Yogi Bear
Warner Bros. Pictures | Release Date: December 17, 2010 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
35
METASCORE
Generally unfavorable reviews based on 23 Critic Reviews
Positive:
2
Mixed:
10
Negative:
11
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleDec 16, 2010
This is a cute movie, a kid's movie, and a rather good one. Read full review
67
Entertainment WeeklyAdam MarkovitzDec 15, 2010
There's nothing particularly inventive in the plot or grade-school humor, but the movie skates by on the timeless, undemanding charm of watching a tie-wearing bear try to steal people's lunches. Read full review
60
Village VoiceMelissa AndersonDec 14, 2010
Adults will be thrilled to see Anna Faris as nature documentarian Rachel. Greeting Yogi by speaking in "brown bear," the actress never fails to be seriously goofy. Read full review
55
MovielineMichelle OrangeDec 15, 2010
On the whole the film is not much fun to watch. A job is a job, though; Yogi Bear did little to make it more than that. Read full review
50
St. Louis Post-DispatchJoe WilliamsDec 17, 2010
Here, Dan Aykroyd mimics the original voice, but the three-dimensional CGI isn't loose and lively enough to compensate for the unimaginative story. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Jennie PunterDec 17, 2010
While the outdoor sequences were filmed in New Zealand's Woodhill State Forest – the movie's most stunning 3-D moments – Yogi Bear does feature notable "Canadian content" via two Ottawa-born thespians. Read full review
50
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottDec 17, 2010
Clearly, Brevig's past as a visual effects maestro had him focusing more on the look of Yogi Bear than on crafting anything resembling a clever narrative. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanDec 17, 2010
None of the three screenwriters strained himself with effort. But the relative lack of coarseness and snark may come as a surprising relief, even to 21st-century audiences. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterKirk HoneycuttDec 13, 2010
Yogi is still smarter than the average bear, but Yogi Bear is much less smart than most of the year's kid-friendly cartoons. Read full review
50
VarietyJustin ChangDec 13, 2010
A bland and innocuous small-fry outing that retains a measure of the original Hanna-Barbera cartoon's charm, though scarcely enough to justify the time, expense and visual-effects trickery it must have taken to inflate an endearing 2D cartoon into a dopey 3D extravaganza. Read full review
40
EmpireNick de SemlyenFeb 7, 2011
The wee'uns may enjoy the forest-based capers but for adults this is no pickernick. Read full review
40
The New York TimesMike HaleDec 16, 2010
There's exactly one thing about the misbegotten big-screen Yogi Bear that might make you think back with any fondness to the Hanna-Barbera cartoons on which it's based. That would be Justin Timberlake's charming performance as the voice of Boo-Boo Bear. Read full review
38
New York PostKyle SmithDec 17, 2010
Cavanagh, the always-engaging former star of "Ed" (with whom I am friendly), and the adorable Faris (whom I don't know -- but feel free to look me up, Anna!) make the non-animated scenes amusing, as the ranger and the documentarian fall in love and fight to save the park. But the script doesn't give them a lot to do. Read full review
38
Washington PostDan KoisDec 16, 2010
An uninspired studio product that demands as little from the audience as it did from its writers, directors and actors. Read full review
38
USA TodayClaudia PuigDec 16, 2010
Yogi Bear is a big boo-boo. Read full review
25
Boston GlobeTy BurrDec 16, 2010
Picture Timberlake in the booth recording his lines and you have the best joke in the movie. Everything else is actively painful, a frenetic, unfunny mix of action, romance, dud dialogue, and icky things popping out of the screen. Read full review
25
The A.V. ClubScott TobiasDec 16, 2010
The best that could be said of Yogi Bear is that it doesn't diminish its source material. Read full review
25
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsDec 16, 2010
Yogi Bear gives cheap hackwork a bad name. Which is a shame, because hackwork made this industry. Read full review
25
Orlando SentinelRoger MooreDec 15, 2010
The best you can say about this Yogi Bear is that he's harmless. No animal was harmed in the making of this picture except the one Hanna-Barbera made a bundle on almost 50 years ago. Read full review
25
Tampa Bay TimesSteve PersallDec 15, 2010
A smarter-than-average bear becomes a dumber-than-usual kiddie flick with Yogi Bear, the lone Christmas release specifically aimed at children, so it automatically qualifies as their lump of coal. Read full review
20
Austin ChronicleMarjorie BaumgartenDec 17, 2010
Unbearable. Read full review
20
Time OutJoshua RothkopfDec 14, 2010
Yogi Bear on the big screen feels not just needless, but wasteful. Read full review
20
Boxoffice MagazineSara Maria VizcarrondoDec 14, 2010
Even the presence of Dan Aykroyd as Yogi and Justin Timberlake as his pint-sized straight man Boo Boo, couldn't save the movie. Read full review
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