Open Season (2006)
Directed by Jill Culton
Boog, a domesticated 900lb. Grizzly bear finds himself stranded in the woods 3 days before Open Season. Forced to rely on Elliot, a fast-talking mule deer, the two form an unlikely friendship and must quickly rally other forest animals if they are to form a rag-tag army against the hunters.
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The most recent joint effort between actor Wuhl and "Open Season" executive producer Ron Shelton was the latter's "Cobb," an even more serious misfire due in part to Wuhl's poor thesping abilities.
Lawrence is the voice of Boog, a laid-back grizzly bear who follows in the footsteps of animated ursine creatures that go back at least as far as Hanna-Barbera's Yogi Bear and Baloo from Disney's "The Jungle Book," not to mention a certain former Baltimore Orioles first baseman.
The directors of Open Season had hands in creating classics like The Lion King, Monsters, Inc., and Toy Story, and they do an admirable job of making their movie sparkle and shine with CGI glitter.
While Favreau's blue-collar beaver seems to represent the need in every animated film for a Brooklyn accent, he smartly underplays the sort of easy hamminess that reduced Rob Reiner's contributions to Everyone's Hero to sub-Monsters, Inc. shtick, and the rest of the cast also renders believable characters (so to speak) without simply trying to project their own voices or create something wackily memorable.
The directors of Open Season had hands in creating classics like The Lion King, Monsters, Inc., and Toy Story, and they do an admirable job of making their movie sparkle and shine with CGI glitter.
In the opening scene, for example, the filmmakers acknowledge the medium's penchant for humanizing animals by allowing a human character to actually see two critters help each other; this eliminates that pesky "secret world of..." conceit that flourished since the first Toy Story and allows the film to play on a direct level to the audience without the need for a catalogue of cultural highlights.