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Summary: ULTRAMAGICAL!!!! EVEN THE ENDING!!!!
Review: "BROTHER BEAR" IS ULTRAENCHANTING! ULTRAMAGICAL! HAROLD GOULD'S VOICE AS OLD DENAHI ADDED LIFE TO THE STORY. THE STORY OF A BOY WHO BECAME A MAN BY BECOMING A BEAR!!!! THOUGHT PROVOKING!!!! ENDEARING!!!! IT WILL TOUCH YOUR HEART FOREVER!!!! OH, YES!!!!
I ENJOYED THE LITTLE COMIC ENDING AT THE END OF THE CREDITS!!!!
YOU'LL JUST HAVE TO SEE TO ENJOY!!!! BUT ENJOY!!!! WITH ALL YOUR HEART!!!! FOREVER!!!!
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Summary: A Diamond In The Rough
Review: I remember seeing the preview of this film, in of all places, The Disney Store and was immediately anticipating the release of this film. As one in love with nature and animals in particular, I was moved by the substance, textures and moral of this beautiful film. As an artist, I have never been one to subscribe to the "Art of Comparison", but rather the Art of Appreciation. This film stands alone from its Disney predecessors, and postures itself with great nobility. The lesson of the film is beautifully articulated, and the fusion of music and animation is done with seamless precision.To stand in ones shoes as a means of developing an understanding of our differences and likenesses is both profound and moving. As creatures who live and abide in the same dwelling space, it stands to reason that we would not need to do as Kenai. However, the lesson is one of beauty and virtue. I do hope that more people view this film. In doing so, I hope that people are able to see the lesson within the film, the beauty of artistry and develope a more thorough understanding that our differences in culture, beliefs and stature is what makes the world so beautiful. Diversity and stature, whether Bear or Man should be perceived as a virtue and nothing less.
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Summary: ULTRA ENCHANTING DISNEY FOLK LORE!!!!
Review: FROM THE MOMENT YOU ENTER INTO THE REALM OF "BROTHER BEAR", YOU CAN SEE AND FEEL ALL THE MAGICAL SPIRITS SURROUNDING THIS MOST ENCHANTING STORY. SET IN PREHISTORIC TIMES IN THE GREAT MORTHWEST, THE TALE EVOLVES AROUND THREE NOT SO ALWAYS GET ALONG BROTHERS. THE OLDEST IS SITKA (D.B. SWEENEY) WHO IS THE LEADER AND GUIDES THE OTHER TWO. THE NEXT IS DENAHI (JASON RAIZE), THE TROUBLE MAKER TO HIS YOUNGER BROTHER, KENAI (JOAQUIN PHOENIX) WHO LONGS TO BE A MAN! SITKA HAS RECIEVED THE TOTEM "THE EAGLE OF GUIDANCE", DENAHI RECIEVED HIS FOR "WISDOM." AND KENAI HAS JUST RECIEVED "THE BEAR OF LOVE"; ALL TOTEMS WERE GIVEN BY TANANA (JOAN COPELAND), THE NATURE ENTRANTRESS OF THE PEOPLE.
TROUBLE ENSUES WHENS THE FISH BASKET KENAI DID NOT TIE UP WELL IS TRASHED BY A GREAT GRIZZLY BEAR! BEFORE LONG THE THREE BROTHERS ARE AT BATTLE WITH THE GRIZZLY, ENDING TRAGICALLY THE LOSS OF SITKA. DETERMINED TO GET THE BEAR, KENAI GOES AFTER HIM AGAINST DENAHI'S HELP AND TANANA'S PLEA FOR HELP! WHAT HAPPENS NEXT WILL TAKE YOU ON A MAGICAL JOURNEY AS YOU ENTER A TRANSFORMATION OF MAN AND BEAST WHERE YOU ARE TOUCHED BY THE LIVES OF DIFFERENT CREATURES INCLUDING A RASCALLY BLABBERMOUTHED LITTLE WILD BALL OF FUR NAMED KODA (JEREMY SUAREZ) AND TWO DUMB FOUNDED MOOSE RUTT (RICK MORANIS) AND TUKE (DAVE THOMAS) AND MANY OTHER WILD BEAR, SQUIRREL, AND MAMMOTH.
THE MAGIC IS REVEALED AS TWO SEPERATE BEINGS KENAI AND KODA, THROUGH MANY STUGGLES AND DISLIKES, GROW A MUTUAL BOND OF FRIENDSHIP AND LOVE, EVEN AGAINST THE ODDS OF HIS VENGEFUL BROTHER DENAHI WHO WANTS THE BEAR DEAD, NOT KNOWING THAT THE BEAR IS REALLY HIS LITTLE BROTHER KENAI.
IT ISN'T UNTIL THE TRANSFORMATION COMES AGAIN, THAT ALL IS REVEALED! AND THE TOTEM OF "THE BEAR OF LOVE'S" POWER HAS TRUELY SHOWN THAT KENAI HAS BECOME A TRUE MAN! EVEN WHEN HE HAD TO REVEAL TO KODA HOW HE AS A MAN KILLED HIS MOTHER, HE NEVER LOST HIS LOVE! THIS TRUELY ONE OF THE GREATEST DISNEY MASTERPIECE'S OF ALLTIME!!!! I'M SO GLAD I SAW IT!!!! I'M GLAD I OWN IT!!!! IF FIFTY YEARS OLD!!!! THIS IS ONE DISNEY CLASSIC WORTH WAITING FOR!!!! IT FOLLOWS ON THE MAGNITUDE OF "POCAHONTAS" AND "BEAUTY AND THE BEAST!!!!"
"SPECTACULAR!!!! ULTRA ENCHANTING!!!! MAGNIFICENT!!!! SUPERMAGICAL!!!!"
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Summary: It's Amazing, It's Original
Review: Disney has been limping along recently by capitalizing on what they have always done well. However, how many remakes and versions of the same movies can you make? Disney finally smashed through the originality barrier with "Brother Bear," an original story inspired by Inuit legends and myths. The story revolves around Kenai and Koda, a bear and cub. The story is complex, and may lose some viewers the first time around. Kenai kills Koda's mother shortly after his brother dies in an encounter with Koda's mother. However, Kenai's brother, sensing that Kenai has a lesson to learn about life, has Kenai changed into a bear, and then has Kenai meet up with Koda. It takes some time for Kenai to discover that Koda is the cub of the bear he killed, but when he learns the story behind the encounter between himself and the mother bear, he realizes that there are two sides to every story. Incidentally, another review stated that this movie does not contain Christian values. This movie is entertainment, but I think the core lessons, that there are two viewpoints in every encounter, love instead of hate, friendship, forgiveness, and understanding, would all seem to be Christian values to me, at least, Christian values as I understand them. While the movie has a "G" rating, the movie does contain death, as does real life. "The Lion King" also had death. As much as we often do not like to face death, it is a fact of life. The death in this movie is not glorified, nor is it bloody. One of the central points of the movie is that the man and the bear had to completely different viewpoints regarding the encounter, and the lesson that should be learned is that when wild animals act in a certain way, they are completely in character with how they were made. Two additional characters were added to this movie to lighten the serious nature of the topic. Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas voice Rutt and Tuke, a pair of moose, in a reprise of the roles as the McKenzie brothers from the long-defunct SCTV. While not every one of their jokes is funny, they do still provide good comic relief throughout the movie. They also do a commentary track that my daughter and I thought was hilarious, though my wife did not care for it. The extras on this DVD are wonderful. In addition to the Rutt and Tuke commentary, there are funny out takes, interesting deleted scenes, and quite a lot about the music. The video of the Bulgarian women's choir and how the Phil Collins' song was translated into Inuit was fascinating. This movie is a breakthrough for Disney. It is a completely original story. It is a little violent and intense for children under the age of five or six, but older children should be captivated. The movie is a wonderful basis for parental discussions about many of the attributes we would like to pass on to our children. I recommend this movie highly to open minded people who see the art and creativity in this movie.
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Summary: Loved this movie!
Review: I'm 17 and recently seen a lot of disney latest movies and was kind of dissapointed but this movie was different. I loved the story and the caracters. It is a story that has it all. It made me laugh, cry, and in the end warm my heart. I'd recommend everybody to get the DVD or a least see it once. All does bad reviews come form disney haters and people who can't take the time to really analyze a movie. I'd recommend this movie to everyone, even adults. The music in the movie is also great. Do yourself a favor and see this movie. You won't regret it.
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Summary: Hilarious!
Review: I Just Recieved this movie as an Easter present today and I absoulutely loved it.It is so funny and very entertaining you will love this movie.
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Summary: A good movie
Review: Brother Bear could have been an excellent movie if the makers of the film would have come to the point a bit faster. It story build up slow in the beginning but definitely becomes better halfway. A Disney Classic. The story does make us think about certain things in life and has a clear message: we shouldn't judge by the outside appearance. We should try to understand the opposite party by slipping into their skin to be aware of their life and culture - even if that means crawling into the skin of a bear. Fighting it doesn't mean solving it, it only means getting rid of the problem for a certain time. A great way to teach children to understand what life is and can be all about. A good movie!
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Summary: One of the most meaningful movies
Review: Excellent Plot. Teaches a life lesson. Has deep meaning to it. Exceptional scenary and drawings. The best I have ever seen for 30+ years. This movie is probably more for children of age 15 or above... not a kid movie... although they may understand it in a kid's way. [may spoil the movie:] This movie teaches us to look into the difficulties of other people, and to look at things in other people's shoe. Sometimes we look at things in our view and think it is the absolute truth, but we may not know the other half. It may help us treat people with a kinder heart, although, I still feel some companies and people treat me as "money" or treat me as a thing or sucker to grind money out. So there is love... I appreciate that and feel that if it wasn't for love, we probably don't need to exist any more. But what about the bears eating tons of fish? It is still a cruel world out there. There was just Finding Nemo, in which the life of a fish is so precious, and we have this film in which a fish is just a biteful. By the way, I don't like Lion King at all but I like this movie... maybe it is just me.
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Summary: Don't listen to those trashy reviews below!
Review: This movie was a great suprise for me as I was disappointed with several recent Disney pics. I thought this was going to be the same deal because the first 15 minutes were unspectacular and the Tina Turner song didn't belong.
After that, it gets 5 stars.
Don't pay attention to the reviews below giving it only 1 star! Giving this movie only 1 star is like giving Lion King only 2 stars. Those people are just anti-Disney. We all know the type. I played the first half of this where I work and everyone was "captivated". I think I just sold probably 10 copies of the film for Disney because many of my co-workers plan to buy it now.
Listen, I don't care if you buy it or not, just don't go on the opinion that "the Magic somehow left the building" or "it's too scary". Those opinions are in error.
Hats off to Disney for finally putting together a worthy tale full of fun and good music! For that, it get 5 stars!
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Summary: A Pleasant Surprise
Review: I had the opportunity to watch this film with my nephew not too long ago. He got it as a birthday present, and we all watched it together. I know that one reviewer said that Disney should realy tone things down for small children, but I found the brutality in this particular film to be reminiscent of "Bambi," in that it was necessary to really move the story along. Other than that, my own real criticism about Disney films in general at the moment is that the industry itself seems to think that it's the actual "quality" of the animation that makes it necessary to do everything with computers. What Disney tends to neglect sometimes is that the actual dialogue and story has as much to do with the success of a film as the actual look. "The Little Mermaid," for instance, is done entirely by hand, with no computer images at all, and the story is what really makes the film timeless. The character development, the quick-witted responses, and the fact that you can actually feel what's going on with the characters are really just as important, if not more so, than how the final product really looks. This movie was beautiful on so many levels. The animation is brilliant, the dialogue, although sometimes preachy and cliche, is more often creative, intelligent, and can keep audience's interest. The characters are developed so well that you can feel their fears, anticipate their sadness, and you are compelled to really feel all aspects of elation when things go well and everyone is happy and has learned something. The music has a lulling quality which also serves its purpose of really pulling all of your senses to believe the magical realism of what is being portrayed. I personally was impressed! Not a whole lot of Disney animated films can capture my interest, but this one could almost get me believing that the magic and wonder that Disney has built its reputation on, still dwindles in some recesses of their imagination.
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