Yogi Bear (film)

Yogi Bear is a 2010 American 3D live-action/computer-animated family comedy film directed by Eric Brevig, produced by Donald De Line and Karen Rosenfelt, written by Brad Copeland, Joshua Sternin and Jeffrey Ventimilia and based on the animated television series The Yogi Bear Show and the character created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera.[3]The film stars Dan Aykroyd, Justin Timberlake, Anna Faris, Tom Cavanagh, T.J. Miller, Nate Corddry and Andrew Dalywith narration by Josh Robert Thompson. The film was owned by Warner Bros. Pictures via Warner Animation Groupand Hanna-Barbera Cartoons. The film tells the story of Yogi Bear as he tries to save his park from being logged.Principal photography began in November 2009. It was preceded by the cartoon short Rabid Rider, starring Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner.[4]
The film received generally negative reviews from critics, and earned $201.6 million on a $80 million budget. The film premiered at Westwood on December 11, 2010, and was theatrically released on December 17, 2010 by Warner Bros. Pictures. Yogi Bear won the Top Box Office Films at the ASCAP Awards and the Feature Film at the EMA Awards in 2011, and received a Teen Choice Award nomination for Choice Animated Movie: Voice.
== Plot ==
== Cast ==
=== Live-action cast ===
* Tom Cavanagh as Ranger Smith, the head ranger of Jellystone Park.
* Anna Faris as Rachel Johnson, a nature documentary filmmaker, and Ranger Smith's love interest. She is called "Miss Movie Lady" or "Miss Moviemaker Lady" by Yogi and Boo Boo. She has spent time with the animals that she makes a documentary on learning a gorilla's rage and pinning down people like a snow leopard.
* T.J. Miller as Ranger Jones, a park ranger who is tricked by Mayor Brown into getting Jellystone shut down, making the excuse that Jones will be the head ranger of the park.[5][6][7][8][9][10]
* Andrew Daly as Mayor R. Brown, the main antagonist of the film. He is the Mayor of Franklin City who wants to shut Jellystone Park down so that he can make money for his city and become governor.
* Nate Corddry as the Chief of Staff, Mayor Brown's assistant.
=== Voice cast ===
* Dan Aykroyd as the voice of Yogi Bear, the picnic basket-stealing talking brown bear who lives in Jellystone Park.
* Justin Timberlake as the voice of Boo-Boo Bear, Yogi's sidekick, and sometimes the voice of reason.
* Josh Robert Thompson as the narrator.
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