Plot

A documentary filmmaker travels to Jellystone Park to shoot a project and soon crosses paths with Yogi Bear, his sidekick Boo-Boo and Ranger Smith.

Jellystone Park is celebrating its 100th anniversary, however it may be for the last time, because attendance is down and Mayor Brown wants to close the park and sell the land. If the park is closed, Yogi Bear and Boo Boo will lose their home. They join forces with Ranger Smith to save Jellystone from closing forever. Yogi must really prove in this endeavor that he is "smarter than the average bear".—Douglas Young (the-movie-guy)

Head Ranger Smith runs Jellystone natural park neatly -apart from Yogi's stunts- loyally assisted by simpleton trainee ranger Jones, a boy-scout who wants the real work, not just folding maps and cleaning up. Mayor Brown however needs cash to turn over the budget deficit and spoil the voters to run for governor, so he jumps at his sycophantic chef of staff's idea to rezone the park and sell it as farm land. That's possible under city bylaws if the park runs a deficit, as every year before. The rangers and bears, joined by nature documentary maker Rachel, who proves a romantic match for Smith, desperately seek to achieve a budget surplus in the last fiscal week. They rely on the park's centenary to sell season tickets, but the mayor bribes Jones to sabotage the festival and become the new head ranger. Once that's done, only a natural deus-ex-machina which nobody noticed before can save the park.—KGF Vissers

Jellystone Park is celebrating its' 100th anniversary, but it's also threatened with not enough money to keep the park open. Yogi and Boo Boo have to keep out of the way of humans and stop stealing their picnic baskets. The mayor has an idea and who knows what he'll stop at to see it go underway. He's thinking of turning Jellystone into an amusement park. Yogi has to get his head out of food and into the park to save it.—ppouliot-17200

Jellystone Park has been losing business, so greedy Mayor Brown decides to shut it down and sell the land. That means families will no longer be able to experience the natural beauty of the outdoors - and, even worse, Yogi and Boo Boo will be tossed out of the only home they've ever known. Faced with his biggest challenge ever, Yogi must prove that he really is "smarter than the average bear."

The movie opens with a panoramic view of Jellystone park. There are mountains, water, families picknicing. Then we see Yogi Bear (voiced by Dan Aykroyd) and Boo Boo (voiced by Justin Timberlake) as Yogi is preparing to use a contraption to steal a family's picnic basket. The contraption involves a pulley to which Boo Boo attaches Yogi, who then soars down hill and snatches the picnic basket, but it breaks and there's food everywhere, although he manages to eat a chip which he dips in dip in midair.

Ranger Jones (T.J. MIller) then reports to Ranger Smith (Tom Cavanagh), who is the head ranger, that a bear distrubance had been reported. Ranger Smith blows off his subordinate, tells him to go stack some maps. In his office, a documentary producer named Rachel (Anna Faris), requests permission to make a documentary about Yogi bear. Smith pretends not to know whom she is talking about, but Yogi then tries to steal Smith's lunchbox.

Meanwhile, the city in which the park is located is bankrupt. The Mayor (Andrew Daly) speaks with his servile toady, his chief of staff (Nathan Corddry) regarding his idea to sell the park. The go tell Ranger Smith that if the park doesn't get profitable by the end of the week, it will be rezoned agricultural and sold to loggers.

Rachel puts a camera in Boo Boo's bow tie.

Smith and Rachel develop a little romantic thing and come up with an idea to have a fireworks thing to celebrate the park's 100th anniversary. The mayor tells Ranger Jones that if he messes up the celebration, he'll get promoted to head ranger. When he finds out that it took Ranger Smith 12 years to make head ranger, he tells yogi to show off for the park goers.

Suddenly, the park is flooded with visitors on the day of the celebration. And Boo Boo pulls Yogi on water skis from a row boat with a small horsepower engine. Yogi, showing off, loses control and crashes into the fireworks stand in the water which causes all the fireworks to go off, some headed towards the viewers.

Having failed to sell enough season passes from the celebration, the park is sold and the Mayor plans to hold a press conference in the park to celebrate saving the city's budget. Yogi and boo boo have to resort to acting like actual average bears and forage for food, which does not go well.

Rachel and Ranger Smith realize that Yogi's pet turtle was an endangered "frog mouth turtle."

Ranger Jones has a change of heart and helps Ranger Smith, Yogi, Boo Boo, and Rachel as they try to save the day by calling the media's attention to the turtle. After a chase scene, they catch the Mayor on Boo Boo's camera saying damaging things and shove the clip into the mayor's video that he is showing at the press conference.

The park is saved and it lives on happily ever after.