Boonie Bears: The Wild Life

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Boonie Bears: The Wild Life
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Traditional熊出沒·狂野大陸
Simplified熊出没·狂野大陆
MandarinXióng Chūmò: Kuángyě Dàlù
LiterallyRoaming Bears: The Wild Land
Directed by
Shao Heqi[1]
Screenplay byXu Yun
Cui Tiezhi
Zhang Yu
StarringZhang Bingjun
Tan Xiao
Zhang Wei
Liu Pei
Zhou Ziyu
Zhu Guangzu
Jia Chenlu
Production
companies
Fantawild Animation
HG Entertainment
Sunac Culture
Lianrui Pictures[2]
Distributed by
Lianrui Pictures
Maoyan
HG Entertainment
Suniverse
Fantawild Animation
Release date
  • 12 February 2021 (2021-02-12) (China)
Running time
99 minutes[3][4]
CountryChina
LanguageStandard Chinese
Budget250 million RMB (reportedly)[5]
Box office600 million RMB[3]

Boonie Bears: The Wild Life (Chinese: 熊出没·狂野大陆) is a 2021 Chinese animated fantasy comedy film, the seventh feature film in the Boonie Bears series. Originally planned for a 25 January 2020 release, it was delayed by the COVID-19 outbreak and ultimately released in mainland China on 12 February 2021 (Chinese New Year).

In the film, when "Wild Land" opens on Pine Tree Mountain, Vick participates in a transformation contest with Bramble and a mysterious man. When guests who have been transformed into animals turn wild and start attacking people, Vick and the two bears bravely respond to the crisis.[6][7]

Plot[]

A new theme park called Wild Land opens, where guests can use gene-altering bracelets to transform into all kinds of animals. Vick finds out that Wild Land is having a contest with a prize of a million dollars and decides to participate. He, Bramble, and a mysterious man named Leon work together and win the contest. Soon after, the park's owner Tom catches Leon trying to secretly copy the park's data, and Vick discovers that hybrid guests are causing trouble and attacking others.[8][9]

Cast[]

  • Zhang Bingjun as Bramble
  • Tan Xiao as Vick
  • Zhang Wei as Briar
  • Liu Pei as Leon
  • Zhou Ziyu
  • Zhu Guangzu as Tom
  • Jia Chenlu

The theme song "I Will Always Be Here" is sung by Lala Hsu.[10]

Themes[]

The film is focused on the theme of happiness. It explores the essence of happiness and how happiness influences human behavior. The directors expressed hope that both children and adults watching the movie would think about the question of what happiness is. They hoped the film would make audiences think about their lives and their futures.[2]

Animation[]

According to the filmmakers, animating the Wild Land contest venue was extremely complicated, requiring 3,000 machines to render simultaneously every day. In one three-minute sequence in particular, the average time for a machine to render a frame was 20 hours – equivalent to 120 machines rendering for 30 days, 24 hours a day.[2]

Boonie Bears: The Wild Life is the first Chinese animated film in which humans transform into other animals.[11] According to Daisy Shang, president of Fantawild Animation, this required a "special rigging system" to animate realistically.[8]

Release[]

The film was scheduled for a 25 January (Chinese New Year) 2020 release, but was delayed by the COVID-19 outbreak.[8][12][13][14][15]

It was screened at the 2020 Shanghai International Film Festival.[10][16]

It was released on 12 February (Chinese New Year) 2021 in mainland China.[1][17][18] International releases were scheduled for 12 February 2021 in Japan, 19 February 2021 in Australia, and 7 May 2021 in Canada.[14]

Box office[]

On its first day, the film earned 101 million RMB (US$15.6 million) at the box office.[19] Its three-day gross was 236 million RMB (US$36.5 million), making it the fourth highest grossing film of the 2021 Chinese New Year weekend.[20]

Reception[]

As of 27 February 2021, the film has a score of 6.6 out of 10 on Douban[21] and 8.9 out of 10 on Maoyan.[22]

The film was nominated for a Golden Rooster Award for Best Animation at the 2020 Golden Rooster Awards.[23]

References[]

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