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Peter Debruge, Miami Herald: For an inaugural effort, Open Season ain't bad, but the studio shows far more promise with its gee-whiz visuals than it does in the story department. Read more
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune: 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. Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: It's just okay. Read more
Jon Waterhouse, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: The film's soulless, computerized mountain ranges can't touch the immaculate, hand-painted backgrounds of old-school Disney. If animation filmmakers are going to recycle, they need to go back. Way back. Read more
Keith Phipps, AV Club: At any point, do the people involved realize they've got a lot of pretty animated images, no jokes, less story, and voice performances that never click together? Read more
Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: Although Open Season isn't the perfect animated movie, it features enough humor and gags to entertain most small kids. Read more
Janice Page, Boston Globe: When your most distinctive element is Ashton Kutcher as a one-antlered mule deer, respect has reason to elude you. Read more
Kevin Crust, Los Angeles Times: The movie is a genial romp and because it relies on the gentlest of scatological comedy, it can be enjoyed by all ages. Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: This debut offering from Sony Pictures Animation has a giddy energy about it and a gleeful sense of its own weirdness. Read more
Gregory Kirschling, Entertainment Weekly: The overfamiliar Open Season feels like just another CG 'toon in our 'toon-glutted times. Read more
John Monaghan, Detroit Free Press: Some theaters are showing the movie in IMAX 3D, which is the way I saw it. The novelty helps, but it still can't bring depth to entertainment this shallow. Read more
Mark Medley, Globe and Mail: 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. Read more
Nancy Churnin, Dallas Morning News: One of the biggest surprises in this first full-length film from Sony Pictures Animation is how funny Ashton Kutcher is as Elliot. Read more
Gregg Rickman, L.A. Weekly: Directors Roger Allers and Jill Culton don't trust their material in the two big comic sequences, a sugar-fueled rampage in a convenience store, and a flood, and cut them too quickly for all the jokes to register. Read more
Gene Seymour, Newsday: It looks good; at times, even great. In fact, Open Season shimmers so much in strictly visual terms that its dearth of genuine wit or ingenuity is almost physically painful to acknowledge. Read more
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: A story that balances gentle messages with enough goofy anarchy to please any kid. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: It's not deep and not totally original. But Open Season is whiplash quick with the gags and spot-on with the funny voices. Read more
Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle: With animated movies coming out every other week or so, mediocrity is becoming a rule. Open Season loses more points than most films because of its similarities to Over the Hedge, one of the few kids films that did it right this year. Read more
Bill Zwecker, Chicago Sun-Times: 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. Read more
Geoff Pevere, Toronto Star: 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? Read more
Time Out: I have to say that the humour here (some of it Pythonesque) is mostly spot on and, at times, mischievously dark. Read more
Justin Chang, Variety: 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. Read more
Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: 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 more