YOGI-BEAR
Everyone’s favorite pic-a-nic basket-stealing bear brings his meal-mooching ways to movies in this live-action/CG-animated adventure starring Dan Aykroyd as the voice of Jellystone Park’s famed troublemaker Yogi Bear and Justin Timberlake as the voice of Yogi’s faithful pal Boo Boo. Jellystone has been losing business, so conniving Mayor Brown has decided to shut it down and sell the land. Faced with the loss of his home, Yogi must prove he really is “smarter than the average bear” as he and Boo Boo join forces with Ranger Smith to find a way to save the park from closing forever.
Sadly ruined by the need to combine the awesome CG-animations with human actors, and a complete mis-understanding of what made the old YOGI BEAR cartoons so enjoyable in the first place. Passable enough for a lazy afternoon if there is nothing better on Youtube (as if).
2 stars
Yogi-Bear (2011)
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