Open Season: Critic Reviews

The overfamiliar Open Season feels like just another CG 'toon in our 'toon-glutted times.

Periodic bursts of cleverness and eye-popping imagery cant disguise that this is just another movie full of jive-talking computer-generated animals with little new to say.

There's virtuosity here but no magic.

With a slick visual style similar to Monster House, Open Season trots out tropes that recent animated classics have done with more wit and smarts.

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

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

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

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.

Though 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.

Open Season is a rambunctious blast. It's Sony Pictures Animation's first full-length feature film and no effort was spared getting it right.

Although Open Season isn't the perfect animated movie, it features enough humor and gags to entertain most small kids.

Though hardly the first animated film to tackle the plight of domesticated animals returning to the wild, Open Season is a witty, warmly crafted chestnut that reps a promising feature debut from Sony's upstart toon division.

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

It's not deep and not totally original. But Open Season is whiplash quick with the gags and spot-on with the funny voices.

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?

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.

Somebody ought to declare open season on these copycat movies, but in the meantime, you could do a lot worse than this bright-looking, lightly amusing excursion from the Sony's Imageworks CG division.

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

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

Animated animal buddy flick is crude but funny.

Animated children's movies should not glamorize criminal activity and war, but that's exactly what happens in "Open Season"...

Despite inconsistencies in audience and humor, there's enough to like about Open Season.

[A] beautifully animated and funny, if formulaic, odd-couple comedy.