Yogi Bear Reviews

Hanna-Barbera cartoons have been made into a feature film several times (animated, live action, CGI and live action) but most of them are pretty worthless and 'Yogi Bear' is just not an exception!

'Yogi Bear' is a kid only entertainer; the story becomes boring after 5 minutes and the slapstick isn't usually very funny. Sure I liked the animation of Yogi Bear and Boo Boo and the sets and the cast (Dan Aykroyd, Justin Timberlake, Anna Faris, Tom Cavanagh, T.J. Miller, Nathan Corddy, Andrew Daly) but the whole thing was just really boring and a bad movie

Even though I already knew beforehand that this movie would stink, I was browsing at my local 2nd hand DVD shop, and since it was only for sale for 1 euro, I thought I could watch it with my daughter. Eventually, the only thing I really enjoyed with this flick is that it was really short (barely 70 minutes long). To be honest, the animation of Yogi Bear and Boo Boo was pretty impressive, I mean, those guys really have the technical means to seamlessly mix CGI animation with live action, that’s for sure but what’s the point actually if it doesn’t enhance the storytelling? Indeed, by now, I have seen a couple of ‘Alvin and The Chimpunks’ flicks, the two ‘Garfield’ and even ‘HOP’ and even though each time I was impressed by the animation, I was also astonished that the movies themselves were pretty bad and this movie was not an exception. I mean, Yogi Bear and Boo Boo were not bad but it didn’t feel right to see them evolving in the same world of some real actors. Anyway, above all, the plot was just really predictable and completely tedious. To conclude, I really didn’t like this flick and if you want to watch something with your kids, you should definitely pick something else.