Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.
This is a cute movie, a kid's movie, and a rather good one. Read full review
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Yogi Bear is a big boo-boo. Read full review
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
2.0
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Not as smart as the average bear. Read full review
1.5
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