Yogi always was “smarter than the average bear.” But parents and grandparents dragging tykes along to the 3-D, big-screen “Yogi Bear” will probably remember him as funnier than the average bear, too. Or funnier than this.

A computer animated Yogi and Boo Boo inhabit a real-world Jellystone Park with the unfunny Tom Cavanagh as Ranger Smith and nothing-funny-to-play Anna Faris as the ranger’s love interest.

The 3-D in this film from the director of “Journey to the Center of the Earth” (Eric Brevig) is used to hurl soft drinks, water skis and the contents of various pic-a-nic baskets into the viewer’s lap. Brilliant.

And Yogi and Boo Boo? They’re passably voiced by Dan Aykroyd and Justin Timberlake, two actors given virtually no amusing lines in the multiwriter script (a “Wild Hogs” alumnus among them). “Pic-a-nic baskets may be delicious on the lips, but they’re a lifetime on the hips” is what passes for a zinger, here. Yogi-Aykroyd can proclaim, “My melon is full-a smart juice,” but anybody over age 4 is going to think, “And?”

With Cavanagh, an actor going for the indoor record for most TV series canceled underneath him, as the bears’ foil, you know this isn’t going to sink or swim based on charm, charisma or dazzling repartee between him and digital bears. Kid-friendly sight-gags and slapstick must carry the day — Yogi waterskiing, Yogi and Boo Boo flying a basket-snatching glider, Yogi building assorted other basket-catapulting devices. There’s not a laugh in the lot.

YOGI BEAR

Cast: The voices of Dan Aykroyd and Justin Timberlake, with Tom Cavanagh and Anna Faris.

Director: Eric Brevig

Rated: PG (for some mild rude humor)

Running time: 1 hour, 15 minutes

Photo by TMS