Open Season a Pictures Animation. It's a movie that kids will probably like. Open Season is no "Shrek" or "Ice Age," it gets laughs too. It's capable of giving at least the kid part of the audience a good hunter-trashing, bunny-bashing time.
Led by Boog and Elliot, a battalion of ferocious squirrels, rambunctious skunks, rampaging deer, a wacky duck and busy little beavers with chainsaws all set aside their differences and explode into revolt, attacking the crass, heavily-armed hunters. Most visible and obnoxious of the gun-toters is a snarling brute named Shaw (Gary Sinise, in his sadist mode), a maniac with a cabin full of mounted animal heads, who looks and acts like a mix of Paul Bunyan, Jack the Ripper and Bluto from the "Popeye" cartoons. There's also bossy tourist wife Bobbie, a Jennifer Tilly type voiced by Georgia Engel of the classic TV "Mary Tyler Moore Show."
As for the critters, after Boog and Elliot, the most notable are the mad Scots squirrel-general McSquizzy (the right role for Billy Connolly of "Mrs. Brown"), Elliot's dream girl deer Giselle (Jane Krakowski), his arrogant, fully antlered rival Ian (cartoon regular Patrick Warburton) and blue-collar beaver boss Reilly (Jon Favreau). grizzly bear, Boog (Lawrence) who's been sent back to the wilderness for misbehavior--getting drunk and trashing a convenience store--by his loving and regretful "mama," winsome forest ranger Beth (Debra Messing). Boog has led a fat and sassy dream life in Beth's town, Timberline, as a show-biz bear, but he gets exiled along with his fast talking, one-horned mule deer cohort and all-around bad influence Elliot (Kutcher), who keeps leading him astray for the entire movie.
CAST:
Martin Lawrence (Boog )
Ashton Kutcher (Elliot )
Debra Messing (Beth )
Gary Sinise (Shaw )
Jon Favreau (Reilly )
Patrick Warburton (Ian )
Billy Connolly (McSquizzy )
Georgia Engel (Bobbie )
Jane Krakowski (Giselle )
Gordon Tootoosis
Cody Cameron
Danny Mann
Fergal Reilly
Nika Futterman
DIRECTORS:
Jill Culton,
Anthony Stacchi,
Roger Allers
Sunday, October 08, 2006
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