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Open Season
EMAILPRINTColumbia Pictures / Sony Pictures Releasing
Mixed or average reviews
Based on 18 critic reviews
How did we calculate this?
Based on 29 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family/Kids
Written by:
Steve Bencich
Ron J. Friedman
Directed by:
Roger Allers
Jill Culton
Anthony Stacchi
Release Date:
Theatrical: September 29, 2006
DVD: January 30, 2007
Running Time: 99 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
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.
Also On Metacritic
FILM: The Lion King
GAMES: Open Season (GameCube)
Also On The Web: Internet Movie Database View The Trailer Official Studio Site
What The Critics Said
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...
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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Gregory Kirshling
The overfamiliar Open Season feels like just another CG 'toon in our 'toon-glutted times.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Keith Phipps
No one makes it out of this laughless mess unscathed.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Peter Hartlaub
This is the animated children's film equivalent of "Another 48 Hours."
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
An excellent case for euthanizing the entire talking-animals genre.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 6.3 (out of 10) based on 29 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
{Anonymous] gave it a4:
Mildly funny and at least half-decent, but sooo unimportant and forgettable when there are such better, less cliched movies out there.
Travis G. gave it a3:
I really did not like this movie. I mean, its funny in 1 or 2 parts, but overall it just wasnt that funny.
Stinky P. gave it a10:
Great and charming film. The story was original and the animation had a cool Hanna-Barbera 3-d look to it.
Robert T. gave it a2:
Lame.....boring.....not funny - pretty much sums it up. I can't help but compare all of these recent animations to Flushed Away which I truly loved. I must say though that this one was wayyyyyyy better than Barn Yard - I'm still trying to wash the taste of that one out of my mouth - Yeck!
Anson G gave it an8:
Actually is a great movie but not the best.
robert xxx gave it a4:
Well, you know, nothing much happens...which is alright if the characters are adorable...but they seem as unimaginative as the story.
Mitch gave it a1:
I went in with an open mind, but dang was that a boring movie. It was like 80 minutes in before I found anything mildly amusing. And even the mildly amusing part was only MILDLY amusing.
