Open Season
Columbia Pictures | Release Date: September 29, 2006 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
49
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Mixed or average reviews based on 18 Critic Reviews
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6
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
Chicago TribuneMichael 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
75
New York Daily NewsElizabeth 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
75
TV Guide MagazineAngel 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
70
The Hollywood ReporterMichael 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
70
VarietyJustin Chang
A witty, warmly crafted chestnut. Read full review
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. Read full review
60
Washington PostAnn 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
60
Los Angeles TimesKevin 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
58
Entertainment WeeklyGregory Kirshling
The overfamiliar Open Season feels like just another CG 'toon in our 'toon-glutted times. Read full review
50
L.A. WeeklyGregg 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
50
The New York TimesLaura 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
50
Boston GlobeJanice 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
38
Miami HeraldPeter 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
33
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
No one makes it out of this laughless mess unscathed. Read full review
30
Austin ChronicleJosh 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
25
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam 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
25
New York PostLou Lumenick
An excellent case for euthanizing the entire talking-animals genre. Read full review
25
San Francisco ChroniclePeter Hartlaub
This is the animated children's film equivalent of "Another 48 Hours." Read full review
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