Yogi Bear

Yogi Bear (2010)

Life's a pic-a-nic.

A documentary filmmaker travels to Jellystone Park to shoot a project and soon crosses paths with Yogi Bear, his sidekick Boo-Boo, and Ranger Smith.

Date of release
2010-12-17
TMDB
5.6 / 10 (971)
Runtime
1h 20m
Genres
Comedy, Family, Animation, Adventure
Director
Eric Brevig

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Box office: $201.6M
  • Budget: $80M
  • Earned 2.5× its budget
  • Based on: The Yogi Bear Show
  • Filmed in: New Zealand

Yogi Bear is a 2010 American live-action/animated comedy film directed by Eric Brevig and written by Brad Copeland, Joshua Sternin and Jennifer Ventimilia. Based on the animated television series The Yogi Bear Show, the film features the voices of Dan Aykroyd and Justin Timberlake as Yogi Bear and Boo-Boo Bear, and also stars Anna Faris, Tom Cavanagh and T.J. Miller. The film centers on Yogi as he teams up with his best friend Boo-Boo, Ranger Smith, and nature documentary filmmaker Rachel Johnson to stop their home, Jellystone Park, from being logged. Production on the film took place in New Zealand in October 2008.

Production

In October 2008, it was announced that a live-action/animated Yogi Bear film was in the works. Ash Brannon was originally hired to direct the film, but was replaced by Eric Brevig (Journey to the Center of the Earth 3-D) when it was decided that the film would be produced in 3D.

Like many Hanna-Barbera characters, Yogi's personality and mannerisms were based on a popular celebrity of his original cartoon's time. Art Carney's Ed Norton character on The Honeymooners was said to be Yogi's inspiration; his voice mannerisms broadly mimic Carney as Norton, and Carney in turn received influence from Borscht Belt and comedians of vaudeville.

Dan Aykroyd, the voice of Yogi Bear in the film, explained that he was trying to evoke the influences that shaped Daws Butler's original Yogi Bear voice: "It's about hitting certain notes, going back to those old Lower East Side rhythms, the Catskills, Jersey, Upstate New York. It's the Yiddish language, essentially, being spoken in English. It's the 'setup, delivery, punch' that sitcoms live on today.

Justin Timberlake came on to the film with a prepared Boo-Boo Bear voice; when he was learning to sing when he was younger, he imitated various cartoon characters.

Rhythm & Hues Studios (R&H) provided the character animation for Yogi and Boo-Boo Bear and the frog-mouthed turtle in the film; the company had also worked on previous films based on Hanna-Barbera productions, such as The Flintstones (1994) and its prequel Viva Rock Vegas (2000); Scooby-Doo (2002) and its sequel Monsters Unleashed (2004).

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