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edited July 2010 in Lights, Camera, Action!
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He's certainly smarter than the average bear, but he's always been flatter than one, too.

That's changing this December when Yogi Bear makes the leap from 2D TV cartoon to 3D live-action movie. Like "Scooby-Doo" and "Alvin and the Chipmunks" before it, "Yogi Bear" will have human actors sharing the screen with computer-animated versions of the animal characters. But what is different in this flick is the big names lending their voices to the CGI stars: Dan Aykroyd as Yogi, and Justin Timberlake as his buddy, Boo Boo.
See the trailer for 'Yogi Bear' >>

In the just-released trailer for the movie, you can hear that Aykroyd does a note-perfect version of Yogi Bear's deep, New York-accented voice that was originally inspired by Art Carney's character on "The Honeymooners." And Timberlake's voice is unrecognizably high-pitched and nasally as Boo Boo. It's a stretch from his turn in "Shrek the Third," where his vocal performance as Artie sounded pretty much like himself.

The characters retain the basic look of their animated counterparts. Yogi sports his green hat and necktie, and Boo Boo wears his traditional purple bowtie. (The reason Hanna-Barbara characters all had collars was so that animators would only have to redraw the head without moving the body, saving both time and money).

"Yogi Bear" hits movie screens in 3D on December 17.

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