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YOGI BEARMovie Reviews
Family comedy about Yogi Bear and his sidekick Boo-Boo battling encroaching development to save their beloved Jellystone Park. Cast:Anna Faris, Dan Aykroyd, Justin Timberlake, Tom Cavanagh, Andrew DalyDirector:Eric BrevigRelease Date:December 17, 2010DVD Release:March 22, 2011From:Warner Bros.Rating:PGLength:1 hr. 22 min.
Yogi Bear played to weak reviews. • Joe Williams wrote in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, "...ho-hum... swipes a small ration of sweetness from the 1960s cartoon show but doesn't do much work of its own." • And Alicia Potter wrote in the Boston Phoenix, "None of it is funny or entertaining... Boring, pointless, and instantly forgettable, this return to Jellystone Park is no picnic." More Reviews Below...
Jake Coyle, Associated Press: MODERATE(cg) "...a bland pic-a-nic, indeed.... Its best quality is that it moves along briskly, as if it knows -- and accepts -- just how thin its plot is."(See all of Jake Coyle's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 471 words, 12/16/10
Claudia Puig, USA Today: WEAK(cg) "Yogi's smarts get lost amid the dullness of the screenplay.... familiar, ultra-predictable and remarkably bland.... Yogi deserves better than this barely there story."(See all of Claudia Puig's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 403 words, 12/16/10
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NEW YORK/LOS ANGELES/CHICAGO/TORONTO (11 Reviews)
Mike Hale, New York Times: POOR "We've seen this kind of talking-animal ecological parable quite a few times already, and this one is so generic, it wouldn't pass muster on Saturday-morning television."(See all of Mike Hale's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 381 words, 12/17/10
Elizabeth Weitzman, New York Daily News: MODERATE(cg) "...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."(See all of Elizabeth Weitzman's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 348 words, 12/17/10
Michael Phillips, Los Angeles Times/Chicago Tribune: POOR "...gives cheap hackwork a bad name. Which is a shame, because hackwork made this industry.... It's barely 70 minutes long without the end credits."(See all of Michael Phillips's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 390 words, 12/17/10
Kyle Smith, New York Post: WEAK(cg) "...lacks even the zinging toddler anarchy of the 'Alvin and the Chipmunks' movies. It's more like the dim 'Underdog' movie a couple of years ago."(See all of Kyle Smith's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 479 words, 12/17/10
Rafer Guzman, New York Newsday: WEAK(cg) "Poorly made and unoriginal could describe both Hanna-Barbera's animated character Yogi Bear, who first appeared in 1958, and Warner Bros.' 3-D movie 'Yogi Bear'..."(See all of Rafer Guzman's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 302 words, 12/17/10
Nell Minow, Chicago Sun-Times: MODERATE(cg) "...the cartoon bear makes an uneven transition from the very simplified storyline and animation of a seven-minute hand-drawn cartoon to a live-action feature film."(See all of Nell Minow's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 745 words, 12/17/10
Jennie Punter, Toronto Globe & Mail: MODERATE(cg) "...palatable live-action/animated entertainment suitable for family consumption.... does not mess with a 50-year tradition."(See all of Jennie Punter's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 634 words, 12/17/10
Radheyan Simonpillai, Toronto Now: WEAK(cg) "...most of the film's sly winks and tongue-in-cheek humour will go over a five-year-old's head. The pandering pratfalls and clichéd gags don't help."(See all of Radheyan Simonpillai's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 165 words, 12/16/10
Mick LaSalle, Houston Chronicle/San Francisco Chronicle: VERY GOOD(cg) "...adults with children, who are used to getting bored out of their skulls with children's fare, may find in this a refreshing and politically charged change of pace."(See all of Mick LaSalle's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 526 words, 12/17/10
Rick Bentley, Arizona Republic: WEAK(cg) "Kids will be attracted to it like ants to a picnic. Their parents will be as entertained as having to deal with ants at a picnic."(See all of Rick Bentley's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 379 words, 12/17/10
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: POOR(cg) "...actively painful, a frenetic, unfunny mix of action, romance, dud dialogue, and icky things popping out of the screen. There's a plot... but no one appears to notice."(See all of Ty Burr's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 469 words, 12/17/10
Joe Williams, St. Louis Post-Dispatch: MODERATE(cg) "...a ho-hum hybrid of live action and computer animation, swipes a small ration of sweetness from the 1960s cartoon show but doesn't do much work of its own."(See all of Joe Williams's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 304 words, 12/17/10
Steve Persall, St. Petersburg Times: POOR(cg) "...the extra 3D surcharge at the box office simply isn't worth it. That is, unless you're in the mood for spit takes and snot rockets expelled toward the camera."(See all of Steve Persall's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 464 words, 12/16/10
Scott Tobias, AV Club: POOR(cg) "...it doesn't diminish its source material: There was never much to the character, beyond the agreeable shtick and enough variations on the pic-a-nic basket gag..."(See all of Scott Tobias's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 328 words, 12/16/10
Simon Abrams, Slant: POOR(cg) "...pretty bad, but it's not apocalyptically horrid... not the spectacular failure that the film's wildly inappropriate poster promised -- it's just a garden-variety mess."(See all of Simon Abrams's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 540 words, 12/16/10
Radheyan Simonpillai, Toronto Now: WEAK(cg) "...most of the film's sly winks and tongue-in-cheek humour will go over a five-year-old's head. The pandering pratfalls and clichéd gags don't help."(See all of Radheyan Simonpillai's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 165 words, 12/16/10
HIGHBROW PRESS (2 Reviews)
Mike Hale, New York Times: POOR "We've seen this kind of talking-animal ecological parable quite a few times already, and this one is so generic, it wouldn't pass muster on Saturday-morning television."(See all of Mike Hale's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 381 words, 12/17/10
Michael Phillips, Los Angeles Times: POOR "...gives cheap hackwork a bad name. Which is a shame, because hackwork made this industry.... It's barely 70 minutes long without the end credits."(See all of Michael Phillips's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 390 words, 12/17/10
MOVIE INDUSTRY (4 Reviews)
Justin Chang, Daily Variety: FAIR "...bland and innocuous... retains a measure of the original Hanna-Barbera cartoon's charm, though scarcely enough to justify the time, expense and visual-effects trickery..."(See all of Justin Chang's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 665 words, 12/12/10
Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter: POOR "Poor Yogi Bear. At 52, he finally gets his first movie role and the film is likely to send viewers over the age of 10 into hibernation.... the story is so-o-o-o-o tired."(See all of Kirk Honeycutt's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 704 words, 12/13/10
Michael Phillips, Los Angeles Times: POOR "...gives cheap hackwork a bad name. Which is a shame, because hackwork made this industry.... It's barely 70 minutes long without the end credits."(See all of Michael Phillips's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 390 words, 12/17/10
Mike Hale, New York Times: POOR "We've seen this kind of talking-animal ecological parable quite a few times already, and this one is so generic, it wouldn't pass muster on Saturday-morning television."(See all of Mike Hale's reviews...)(Read the full review...) 381 words, 12/17/10
15.0 Percentage Points Average Difference Between Reviews (Norm is 18.4pp; <18.4pp = More Consistent; >18.4pp = More Mixed)
Yogi Bear's reviews are separated by an average 15.0 percentage points. The norm for this measure is 18.4 percentage points. Less than 18.4 indicates more consistent reviews; greater than 18.4 indicates more mixed reviews. In the chart below, each dot represents a review, with the dots at the top more positive than the dots at the bottom. From left to right, the dots represent reviews in big, bigger and biggest publications. Roll over each dot for more detail.
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Coverage:Yogi Bear's reviews cover 33.7% of potential readers (average is 68.0%). Volume:The film's reviews total 11,984 words involume (average is 20,221 words). Length:The film's reviews average 444 words in length (the norm is 517 words).
Reviews Broke 14.7 Hours Before Release (Norm is 1.3 Release)
Yogi Bear's reviews on average broke 14.7 hours before opening. Norm for this measure is 1.3 hours before. The chart below shows reviews on opening day and the days before and after opening; the left side is earlier and the right side is later. The red bars extending above the horizontal mid-line represent more positive reviews, and the red bars extending below represent more negative reviews. The white space/red bar in the middle is Yogi Bear's opening day. Click on any bar for a list of the reviews for that day.
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