Hey There, It's Yogi Bear

"Hey There, It's Yogi Bear" was Hanna Barbara's first feature venture to the big screen and along with "A Man Called Flintstone", it's one of their best. Yogi, Bo bo and Ranger Smith haven't changed from the cartoon and this just feels like a regular Yogi Bear cartoon.

Once again Ranger Smith is trying to stop Yogi from stealing Picnic baskets, only he finally grown wise to Yogi's tricks. Poor Yogi just can't win so he give's the ranger an ultimatum, either the "Do not feed the beers signs'" go or Yogi is leaving. So Ranger Smith decides to send Yogi to the San Diego zoo. Yogi tricks another bear, Cornpone into taking his place, so Yogi becomes the masked avenger, stealing all the camper's lunchs. Meanwhile poor Cindy bear, heartbroken over her love Yogi being sent to San Diego, that she gets Ranger Smith to send her off too. But unknown to her she's being sent to St. Louis zoo instead. Then her cage falls off the train it was on and she is captured by some evil circus men who use her as a high wire bear act.

Yogi finds out about this and he and Boo Boo escape from the zoo in search of Cindy. They rescue her from the Zoo, and then end up in New York City, being chased by the police. Leading to a wild climax in a building under construction.

As usual in this kind of film, there are songs. But these are all quite good. There's the title song sung by David Gates, then Cindy's Song, "I Love A Parade", Veni Veno Vene where Yogi's voice sounds suspiciously like James Darren, and my favorite, "Oh What a Wonderful Feeling". They almost all fit in the plot and enhance it as well.

Daws Butler is just wonderful as Yogi and Don Messick does double duty as both Boo Boo and Ranger Smith. Julie Bennett is fine as Cindy. Plus we have Mel Blanc and Hal Smith does a fine job with various voices too.

I saw this at a kiddie matinee when I was 10 and loved it ever since. I still enjoy it, and for all you Yogi fan's out there, give it a chance, you'll love it too.

This a nice film i saw cindy bear singing with the most lovely voice by julie bennet i love it and it warmed up my soul and heart peacefully.

It made me so happy i'm inspired to do music like cindy but with albums to play and instrument and like i like you for me.

Now, I wouldn't exactly say that I hated this animated, feature film that starred Yogi Bear, but, then again, I certainly wouldn't say that I liked it all that much, either.

At 90 minutes in length, I'd say that if a good 30 minutes had been edited from this predictable story no one would have been the wiser. And, besides that - It certainly didn't benefit matters much that 6 truly awful songs were injected into this lame story which, of course, helped to reduce my overall rating of this cartoon by a few extra points.

Released in 1964 - This limited-animation, Hanna-Barbera production, pretty much, just went over the same, old, tired ground of your typical, garden-variety, Yogi Bear cartoon that has ever been made.

The one character who I did like in the story was Mugger, the snickering dog, who was, naturally, given very little screen-time.

On the other hand - The one character who I really disliked here was Cindy Bear (Yogi's whining love-interest) who, unfortunately, was given way too much screen-time.

All-in-all - I'd definitely say that "Hey There, It's Yogi Bear!" was the sort of cartoon whose limited and recycled charm could only appeal to the undemanding expectations of a very young child.

This is a fun, delightful movie for children and adults! The music is amazing. Doug Goodwin, who is one of the major composers of music and lyrics has brought an upbeat, fun and sing along adventure for all of us. We hear Doug's name mentioned for decades in Hanna Barbara, Pink Panther Christmas and Johnny Mathis. I understand that Doug has over 300 songs he has written. In addition to the songs he has written for shows, I have read many of the lyrics and I can hear Tony Bennett, K.D. Lang and so many others bringing his songs to life. He writes from the heart and when we listen to his piano and his words, we connect as humans. For a delightful and warm experience, I encourage you to go to www.andtheniwrote. Click on Doug Goodwin. He has songs to listen to that will make you smile and feel good Watch Hey There it's Yogi Bear and listen to the great music and lyrics! They are exceptional!

For TV Month, I am watching the first ever movie based on an animated TV show! I admit to never having watched the original "Yogi Bear" show. The thing is, I really think I know everything I should as I've seen some spinoffs featuring the character. While not a great film, I enjoyed it enough. The animation is honestly pretty good. Then again, it isn't really much different than the show.

Of course, this was the first movie of its kind. I'm not going to say this show was on the same level as something like "The Flintstones" or "Top Cat". I actually liked the character Cindy Bear and it was kind of a nicely written romance. The pacing was decent and it does have a pretty interesting story. There's really a lot going on. Most of the jokes are good. ***