Open Season

Plot synopsis:
In the peaceful town of Timberline, 900-pound (408 kg) grizzly bear Boog enjoys a captive, but pampered existence and spends his day as the star attraction of the town's nature show while at night living in the garage of park ranger Beth, who raised him since he was a cub. One day, the sadistic hunting fanatic Shaw drives into town with the one-antlered deer Elliot strapped to the hood of his truck. Boog frees Elliot, at the last minute, against his better judgment, before Shaw catches him. Boog never expects to see his "buddy" again, but Elliot follows Boog home to find him sleeping in the garage. To wake Boog up, Elliot throws rabbits at the window. He tells him to be "free" from his garage captivity and introduces Boog to a world of sweet temptations he has never known.
When Boog becomes sick from eating too many candy bars, events quickly spiral out of control as the two raid the town's grocery store. Elliot escapes before Boog is caught by a friend of Beth, police officer Gordy. At the nature show, Elliot being chased by Shaw, sees Boog, who "attacks" him. This causes the whole audience to panic. Shaw attempts to shoot Boog, but Beth sedates them both with a tranquilizer gun just before Shaw fires his gun. Shaw flees before Gordy can arrest him for shooting a gun in the town. The two trouble makers are released into the Timberline National Forest, only three days before open season starts, but they are relocated above the waterfalls, where they will be safe from the hunters.
Since he lacks any outdoor survival skills, Boog reluctantly takes Elliot as his accident-prone guide to get him back home to Timberline to reunite with Beth. But in the woods, they quickly learn that it is every animal for itself. The two run into their share of the forest animals including skunks, Maria and Rosie, ducks, Serge and Deni, various unnamed panic-stricken rabbits, the Scottish-accented squirrel, McSquizzy, along with his roguish gang, Reilly, a beaver and his construction worker team, a porcupine named Buddy who is in search of a friend and the herd of deer led by Ian and Giselle (who Elliot is in love with).
With each adverse encounter, Boog learns a little about self-reliance and Elliot gains self-respect and they start to become friends. Day by day, Elliot attempts to lead Boog out of the forest, but it becomes evident that he has no clue where they are going. After winding up at Reilly's dam, Boog and Elliot are confronted by Shaw, Boog then loses his toy bear, Dinkleman, as the current makes the doll float out of Boog's paw. They end up in a waterfall, which floods and sends the forest animals falling down it.
At first everyone blames Boog who accuses Elliot of lying to him about leading him home. Elliot admits he thought that if Boog spent time with him, he would befriend him. Boog leaves to unwittingly find Shaw's log cabin. Shaw returns and talks to his gun "Loraine" and says he would take back what is his, discovers him (like Goldilocks and the Three Bears), and pursues him to the city road where Boog happens upon the glowing lights of Timberline. Instead of deserting his companions, Boog helps the other animals defend themselves using supplies taken from an RV owned by two people looking for Bigfoot named Bob and Bobbie's RV while their pet dachshund Mr. Weenie joins "the wilds".
The next day, Boog leads a revolution against the hunters, sending them running after McSquizzy blows up their trucks with a propane tank named "Mr. Happy" ignited by using an emergency flare. Shaw returns for a final confrontation and shoots Elliot in the process, which enrages Boog and leads him to tie up Shaw with his own gun. Boog rushes over to Elliot's body but soon finds that Elliot survived the shot, only losing his second antler in the fracas. Beth returns to take Boog back home where he will be safe, but he decides to stay with his friends, all of the animals in the forest.
During the credits, Shaw is seen tarred, feathered and tied on the top of Bobbie and Bob's RV, mistaken for Bigfoot.

Tags: revenge, comedy

Review:
To me, I really felt relieved to see some humor and scenes similar to the old Looney Tunes cartoons that used to be considered great, but are now considered evil and horrible.I took my 4 year old daughter to see this movie as well, and she absolutely loved it.
Unfortunately, the story was bland and the jokes were only mildly funny, so it will not be one of the best kids movies you're going to see this year.
OK, this year alone probably saw a record number of talking animal animations, with countless of punchlines filled with pop culture references, and big name stars attached to the projects, that it's about time we give the genre a good break, rather than churning them out continuously with more misses than hits.And Open Season, probably the last one on offer this year from a Hollywood studio, suffers from this glut, unfortunately.
Heck, with so much similarities between the movies, you can even spot a familiarity or two from the story lines, taking a a leaf from one of the earlier flop - The Wild, in having one of its stars here, part of a popular animal attraction, and another part from Over The Hedge, where a group of animals must band together for survival and a fight against adversity.The leads for Open Season are a domesticated grizzly bear who has its own teddy bear soft toy (don't ask), and a mule-deer with one half of its horn sawn off.
It's strange that there's a reversal of voice roles here, as Lawrence's Boog the Bear is uptight, while Kutcher's Elliot the deer is built in the same old wise cracking mould as Eddie Murphy's Mushu in Mulan, or Donkey in Shrek.
Don't believe the trailers though, as the war between animals and humans, doesn't take up much screen time.The sad part though, is that there aren't many funny moments to distract you from the rehashed story lines and subplots, but then again, it's a made for children movie.
And you'll only see one in the new Sony Pictures Animation film, Open Season, starring Martin Lawrence, Debra Messing, Ashton Kutcher, Gary Sinise, Jon Favreau, and many more.Martin voices the lovable Boog in the film; he's the main attraction of a show at the zoo with his best friend, Beth (Debra Messing).
I have somewhat of a test for animated movies I've been giving myself over the past few years  ever since seeing the water scenes in The Incredibles, and noticing how real it looked, I've started to take an eye to the screen.
But back to the story - after meeting back up with the group of beavers, led by Reilly (voiced by Jon Favreau), some of Elliot's former deer mates (Patrick Warburton and Jane Krakowski), and a few other animals, Boog and Elliot team up and go on the attack against the hunters.
Roger Allers co-directed The Lion King, and has just recently completed The Little Match Girl  a short attached to The Little Mermaid.Open Season is a fun and very enjoyable film for kids and families.
When I saw "Open Season", my first impression was that the film looked a bit substandard compared to the higher quality Pixar movies which preceded it.
Because the writing was so good...and it's worth seeing."Open Season" is the story of Boog the Grizzly who was raised by a forest ranger.
The movie follows them on their adventure through the woods, but a hunter named Shaw is on their trail from preventing them to get back home.The film has a lot of adventure, humor and good heart at the end, but it never fails me to see how awesome it can be.
"Open Season" uses more adult and over-the-edge-humor than any other animated movie in the last few years.
Maybe I'm a little forgiving of this movie because of the positive memories it's associated with, but I really do think that Open Season is an entertaining film for parents and children.
I think I laugh one time during the movie and fell a sleep twice.Synopsis: Boog a domesticated bear was release into the wild few days before the open season.
I always thought that high-budget, 3D-animation movies, would never fall so down to be desperate efforts to make money without a story, without humor, without good actors, without anything.
The collective brain cell of non-Pixar animation studios needs to adapt to a few simple facts: --A buddy movie is not the required format for an animated film, and should that format be used, the concept that the buddies are in fact homosexual need not be presented to the four-year-old target audience in a ratio greater than one joke out of four.--The remaining three jokes out of four need not involve bodily functions, indeed of any kind.--Casting animals as protagonists in a story is a time-honoured tradition, although traditional animated deer spend less time making genital-related comments to squirrels, and more time weeping over their deceased parents in a doe-eyed fashion.
However, it reminded me of yet another domesticated-animals-in-the-wild movie "Madagascar" but trust me, this isn't necessarily a bad thing.In the heart of America's natural wilderness lies the sleepy hunting town of Timberline where the star attraction, besides blasting the local wildlife, is the grizzly bear Boog (Martin Lawrence).
During his quest to return home, Boog discovers that he just isn't cut out for life in the wild, especially when Shaw and the other hunters gather for hunting's open season.Strictly by-the-numbers it may be but "Open Season" isn't a bad little film.
So, this fall, instead of wasting 10 bucks on a poor sequel like the Grudge or the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, take a shot with a movie that's sure to entertain: Open Season..
Open Season is a prime example of how great animation doesn't make a good film.
Even though she is given top billing and the titular character, she doesn't have any real dramatic moments until the end of the film.I have to say that the best actress of the picture was Caitlin Cutt in her small, but pivotal role.Though I wouldn't call Open Season a masterpiece, I would recommend it to any fan of the genre..
Open Season is far from being the worst animated feature of all time, but with a better story and better characters, it would've been better.4/10.
A grizzly bear named Boog, domesticated by a park ranger, Beth, helps deer friend Elliot escape from the mullet-sporting hunter, Shaw.
Elliott and Boog develop a strong bond not only between themselves but also with the wild animals and attempt to drive the hunters out of the forest.Out of countless animation films released in 2006, I was looking up for this but it was kinda disappointing that it's much more of a kiddy flick than for teens or adult, although there were some inappropriate jokes for the children.The animation in the film was okay, not as good as Pixar's and the action sequences in the film is great but that only appears mostly at the third act of the film, which made the movie a bit better.
"Open Season" is a very entertaining animated film.i like the eclectic mix of characters.i really liked the dynamic between the 2 main characters,A domesticated bear named "Boog"(voiced by Martin Lawrence)and Elliot(Ashton Kutcher)a displaced mule deer with no family.i also though the dialogue was very good in this movie.there are some great one liners.there is also an abundance of action,(some of it very funny) and there are also some dramatic moments.dare i say it,this movie treads very close to being hysterical in some scenes.also,the choice of actors for the voices is brilliant in this movie,especially Lawrence and Kutcher.for me,"Open Season" gets a solid 7/10.
In Open Season, a movie filled with fun and adventure, we see the bond between a local park ranger and her bear named Boog grow strong.
As he tries to adjust his lifestyle from being pampered to living on his own, he meets many animal friends, one being a deer named Elliot, who tries his best to teach Boog the ways of the wild.
The way Elliot the deer explains his fear or being hunted and the way it has affected him was said kind of made me realize that illegal hunting is actually something that goes on nowadays, maybe not specifically in Hawaii, but other states, whether it be in local forests or refuge parks like the one in the movie.
it also made me realized that there are people like Shaw out there in this world that continue to hunt illegally with the intention of building up pride and this movie did a perfect job of portraying that.Another aspect of the movie that really enhanced the notable scenes and portraying the exploration of the outside world came in the beginning of the film when Boog's owner, also a park ranger finally has no option but to give him up to the outside world.
One good example of this is in the scene where Boog, the 900 pound grizzly bear voiced by Martin Lawrence and Elliot the deer voiced by Ashton Kutcher team up to create an action packed scene where they band together convincing the other animals of the forest to fight against the hunters to try and alive being yet another trophy for them.
This is the story of a bear( voiced by Martin Lawrence in english and Mikael Persbrandt in Swedish) named Boog and a deer named Elliot( voiced by Ashton Kutcher in English and Musical theater Actor Jakob Stadell in Swedish).
But one day his Life Change when he frees Elliot who cast been captured by the hunter Shaw( voiced in english by Gary Sinise and in Swedish by award winning Actor Lennart Jähkel)This was the first movie by Sony Pictures Animation who would later make the Hotel Transylvania movies.
The stand out is however Stig Engström who does as great job as the Sheriff.But the plot is predictable and most of the humor is and Unfunny and some are gross.The animation is not but of course taking into account that movie is 12 years old.It's not a very good movie.
Martin Lawrence and Ashton's Kutcher's effort for crazy voices did just a little to help the movie to be funny.
One strange thing I notice is that only Elliot, the one-antler goofed up mule deer that is the animal which stands on his rear feet beside Boog the Grizzly bear.
alright,this was an OK movie.But the idea of talking animals has been wildly overused.Also,the movie had somewhat of a "Shrek" theme.Its the 'im not going to be your friend' but then at the end of the movie the mood changes to 'oh ill be your friend i love you' But while it did have its funny parts (the otter using a chainsaw/right after i saw the Texas Chainsaw Massacre) (the Scottish squirills) ("well need your nuts!" "And your acorns too!") Don't worry,for those of you who saw those lines don't worry,because it was probably,like many children movies,overly advertised on TV and sold cheap toys at Burger King and McDonalds.But like I mentioned before,the movie did have a Shrek kind of feel to it.*as said by myfilm83.
1st watched 12/15/2006 - 4 out of 10(Dir-Jill Culton, Roger Allers & Anthony Stacchi): OK, Shrek-like story about a couple of animal misfits who link up with the rest of the animal kingdom in the backwoods to fight against the human hunters when it's open season.
There's something about a technical breakthrough at Sony that made the characters pop out on screen more, but the story is so weak that the critters get deflated.I was wondering if I disliked Open Season because I don't care for Martin Lawrence and Ashton Kutcher.
Voice acting as well seems completely serviceable, with lead Martin Lawrence in particular rising above your typical cartoonish cheese to deliver many genuine moments as the title character Boog, a gigantic, domesticated bear who is having a tough time making his way in the wild after being brought up in luxury.
Open season is one of the worst animation film from last years(if not the worst).This movie is a copy of Madagascar,The wild and Over the hedge.But it seems that the animated movie with animals is a new cliché because coming soon,there are movies like Happy Feet,The barnyard and Ratatouille which are more animated movies with animals.This movie was extremely boring for me and I watched my clock all the time.I don't recommend this pathetic animated film;maybe for little children(from 1 year to 5 years old)the movie is fun.But for older children and for adults this is pathetic and totally boring.Rating:3.
Wild deer Elliot (Ashton Kutcher) leads domesticated Grizzly bear Boog (Martin Lawrence) to the outside in search of candy.
Two comedians give life in this animated film to a bear named Boog and Elliot a very naughty deer.
It turns out that Elliot was lying and does not know the way, it goes on random through the woods where Boog meets the other animals who make fun of him but when they hear that there are a few days and start hunting season everyone allies to ban the hunting.
He is far away from his owner Beth (Debra Messing) and is stuck in the forest with a very annoying mule, Elliot (Ashton Kutcher.) Boog is trying to find a way to get back to his garage and owner, but hunting season is just starting.
I love animated films and think the animation in Open Season is really good.
Open Season is a clichéd animated film about a bear named Boog, who is a pet to a female hunter.
The relationship between Boog and Elliot is reminiscent to the one between Shrek and Donkey.There have been way too many movies with talking animals in the past two years: Madagascar, The Wild, Ice Age 2, Over the Hedge, the Ant Bully and then we still have Barnyard, Flushed Away and Happy Feet, although Happy Feet actually looks quite entertaining.I think it is enough with the talking animal genre.
After getting free tickets to the premiere of 'Open Season', I was expecting to see a great animated film, like Shrek and Monster's Inc. I ended up coming out disappointed.
When you think about Open Season you either love it or hate it there is no in between on it.I first watch the movie when it came to TV and looking back on it I have to say the film just has a mix of awe and disgustWhile it does offer some watchable moments most of the film just feels like it's not right to be a family movie let alone one for adults to watch.The first complain I have is the animation I mean what have I been looking at?
because it sure wasn't animation because most of the character models look unrealistic and down right ugly I mean I have seen much better animationThe voice acting is pretty good which is one of the few things I say was good about this film Humor in this film often feels funny some had the gross comedy which really ruin the movie for me there are some funny bits but the gross comedy just destroy the film While it feature a creative story it just don't feel like a winnerI give Open Season an 5 out of 10.
Boog is out in the woods by himself; or is he?Open Season doesn't try to amaze with flashy animation but the story is good enough to keep it interesting.Perhaps the worst thing going for Open Season is that it seems to portray hunters as bad and that they don't follow the regulations.
I thought that was a very good animated family feature, and decided that afterwards, I would watch "Open Season", another Sony Pictures Animation production which was released the year before, and has animals as the main characters, not unlike the penguin surfing movie that followed.
After the deer disrupts one of the domesticated bear's performances and sends him into a frenzy, the two animals are both shot with a tranquilizer gun by Beth, and then taken to a place in the wild where they will be safe from hunters during open season.
Wearing the 3D glasses, I could see each individual patch of fur on Boog's back and the characters literally came out from the screen.Is this movie good for the kids?
Wearing the 3D glasses, I could see each individual patch of fur on Boog's back and the characters literally came out from the screen.Is this movie good for the kids?
Boorg (voiced by Martin Lawrence), the loving bear who was rescued by a ranger and raised basically like a pet dog, has gotten too big and is now released into the wild during *gasp* Open Season, which is the time when the humans come into the forest to hunt the animals.
This time its the lovable and funny Elliot (voiced by Ashton Kutcher), a down-on-his-luck deer who has been kicked out of his herd and is being hunted by The Big Bad Hunter.
The animal bond, give the hunters hell and all ends well (especially for one of the skunks).Remember how good you thought The Incredibles was?, this movie makes that look like so much ho hum it's not even funny.And if you don't like it, go out and make your own film rather than tear this one apart..
Boog then decides to stay in the forest with everyone else.Overall, this is a fun movie, but it was actually a lot like Over the Hedge.
Besides that, this has great computer animation, a solid cast, some fun scenes, a porcupine who meets a "Buddy," and a bittersweet ending, like a lot of these movies have.
If you're looking for a good animated film to take the kids to this fall, and you like this current talking animal genre, then Open Season is for you!