Open Season is a rambunctious blast. It's Sony Pictures Animation's first full-length feature film and no effort was spared getting it right.
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09/29/06
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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
What elevates Season is the wit and enthusiasm of its voice actors -- particularly Kutcher and Sinise. They both sound like they're having a fantastic time, and it's hard not to be swept along with them.
09/29/06
For an inaugural effort, Open Season ain't bad, but the studio shows far more promise with its gee-whiz visuals than it does in the story department.
09/29/06
The movie is a genial romp and because it relies on the gentlest of scatological comedy, it can be enjoyed by all ages.
09/29/06
The film's barely-there lesson of teamwork will ring familiar to parents and children, but it's delivered with humor and simplicity.
09/29/06
Open Season might not even rank among the top five animated films this year, but that’s mostly because there’s so much competition. It’s still a perfectly enjoyable way to spend an afternoon with the kids.
09/29/06
This is a routine animated animals flick, but there are enough zany moments to keep things interesting.
09/29/06
The film wraps mindless cartoon violence and a few fart jokes around life lessons about friendship and responsibility. Kids should like it; parents won't mind it.
09/29/06
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
Not surprisingly, Ashton Kutcher seems to have found his niche playing the jackass... er... mule deer.
09/29/06
Some theaters are showing the movie in IMAX 3D, which is the way I saw it. The novelty helps, but it still can't bring depth to entertainment this shallow.
09/29/06
If nothing else, the fully rendered digital animation is a vast improvement over the recent duds The Ant Bully, Barnyard and Everyone's Hero.
09/29/06
One of the biggest surprises in this first full-length film from Sony Pictures Animation is how funny Ashton Kutcher is as Elliot.
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 CriticWhile 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
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
When your most distinctive element is Ashton Kutcher as a one-antlered mule deer, respect has reason to elude you.
09/29/06
Although Open Season isn't the perfect animated movie, it features enough humor and gags to entertain most small kids.
09/29/06
Top CriticBoth Lawrence and Kutcher remain firmly within their standard ranges -- Lawrence is surly but secretly sensitive, while Kutcher is manic yet needy -- and their performances are as nondescript as most of the jokes.
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
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