Open Season (2006)

Directors:

Roger Allers
Jill Culton

Writers:

Steve Moore (story) and
John B. Carls (story) ...

Release Date:

29 September 2006 (USA)

Genre:

Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Family

Tagline:

One Fur All & All Fur One.

Plot:

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.

Plot Keywords:

Hunter | Forest | Bear | Deer | Grizzly

Awards:

1 win & 7 nominations

US TV Schedule:

Mon. Dec. 28

9:00 AM

TOON

Cast

Martin Lawrence	...	Boog (voice)
Ashton Kutcher	...	Elliot (voice)
Gary Sinise	...	Shaw (voice)
Debra Messing	...	Beth (voice)
Billy Connolly	...	McSquizzy (voice)
Georgia Engel	...	Bobbie (voice)
Jon Favreau	...	Reilly (voice)
Jane Krakowski	...	Giselle (voice)
Gordon Tootoosis	...	Gordy (voice)
Patrick Warburton	...	Ian (voice)
Cody Cameron	...	Mr. Weenie (voice)
Nika Futterman	...	Rosie (voice)
Danny Mann	...	Serge (voice)
Jack McGee	...	Hunter (voice)
Michelle Murdocca	...	Maria (voice)

Also Known As:

Boog & Elliot - vilda vänner (Finland: Swedish title) (Sweden) [sv]
Les rebelles de la forêt (Canada: French title) (France) [fr]
Open season - amigos salvajes (Argentina) (Venezuela) [es]
Çilgin dostlar (Turkey: Turkish title) [tr]
Baas in eigen bos (Netherlands) [nl]
Boog & Elliot - vilde venner (Denmark) [da]
Boog & Elliot a caccia di amici (Italy) [it]
Haverim Al Ha-Kavenet (Israel: Hebrew title) [iw]
Jagdfieber (Germany) [de]
Karvakamut (Finland) [fi]
O Bicho Vai Pegar (Brazil) [pt]
Oi iroes tou dasous (Greece) [el]
Open Season - Boog e Elliot Vão à Caça (Portugal) [pt]
Sezon na misia (Poland) [pl]

MPAA:

Rated PG for some rude humor, mild action and brief language.

Runtime:

83 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

SDDS (8 channels) | DTS | Sonics-DDP (IMAX version) | Dolby Digital

Certification:

USA:PG | Netherlands:AL | Ireland:PG | Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) | Singapore:PG | Finland:K-7 | UK:PG | Germany:o.Al. | Philippines:G (MTRCB) | Indonesia:SU | Malaysia:U | Australia:G | Hong Kong:I | Argentina:Atp | Portugal:M/6 | South Korea:All | Sweden:7 | New Zealand:G | South Africa:A

Filming Locations:

Sony Pictures Studios - 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA

Company:

Sony Pictures Animation

Trivia:

The Sony Animation technicians developed a new tool called Shapers that permitted the animators to reshape the character models, allowing for stronger poses and silhouettes and subtle distortions (squash and stretch, smears, etc.) typical of traditional, hand-drawn animation.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: At the beginning of the movie Beth loads a large blue cooler and a smaller red one into the back of her jeep. They are no where to be seen when Boog jumps into the back a few minutes later.

Quotes:

McSquizzy: Ged off my trees ya buck-toothed sporran!

Movie Connections:

Spoofs Braveheart (1995)

Soundtrack:

Walkin' After Midnight

See It In IMAX 3D

The kids loved it, and I was not bored, and that is more than what you usually end up with these days. The 3D IMAX is truly amazing, if you are already paying the theater admission then IMAX is definitely the way to go. The story is not original, to say the least, but they know it and keep it short. I liked the voice talent, although this "the wiener dog has a German accent" thing gets old fast. A lot of people seem to hate this one with a vengeance (look at the distribution of the votes with all those people giving 1), but it still gets a 5.5 average, so that gives you a pretty good idea. This is no Incredibles by any means, but the two little girls I took enjoyed it a heck of a lot more than Cars. Mostly harmless family fun with a few bathroom jokes thrown in: enjoy!