Review – Open Season

I think we’ve officially reached the point where computer-animated animals aren’t impressive enough by themselves to make a movie worthwhile. We might have actually passed that point some time ago, but here and now I believe we can make it official. Martin Lawrence stars as the voice of a bear with a cushy deal living in the garage of a cute park ranger’s house. Then along comes a deer (Ashton Kutcher) who gets him in trouble, and it’s back to the wild with both of them. By the end our hero and his sidekick manage to acclimatize, but only after a considerable volume of high-jinks involving actual wild animals and a psychotic hunter determined to kill the lot of them. It isn’t actively offensive – certainly nowhere near as bad as The Barnyard – but then again I’ve seen better. Mildly amusing