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Open Season

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Open Season

PG

Released Sep 29, 2006

1h 27m

Kids & Family

Comedy

Adventure

Animation

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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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Critics Consensus

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

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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

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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

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Dorothy Woodend

The Tyee (British Columbia)

Open Season is just about everything that's wrong with modern culture.

Aug 23, 2017

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Jane Boursaw

Common Sense Media

Animated animal buddy flick is crude but funny.

Rated: 3/5

Jan 1, 2011

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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

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Matias P

Is a very great movie

Rated 5 out of 5 stars

05/31/25

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Marco N

An underrated fun gem that has its faults, but has a lot of great gags and a good message behind it. Each animal group and character feels unique and there's a lot of creativity done despite the plain setting it's set in

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

05/14/25

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Oliver F

This ‘comedy’ fails to have more than a minute of mid gags, but hey - at least the animation is ok.

Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars

04/16/25

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Levi M

Open Season is Great! This movie is absolutely underrated. A lot of the jokes are pretty funny, the soundtrack is great, and the Voices are spot-on! I feel like everyone forgot this movie. This needs to be talked about More. It's a good movie (especially if you like hunting) for the family!

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

03/07/25

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Leo S

Unfortunately not everybody is gonna love this. But this movie was my childhood, and I loved It.

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

02/01/25

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James G

One of the most underrated animated movies, and while some people may not enjoy it, I certainly do. The main character Boog is the reason I love the Open Season franchise. At first he enjoyed living in captivity as Ranger Beth's pet, but eventually after being taken to the forest. He learns to adapt to a whole new lifestyle of living in the woods deciding to stay with his best friend Elliot, and the other animals after defeating Shaw. I personally prefer Open Season more than Over The Hedge, and funny thing I used to mistake Over The Hedge as part of the Open Season franchise when I was younger. 2006 was certainly not a terrible year for animated movies it was truly an underrated year for animated movie in my opinion, even if there were some bad movies that released in the year 2006, which Open Season isn't one of them.

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

01/21/25

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Jill Culton

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Anthony Stacchi

Director

Roger Allers

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Martin Lawrence

Boog

Ashton Kutcher

Elliott

Gary Sinise

Shaw

Open Season: Official Clip - Mini-Mart Mayhem

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Open Season: Official Clip - Boog's Poop

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Open Season: Official Clip - Forest 101

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Open Season: Official Clip - Fishin' & Huntin'

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Open Season: Official Clip - You Are Home

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Open Season: Official Clip - The Mighty Grizzly

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Open Season: Official Clip - Staging an Attack

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Open Season: Official Clip - Hunting the Hunters

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Open Season: Official Clip - Goldilocks the Bear

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Open Season: Official Clip - McSquizzy's Army

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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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