Great visuals, story delivers no surprises

Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

Boring, long, and too preachy.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

The movie stays true to the source material it's adapted from. Dan Ankroyd and Justin Timberlake give spot on performences as Yogi and Boo-Boo. The reason it's a star from a 10 is because of how Boo-Boo's pet turtle was used as a macguffin at the last minute. It wasn't terrible but how the turtle was integrated into the story was a little clumsy. As a fan of the original series I can say it doesn't disappoint and it's worth checking out.

I love this film, it is so true to the original, the comic books it's great. The voices of Yogi and Boo Boo were perfect and now we go on picernics in our house, not those boring picnic things. It is good to know that there are still people in the film making world who really enter into the spirit of childhood and truth. My husband can't stop saying 'Smarter than the average bear' (which he is) and the children of the house love doing Yogi and Boo Boo's dance. If anyone thinks that this movie isn't great they've 'got a kink in their think'. That's without going into the environmental messages; explaining the danger of fireworks to your scarf if you don't take care of Health and Safety. How do you choose your best bit? The Basket Nabber 2000 designed by an advocate of Heath Robinson? The dejector dinghy? The frog mouthed turtle? Yogi trying to be an average bear and foraging? Congratulations to all involved

Okay, I guess, if you are hung up on CGI-animated movies and will watch just about everything that's clearly made with care, at least from an animated perspective.Story-wise there is not that much to recommend and if you are totally ignorant about the original cartoon, you will probably enjoy it less as an adult. I doubt, if any kiddies have actually seen the original cartoon which was extremely boring, so this movie has got to feel more fresh.The voice actors, Dan Aykroyd and Justin Timberlake do well. Timberlake actually sounds uncannily like Don Messick. The live actors are really poor, though. I have no idea why they chose Tom Cavanaugh as Ranger Smith. They would have been better off choosing Diedrich Bader, who was in the 3D test short. Anna Faris does a little better, but I would have thought that she would have outgrown these kinds of parts by now. Anyway, the love story is extremely run-of-the-mill as usual and of course, you don't really look forward to see a love story in part-animated movie anyway.This is the second children's film that I have seen in a short time about an Eco-terrorist, the other being Cars 2. I wonder if they are trying to tell us something. Just for fun, I read a study that people in general could care less about such matters. Thank god, the movie mill cares.

Now I'm no stranger to Hanna Barbera cartoons but Yogi Bear is unfamiliar to me. But what I do know is it's about two talking bears that steal picnic baskets,which you barely get that in this film.Now the film begins with Yogi and Booboo voiced by Dan Aykroyd and Justin Timberlake, who do a good job with the voices. For the first ten minutes, but then the film quickly goes downhill from there. We meet Ranger Smith who has a personality of sandpaper, and Ranger Jones who I'm positive was written with a twelve year old in mind. This character is just an enthusiastic boy scout and since he is played by an adult, makes him pretty creepy. We then meet Rachel an aspiring film director who wants to make a documentary on the park. Smith who instantly has the hots for her, most likely because she is the first girl he has managed to talk to, allows her to film.But there's one problem the Mayor of the city is planning to sell the park to industrialists to make up the money the park looses. So the rangers and the girl have a week to get people to visit the park or else it will be destroyed. So how do they do this? they promise fireworks, yes fireworks. Let's just forget about the two talking walking bears, because thats not the least bit amazing. So anyway the fireworks work, but the Mayor tricks Ranger Jones into thinking if he sabotages the event he will make him head ranger of the park. And because the character is a complete idiot he falls for it, so he tells Yogi to Smith needs Yogi's help and of course he ruins the event.Now what happens next really shows how bland of a character Smith is as he looses the park, but Rachel comforts him by saying he still has her. Now what does he do, he rejects her because, he's an idiot. Anyway Yogi and BooBoo go to the city and get him back, and I would like to point out that nobody is fazed by walking talking bears, I would have thought someone would notice. And before anyone says talking animals exist in this world, I will point out I haven't seen any other talking animal apart from these two. Anyway they bring Smith back, as they find out that BooBoo's pet turtle is in fact an endangered frog mouthed turtle, and since it's endangered by law it's natural habitat can't be destroyed. So as everyone is racing to get it all I'm thinking about is why the turtle can't talk? To wrap the story up they get the turtle expose the Mayor and all live happily ever after. Now the story barely focuses on the bears, but instead focuses on saving the forest, now that isn't a bad message but when you try your best to force it into the audiences head, they will not respond well. But apart from the painfully forced message, the story is just dull.Now lets look at the film from a technical stand point. When the film focuses on the bears, the CGI looks impressive, but when the actors have to interact with them, the quality quickly drops, with providing some of the worst green screens, I have ever seen. Painted backgrounds from the 30s looked more realistic.Now I know I wasn't the intended audience for the film, it's obviously aimed at kids. But I find it very hard that kids would be entertained by this, I know kids are more easily entertained but you still have to put effort in making your film. Like I said Aykroyd and Timberlake do a good job with their voices, and the film did trick me in thinking it was narrated by Morgan Freeman, but was in fact narrated by actor Josh Robert Tompson. At first this deception annoyed me, but then I realised that it shows the talents of talented impressionist. So with all said and considered I give Yogi Bear 2/10.Thanks for reading.