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I never imagined I would be able to not only endure, but even enjoy, the combined presence of Martin Lawrence and Ashton Kutcher. All it took was stripping them of everything but their voices. Other than the verbal riffing of its two stars – Lawrence provides the voice of a grizzly bear who has been raised by a park ranger in pet-like comfort, while Kutcher voices a mule deer who helps him adjust to life in the woods – this computer-animated comedy doesn’t have much to offer. There are some good, off-the-wall gags here and there, but mostly this is yet another anthropomorphic animal adventure about domesticated creatures trying to make it in Madagascar/The Wild/Over the Hedge.

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