Yogi Bear (film)

Yogi Bear is a live action/CGI hybrid film released 17 December 2010 by Warner Bros. Pictures. It was based on the Yogi Bear cartoon series. It features the voices of Dan Aykroyd as Yogi and Justin Timberlake as Boo Boo.
== Summary ==
A documentary filmmaker travels to Jellystone Park to shoot a project. She soon crosses paths with Yogi Bear, his sidekick Boo Boo, and Ranger Smith.
== Plot ==
Mayor R. Brown realizes that Franklin City is facing bankruptcy due to profligate spending on his part. Brown plots with his Chief of Staff to raise money for the town budget and his upcoming gubernatorial campaign by shutting down Jellystone Park and opening the land to logging. To save the park, park rangers Smith and Jones, with help from Smith's love interest, documentary filmmaker Rachel Johnson, hold a centennial festival and fireworks show in an attempt to sell season passes. To sabotage the effort, Brown promises Jones the position of head ranger if the funds are not raised. Two brown bears named Yogi and Boo-Boo Bear, who steal picnic baskets from visitors in Jellystone Park while the rangers attempt to hinder them, had promised Smith to stay out of sight during the festival, but Jones convinces them otherwise. The bears try to please the crowd with a water-skiing performance, but Yogi inadvertently sets his cape on fire, causing fireworks to be launched into the crowd, who flee in panic. Smith, furious at Yogi and Boo-Boo for ruining the festival tells them that if they had been not thinking in the first place, the closure of the park would not have happened and ends his friendship with them. After Jellystone is shut down, Smith is forced to stay in Evergreen Park - a small urban enclave choked with litter and pollution - but not before taking out his frustration on Yogi, telling him he isn't as smart as he thinks he is. Seeing that their home is in danger of being destroyed, Yogi and Boo-Boo travel to Evergreen Park, where they and Smith figure out Brown's plan. They all return to Jellystone with Rachel, where they learn that Boo-Boo's pet turtle is a rare and endangered species known as a "frog-mouthed" turtle, meaning that according to law, the park cannot be destroyed if the turtle is living there.
The Chief of Staff learns about the turtle and sends Jones to kidnap it. On the day that Brown is planning a press conference to begin the destruction of the park, Smith, Rachel and the bears rescue the turtle and try to bring it to the media's attention. Jones, learning that he had been deceived by Mayor Brown, has a change of heart and helps the team bring the turtle to the press conference. At the press conference, Rachel reveals that she had installed a hidden camera in Boo-Boo's bow tie which had captured Brown admitting to his plan. Smith hooks up the camera to the jumbotron Brown is using for his press conference and shows the video, causing the crowds to grow hostile. Brown tries to claim there is no such thing as an endangered turtle, only for the turtle to appear on stage, revealing his true nature. After Brown and his staff are arrested for their crimes, Jellystone Park is reopened and becomes a great success with Smith reappointed as head ranger. He and Rachel admit their feelings for each other. After they kiss, they discover Yogi and Boo-Boo are back to stealing picnic baskets once again and chase them.
== Cast ==
* Dan Aykroyd as the voice of Yogi Bear (Scream voiced by Sheb Wooley)
* Tom Cavanagh as Ranger Smith
* Nate Corddry as the chief of staff
* Andrew Daly as Mayor Brown
* Anna Faris as Rachel
* Matilda Fulljames as a picnic guest (uncredited)
* Matt Gillanders as a ranger on stilts (uncredited)
* Tom Kay as a park visitor (uncredited)
* T.J. Miller as Ranger Jones
* Christy Quiliam as the stylist
* David Stott as the mayor's tailor
* Josh Robert Thompson as the narrator
* Justin Timberlake as the voice of Boo Boo
== Sequel ==
In 2012, it was reported that a sequel was in the works, with Jay Chandrasekhar chosen to direct, but no further updates have ever been given.
== See Also ==
* Yogi Bear (2010 video game)
== External Links ==
* Yogi Bear at the Internet Movie Database
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