The Wolf And The Lion: Review

2nd February 2022

Alma (Molly Kunz) is a classically trained pianist and has been in training for the past eight years. She has very important exams coming up and it could determine her future career as a musician. She also has somewhere she calls home and while on a break from her exams, she decides to go to where her grandfather lived by a lake with wild animals not so far away.

There she meets Joe (Graham Greene), an old family friend who helps Alma get settled in and introduces her to a wolf that likes to come by from time to time with her cubs. Alma instantly falls in love with the cubs and is drawn to one who she calls Mozart.

Meanwhile, a plane that’s carrying live cargo is having trouble in a storm overhead and a passenger makes his escape. Wandering around, a little lion cub soon finds its way to Alma and to meet Mozart and soon the lion cub and the wolf cub become close friends. However, there are people after the wolf and the lion; Eli (Charlie Carrick) who’s an animal conservationist and Allan (Evan Baliung) who wants to get back his lion cub for his circus.

Alma knows all too well though how circuses treat animals, so she decides to hide away Mozart and Dreamer, raising them herself and giving them a home.

The Wolf and The Lion is a feelgood family drama about a woman looking for a different life who finds friends in the most unlikely of places. Mainly aimed at children, The Wolf and The Lion is a great combination of cute animals and places a strong message of acceptance and one of animal conservation.

There are issues with the script, but mainly due to it being aimed at such a young audience. This means that although the kids can enjoy the cute animals and let the message wash over them, the adults may question the logic of the plot’s finer details. Also, the villains of the film are rather two dimensional and issues are raised by certain characters without any prior knowledge to their feelings.

The Wolf and The Lion gives something for a family with young children to enjoy, just try not to think about what Alma had to do to get enough food to feed a growing lion.

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