Open Season

Open Season would be far from the first animated film tackling the subject of domesticated animals returning to the wild, and if the recent spate of assembly-line animated movies are anything to go by, hardly the last. The film is a funny, yet repetitive romp through the wild, and a promising debut from Sony's newly setup animation division.

See, the problem I have is not actually with the movie at all. Directly, no. Remember Lion King? Remember Toy Story? Those were important, watershed films that were crafted with wit, warm humor, genuine emotion and, most importantly, love fo....