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To start with, the establishing shots are weak and director Eric Brevig takes ever so long to get his act going. Then a verbose and meandering screenplay by Jeffrey Ventimilia and Joshua Sterrin doesn’t help either. Yogi bear (Dan Aykroyd’s voice) is, at best, okay to start with but his sidekick Boo Boo (Justin Timberlake) has more spark. Both are in trouble as their home Yellowstone Park is being shut down by nosey Mayor Brown (Andrew Daly), who has plans of becoming Governor of the State. How these animals set about negating the move is what the film is all about. Forest Ranger Smith (Tom Cavanagh) doesn’t get along too well with the Mayor, who tries to play his deputy Jones (T.J.Miller) against him. Enter Rachel (Anna Faris), a documentary filmmaker, sent to cover the beauty of the Park — that is before the move to shut it down. But this itsy-bitsy damsel is too fascinated by the bears and this preoccupation tells on the project.
Yogi picks up in the
latter half but by then sparks are already flying. The Mayor cuts a
sorry figure and Ranger Smith finds romance with the filmmaker. Not
surprisingly, all’s well that ends well but by then one is only
waiting for an end to this rather dubious entertainer. See it only is
you don’t have anything better to do.
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It
It is a pretty slim plot
and this "thinking bear" (which puts him in a class apart)
has too much of thinking to do. It is about saving a near extinct
frog-mouthed turtle. Plans are also afoot to popularise the Park so
there’s a good deal of fireworks coming. But the disparate narrative
doesn’t really grip one’s attention, except for rare moments and
doses of catchy music (La Bamba included).