Open Season (2006) Critic Reviews

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Variety | Justin ChangAdd Critic to Favorites

A witty, warmly crafted chestnut.Read the full review

The Hollywood Reporter | Michael RechtshaffenAdd Critic to Favorites

Despite that nagging whiff of familiarity, there are enough character quirks and inspired bits of funny business to carry this amiable if slight tale.Read the full review

Los Angeles Times | Kevin CrustAdd Critic to Favorites

An amusing if slight excursion into nature with a group of animals who turn the tables on their collective nemeses, the hunters.Read the full review

Washington Post | Ann HornadayAdd Critic to Favorites

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.Read the full review

Entertainment Weekly | Gregory KirshlingAdd Critic to Favorites

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

The New York Times | Laura KernAdd Critic to Favorites

Periodic bursts of cleverness and eye-popping imagery, further enhanced in the 3-D Imax version, can't disguise that this is just another movie full of jive-talking computer-generated animals with little new to say.Read the full review

Boston Globe | Janice PageAdd Critic to Favorites

As cartoon rip-offs go, Open Season can be surprisingly entertaining, in a made-for-6-year-olds kind of way.Read the full review

The Onion (A.V. Club) | Keith PhippsAdd Critic to Favorites

No one makes it out of this laughless mess unscathed.Read the full review

San Francisco Chronicle | Peter HartlaubAdd Critic to Favorites

This is the animated children's film equivalent of "Another 48 Hours."Read the full review

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