- All Animation Is Disney: Because it was distributed by Disney as part of their deal with C.O.R.E. Feature Animation, a lot of people seem to think it was made by Disney. Not helped by the fact that many European countries include this film in Disney's official canon, replacing Dinosaur, and marketed it as a Disney movie in a few cases.
- Big-Lipped Alligator Moment:
- The scene with Benny and the dung beetles. Not only does it not make much sense in context (why are the beetles German?note ), nor is it referenced at any point later in the movie, but it comes right after a fairly intense scene where Ryan is kidnapped and Samson is seemingly killed.
- Ryan randomly comes across a baby hippo only for the baby’s mother to overreact and force Ryan away by slamming her butt into the ground. The scene ends as abruptly as it starts.
- Fridge Brilliance: Since anacondas aren’t known for being speedy travelers, Larry spends most of the movie wrapped around Bridget's neck. In other words, he’s a boa being worn like a boa (yes, anacondas are part of the boa family).
- One-Scene Wonder:
- The friendly sewer gators who help our heroes after they escape from a pack of rabid stray dogs and wind up in the sewers.
- The British-accented hyrax the gang encounters while searching for Ryan. He only appears in one scene, but his hammy dialogue and jerkish behavior make him hilarious to watch.
- Retroactive Recognition:
- Though his role is far more minor, Jack DeSena, a.k.a. Sokka from Avatar: The Last Airbender, uses a deeper version of his voice as the aforementioned character when voicing Ryan's friend Eze.
- In the Japanese dub, this is was one of the earlier roles Tasuku Hatanaka did as Ryan, along with Edmund Pevensie in the dub of The Chronicles of Narnia films, which was his debut role as a voice actor.
- Squick: Benny, a squirrel, has a crush on Bridget, a giraffe. And she reciprocates by the end. Try getting that mental image out of your head.
- So Okay, It's Average: Those who have sought out the movie find it to be this. Helps that it wasn't (despite some people saying otherwise) specifically made to compete with the aforementioned Madagascar.
- They Copied It, So It Sucks!: Due to a pre-emptive strike by DreamWorks Animation, people have a pretty dim view of this movie compared to the far more successful Madagascar, even though The Wild actually entered production first. However, while the accusation is avoided by those who know this, it's nonetheless common for them to say that they still felt Madagascar did it better.
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: The titular Wild doesn't really factor into the plot as much as you'd think. The characters only make landfall about halfway into the film and once there barely spend any time in the wilderness, almost immediately being abducted by the Wildebeests. The setting barely makes a pivotal impact on the main story or the other characters aside from the reveal about Samson.
- Unintentional Uncanny Valley: A common criticism is that the attempt to integrate realistic animal features with cartoony models led to the designs for certain characters (Larry the anaconda is the most prevalent one) looking far from pretty.
- Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Samson rips into Ryan for causing a stampede of gazelles that supposedly "endangered everyone in the zoo". However, the preceding scene mostly consists of the gazelles (who are nowhere near numerous enough to really threaten all the animals) slipping around on the ice, so Samson comes off as over-dramatic and far too harsh on his son.
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