Not surprisingly, Ashton Kutcher seems to have found his niche playing the jackass... er... mule deer.
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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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Reviews for Open Season
If you're old enough to read this, odds are the first thing you want to know about "Open Season" is: "How much is this going to annoy me?"
09/28/06
Although Open Season isn't the perfect animated movie, it features enough humor and gags to entertain most small kids.
09/29/06
Top CriticThis debut offering from Sony Pictures Animation has a giddy energy about it and a gleeful sense of its own weirdness.
09/29/06
Top CriticThe film's soulless, computerized mountain ranges can't touch the immaculate, hand-painted backgrounds of old-school Disney. If animation filmmakers are going to recycle, they need to go back. Way back.
09/28/06
Screened at the IMAX, this is one 3-D movie that absolutely gains nothing from being in the format.
10/13/06
Even kids deserve movies that strive to be inventive and surprising, rather than just lazy, clichéd, prepackaged nonsense.
09/28/06
At any point, do the people involved realize they've got a lot of pretty animated images, no jokes, less story, and voice performances that never click together?
09/29/06
It's convention and cliches that drive the new computer-animated movie "Open Season," an overly familiar yet nevertheless likable film that could have been exceptional had it attempted something fresh within the genre.
10/02/06
In the end, the hunter becomes the hunted; but wouldn't the animal rights message mean more if you actually cared about the critters?
10/17/06
When your most distinctive element is Ashton Kutcher as a one-antlered mule deer, respect has reason to elude you.
09/29/06
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04/23/09
Sony Pictures bags a warm and furry comedy stocked with cute critters and gentle lessons about leaving the nest.
10/09/06
Within its limitations, Open Season could hardly be better, generating real interest and audience sympathy. And the storyline carries built-in intrigue.
09/29/06
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
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
Though Open Season is no Shrek or Ice Age, it gets laughs too. It's capable of giving at least the kid part of the audience a good hunter-trashing, bunny-bashing time.
09/28/06
Top CriticIt's wittily written and animated, but the lovely painted backdrops look decidedly 2-D in the 3-D version.
09/28/06
Despite its overly familiar plot elements and the excessive time it takes getting to its real story, Open Season has a lot going for it.
09/29/06
Takes so long getting to hunter torture that you'll find yourself bored to death long before the first animal finally rips off someone's underwear.
09/25/06
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