a lion. Frank Scheck at The Hollywood Reporter, however, found the Toronto shop's work "impressive" and "more realistic than usual."