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Open Season (2006)
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Reviews Counted:96
Fresh:45
Rotten:51
Average Rating:5.4/10
Consensus: Open Season is a cliched palette of tired jokes and CG animal shenanigans that have been seen multiple times this cinematic year.
Theatrical Release:Sep 29, 2006 Wide
Box Office: $84,303,558
Synopsis: OPEN SEASON, an animated action-adventure, follows the fortunes of two forest-animal misfits. Boog (Martin Lawrence) is a gentle and domesticated bear; Elliot (Ashton Kutcher) is an absentminded... [More]
Starring: Martin Lawrence, Ashton Kutcher, Patrick Warburton, Billy Connolly
Director: Roger Allers, Jill Culton, Anthony Stacchi
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04/23/09
With a slick visual style similar to Monster House, Open Season trots out tropes that recent animated classics have done with more wit and smarts.
09/28/06
While the filmmakers here have provided us with a passable tale that is mildly humorous, Open Season breaks no new ground, from neither the animation nor the storytelling.
09/29/06
The filmmakers are out of ideas, and Season represents their laziest tendencies to blindly follow whatever worked in earlier, better pictures without risking a shot at a genuine test of skill.
09/28/06
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.
10/12/06
Are the kids going to go for pretty campfires and piano ballads? When even I start thinking some woodland-creature flatulence would perk things up, I begin to have my doubts.
09/28/06
Animated children's movies should not glamorize criminal activity and war, but that's exactly what happens in "Open Season"...
04/25/09
It's not hard to get a six year old to laugh at a poop joke, but somehow Walt Disney made animation for several decades without relying on them.
09/29/06
Bland and uninspired, it's kiddie movie by rote.
09/28/06
A couple of years ago, this might have been something special, but with so many talking animal films out there, it just ain’t.
10/13/06
Martin Lawrence, Ashton Kutcher, and plenty of do-bears-poop-in-the-woods jokes. Do we need this? Is this movie necessary?
09/28/06
The artwork is good, but so what? A story is what sells the picture, and here it most certainly doesn't.
10/01/06
The talking animal movie has become a worse Hollywood cliché than the buddy cop movie. For a while, they were just remaking The Lion King over and over. Now they're remaking Ice Age.
09/29/06
It looks good; at times, even great. In fact, Open Season shimmers so much in strictly visual terms that its dearth of genuine wit or ingenuity is almost physically painful to acknowledge.
09/28/06
Top CriticDirectors Roger Allers and Jill Culton don’t trust their material in the two big comic sequences, a sugar-fueled rampage in a convenience store, and a flood, and cut them too quickly for all the jokes to register.
09/28/06
The overfamiliar Open Season feels like just another CG 'toon in our 'toon-glutted times.
09/27/06
Fatally lacking laughs and a real sense of adventure, this is a sporadically funny and awkwardly animated curiosity.
10/13/06
Decidedly average . . .
11/24/06
Despite inconsistencies in audience and humor, there's enough to like about Open Season.
07/28/07
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