| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

In the end, the hunter becomes the hunted; but wouldn't the animal rights message mean more if you actually cared about the critters?

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 17, 2006

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

| Oct 14, 2006

There's virtuosity here but no magic.

| Oct 14, 2006

he animation is so-so, the debt to Madagascar and The Jungle Book blatant, and the jokes thin.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 14, 2006

Fatally lacking laughs and a real sense of adventure, this is a sporadically funny and awkwardly animated curiosity.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 13, 2006

It's just okay.

Full Review | Oct 2, 2006

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?

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 29, 2006

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 29, 2006

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.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 29, 2006

An ugly, painfully derivative and sleep-inducing talking-animals cartoon laced with potty humor.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 29, 2006

A story that balances gentle messages with enough goofy anarchy to please any kid.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 29, 2006

For an inaugural effort, Open Season ain't bad, but the studio shows far more promise with its gee-whiz visuals than it does in the story department.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 29, 2006

The movie is a genial romp and because it relies on the gentlest of scatological comedy, it can be enjoyed by all ages.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 29, 2006

The film wraps mindless cartoon violence and a few fart jokes around life lessons about friendship and responsibility. Kids should like it; parents won't mind it.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 29, 2006

Some theaters are showing the movie in IMAX 3D, which is the way I saw it. The novelty helps, but it still can't bring depth to entertainment this shallow.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 29, 2006

One of the biggest surprises in this first full-length film from Sony Pictures Animation is how funny Ashton Kutcher is as Elliot.

| Original Score: B | Sep 29, 2006

This debut offering from Sony Pictures Animation has a giddy energy about it and a gleeful sense of its own weirdness.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 29, 2006

While the filmmakers here have provided us with a passable tale that is mildly humorous, Open Season breaks no new ground, from neither the animation nor the storytelling.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 29, 2006

When your most distinctive element is Ashton Kutcher as a one-antlered mule deer, respect has reason to elude you.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 29, 2006