Yogi Bear (2010)

All Critics (101) | Top Critics (20) | Fresh (13) | Rotten (87) | DVD (9)

Fond memories of Yogi cartoons may get you some way through this big-screen version - but the nostalgia soon wears off.

February 9, 2011 Full Review

Anna Smith

Time Out

Top Critic

You've seen this movie before, when it was called Alvin and the Chipmunks, but the filmmakers are hoping that your kids don't remember.

January 31, 2011 Full Review

Joe Williams

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Top Critic

The movie is the opposite of the cartoons: Everyone's body is in motion, but nobody is using his head.

January 3, 2011 Full Review | Comments (3)

Rafer Guzman

Newsday

Top Critic

This being the highly advanced 21st century, simple animation won't do, so we must suffer through mediocre, lifeless computer-generated animation of this treasured twosome.

December 17, 2010 Full Review | Comments (4)

Jake Coyle

Associated Press

Top Critic

Taking the kids to a matinee of Yogi Bear in 3-D is no picnic.

December 17, 2010 Full Review | Comments (2)

Jennie Punter

Globe and Mail

Top Critic

A bland 21st-century family comedy without a single moment that captures the wit, energy or sophistication of the original, which by now dates back more than 50 years.

December 17, 2010 Full Review | Comments (4)

Mike Hale

New York Times

Top Critic

It's a terrible, dumb, unimaginative film that really isn't worth the price of a cinema ticket even with ... the excellent Road Runner short that comes before it.

September 27, 2012 Full Review

Matt Looker

TheShiznit.co.uk

One of the worst family films I've seen since another animated adaptation: Garfield. Talking bears aside, the film lacks logic, energy and, most of all, fun.

August 24, 2011 Full Review

Ryan Cracknell

Movie Views

Smarter than your average family movie? Unfortunately not.

July 14, 2011 Full Review

Simon Reynolds

Digital Spy

An all out attack on the eyes and ears...

May 22, 2011 Full Review

Felix Vasquez Jr.

Cinema Crazed

full review at Movies for the Masses

April 13, 2011 Full Review

Joseph Proimakis

Movies for the Masses

Adult chaperone who drew the short straw? You can settle in for an 82 minute nap. Sounds good, right?

April 4, 2011 Full Review

Dave White

Movies.com

Millions of adults grew up watching Yogi Bear cartoons, but instead of playing to those memories, it does as little as possible to technically qualify as a "Yogi Bear movie."

March 22, 2011 Full Review

Mike McGranaghan

Aisle Seat

Youngsters might enjoy the movie's colorful locales, lovable if doltish bears, and intermittent slapstick comedy.

March 14, 2011 Full Review

John J. Puccio

Movie Metropolis

I couldn't help wishing the evil government types would get their act together, demolish the park and rid the world of any habitat that could spawn such an awful bastard.

March 14, 2011 Full Review

Charlie Lyne

Ultra Culture

Yogi Bear barely raises a grin, it's only Miller and Daly's charisma and ad-lib that goes some way to saving it.

February 18, 2011 Full Review

Sam Bathe

Fan The Fire

Even the most nostalgic and forgiving Yogi fan will likely find it hard to warm to the 21st-century, computer-generated, 3D make-over he's undergone here.

February 14, 2011 Full Review

Alistair Harkness

Scotsman

Small children with low levels of expectation are the target for this blandly unimaginative mix of live-action and 3D animation.

February 14, 2011 Full Review

Allan Hunter

Daily Express

Any potential retro-charm is quickly rubbed out by creepy CGI, a tired reality-TV conceit and failure to grasp that Yogi's appeal lies in his delivery and quick wit, not eye-stabbing 3D gimmicks or life-like depictions of picnic-basket heists.

February 11, 2011 Full Review

Ken McIntyre

Total Film

The new Yogi Bear is survivable. That's as far as I'll go.

February 11, 2011 Full Review

Tim Robey

Daily Telegraph

There are some watchable 3D sequences in a boat on the rapids and a makeshift airplane, but it's pretty grim for anyone over six.

February 11, 2011 Full Review

John Walsh

Independent

[C]ertainly not the worst thing you could have sat through this year so far, but it lacks any flavour or verve; it is a hollow shade rather than the vibrant, jovial caper it should be.

February 11, 2011 Full Review

Shaun Munro

What Culture

Poor old Yogi has a rough time of it in this miserable 3D assault of humour-free live action and lumpy animation.

February 10, 2011 Full Review

Cath Clarke

Guardian [UK]

If the writers had produced something that was smarter than the average script, then perhaps we would have been in business.

February 10, 2011 Full Review

Sue Robinson

Radio Times

This is the sort of film that most hard-bitten critics will refuse to like.

February 9, 2011 Full Review | Comment (1)

Graham Young

Birmingham Post

• 1. Yogi Bear: Check the safety manual!
  2. Boo-Boo: It's just a picture of us screaming!
  – Submitted by Cameron D (10 months ago)
• 1. Ranger Smith: Boo Boo, I don't think we need the narration.
  2. Yogi Bear: But I like were you were going with it, Boo Boo!
  – Submitted by Cameron D (11 months ago)
• 1. Yogi Bear: Picanic baskets may be delicious on the lips, but they're a lifetime on the hips!
  – Submitted by Kristy K (18 months ago)
• 1. Ranger Smith: We got a bear disturbance!
  2. Ranger Jones: All units, lock the park! I repeat, lock down the park!
  3. Ranger Smith: You know I'm the only other ranger here, right?
  – Submitted by Lucas M (22 months ago)
• 1. Yogi Bear: I'm so smart and it hurts.
  – Submitted by Lucas M (22 months ago)
• 1. Yogi Bear: I wonder if he noticed the pie.
  – Submitted by Natasha C (23 months ago)

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