The Wolf and the Lion

A frustrating, dramatic and heavy-handed film.

Watching 100 minutes of cute animals on your phone is preferable to sitting through the laughably bad Wolf and the Lion.

The Wolf and the Lion is a lot like the internet: about half aww-inspiring scenes of irresistibly cute animals and the other half dumb, boring human beings.

The Wolf and the Lion is deeply sweet, utterly predictable, and may well send a few unintentionally mixed messages about human relationships with large predators.

Heartfelt empathy for the plight of abused animals outweighs the flimsy, sometimes silly plot machinations. Molly Kunz and Graham Greene make for an appealing pair of heroes.

With a dull thud, the flat human story collides with the thin one about the cute animals.

Extremely vapid on every level, The Wolf and the Lion is a poorly made drama that irresponsibly advocates for untrained people to raise large wild animals, such as a wolf and a lion, inside their homes.

The cinematography is quite good -- the animal photography is excellent. I do not think it had much of a script at all.

A movie about completely adorable animals - and for many people that is all they need to be entertained.

The four-legged stars in the family film The Wolf and the Lion fare a lot better than their two-legged co-stars, if only because they arent saddled with clunky dialogue and ludicrous plot development.