On an island paradise lost in the middle of the ocean lives a small community of animals. Tapirs, wild cats, hedgehogs, chameleons and goats share their daily lives. Among them is Tuesday, a parrot who dreams of leaving the island to discover the world. One day after a violent storm, they discover a strange creature washed up on the beach: a human named Robinson Crusoe. As the man tries to find a way to survive, Tuesday and his friends decide to help...

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While the animated film The Wild Life, directed by Vincent Kesteloot (Sammy 2) demonstrates real, made-in-Europe, technical know-how and was produced in Belgium by nWave Pictures, it will take more convincing for this umpteenth adaptation of Daniel Defoe's book to deserve more than a glance – all it seems to want to do is recycle the usual (and thus boring) formulas of the genre. From anthropomorphic animals offering up gags seen a thousand times, to the colorful artistic direction and the historical adventures, this movie offers nothing exciting or fun for anyone other than the youngest audiences. The movie fulfills its mission, but does so with so little imagination and ambition that the victory is tiny.