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• Director: Roger Allers, Jill Culton & Anthony Stacchi
• Genre: Animation/Family/Adventure/Comedy
• Year: 2006

This is probably the first movie I see that is directed by three people (well, not counting Three Extremes, which is different, each director in that one directed a part of it). And you would think that putting three heads together would make this a gem…and yet it does not.

Part Shrek, part Monsters Incorporated and part Over the Hedge this movie seems to steal ideas from a number of recent animated flicks and still does not amount to them…though perhaps it is at equal standing with Over the Hedge, it certainly falls short of matching the Pixar and Dreamworks animated films also mentioned.

While technically the movie is well put together, there is actually no great plot to hold it that way, and as such it often feels bland when looking at the general scope of things. That being said, both Ashton Kutcher and Martin Lawrence do enough to keep the movie light hearted and to at least make the characters likeable even if slightly shallow.

However, while I may complain about the details of this movie, I should say that kid will still enojoy it and there are a number of parts which are entertaining enough that one does not feel tortured to have to sit and watch it with them. You will laugh a bit and in the end, while you will certainly not feel fulfilled, you will at least be glad the kids are smiling.

Rating: 2.5 out of 5
Notes: A kids film, a bit violent at parts but nothing most kids can not handle
Quote: Elliot: [when Boog asks where are the toilets in the forest] I see a bush right over there with your name on it.
Boog: I can’t go in a bush!
Elliot: Come on, it’s just like riding a bicycle… except you’re crapping on it.