If you thought that the brilliant Twitter campaign launched by Tim Heidecker and Neil Hamburger was a masterpiece of destroying what looks to be a terrible film, then make some more room in your Louvre because animator Edmund Earle has put together an alternate ending to the live action Yogi Bear film, which opens this Friday. Starring that guy from the TV show Ed and Anna Faris’ fine self and featuring the voices of Dan Aykroyd as the titular picnic basket thief and Justin Timberlake as his furry twink Boo Boo, this movie is 20 years too late and should only be viewed by death row inmates. However, Earle’s contribution – that he claims he put together with his coworker in their spare time and inspired by The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford in the 21st and a Half Century – is almost enough to make me want to watch it if I knew that this was the real ending.

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Opening this weekend (trailers after the jump):

The Kingdom – Peter Berg.  It looks like a hard-boiled shoot-em-up about middle east politics.  But Jamie Foxx is in it, and he needs a bigger head like Jerry Bruckheimer needs more child porn.  Your call. 

Feast of Love - Robert Benton.  It’s got Morgan Freeman, Greg Kinnear, and Radha Mitchell. It looks like someone tried to remake Love Actually. My hatred for Love Actually burns with the heat of a thousand suns.

The Game Plan – Andy Fickman.  The Rock does Kindergarten Cop.  If you even considered seeing this, you have more pressing concerns than my opinion, like adult diapers that fit and remembering to blink. But if you must go, figuring out the race of the little girl could be a fun game.  Because how can you judge someone until you know what race they are?

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford - Andrew Dominik.  This was in limited release last weekend, but it should be in a theatre near you by now.  Unless you live someplace shitty, like Riverside. I’ve always said that Brad Pitt would make a convincing cowboy, because he has big cracked lips.  They tickle my neck sometimes, it makes me giggle and I have to pull away.  But yeah, I’d bone this movie.