Open season on unimaginative animated offerings!

Advantages: Billy Connolly!
Disadvantages: Everything else

...'s food dish is totally incapable of surviving the wild without some help. Cue the hilarity and Boog and Elliot try to survive faced with the beginning of the hunting season looming over them. Will the duo forgive and forget and be able to work together? Will they escape the threat of the blood-hungry hunters? Will the other forest animals turn on them? Will Boog be reunited with his beloved Beth?????Oh the questions! Script ******** I wasn't far into this film when I started questioning whether I had seen it before or not. I hadn't, but the formula of animated kids films has now become relatively standard and Open Season was nothing new. The storyline was basic enough for kids to follow easily and there was the added modern day ethical dilemma thrown in for good measure. It was refreshing to see a film, which tackles society...

ally2kc 21.11.2007 · Read review
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Review of Open Season (DVD)

Coffee with fig seasoning!

Advantages: Aromatic and light
Disadvantages: Not for you if you are one of those who like coffee flavored coffee

...Sainsbury's Coffee Viennese Style & Fig Seasoning (227g) Coffee is one thing I cannot buy one bag of even when I have many unopened coffee bags stored in my refrigerator. When I made my order from Sainsburys.com last time, I saw the offer: buy two Sainsbury's 227g coffee bags for £3, and I decided to benefit from it, especially that some of the flavors attracted my attention. Normally, Sainsbury's Coffee Viennese Style & Fig Seasoning can be bought for £1.95 individually. So, I guess even when it's bought without the offer, it's still good value for money. However, if you decide to buy two bags of coffee before 24/03/2009, you will be able to benefit from the offer and save £1. The bag is provided with a metalized tin tie, to help you keep it airtight by simply folding back the side tabs. As is the case with all other kinds...

sottovoce82 09.12.2008 · Read review
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Open Your Heart to Open Season

Advantages: The minor characters are really quite funny
Disadvantages: The plot is formulaic and the main characters aren't as funny as they think they are.

...Relatively overlooked animated films seem to be catching my attention this week. "Open Season" was released in 2006 by Sony Pictures Animation which also brought us "Surf's Up" and "Monster House". In the age of 3D animation mega-films such as Shrek, Ice Age, Monsters Inc, anything by Pixar, these films rather fell by the wayside. My husband and I saw "Open Season" on television on a trip to visit my parents in Canada and were amused enough to actually purchase the film (I think it cost about £1.50 when my husband was buying something he really wanted). While the film is fairly formulaic and clichéd there are one or two bits that we reference regularly in our house, but more on that later on. THE PREMISE The star of the film is a grizzly bear named, Boog (voice by Martin Lawrence) who performs for crowds with his caregiver, Beth...

Mountainlilly 23.06.2009 · Read review
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Review of Open Season (DVD)

A Comedy For All Seasons

Advantages: Brilliant episodes
Disadvantages: NONE

...with one another that generate the laughs rather than the actual content of the episode(s) in question. The Seasonal Specials DVD contains all four episodes from third series of 'The Vicar of Dibley' and follows a potty year in life of the potty parishioners of Dibley. Like previous series', this one is utterly fantastic from beginning to end and provides some iconic Dibley moments that once you have seen them you will never forget. Each of the four episodes tells a different story about the antics of the parishioners and so can be watched as a stand-alone comedy piece. I however would highly recommend that you watch the episodes in the order they were intended as the humour generated by doing so is increased ten-fold. Like I have said early each episode within this series truly is a fantastic piece of comedy in its own right and each...

MI9to5 02.12.2008 · Read review
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Open Season Xbox 360

Advantages: Easy Achievements, Cute characters, Easily finishable
Disadvantages: Bit too dull, No playability

...I have a subscription to love film since otherwise, I would have no money left from all the games i'd buy! I do not know anyone else who has played Open Season, and being a game from a movie, to be honest, I didn't think it would be that good, so I added to to my list and recieved it ready to play! Being a rental, You do not get the box or instructions, so I will not be commenting on those i'm afraid in my review. Story ------- The story in the game follows that of the film. You play as Boog. A domesticated grizzly bear, who accidentally get left in the wild, 3 days before hunting seaon starts! You make friends with Elliott, who is a quirky deer, with only one antler, who along with all the other animals in the forest, help to stop the hunters and return Boog safely home. Levels / Game -------------------- The game as...

chugglebunny 03.07.2008 · Read review
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Review of Open Season (Xbox 360)

One for every season

Advantages: Hilarious, as usual
Disadvantages: None for me

...various locations. Will the villagers be able to prevent these plans? Will Geraldine find the love of her life? Or will she decide to leave Dibley for pastures new? The Vicar of Dibley has been a highly successful, arguably the most successful, sitcom in recent years. This is partly down to a stellar cast and excellent writing, but another point in its favour, I believe, is the way that it has been shown in the form of episodes and specials of different lengths, and shown at different times of the year, so that the audience never really gets the chance to become bored of it. This DVD consists of four specials, of about forty minutes each, one for each season of the year. They are not one-offs though - there is no reason why anyone shouldn't watch them out of order, but they do make more sense in order, particularly the Alice and Hugo story...

sunmeilan 04.12.2008 · Read review
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Review of The Vicar of Dibley - Seasonal Specials DVD

A Food Lovers' Paradise, whatever the Season

Advantages: seasonal recipes, lovely writing style, great pictures
Disadvantages: you still have to do the cooking yourself! perhaps a little expensive

...It was a good day indeed, the day I stumbled across this book. Named the "Best Vegetarian Cookbook in the World", in 2003, by the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. I first came across Paradiso Seasons on a website called Natural Collection (they sell products that are generally ethically sound (e.g., organically produced, fair-trade etc)), and was intrigued by the concept- a cookbook arranged not by meal type or ingredient, but by season- I had to buy it. It's no longer available there, unfortunately but is available from Amazon for the princely sum of £23.75 or, alternatively from the Cafe Paradiso website for ?39.00- a tad expensive perhaps, but it is a hardcover, and in my mind, well worth it for the amount of enjoyment I have had not just from preparing and eating the recipes, but just reading the book. Cafe Paradiso is...

Popalee 03.12.2007 (12.11.2007) · Read review
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Review of Paradiso Seasons - Denis Cotter

"Another season, another reason?."

Advantages: "....for making Whoopee."
Disadvantages: None

...Although I don't know what whoopee is exactly, I do know that I'm all for making it. My thanks to the lyricist Gus Kahn for reminding me of this delightful pastime, whatever it may be, and even greater gratitude to him for implying that every season provides a reason for indulging in it. I'll second that emotion, as another lyricist once said. Recently, I wrote a review in which, for want of anything more persuasive on which to base my argument, I analysed the dates on which Ciao members had posted both "happy" and "sad" reviews. This was done in a desperate attempt to prove that people do not necessarily turn gloomy as autumn darkens towards winter. Autumn being one of my favourite seasons, I didn't want to believe ill of it. And, with only a little statistical sleight of hand, that's what the numbers showed. "Maybe you should...

torr 23.09.2004 (29.09.2007) · Read review
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Review of My Favourite Season of the Year

A Man For All Seasons

Advantages: Great Film! Very close to the play itself.
Disadvantages: Little Publicity...

...A Man for All Seasons is a play by Robert Bolt showing the rise and fall of its main character, Sir Thomas More. Set in 16th century England, the play exposes many similarities between its era and ours. There are of course differences, with its strong theme of social hierarchy and the immense power harnessed by the reigning monarch, King Henry VIII. While there are still elements of these in Britain they are certainly far from apparent today. The social hierarchy is shown mainly through garments; the colour of the garment shows their position. Henry always wears gold and Wolsey always wears red etc. There are many strong themes in A Man for All Seasons one of the strongest being corruption. A Man for All Seasons focuses as much on the fall of Sir Thomas More as it does on the rising of Richard Rich. In the first act, scene eight...

danbishop123 09.10.2004 (13.10.2004) · Read review
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Review of A Man For All Seasons (DVD)

●My Seasons Poems●

Advantages: They're quite good, I think!
Disadvantages: You might not think they're good!

...I was trying to think of something to do a review on, and came across ?seasonal words? section in the Ciao Café. So, I challenged myself to write one or two poems on the seasons of the year. I?m not good at writing poems, but these are what I came up with. Hope you enjoy! ●WINTER● Winter time is full of snow, Falling from the sky to the floor, Fancy flakes of different patterns, In the winter time when Christmas happens, Presents piled up under the tree, Some for you and some for me, Pull some crackers; get a joke, hat and toy, Winter time is full of joy, Children playing in the snow filled carpet, They get so excited, they can?t help it, Having fun sledding down the hills, You have to wrap up warm else you?ll feel the chills, Of the cold winter wind, As it blows on your cheeks, Making...

JulyBunny 21.02.2005 · Read review
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