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James Marsden, Thomas Jane, and Piper Perabo star in this wannabe animal attack movie that’s really just an overwrought drama about estranged brothers burying the hatchet. The squabbling between the two men (all the men in the movie, actually) gets pretty tedious, and you have to be prepared to get some cheese sprayed on you as well — Perabo’s character is deaf, and she gets lost in the woods. The writers also pull out the dead father card to get some hefty masculine tears flowing. Gag. Even if the drama doesn’t work, Into the Grizzly Maze could still have been a decent monster movie. But the bear attack sequences are so poorly shot and edited, they elicit more laughter than suspense. Subpar CGI work is the least of the movie’s problems. With Billy Bob Thornton and Scott Glenn.