丛林大反攻2 Open Season 2 review by Brian Webster 英文影评

丛林大反攻2 Open Season 2 review by Brian Webster 英文影评

丛林大反攻2 Open Season 2

 

If you think there's a certain sameness to computer animated movies, then you're likely noticed that lower-budget computer animated movies are even harder to distinguish from each other. Anyone who thought the use of technology in place of hand-painted backgrounds would eliminate the unnaturally static backgrounds of old-time animation has undoubtedly been sadly disappointed ?corners are cut just as much when a movie is drawn on a computer screen as when they were done by hand.

 

Too many computer animated movies are quick and dirty productions, and the filmmakers seem to think that viewers ?especially kids ?are not going to particularly notice or mind. Well, I'll here to say that it's more noticeable than they seem to think.

 

Which brings us to Open Season 2, a low-budget direct-to-DVD movie that takes its so-so originator and then scrimps. It scrimps on its cast ?with none of the big name voice talent back (the original's two animal protagonists return, but with Mike Epps replacing Martin Lawrence as the voice of Boog the bear and Joel McHale replacing Ashton Kutcher as Elliot the mule deer). And it scrimps on animation, with scene after scene of wilderness playing out without so much as a branch shifting ever so slightly in the breeze.

 

Maybe the Sony Pictures Animation folks don't have the backing they need to do better ?and this is a distinct possibility after the $85 million budget of the original was just barely recouped at the box office. Whatever the cause, this one simply looks pretty cheap. While the CGI technology allows for perfectly placed shadows and splashing water that really seems to splash, this level of precise detail only exists where the filmmakers choose to invest in it. And in this particular sequel, scrimping trumps detail.

 

The story here follows on the events of the original, with Elliot opening the movie all set to marry Giselle (Jane Krakowski is one of just two significant cast members from the original who has returned) in the forest. Elliot is a self-promoting klutz, unable to keep his rack of antlers attached, while Giselle is smart and patient (thankfully, for Gisell's sake), and Boog is a good-natured, huge bear who mainly works to pull Elliot down from the ceiling after his many freak-out sessions.  www.130q.com

 

The Elliot/ Giselle wedding is interrupted when the formerly domesticated dog, Mr. Weenie (Cody Cameron is the other returning cast member), is snatched from the forest back into domesticity by his human owners. The nuptials are delayed while the animals head off in pursuit, planning to rescue their canine buddy. They aren't so much up against humans as the RV-driving crowd's doggies ?principally Fifi (voiced by Crispin Glover, who goes delightfully over-the-top), a little frou-frou toy dog that's got a hate on for all things wild.

 

This is mostly a chase movie, with plenty of rabbit abuse and mostly adult-level jokes thrown in to spice things up. It's mostly in good fun, but at a few points, verges on mean-spirited. There are confrontations and rescues, culminating in a goofy battle scene at a theme park for pets. The eventual peace between wilds and domestics seems a long time coming, even if the movie does last just 76 minutes. Now and again, the humour is quite effective and the spoof of RV road warriors hits the mark, but more often, the jokes are higher on energy than they are on laugh generation.

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