History YMMV / TheCallOfTheWild2020

* PeripheryDemographic: The film wasn't really popular among it's main demographic, however it found a audience of seniors and older Americans.

* Periphery Demographic The film wasn't really popular among it's main demographic, however it found a audience of seniors and older Americans.

* UncannyValley: A number of viewers have noted that Buck appears to make human expressions with oddly human-like eyes, which is part of what takes them out of the movie. Amusingly, it's a reverse of the criticisms lobbied at the recent live-action remake of ''WesternAnimation/{{The Lion King|2019}}'' in which some felt the animals did not emote enough.

* UncannyValley: A number of viewers have noted that Buck appears to make human expressions with oddly human-like eyes, which is part of what takes them out of the movie. Amusingly, it's a reverse of the criticisms lobbied at the recent live-action remake of ''The Lion King'' in which some felt the animals did not emote enough.

* UncannyValley: A number of viewers have noted that Buck appears to make human expressions with oddly human-like eyes, which is part of what takes them out of the movie.

* SpecialEffectsFailure: When the first trailer dropped, a number of viewers complained about the CGI used to create Buck being too obvious in some shots. Most critics' reviews for the film also noted that Buck always looks ever so slightly off in every scene he's in, never once looking like he could be mistaken for a real dog. Even Rotten Tomatoes' critics consensus for this film called the CGI "distracting and unnecessary". The heavy use of the flawed CGI even hurt the film ''financially'' as it caused the film's budget to inflate rather tremendously (especially for a film of its relatively smaller scale), to the point that the film [[BoxOfficeBomb will not be making back its budget in the box office]].

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: John Thornton's subplot about coming to grips with his son's death and ultimately choosing to try and reconcile with his estranged wife ends up being this, since his fate remains the same as it was in the book, [[spoiler:with him dying alone in the wilderness, where no one is likely to find out what happened to him.]]

* CriticalDissonance: Critics have been decidedly mixed on the film, with the Tomatometer score on Website/RottenTomatoes standing at just 61% based on 176 ratings, which is ''barely'' "Fresh" and is the lowest such score in Creator/ChrisSanders' directorial career. Audiences were much more receptive, with a 89% approval rating from audiences (verified and overall) on RT, and an "A–" on [=CinemaScore=].

* SpecialEffectsFailure: When the first trailer dropped, a number of viewers complained about the CGI used to create Buck being too obvious in some shots. Most critics' reviews for the film also noted that Buck always looks ever so slightly off in every scene he's in, never once looking like he could be mistaken for a real dog. Even Rotten Tomatoes' critics consensus for this film called the CGI "distracting and unnecessary". The heavy use of the flawed CGI even hurt the film ''financially'' as it caused the film's budget to inflate rather tremendously (especially for a film of its relatively smaller scale), to the point that the film [[BoxOfficeBomb will not be making back its budget]].

* CriticalDissonance: Critics have been decidedly mixed on the film, with the Tomatometer score on Website/RottenTomatoes standing at just 61% based on 176 ratings, which is ''barely'' "Fresh" and is the lowest such score in Creator/ChrisSanders' directorial career. Audiences were much more receptive, with a 89% approval rating on RT from verified audiences and 88% from all audiences, and an "A–" on [=CinemaScore=].

* CriticalDissonance: Critics have been decidedly mixed on the film, with the Tomatometer score on Website/RottenTomatoes standing at just 61% based on 170 ratings, which is ''barely'' "Fresh" and is the lowest such score in Creator/ChrisSanders' directorial career. Audiences were much more receptive, with a 89% approval rating on RT from verified audiences and 88% from all audiences, and an "A–" on [=CinemaScore=].

* SpecialEffectsFailure: When the first trailer dropped, a number of viewers complained about the CGI used to create Buck being too obvious in some shots. Most critics' reviews for the film also noted that Buck always looks ever so slightly off in every scene he's in, never once looking like he could be mistaken for a real dog. Even Rotten Tomatoes' critics consensus for this film called the CGI "distracting and unnecessary".

* HarsherInHindsight: This is also not the first time where [[Characters/StarWarsHanSoloCharacterSheet Harrison Ford]] [[Franchise/StarWars gets killed]] [[Film/TheForceAwakens by the body]] and also [[Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker narrated the story as a spirit and gets a part of it to the main character.]]

* CriticalDissonance: Critics have been decidedly mixed on the film, with the Tomatometer score on Website/RottenTomatoes standing at just 61% based on 170 ratings, which is ''barely'' "Fresh" and is the lowest such score in Creator/ChrisSanders' directorial career. Audiences were much more receptive, with a 89% approval rating on RT from verified audiences and 88% from all audiences, an "A–" on [=CinemaScore=].

* CriticalDissonance: Critics have been decidedly mixed on the film, with the Tomatometer score on Website/RottenTomatoes standing at just 62% based on 166 ratings, which is ''barely'' "Fresh" and is the lowest such score in Creator/ChrisSanders' directorial career. Audiences were much more receptive, with a 89% approval rating from verified audiences and 88% from all audiences.

* CriticalDissonance: Critics have been decidedly mixed on the film, with the Tomatometer score on Website/RottenTomatoes standing at just 61%, which is ''barely'' "Fresh" and is the lowest such score in Creator/ChrisSanders' directorial career. Audiences were much more receptive, with a 90% approval rating from verified audiences and 88% from all audiences.

* SpecialEffectsFailure: When the first trailer dropped, a number of viewers complained about the CGI used to create Buck being too obvious in some shots. Most critics' reviews for the film also noted that Buck always looks ever so slightly off in every scene he's in, never once looking like he could be mistaken for a real dog. Even Website/RottenTomatoes' critics consensus for this film called the CGI "distracting and unnecessary".

* SpecialEffectsFailure: When the first trailer dropped, a number of viewers complained about the CGI used to create Buck being too obvious in some shots. Most critics' reviews for the film also noted that Buck always looks ever so slightly off in every scene he's in, never once looking like he could be mistaken for a real dog.

* SpecialEffectsFailure: When the first trailer dropped, a number of viewers complained about the CGI used to create Buck being too obvious in some shots.

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: The original novel is a {{Xenofiction}} classic as one of the first books to use an animal's point of view to tell a realistic story for adults, and it even had several previous adaptations that used real dogs, leaving this one appearing to completely miss the point in feeling the need to make Buck CGI. The release of ''Togo'' with its use of a real dog in even more treacherous situations made it even more embarrassing.

* SpecialEffectsFailure: When the first trailer dropped, a number of viewers complained about the obvious CGI being used to create Buck.