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72
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62
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61
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61
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61
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59
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59
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58
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58
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58
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57
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57
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57
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56
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56
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55
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55
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55
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52
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47
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Open Season
Columbia Pictures / Sony Pictures Releasing
FILM:
GAMES:
MPAA RATING: PG for some rude humor, mild action and brief language
Starring
Martin Lawrence,
Ashton Kutcher,
Gary Sinise,
Debra Messing,
Billy Connolly,
Jon Favreau,
Jane Krakowski,
and
Patrick Warburton
A domesticated grizzly bear finds that there's more to life than being the star attraction of a mountain town nature show when a fast-talking mule deer offers him a crash course in woodland living.
| GENRE(S): |
Adventure
|
Animation
|
Comedy
|
Family/Kids
|
| WRITTEN BY: |
Steve Bencich
Ron J. Friedman
|
| DIRECTED BY: |
Roger Allers
Jill Culton
Anthony Stacchi
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: January 30, 2007
Theatrical: September 29, 2006
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| RUNNING TIME: |
99 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
75
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Martin Lawrence and Ashton Kutcher may seem like an odd-sounding comedy team, but in some weird way, they click as voice-actors and cartoon buddies in Open Season.

75
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Given that so many people have dismissed Ashton Kutcher as a superficial pretty boy, it seems a little ironic that his best work this week is two-dimensional: He makes a passable action hero in "The Guardian," but he's downright adorable in Open Season, a cheerful animated comedy built on his winningly loose voice performance.

75
TV Guide
Angel Cohn
Though silly and predictable, this animated comedy has stunning visuals, a catchy soundtrack and charming characters that are family-friendly crowd-pleasers.

70
The Hollywood Reporter
Michael Rechtshaffen
Despite that nagging whiff of familiarity, there are enough character quirks and inspired bits of funny business to carry this amiable if slight tale.

70
Variety
Justin Chang
A witty, warmly crafted chestnut.

63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Mark Medley
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.

60
Washington Post
Ann Hornaday
With a slick visual style similar to "Monster House", Open Season trots out tropes that recent animated classics have done with more wit and smarts.

60
Los Angeles Times
Kevin Crust
An amusing if slight excursion into nature with a group of animals who turn the tables on their collective nemeses, the hunters.

58
Entertainment Weekly
Gregory Kirshling
The overfamiliar Open Season feels like just another CG 'toon in our 'toon-glutted times.

50
LA Weekly
Gregg Rickman
On the plus side, Open Season enjoys a clear narrative, real rooting interest and good interspecies rapport. On the downside, there’s a surfeit of cruel bunny-rabbit gags.

50
The New York Times
Laura Kern
Periodic bursts of cleverness and eye-popping imagery, further enhanced in the 3-D Imax version, can't disguise that this is just another movie full of jive-talking computer-generated animals with little new to say.

50
Boston Globe
Janice Page
As cartoon rip-offs go, Open Season can be surprisingly entertaining, in a made-for-6-year-olds kind of way.

38
Miami Herald
Peter Debruge
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.

33
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Keith Phipps
No one makes it out of this laughless mess unscathed.

30
Austin Chronicle
Josh Rosenblatt
Little more than paint-by-numbers filmmaking, and it fails in the most important charge of any children's movie: to transport its young and impressionable audience to a world where anything is possible, rather than to one where everything’s been thought of already.

25
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
William Arnold
It's a tired rehash of animation cliches that distinguishes itself only by the extent to which it's crammed full of scatology and gleeful violence to animals, and otherwise panders to the worst instincts of its audience.

25
San Francisco Chronicle
Peter Hartlaub
This is the animated children's film equivalent of "Another 48 Hours."

25
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
An excellent case for euthanizing the entire talking-animals genre.


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