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Plot summary
Orphaned as a cub, the grizzly Boog was raised by park ranger Beth and lives in her garage, the star of Timberline's nature show. Hunting fanatic Shaw drives into town with a one-antlered mule deer, Elliot, bound to the hood of his truck, denying he meant to hit him. Beth confronts Shaw, and Boog frees Elliot, who becomes convinced they are friends. That night Elliot finds Boog in the garage and talks him into sneaking out to raid the PuniMart, where the sheriff, Gordy, catches Boog and warns Beth that the bear's wild instincts may be surfacing. The next morning Shaw chases Elliot, who runs to Boog during the nature show; the audience panics, Beth tranquilizes both animals, and she moves them to the national forest above the waterfalls, out of hunters' reach.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Open Season (2006)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- To cast the lead voices in the film, director Jill Culton blindly listened to audition tapes, unknowingly picking Martin Lawrence and Ashton Kutcher; their ability to improvise fed into the creative process.
- Martin Lawrence and Ashton Kutcher voice the two lead characters but never met during production; they only met at the film's premiere.
- Sony's animation team built a digital tool called shapers, which let animators reshape character models into stronger poses and silhouettes and add squash, stretch and smear distortions typical of hand-drawn animation.
- The vinyl soundtrack LP carries three songs absent from the soundtrack CD, among them Paul Westerberg's own version of "Wild as I Wanna Be" and Reyli's "Tú eres el amor"; Reyli also voiced Boog in the Latin American Spanish dub.
