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Avg. Critic Score: 35 out of 100 Generally unfavorable reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
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  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    This is a cute movie, a kid's movie, and a rather good one. Read full review

  • 67
    Entertainment Weekly | Adam Markovitz

    There's nothing particularly inventive in the plot or grade-school humor, but the movie skates by on the timeless, undemanding charm of watching a tie-wearing bear try to steal people's lunches. Read full review

  • 55
    Movieline | Michelle Orange

    On the whole the film is not much fun to watch. A job is a job, though; Yogi Bear did little to make it more than that. Read full review

  • 50
    St. Louis Post-Dispatch | Joe Williams

    Here, Dan Aykroyd mimics the original voice, but the three-dimensional CGI isn't loose and lively enough to compensate for the unimaginative story. Read full review

  • 50
    New York Daily News | Elizabeth Weitzman

    None of the three screenwriters strained himself with effort. But the relative lack of coarseness and snark may come as a surprising relief, even to 21st-century audiences. Read full review

  • 50
    The Hollywood Reporter | Kirk Honeycutt

    Yogi is still smarter than the average bear, but Yogi Bear is much less smart than most of the year's kid-friendly cartoons. Read full review

  • 50
    The Globe and Mail (Toronto) | Jennie Punter

    While the outdoor sequences were filmed in New Zealand's Woodhill State Forest – the movie's most stunning 3-D moments – Yogi Bear does feature notable "Canadian content" via two Ottawa-born thespians. Read full review

  • 50
    New Orleans Times-Picayune | Mike Scott

    Clearly, Brevig's past as a visual effects maestro had him focusing more on the look of Yogi Bear than on crafting anything resembling a clever narrative. Read full review

  • 38
    USA Today | Claudia Puig

    Yogi Bear is a big boo-boo. Read full review

  • 25
    Boston Globe | Ty Burr

    Picture Timberlake in the booth recording his lines and you have the best joke in the movie. Everything else is actively painful, a frenetic, unfunny mix of action, romance, dud dialogue, and icky things popping out of the screen. Read full review

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