The animals gather around a campfire. Elliot tells a scary story about the legend of the Wailing Wampus Werewolf. Boog is the only scared one. Elliot decides to scare the fear out of Boog. With Open Season gone, Shaw has turned into a sightseeing tour guide. When the scare effort goes overboard, Shaw and his clients become convinced of a werewolf. They convince Gordy to reopen Open Season, but only for werewolf.

Open Season is a second tier franchise and this is its Halloween TV movie episode. I like these characters although they are mostly light weight comedy. The franchise fits nicely on the small screen and that probably allowed it to start a TV series. I like the spooky woods and wouldn't mind staying there.

The original movie's budget was $85,000,000.

This movie's budget was about 15.5X less, coming in at $5,500,000.

I was surprised honestly, believing it was way more than that since the movie looks close to the original as far as art style and colors. The animation however is more fastpaced, seemingly rushed.

The story feels like it was dragged out to fit a timeframe, without much a plot to work with.

The characters have been replaced three times. Boog sounds more like Martin Lawrence in this film than the last two, but Elliot sounds way off. Waaayyy off, like a drunk Ashton Kutcher who is obviously trying to make his voice a lot deeper than the original Elliot's. Mr. Weenie's character seems off-kilter, losing his charm and intelligence we saw from the previous films. It feels like he's a different dog, when the last two films, he LOOKED like a different dog. Animators: Stick to one model, please.

I guess this takes place after the first installment, since we do not see Boog's new mate or Elliot's kids.

The only ones who seem pretty much accurate in this film is the porcupine, the skunks and Ian.

Boog is a complete wuss to be the biggest animal in that forest. Seems like a major cashgrab that could've been plotted differently, and stayed true to the original films. Now if Elliot's kids were scared, that would've made lots more sense-considering they are herbivores and young. The fact that we're left to guess they either grew up or was written off of the franchise, assuming this film took place before the 3rd and maybe second film sucks. Usually, we know if a movie is a sequel or a prequel, but the creators gave us no answer for that.

There is a huge secret about the budget for the 2nd and 3rd film. They probably shouldn't of released direct-to-DVD sequels and found ONE formable plot for a potential sequel to hit the theaters. The fact that they went straight to DVD is a clear indication that Sony was after a quick cashgrab, rather than the people. It was sad watching this franchise die when it had some potential..