While many have praised the use of all CGI animals, especially in a film where real animals would have had to deal with some dangerous circumstances and harsh weather conditions, the film has also largely been criticized for that very decision.
Meaning, of course, that the aspect of the movie that led to it costing so much could actually keep people from heading to theaters to check it out.
Obviously, a large portion of the cost behind The Call of the Wild is the CGI work on all the animals and performance capture work by actor Terry Notary, who was on set to perform the blocking and emotion of the lead character, Buck, who’s a very good boy.