Open Season: Scared Silly (2015)

Elliot, Boog and all of the beloved woodland creatures are back in a brand new comedy adventure.

Director:

David Feiss

Writers:

Carlos Kotkin, John B. Carls (based on original characters created by) (as John Carls)

Stars:

Donny Lucas, Will Townsend, Melissa Sturm

5 nominations.

Cast

Credited cast:
Donny Lucas	...	Boog (voice) (as Donny James Lucas)
Will Townsend	...	Elliot / Mr. Weenie (voice)
Melissa Sturm	...	Giselle (voice)
Trevor Devall	...	Shaw / Werewolf / Deputy #1 (voice)
Garry Chalk	...	Ed (voice)
Brian Drummond	...	Ian / Reilly / Tree-Hugger Man (voice)
Kathleen Barr	...	Edna / Bobbie / Tree-Hugger Lady (voice)
Lee Tockar	...	McSquizzy / Buddy / Deputy #2 (voice)
Shannon Chan-Kent	...	Rosie / Marcia (voice)
Michelle Murdocca	...	Maria (voice)
Lorne Cardinal	...	Sheriff Gordy (voice)
Peter Kelamis	...	Serge (voice)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Maruti Garikiparthi	...	(as Maruti Gariki)

Storyline

OPEN SEASON: SCARED SILLY opens with Elliot telling a campfire story about the legend of the Wailing Wampus Werewolf that lives in Timberline National Forest. Domesticated Boog is terrified by the story and decides to "chicken out" of their annual summer camping trip until he knows the werewolf is gone. Determined to help Boog overcome his fears, Elliot and their woodland friends band together to scare the fear out of Boog and uncover the mystery of the Wailing Wampus Werewolf.

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Plot Keywords:

nightmare | bear | deer | skunk | tubi tv | 

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Taglines:

Elliot is on an adventure to take the Boo out of Boog!

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Genres:

Animation | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Horror

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG for rude humor and some action

Did You Know?

Trivia

On the side of the poutine shack you can briefly see headshots of Jim Carrey, Lorne Greene and William Shatner.

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Goofs

When Elliot finds Werewolf droppings he sees a ring covering it he throws the metal detector but it pushes the ring out of the way with it.

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Connections

References Wheel of Fortune (1983)

User Reviews

Close the season already.

Sigh, another day, another Open Season sequel. That also means another day that Sony opens up it's wallet, throws whatever small amount of money they can in other studio's faces and tells them "Go make an Open Season sequel but with less of the good humour. Oh and none of the actors from the other films."

At this point though, Sony must have honestly given up.

Too content with making really huge blockbusters *coughcoughStinkers*, they decided the baton must be passed to the Canadians. And thus nearly all of the production was done in Canada, the animation (done by Rainmaker Entertainment, same ones who did Reboot back in the Mainframe days and Ratchet & Clank), the voice acting (who actually do a much better job then anyone in the 3rd film though it's nothing to run home and shout about), maybe even the writing was done by Canadians.

Too bad then that ever since the 3rd sequel, the franchise has ditched the word "Funny" and decided a bunch of measly Christmas cracker jokes would do instead... oh and poop jokes too, lots of em. Therefore you probably won't be laughing at anything these critters say but you'll instead be thinking "How the devil are Sony still making these?".

And the plot's a load of codswallop too, the whole film is basically Elliot trying to scare the living daylights out of Boog.

Yeah, would have worked as an 8 minute cartoon, a 10 minute episode of a show or even a 22 minute TV special. But as an 87 minute film, paah ha ha ha ha you're having a laugh there chums! There's only so much they can do with this kind of material and by the time the mystery of whatever that Werewolf Elliot keeps talking about is finally revealed, the only thing you'll be doing is checking your watch.

So yeah Open Season: Scared Silly. Not as bad as the other films I've seen so far (hence why it gets the 3 rating) but still Sony, this season has gone on far enough and little old me says it's time to close it for good and let the animals have peace for once.

Then again, Sony's probably not caring since they're rolling around in money like Scrooge McDuck. Beats me.

Details

Official Sites:

Official Website

Country:

USA Canada

Language:

English

Release Date:

8 March 2016 (USA)

Also Known As:

Open Season 4

Box Office

Budget:

$5,500,000 (estimated)

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$1,774,429

Company Credits

Production Co:

Rainmaker Entertainment, Sony Pictures Animation

Technical Specs

Runtime:

84 min

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1 / (high definition)