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By Bruce Kirkland (531) for Jam! Movies (2,396) on 28 Sep 2006

This is a routine animated animals flick, but there are enough zany moments to keep things interesting…

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By Carolyn Arends (35) for Christianity Today (953) on 28 Sep 2006

Despite its overly familiar plot elements and the excessive time it takes getting to its real story, Open Season has a lot going for it…

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By Kevin Carr (1,610) for 7M Pictures (1,037) on 28 Sep 2006

Not surprisingly, Ashton Kutcher seems to have found his niche playing the jackass... er... mule deer…

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By John Monaghan (292) for Detroit Free Press (942) on 28 Sep 2006

Some theaters are showing the movie in IMAX 3D, which is the way I saw it…

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By Jeff Vice (1,455) for Deseret News (Salt Lake City) (1) on 28 Sep 2006

If nothing else, the fully rendered digital animation is a vast improvement over the recent duds The Ant Bully, Barnyard and Everyone's Hero…

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By Nancy Churnin (129) for Dallas Morning News (1,592) on 28 Sep 2006

One of the biggest surprises in this first full-length film from Sony Pictures Animation is how funny Ashton Kutcher is as Elliot…

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By Christy Lemire (1,262) for Associated Press (1,685) on 28 Sep 2006

This debut offering from Sony Pictures Animation has a giddy energy about it and a gleeful sense of its own weirdness…

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By Kim Williamson (59) for Boxoffice Magazine (2,896) on 28 Sep 2006

Within its limitations, Open Season could hardly be better, generating real interest and audience sympathy…

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By Bill Muller (519) for Arizona Republic (3,909) on 28 Sep 2006

Although Open Season isn't the perfect animated movie, it features enough humor and gags to entertain most small kids…

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By Fred Topel (1,193) for Can Magazine (288) on 28 Sep 2006

The talking animal movie has become a worse Hollywood cliché than the buddy cop movie…

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By Justin Chang (1,535) for Variety (12,700) on 28 Sep 2006

Though hardly the first animated film to tackle the plight of domesticated animals returning to the wild, Open Season is a witty, warmly crafted…

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By Jon Popick (633) for Planet S Magazine (15) on 27 Sep 2006

I think this is the seventh animated film in a row that's about a bunch of animals on a death-defying journey from Point A to Point B…

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By Eric D. Snider (2,489) for EricDSnider.com (2,026) on 27 Sep 2006

Martin Lawrence, Ashton Kutcher, and plenty of do-bears-poop-in-the-woods jokes. Do we need this? Is this movie necessary…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for FilmJerk.com (622) on 27 Sep 2006

The filmmakers are out of ideas, and Season represents their laziest tendencies to blindly follow whatever worked in earlier, better pictures…

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By Uri Lessing (90) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 27 Sep 2006

Your child will probably go crazy for this imitative mash-up, but you'll wish you had spent your hard-earned money on a good children's book instead…

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By Willie Waffle (1,383) for WaffleMovies.com (1,380) on 27 Sep 2006

I guess talking animals aren't always funny…

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By David Cornelius (645) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 27 Sep 2006

Bland and uninspired, it's kiddie movie by rote…

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By Steve Crum (868) for Dispatch-Tribune Newspapers (80) on 27 Sep 2006

Disney never showed, say, Goofy actually defecating on camera, but 'Open Season' does just that with Eliott…

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By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 27 Sep 2006

No classic but not a disaster...by comparison to the recent competition it hits the target, if not the bull's-eye…

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By Todd Gilchrist (762) for IGN Movies (1,472) on 27 Sep 2006

Open Season is one of a handful of recent computer-animated movies that actually stands out in this crowd…

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