Critics Scoreboard
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Average Critic Score:
49
(18 sources)
49
(18 sources)
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75
Chicago Tribune
Martin Lawrence and Ashton Kutcher may seem like an odd-sounding comedy team, but in some weird way, they click as voice-actors and cartoon buddies in Open Season. Read Full Review » -
75
New York Daily News
Given that so many people have dismissed Ashton Kutcher as a superficial pretty boy, it seems a little ironic that his best work this week is two-dimensional: He makes a passable action hero in "The Guardian," but he's downright adorable in Open Season, a cheerful animated comedy built on his winningly loose voice performance. Read Full Review » -
75
TV Guide
Though silly and predictable, this animated comedy has stunning visuals, a catchy soundtrack and charming characters that are family-friendly crowd-pleasers. Read Full Review » -
70
The Hollywood Reporter
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 Full Review » -
70
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63
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
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 Full Review » -
60
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 Full Review » -
60
Los Angeles Times
An amusing if slight excursion into nature with a group of animals who turn the tables on their collective nemeses, the hunters. Read Full Review » -
58
Entertainment Weekly
The overfamiliar Open Season feels like just another CG 'toon in our 'toon-glutted times. Read Full Review » -
50
LA Weekly
On the plus side, Open Season enjoys a clear narrative, real rooting interest and good interspecies rapport. On the downside, there's a surfeit of cruel bunny-rabbit gags. Read Full Review » -
50
The New York Times
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 Full Review » -
50
Boston Globe
As cartoon rip-offs go, Open Season can be surprisingly entertaining, in a made-for-6-year-olds kind of way. Read Full Review » -
38
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 Full Review » -
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30
Austin Chronicle
Little more than paint-by-numbers filmmaking, and it fails in the most important charge of any children's movie: to transport its young and impressionable audience to a world where anything is possible, rather than to one where everything's been thought of already. Read Full Review » -
25
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
It's a tired rehash of animation cliches that distinguishes itself only by the extent to which it's crammed full of scatology and gleeful violence to animals, and otherwise panders to the worst instincts of its audience. Read Full Review » -
25
San Francisco Chronicle
This is the animated children's film equivalent of "Another 48 Hours." Read Full Review » -
25
New York Post
An excellent case for euthanizing the entire talking-animals genre. Read Full Review »
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