Thinking of Seeing Yogi Bear 3D With Your Kids? Think Twice

If I had it to do over again, I might have pleaded with my kids to wait until Yogi Bear 3D became available for rental.That way at least I wouldn’t have had to sit through it.

But I figured, we’re all on vacation, they really want to see it, so why not?

Well, I can now come up with any number of bad movie, horrible plot, bad acting, worse writing reasons why not.

I’d been spoiled by four top notch kids’ movies this year: Toy Story 3, Despicable Me, Megamind and Tangled were surprisingly entertaining (I tend to go into kid movies with extremely low expectations). 

Yet, there’s no denying, the kids just loved Yogi Bear. They laughed the whole way through — at all the bad jokes, crude humor and slapstick — and have been talking about it ever since.

They’d been brushing up on Hanna-Barbera’s “Yogi Bear & Friends” ever since they started seeing promos for the movie.

Plus, my son has a personal connection. I’ve been calling him boo boo ever since he was a baby. So he’s been wanting to get to know the lovable little bear I nicknamed him after.

As for me, I got two work calls during the movie and I was wishing for more so I could duck out for just a few more minutes. Truly, it was painful to watch.

To recover, I think I’ll try to get the movie out of my mind and watch some of those old H-B reruns so I can continue to have good feelings about what was at one time one of my favorite cartoons.