Open Season (2006)

All Critics (106) | Top Critics (28) | Fresh (48) | Rotten (55) | DVD (16)

I have to say that the humour here (some of it Pythonesque) is mostly spot on and, at times, mischievously dark.

October 14, 2006 Full Review

Time Out

Top Critic

It's just okay.

October 2, 2006 Full Review

Richard Roeper

Ebert & Roeper

Top Critic

Now that we've made one of the best computer-generated talking-animal-on-an-odyssey movies in the brief but busy history of the genre, can we please, please move on?

September 29, 2006 Full Review

Geoff Pevere

Toronto Star

Top Critic

A little bit like Over the Hedge, and a lot like the upcoming Flushed Away, in which an animated house mouse is forced to fend for himself in the sewers of London, Open Season may sound a bit familiar, but it is never dull.

September 29, 2006

Bruce Newman

San Jose Mercury News

Top Critic

With animated movies coming out every other week or so, mediocrity is becoming a rule. Open Season loses more points than most films because of its similarities to Over the Hedge, one of the few kids films that did it right this year.

September 29, 2006 Full Review

Peter Hartlaub

San Francisco Chronicle

Top Critic

It's not deep and not totally original. But Open Season is whiplash quick with the gags and spot-on with the funny voices.

September 29, 2006 Full Review

Roger Moore

Orlando Sentinel

Top Critic

Animated animal buddy flick is crude but funny.

January 1, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Jane Boursaw

Common Sense Media

Animated children's movies should not glamorize criminal activity and war, but that's exactly what happens in "Open Season"...

April 25, 2009 Full Review

Cole Smithey

ColeSmithey.com

Despite inconsistencies in audience and humor, there's enough to like about Open Season.

July 28, 2007

James Plath

Reel.com

An energy-filled but flawed debut . . . that my kids just happened to love.

April 15, 2007 Full Review

James Plath

Movie Metropolis

[A] beautifully animated and funny, if formulaic, odd-couple comedy.

March 1, 2007 Full Review

Frank Lovece

Film Journal International

The animation is pleasing and Billy Connolly gives a hilarious turn as a loud-mouthed, bossy squirrel, who has never heard the notion that size intimidates

November 24, 2006 Full Review

Urban Cinefile Critics

Urban Cinefile

Decidedly average . . .

November 24, 2006

James O'Ehley

SA Movie & DVD Magazine

full review in Greek

October 30, 2006 Full Review

Joseph Proimakis

Movies for the Masses

In the end, the hunter becomes the hunted; but wouldn't the animal rights message mean more if you actually cared about the critters?

October 17, 2006 Full Review

Matthew Leyland

BBC

Lawrence proves much less irritating as an animated bear than he does in his real-life performances.

October 14, 2006 Full Review

Matthew Turner

ViewLondon

There's virtuosity here but no magic.

October 14, 2006 Full Review

Philip French

Guardian [UK]

• 1. Shaw: [looks in the fridge] Someone's been eatin' my candy. [finds his chair knocked over] Somebody's been sittin' in my chair. [smells something and opens the bathroom door] SOMEBODY FORGOT TO FLUSH!
  – Submitted by Brandon M (10 months ago)
• 1. McSquizzy: Freedom!
  – Submitted by Anthony A (13 months ago)
• 1. Giselle: [Smiling at Elliot] Sweet!
  – Submitted by Anthony A (13 months ago)
• 1. Boog: Uh... ELLIOT!
  – Submitted by Anthony A (13 months ago)
• 1. Boog: Get it off! Like a band-aid! Please!
  – Submitted by Anthony A (13 months ago)
• 1. Boog: Get it off, like a band-aid please!
  2. Elliot: Okay this might hurt a little, and you might want to cover your ears
  3. Boog: Cover my what- OW!
  4. Elliot: Okay scamp off back to the woods little buddy. Oh porcupines.
  – Submitted by Elbis M (13 months ago)

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