Yogi Bear sucks. That should be no surprise to anyone who's seen a talking animal movie over the last couple of years whether its Alvin & The Chipmunks or the night terrors inducing Furry Vengeance. Now Yogi isn't anywhere near as depressing than either of those two disasters, partly due to the nostalgic appeal of Yogi himself and his sidekick Boo Boo Bear, voiced uncannily similarly to the original vocal talent by Dan Ackroyd and Justin Timberlake. It's directed with energy and has some amusing comedic support from T.J. Jones as the inept Ranger Jones, Andrew Daly as the scheming Major and the perky Anna Faris who's criminally under used.
But this is a kids movie with no ambition to appeal to anybody over the age of six. The humour is ineffective, the special effects variable (I don't know whether it's residue from the 3D conversion process but Yogi often doesn't blend with his backgrounds) and the story a brain meltingly dull variation on the whole 'corporate bullys are taking our land and we've only one week to save it" kind of thing. Add to that lead actor Tom (Scrubs)Cavanagh who plays Ranger Smith is too subdued to carry the film.
Not offensively crap, but nearly.
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Rob's done it again.
He's taken the bullet so we don't have to (not that I ever actually would, mind). In this case it was the bear-shaped-bullet.
Do bears shit in the woods, or ARE bears shit in the woods? The latter me thinks for this one.
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