Open Season 3

One spring morning, Boog awakens after hibernation and plans an annual guys' trip to spend time with his male best friends. Unfortunately, Elliot has distanced himself from Boog since he had started a family with Giselle. They are now the parents of three children: Gisela, Giselita, and Elvis (with Boog now being the honorary uncle). Boog is disappointed that everyone else wants to spend time with their families, which makes him go on the guys trip by himself with Dinkleman; however, this soon leads him to a Russian traveling circus called the Maslova Family Circus.

While in the circus, Boog meets Doug, a lazy, self-centered, mean, scruffy grizzly bear who is tired of performing in the circus on the sidelines. He craves recognition as a full-fledged king of the forest, the ruler of the wildlife. Hatching a plan, Doug lies to his best friend Alistair that he won't forget his help and convinces Boog to switch his life in the forest for Doug's place at the circus. Boog accepts the offer, but the whole thing turns out to be a scam because all Doug really wanted to do was escape from the circus.

Meanwhile, Boog falls madly in love with Ursa, a female grizzly bear who was born in Russia and can effortlessly walk on a tightrope, juggle, and dance (which Boog finds to be "bearvana"), but has no luck convincing her that he isn't Doug. Ursa dares Boog to prove to her that he isn't Doug by climbing up the high wire. Boog accepts and climbs up the wire, but to his surprise, Ursa reveals that she knew he wasn't Doug the moment he rode the unicycle (which Doug couldn't do). When Boog and Ursa begin working together, they obtain much more as a harmonious duet than it might seem at first glance. Meanwhile, Doug arrives at the forest and disguise himself as Boog by pushing his scruffy fur back with mud.

However, Gisela and Giselita become suspicious when they notice Doug (disguised as Boog) treating the wilds like slaves, so they go to Serge and Deni and request that they find Giselle for help. Afterwards, when Boog's friends learn about Boog's disappearance after Doug's cover is accidentally exposed, they (as well as Mr. Weenie, a reformed Fifi, Roberto, and the other pets) put aside their differences and plan a rescue mission to save Boog. Gisela comes up with a plan to save Boog, and the gang go to the circus to rescue him. That night, the wilds arrive at the Maslova Family Circus. They want Boog to return home, but he does not want to leave Ursa. Suddenly, a reformed Doug arrives, apologizes to Boog for tricking him, and reunites with Alistair. While Doug performs circus acts for the audience, Elliot tells Boog that he can stay at the circus if he wants to. Boog, now torn between his forest friends and Ursa, invites Ursa to come and live in the forest with them, which she accepts.

The next morning, Ursa begins to enjoy her new life in the forest and ultimately becomes Boog's mate and the honorary aunt of Elliot and Giselle's kids. Finally, Boog, Elliot, and their male friends go on their guys' trip and sing part of Willie Nelson's "On the Road Again." In the ending credits, Doug and Alistair reveal a slideshow of themselves enjoying their tour around the world.

The film was animated at Reel FX Creative Studios,[3] which also did animation for Open Season 2 along with Sony Pictures Imageworks. A teaser trailer for the film was released on January 5, 2010, on the Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs DVD.

Like the second and fourth film, Open Season 3 was released theatrically in different countries:[1]

• Russia – October 21, 2010
• Kazakhstan – October 21, 2010
• Mexico – October 29, 2010
• Turkey – December 3, 2010
• Lebanon – December 16, 2010
• United Arab Emirates – December 23, 2010
• Greece – February 24, 2011
• Colombia – March 18, 2011

DVD Verdict gave the film a negative review, saying: "This tiresomely predictable tale exemplifies everything that's wrong about straight-to-DVD animated sequels to big-budget mainstream films: the plot is utterly predictable and rehashes a lot of beats from the original effort, the major voice actors have been replaced by poor substitutes and the quality of the animation has dropped dramatically (most of the visuals are on the level of a video game or one of those cheap CGI Saturday morning TV shows)".[4]

A sequel Open Season: Scared Silly premiered in theaters in Turkey on December 18, 2015, and was released on DVD and Blu-ray in the United States and Canada on March 8, 2016.[5]

• Official website
• Open Season 3 at IMDb
• Open Season 3 at The Big Cartoon DataBase
• Open Season 3 at AllMovie
• Open Season 3 at Rotten Tomatoes
• Open Season 3 at Box Office Mojo