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Summary: Ends before it really begins
Review: Let me start by saying that this movie would be great for a 5 year old. Its heartwarming, funny, and it has a good lesson. The problem, besides the fact that the plot isn't original at all, is that it feels like it finishes right after it starts. He turns into a bear. He meets a little cub, finds friendship, and realizes how killing bears affects the other bears. He reaches his destination (not gunna give anything away). Nothing happens in between. There are no adventures during their quest, nothing happens besides the main story. When it ended, I couldn't believe it had been more than twenty minutes. If that doesn't bother you, go ahead.
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Summary: Anglophied Disney Dribble
Review: At least Disney is looking into different sources of inspiration. So, I reluctantly give this 1 star. Only because it is loosely based on the beliefs of native people from the Pacific North West. I'm not surprised that many of the reviewers below missed this. You certainly couldn't tell from the music, the art work or the dialogue. The whole movie is focused on marketing potential rather than telling a story. Don't get me wrong I realize that Disney is a business, but do they have completely sacrifice all of their artistic integrity? The music is trying too hard to have the next hit single rather than add to the story. Other reviews compared this to the Lion King. That is laughable at least the music and art work in that was some what African influenced (even if it was watered down). I can not understand why Disney is obsessed with removing all of the cultural aspects of the stories they borrow! It is really disrespectful and insulting to the people the stories belong to! It's as if Disney has the same formula for animated movies regardless of whether or not it fits the story. Maybe this is why PIXAR parted ways with Disney.
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Summary: New Disney Film, Same Taste and Style
Review: The movie is new but the taste and style is the same. What does this mean? It means disney is still relaying on the same type directing to bring in its film productions. The singing, the happy ending, good morals, so so.
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Summary: The Lion King of the 2000's
Review: Brother Bear is a very good family movie with alot of heart, soul, and humor. I am a teenager and I like this movie as much as i like the lion king.
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Summary: Totally My Opinion
Review: This is totally my opinion and it doesn't matter if you think the review is helpful or not.The movie has nice pictures, but I think its missing all the rest. The music is the kind of music where you wanna keep it down from letting your neighbors hear, cause it sounds lame and "gay" in guy terms. You know I'm hating, the music is alright, I'm just asking too much. The movie plot, if you've seen alot of animation films like me, are just too original. Disney just sticks to what works best, never really changing until something fails. They should think about that when they made "Princess Diary". The movie is way too predictable, it was never, ever unpredictable. It might surprise amauteurish movie watchers but people who have been analyzing films for years, you get the drill. I predicted the whole movie before it even started! Whats worst, 85% of my predictions came true as if they took the ideas straight from my crooked mind. The characters are just too NOT "original". If you watch past disney animated films and then watch this, you'll see the difference is veryyyyyy littttttleee. What I'm asking directors to do is stop simply making films just to get money! They need to be ALOT more creative and make films because they LOVE to. Why do you think most sequels suck? Because they know if you watch the first you'll be back for the second, so in a way the sequel is just to keep the money rolling and a way for them to take a break AND keep the impatient viewers that wanna see the second episode happy so they wont leave. Think about it. The world is tricky.
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Summary: Kenai's hard learned lesson...
Review: Three Inuit brothers, Sitka, Denami, and Kenai, are about to attend Kenai's manhood ritual where he will learn his totem. Kenai is an impulsive and adventurous young man who feels insulted as he learns that his totem to live by is love. When Kenai later finds out that a bear has taken their basket with salmon he sets out to get the basket back, however his two older brothers follow him. Kenai's brother Sitka ends up getting killed as he saves the two other brothers, which awakens anger with Kenai who sets out to seek his revenge on the bear. Kenai ends up killing the bear, but in the process is turned into a bear through earthly magic. Brother Bear carries valuable lessons about several themes such as love, anger, and friendship. The story also portrays a scenario of loss and the anger that follows loss, which many of us call revenge. The story details a moral message that revenge is also harmful to others who are not involved in the matter. Kenai turning to a bear teaches the lesson from the opposite perspective, which will hopefully open up doors the for the audience to ponder the issue at hand. In addition, there are several comical situations that offer belly-aching laughter which reduces the sadness that the theme carries. This leaves the audience with a decent cinematic experience that both entertains and enlightens the viewers.
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Summary: hm.
Review: Great Walt would rotate in his box, if he saw that movie.
The music sounds exactly like >Tarzan< (same composer and song performer), the animation is'nt smooth or anything and the backgrounds are - except a few - just there for the reason. All characters look like a very poor and over-cleaned copy of >Lilo & Stitch<, which try to crawl through the boring >typical-Disney<-plot with all these jokes and dialogs seen so many times before. --> a hopeless try of Disney to get back to the roots but the mouse guys seem to have forgotten, what made Disney the most popular animation picture company in the world - the will to try out something new and special - to experiment with new types of art and plot (like >Les Triplettes de Belleville< for example) ...
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Summary: Amusing little film your kid will love
Review: This movie gets my stamp of approval because it held my two year old's interest for the entire running time. The story is about three Indian brothers who are very close. One of the brothers indirectly causes the death of another because of his foolishness, then somehow gets turned into a bear. The third brother is now trying to kill the bear (really his brother) he holds responsible for killing his brother. This sounds kind of confusing, but it is clear in the movie. The mystical aspects of the Indian culture are foolish, but not anymore than the special effects in Aladdin or Toy Story. The animation is traditional which makes this movie look dated, but it is quite humorous, especially when the MacKenzie brothers make an appearance (Dave Thomas and Rick Moranis) as a couple of horses. This part saves the movie for the parents. This movie will definitely be one your kid wants to watch over and over and over and over and you will get your money's worth if you buy it.
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Summary: Wish I could give Brother Bear 20 stars! Excellent movie!!!
Review: We saw this movie 5 times at the theater and countless times on DVD and still our whole family LOVES it!!!!!!! This is a Lion King style movie...The sound track is fantastic! The visuals are stunningly beautiful! The story is great with a wonderful message for people of all ages! A lot more young kid friendly than Nemo. My 3 year old daughter hated Finding Nemo because it went from one terrifying, violent moment to another, but Brother Bear she loves. While it has some scary violence in it, those moments are broken up with comic relief, songs and meaningful story progression. Like Lion King and Finding Nemo, the topic of death plays a role, but in the end, it is shown that those loved ones who were lost are still forever watching over the ones they left behind. This is a wonderful story of forgiveness, tolerance of those different than you and the importance of taking responsibility for those you have hurt and working to heal. This is what a Disney movie should be!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Summary: Great Movie!
Review: I bought the DVD, it was great! I totally understand the theme, and it does fit in along in the movie. But...there are some parts when it suddenly skips over...that I can only rate this a 4 star, but hey, it's still worth it!
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