Yogi Bear 2010

Jake Coyle, Associated Press: This being the highly advanced 21st century, simple animation won't do, so we must suffer through mediocre, lifeless computer-generated animation of this treasured twosome. Read more

James Rocchi, MSN Movies: The problem here is Hollywood, as ever, committing a series of safe nostalgia-fueled films that represent less risk than, say, actually making something new. Read more

Mike Hale, New York Times: A bland 21st-century family comedy without a single moment that captures the wit, energy or sophistication of the original, which by now dates back more than 50 years. Read more

Scott Tobias, AV Club: Five minutes into their feature-length Yogi Bear movie, the filmmakers have more or less run out of material, save for switching up the means by which Yogi swipes baskets, or leaving a few pies to cool on various ledges. Read more

Ty Burr, Boston Globe: Picture Timberlake in the booth recording his lines and you have the best joke in the movie. Everything else is actively painful, a frenetic, unfunny mix of action, romance, dud dialogue, and icky things popping out of the screen. Read more

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: "Yogi Bear" gives cheap hackwork a bad name. Read more

Adam Markovitz, Entertainment Weekly: There's nothing particularly inventive in the plot or grade-school humor, but the movie skates by on the timeless, undemanding charm of watching a tie-wearing bear try to steal people's lunches. Read more

Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter: A live-action/cartoon mix that's misguided in just about every way. Read more

Rafer Guzman, Newsday: The movie is the opposite of the cartoons: Everyone's body is in motion, but nobody is using his head. Read more

Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: The relative lack of coarseness and snark may come as a surprising relief, even to 21st-century audiences. Read more

Kyle Smith, New York Post: "Yogi Bear" lacks even the zinging toddler anarchy of the "Alvin and the Chipmunks" movies. Read more

Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: Weak as they've been, the "Alvin and the Chipmunks" movies are operating on a higher plane than this. Read more

Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: This is a cute movie, a kid's movie, and a rather good one. Read more

Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: You've seen this movie before, when it was called Alvin and the Chipmunks, but the filmmakers are hoping that your kids don't remember. Read more

Jennie Punter, Globe and Mail: Taking the kids to a matinee of Yogi Bear in 3-D is no picnic. Read more

Anna Smith, Time Out: Fond memories of Yogi cartoons may get you some way through this big-screen version - but the nostalgia soon wears off. Read more

Claudia Puig, USA Today: Yogi Bear is a big boo-boo. Read more

Justin Chang, Variety: Neither smarter nor dumber than the average family-friendly comedy. Read more

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Melissa Anderson, Village Voice: Rock-bottom expectations are rewarded, sort of, in this update of Hanna-Barbera's necktied ursus. Read more

Dan Kois, Washington Post: Fart jokes? Check. 3-D spit takes? Check. Yogi shaking his ursine rump to "Baby Got Back"? Dear Lord, check. Read more