What did you expect? The Hollywood trades are out with their luke-warm reviews of the live action-CG Yogi Bear feature, which opens this Friday, Dec. 17th.

Justin Chang in Variety (review blocked by a pay-wall) says:

“Neither smarter nor dumber than the average family-friendly comedy, “Yogi Bear” is a bland and innocuous small-fry outing that retains a measure of the original Hanna-Barbera cartoon’s charm, though scarcely enough to justify the time, expense and visual-effects trickery it must have taken to inflate an endearing 2D cartoon into a dopey 3D extravaganza….

“…Aykroyd and Timberlake do fine approximations of their characters’ distinctive cartoon voices and speech patterns; teens and adults in particular can keep themselves amused by imagining Timberlake, in one of his more self-effacing career moves, having to record lines like “I have a problem with baked beans” in Boo Boo’s trademark nasal delivery. By comparison, the not-quite-photorealistic, borderline-alien look of these CGI bears is off-putting, the technological advancements of lifelike fur and detailed eye movements being no match for the clean, expressive lines of hand-drawn animation.”

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Is there enough hate left for a third poster of Yogi Bear?

(via Shockya.com)

The cartoon/hybrid movie I want to see. Written by Eric Kaplan (Futurama) and directed by Matt Danner (Out of Jimmy’s Head, Coconut Fred’s Fruit Salad Island!, Spümcø).

(Thanks, Kali Fontecchio)

And you thought it couldn’t get worse…

I’m not sure what’s more disturbing in this Yogi Bear poster: the grotesquely incompetent artwork or the dirty double entendre tagline. Yogi’s position behind BooBoo and the expressions on their faces don’t help matters.

This looks like ____ ! (fill in the blank in the comments below)!

(Thanks, Paul Dini)

Smarter-than-the-average comments welcome below.