THE CALL OF THE WILD

THE CALL OF THE WILD:  While top billing in this re-tooling of the Jack London classic goes to Harrison Ford, the real star of the film is a CGI dog named Buck.  In fact, all of the animals are the result of brilliant CGI work.  (CGI, as a reminder, stands for Computer Graphic Imaging and in this case, Buck was  the result of a ballet dancer going through the "choreography" of Buck's movement and then having it enhanced through technology)...………….Too much information?   Perhaps, but I include it to let you realize what goes into a film like this.  And it is magnificent for those reasons.   In a nutshell, it concerns the "journey" of a rambunctious canine "dognapped" from California and thrust into the "Klondike Fever" of  Alaska.  Yes, as a sled dog.  Along the way, there are terrors, beauty, kindness and eventually, "The call."  While, Mr. Ford appears in only about the last half of the film (with a brief a scene early on) I thought he was at the top of his game (considering he was acting with a dog that wasn't there).   So, if brief, go see this wonderful film and marvel at how it was made.