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Open Season

Play trailer Poster for Open Season PG Released Sep 29, 2006 1h 27m Kids & Family Comedy Adventure Animation Play Trailer Watchlist
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Boog (Martin Lawrence), a 900-pound grizzly bear, is content entertaining tourists and living in park ranger Beth's (Debra Messing) barn. His life takes a drastic turn when he rescues a one-horned mule deer named Elliot (Ashton Kutcher) from a hunter (Gary Sinise), and is subsequently tranquilized and returned to the wild. Elliot and Boog recruit the other animals, notably a Scottish squirrel (Billy Connolly) and a beaver foreman, to help turn the tables on the hunters to make the woods safe.
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Open Season is a cliched palette of tired jokes and CG animal shenanigans that have been seen multiple times this cinematic year.

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Hank Sartin Time Out Rated: 3/5 Nov 17, 2011 Full Review Matthew Leyland BBC.com In the end, the hunter becomes the hunted; but wouldn't the animal rights message mean more if you actually cared about the critters? Rated: 3/5 Oct 17, 2006 Full Review Time Out I have to say that the humour here (some of it Pythonesque) is mostly spot on and, at times, mischievously dark. Oct 14, 2006 Full Review Dorothy Woodend The Tyee (British Columbia) Open Season is just about everything that's wrong with modern culture. Aug 23, 2017 Full Review Jane Boursaw Common Sense Media Animated animal buddy flick is crude but funny. Rated: 3/5 Jan 1, 2011 Full Review Cole Smithey ColeSmithey.com Animated children's movies should not glamorize criminal activity and war, but that's exactly what happens in "Open Season"... Rated: C- Apr 25, 2009 Full Review Read all reviews

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Artur S Ehhhhh funny, but fell short in terms of writing. It's decent and worth a watch. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 11/18/24 Full Review Audience Member To be honest, I really like this movie. One of the things I loved about is the good cast it has! Like Martin Laurence and Ashton Kutcher? Dude. They seemed like a perfect cast, and I appreciate it even more, because they did have to change it on every sequel. The characters in this movie are pretty good, but Ian and Mcsquizzy might honestly be the best characters. Not like one of my favorite movies, but a movie I could watch if I had to. But if you want, maybe you could give it a try. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 11/12/24 Full Review Carson P Easily one of the better films of Sony and this is a great start for them because open season has the feel of a dreamworks picture lots of funny comedy along with likable charachters I loved the chemistry between the bear and the deer and the story of how he learned to get used to the wild and making friends with other wild animals and speaking of which I like where this film takes place it’s looking like a huge Forrest land where hunters hunt and reminds me to question if it’s Idaho, or Montana or Canada either this movie makes me visit such a place and watch it in a log cabin this was such a good movie and I don’t know how anyone would not like it it’s too bad they didn’t give an animated feature Oscar to it it was deserving of one and another thing that makes this film so interesting besides the inspiring set up and premise is the music soundtrack of Paul westerner which has the style of a foo fighters alternative rock music they were heartwarming. One of the most highly entertaining moments is that river chase where boog and Elliot accidentally breaks the damm and nearly drowns all the other animals while that hunter Shaw ( who has a great charachter design that accuractly depicts a hunter from the northwest wood areas and territories ) attacks and tries to shoot them. Along with that final climax where the animals fight back the hunters along with the showdown between boog and Shaw and that ending made me saw when he had to depart from his owner as he is now grown up to be living in the wild. Martin Lawrence is funny in this just as he was in bad boys he did a great job voicing the bear. And the director Roger allers ( who made the Disney masterpiece the lion king ) did a terrific job directing this animated motion picture I highly reccomend this to anyone who loves animated films even if this is not as good as others 8/10 Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 09/28/24 Full Review B G One of my childhood films. Some jokes maybe lame but most are hilarious. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 08/19/24 Full Review Leovanni E Extremely Underrated And Ridiculous Rated 5 out of 5 stars 09/02/24 Full Review Boxy B Definitely Recommend It Rated 4 out of 5 stars 07/28/24 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Boog (Martin Lawrence), a 900-pound grizzly bear, is content entertaining tourists and living in park ranger Beth's (Debra Messing) barn. His life takes a drastic turn when he rescues a one-horned mule deer named Elliot (Ashton Kutcher) from a hunter (Gary Sinise), and is subsequently tranquilized and returned to the wild. Elliot and Boog recruit the other animals, notably a Scottish squirrel (Billy Connolly) and a beaver foreman, to help turn the tables on the hunters to make the woods safe.
Director
Jill Culton, Anthony Stacchi, Roger Allers
Producer
Michelle Murdocca
Screenwriter
Steve Bencich, Ron J. Friedman, Nat Mauldin
Distributor
Sony Pictures Entertainment
Production Co
Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures Animation
Rating
PG (Mild Action|Brief Language|Some Rude Humor)
Genre
Kids & Family, Comedy, Adventure, Animation
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Sep 29, 2006, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Apr 16, 2012
Runtime
1h 27m
Sound Mix
DTS, Dolby SRD, SDDS
Aspect Ratio
Flat (1.85:1)
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