Open Season

Open Season (2006)

  • 48% of critics liked it
    (100 reviews)

  • 66% of users liked it
    (441,040 ratings)

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 in Sony Pictures Animation's first full-length animated feature. Raised by kindly park ranger… More

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Sep 29, 2006 Wide
Sony Pictures

Critic Reviews

  • , Time Out

    I have to say that the humour here (some of it Pythonesque) is mostly spot on and, at times, mischievously dark.

  • Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper

    It's just okay.

  • Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star

    Now that we've made one of the best computer-generated talking-animal-on-an-odyssey movies in the brief but busy history of the genre, can we please, please move on?

  • Bruce Newman, San Jose Mercury News

    A little bit like Over the Hedge, and a lot like the upcoming Flushed Away, in which an animated house mouse is forced to fend for himself in the sewers of London, Open Season may sound a bit familiar, but it is never dull.

  • Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle

    With animated movies coming out every other week or so, mediocrity is becoming a rule. Open Season loses more points than most films because of its similarities to Over the Hedge, one of the few kids films that did it right this year.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • John M


    Decent family fare. Had some good moments but not my favorite.

  • Emil K


    Open Season is quite harmless animation made for children. Directors Roger Allers and Jill Culton understands to keep this film's foot on the ground and it never goes as over the top it could have. Where Open Season also succeeds is in creating even a couple of lightly touching… More

  • Directors C


    It's good if your bored. Open Season is funny at times but ultimately its far far too silly with a poor amount of witty humour apart from the teddy bear picnic song joke.

  • Alexander D


    OPEN SEASON was funny at some parts, but seeing (or hearing, rather) Martin Lawrence and Ashton Kutcher elicit laughs in a family feature seemed very slightly uneven to me.

  • Matt G


    Fine animation, fine voices. I didn't mind!

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