Kiefer Sutherland, Jim Belushi and Eddie Izzard lend their voices to The Wild, but despite the eclectic line-up this tooner is "depressingly bland". It's more than a little reminiscent of Madagascar with Sutherland voicing a lion who's out of place in the wild after living in a city zoo. It got a critical mauling and made little money, putting another nail in the coffin of Disney's once thriving animation empire.

A Walk On The Wild Side

Dubiously named director Steve 'Spaz' Williams and producer Clint Goldman provide optional commentary for five deleted scenes in various stages of incompletion. Among them is a creepy dream sequence for Benny (Belushi) involving a giraffe in a pink baby doll dress... It was taken out, they say, because it "took people out of the movie". (Took them where, we shudder to think.) Another scene (presented in storyboard form), hears Eddie Izzard adlibbing with abandon, but the director found it "too long" and "insane".

Izzard lets loose with more verbal diarrhoea in a featurette running at just under three minutes. As he thrashes about in the sound booth, you can pick out a few words, eg "ice cream", "starboard" and "mullet", but it's impossible to keep up. "When I can adlib," he says, "I get into the zone, and when I'm in the zone I can hit stuff that just won't be out there." Oh, but it's still pretty 'out there'...

The Lesser-Spotted Desk Monkey

A second, final and even shorter featurette invites you to Meet Colin: The Rock Hyrax. Apparently Colin Cunningham pays the rent as a visual effects designer and voiced the Hyrax just for the kicks. This bit of video finds him deep in character, whether at his desk or by the vending machine and seems tailored for the private amusement of his colleagues. Shockingly, it's also revealed that he isn't actually a cockney! And next they'll be telling us that Dick Van Dyke is American...

A music video by Everlife completes this measly batch of extras. With the unusual absence of games and activities, it's not going to keep the kids amused for more than ten minutes. You'd find more substance and intrigue mucking out cages at London Zoo...

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