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Wendell & Wild
2022
· Movie
· 105 min
C
MEANRANK
68/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #425
- IMDb #450
- Google retired #377
- Metacritic #280
- Letterboxd #350
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #247
+5 more
- Metacritic Critics #162
- Metacritic Audience #382
- Kinopoisk #550
- AlloCiné #477
- Trakt #446
Every rating
59–80
out of 100
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Metacritic users on 59, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 80.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Two demon brothers, Wendell and Wild, strike a deal with a troubled teenage girl named Kat. They promise to resurrect her deceased parents if she summons them from the underworld to the Land of the Living. Kat agrees, but the brothers have their own scheme: they need her to help them build their own amusement park, Dream Faire. Their plans inevitably go awry, unleashing chaos in their wake.
Details
- Director
- Henry Selick
- Writers
- Henry Selick, Jordan Peele
- Based on
- a work by Henry Selick
- Released
- 21 October 2022
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 105 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Awards
- 1 win, 12 nominations
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Cast
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Awards & nominations
See all 13 →1 win from 13 nominations across 9 ceremonies
| Critics' Choice Movie Awards 2023 | Best Animated Feature | Wendell & Wild | Nominee |
| African American Film Critics Association 2023 | Best Animated Feature | Wendell & Wild | Winner |
| Alliance of Women Film Journalists 2023 | Best Animated Female | "Kat" ( Lyric Ross ) | Nominee |
| Alliance of Women Film Journalists 2023 | Best Animated Film | Wendell & Wild | Nominee |
| Annie Awards 2023 | Best Animated Feature | Wendell & Wild | Nominee |
| Annie Awards 2023 | Outstanding Achievement for Directing in an Animated Feature Production | Henry Selick | Nominee |
| Annie Awards 2023 | Outstanding Achievement for Character Design in an Animated Feature Production | Pablo Lobato | Nominee |
| San Diego Film Critics Society 2023 | Best Animated Film | Wendell & Wild | Nominee |
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Critics' Choice Movie Awards
1 nomination
| Best Animated Feature | Wendell & Wild | Nominee |
African American Film Critics Association
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Animated Feature | Wendell & Wild | Winner |
Annie Awards
3 nominations
| Best Animated Feature | Wendell & Wild | Nominee |
| Outstanding Achievement for Character Design in an Animated Feature Production | Pablo Lobato | Nominee |
| Outstanding Achievement for Directing in an Animated Feature Production | Henry Selick | Nominee |
Alliance of Women Film Journalists
2 nominations
| Best Animated Female | "Kat" ( Lyric Ross ) | Nominee |
| Best Animated Film | Wendell & Wild | Nominee |
Visual Effects Society Awards
2 nominations
| Outstanding Created Environment in an Animated Feature | Tom Proost, Nicholas Blake, Colin Babcock, Matthew Paul Albertus Cross (The Scream Fair) | Nominee |
| Outstanding Model in a Photoreal or Animated Project | Peter Dahmen, Paul Harrod, Nicholas Blake (Dream Fair) | Nominee |
Hollywood Music in Media Awards
1 nomination
| Best Original Score in a Fantasy Film | Bruno Coulais | Nominee |
San Diego Film Critics Society
1 nomination
| Best Animated Film | Wendell & Wild | Nominee |
St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association
1 nomination
| Best Animated Film | Wendell & Wild | Nominee |
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association
1 nomination
| Best Animated Feature | Wendell & Wild | Nominee |