Open Season (2006)
Runtime: 1 hr 40 mins
Genre: Childrens
Starring: Martin Lawrence, Ashton Kutcher, Patrick Warburton, Billy Connolly, Jon Favreau
Screenwriter: Steve Bencich, Ron J. Friedman
Producer: Michelle Murdocca
Composer: Paul Westerberg
DVD Info
Release:
Jan 30, 2007
Blu-ray Features:
- Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85
Audio:
- Dolby Digital 5.1 - English, French, Spanish
- PCM 5.1 - French, Spanish
- Subtitles - English, French, Spanish - Optional
Additional Release Material:
- Audio Commentaries - Filmmakers
- Deleted Scenes
- Featurettes - 1. Boog and Elliot's Midnight Bun Run Short
- 2. Behind the Trees
- 3. The Voices Behind the Stars
- 4. First Look at Surf's Up
- 5. Inside the Animals Studio
- Music Video - "I Wanna Lose Control" - Deathray
Interactive Features:
- Voice-A-Rama Activity
- Wheel of Fortune: Forest Edition
- "Swept Away" Scene Deconstruction
- Ringtales
Text/Photo Galleries:
- Art Gallery
- Beat Boards
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Reviews
Despite inconsistencies in audience and humor, there's enough to like about Open Season.
[A] beautifully animated and funny, if formulaic, odd-couple comedy.
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
In the end, the hunter becomes the hunted; but wouldn't the animal rights message mean more if you actually cared about the critters?
I have to say that the humour here (some of it Pythonesque) is mostly spot on and, at times, mischievously dark.
Lawrence proves much less irritating as an animated bear than he does in his real-life performances.
he animation is so-so, the debt to Madagascar and The Jungle Book blatant, and the jokes thin.
Screened at the IMAX, this is one 3-D movie that absolutely gains nothing from being in the format.
A couple of years ago, this might have been something special, but with so many talking animal films out there, it just ain’t.
Fatally lacking laughs and a real sense of adventure, this is a sporadically funny and awkwardly animated curiosity.
At this point, the most we can hope for now is an animated film that doesn't concern breaking out of a zoo of some sort.
Sony Pictures bags a warm and furry comedy stocked with cute critters and gentle lessons about leaving the nest.
...a computer-animated tale best suited for the pre-teen demographic, yet there are enough genuine, high-energy laughs to amuse viewers of just about any age.
[I]t’s hard to pinpoint who is responsible for this wretched train wreck of an animated feature. Whoever it was... they evidently worked backward... The result is too coarse for children under 10, insulting to anyone older than that and boring for all.
The film isn't painfully bad, and on occasion it's almost strange enough to pass muster on that score alone.
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