The movie is extremely simple in design: young boy is separated from his pack of hunter-gatherers and has to get back home. They don't even speak English, although what they speak is "translated" to English. I don't know how they watch it in the US, considering their fear of subtitles. Dubbed? It is part survival movie, part initiation movie, part animal movie. Hell, it's even romantic, considering it ends with someone the main character loves giving birth. There is no surprise in any of the scenes, the CGI is quite a lot and mediocre, the acting is nice, but considering we are talking about two people, a wolf and some extras, that's not saying much.

Bottom line: you might feel good at the end of the film and there are certainly some nice scenes in there, but overall it is never more than it was supposed to be. Oh, and Morgan Freeman "starring" in about 5 minutes of narration.