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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?
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.
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.
It's not deep and not totally original. But Open Season is whiplash quick with the gags and spot-on with the funny voices.
An ugly, painfully derivative and sleep-inducing talking-animals cartoon laced with potty humor.
Animated animal buddy flick is crude but funny.
Animated children's movies should not glamorize criminal activity and war, but that's exactly what happens in "Open Season"...
Despite inconsistencies in audience and humor, there's enough to like about Open Season.
An energy-filled but flawed debut . . . that my kids just happened to love.
[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?
Lawrence proves much less irritating as an animated bear than he does in his real-life performances.
There's virtuosity here but no magic.
I have to say that the humour here (some of it Pythonesque) is mostly spot on and, at times, mischievously dark.
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