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Summary: Not the best made film, but I really like it!
Review: I really enjoy watching this movie. I know it sounds crazy, especially to me--since I'm 17, but there is something about this film that I really like. And unlike the main review, I don't think that this is such a horrible film for kids to watch. There's nothing wrong with it. It's full of cute bears who must save three kids (John, Dawn, and Cristy) from the evil Dark Heart. If anything, I think that this film OVER-emphasizes caring (not that that's possible, or even a bad thing :) In this movie, a girl named Christy feels like a loser when she and her friends Dawn and John keep coming in last while racing other kids during summer camp. While twins Dawn and John remain strong with help from the Care Bears, Cristy slips into a depression which leaves her vulnerable to Dark Heart's manipulations. He tricks her into helping him capture the Care Bears, but everything works out in the end when Christy teaches Dark Heart what she finally learned herself about caring for other people. I will never get tired of watching this film, and it's got some really cute songs in it, too, which I love to sing along with!
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Summary: Sweet to watch, Saccharine!
Review: About as saccharine as you can get, the Care Bears Movie 2 is generally a leap above the first flick, with better, more brilliant animation and generally a more colourful pallette being used to bring life to the ultra-cute Care Bears. There are a few embarrassing moments that make the older set roll their eyes (such as the Care Bears encouraging the viewer to 'care' for Kristy) but for some reason I am told that I really got into it at the time. Blehh! The rest of the movie is cute and fluffy, clouds and rainbows, and an adorable beginning sequence where the Care Bears are Care Bear Cubs! Awww! The music is also a standout that is reminiscent of stadium melodic rockers Survivor, especially "The Search is Over". The story is basically a longer version of one of the cartoons from the very popular at the time, tv series. Children on earth are being manipulated out of caring by evil forces (Dark Heart) and its up to the Care Bears to stop them before the whole world is enslaved by these dark powers! It's sweet, its cuddly, its Care Bears, but I like it enough to admit I actually purchased this movie for my collection about eight years ago. The editoral review displayed on this site is ridiculous, nostalgia rules all and nostalgia is telling me this movie rocks!
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Summary: Better then the first one
Review: This movie, although it contradicts with the plot of the first movie, is a cute loveable movie. It starts with the first bear, True Heart, and cousin, Noble Heart, with the rest of the bears and cousins when they are cubs. It goes on to tell the story of three kids at summer camp, one who becomes the best athlete at camp in return for helping Dark Heart, the bad guy, capture all the care bears. The songs are more tolerable in this one then the first, and the movie goes in a better pace then the first one.
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Summary: A Classic '80's Toon!
Review: I had been searching for this film in local stores for a long time and finally found it the other day and bought it! It's still great after all these years! However, I still fail to understand how Dark Heart could almost drown?!!! I mean, he was a sea serpent at the beginning, and his true form seems to be a cloud of evil. But who cares, this is pure '80's sugar and great fun! If you loved the first one, you'll probably love this one just as much.
Three kids at a summer camp are tired of being last in everything. Two of the kids get a visit from the Care Bears, while the third gets a visit from Dark Heart, making a deal to be Camp Champ, but in exchange for what? Classic good vs. Evil. Could Dark Heart be the Devil? The film shows the babyhood of the Care Bears and Care Bear cousins, and seems to cancel out some of the facts from the original movie. In the original, the Bears seemed to be meeting the Cousins for the first time, but in this sequel...er...prequel, they were babies together. And in this second film we see the original Care Bear and Care Bear Cousin, True Heart and Noble Heart who are both mysteriously absent from the original film. Oh well, maybe this is the Care Bears in a parallel dimension. If you watch the films seperately it's fine, but one after the other might confuse you.
Care Bears Movie 2 has a strange narrator by the way. A huge star. No, not a movie star, and not the sun, just a huge star who guides the first Care Bear and Care Bear Cousin, along with the Cubs, to a Care A Lot type place (before they split the cubs up, sending half to Care A Lot and half to the Forrest of Feelings). Who knows where they came from though. The opening is much like the opening to Santa Claus, the Movie, where they are shown their new home, and are led into a new life of watching over the children of the world, making sure they all "care." It's all kinda New Agey now that I think about it, but very cute and great for boosting toy sales. A highlight for me was always the fact that Tenderheart's voice was noneother than whoever it was that voiced Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. This sequel, or prequel I guess, is not quite as good as the original, but almost, and just as entertaining. The villain is not as scary, but pretty darn evil and does some really devil-like, in personality that is, not necessarily appearance. Like the first, this film teaches some great lessons and is pure sweetness and fun. It's great for anyone like me, a 26 year old, straight, male, cartoon lover who enjoys flashbacks to his childhood, or just the average kid who needs something to watch and likes cartoons!
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Summary: One of my childhood favourites....
Review: Firstoff, why on Earth is Leonard Maltin reveiwing this and applying the same standards to it as one would apply to an obvious adult flick. Of course it's saccharine. Of course it's SWEET. It's designed for toddlers and preschoolers and, at best, kids not older than about eight or nine. So what does Maltin do? He reviews it from a 40-something (or however old he is) perspective. Okay. Obviously, if you are an adult and didn't have a childhood (or perhaps drug-filled teenagehood) during the 80s, you won't really come away from this movie with same sense of satisfaction as a five-year-old born in 1982 would (or did!). That doesn't mean, if you don't have kids, they won't like it (then again, kids are more violent than they were, so...)! Basically, this movie feautures some of the BEST animation ever penned for any Care Bears related show, and a wicked soundtrack (...for the Care Bears...). The plot is simple: A young girl named Christy implores a supernatural force named Dark Heart to give her athletic skill. He does, on one condition; that she help destroy his grand nemesis: the Care Bears (collectively). I don't remember much else beyond that, except this movie feautured lots of cool bright colors and made me, at the age of five, want to get up and dance. And that, because of it, until the age of seven or eight, I wanted to travel to Care-A-Lot in a cloud car and help the Care Bears continue their MISSION OF CARING (yeah... it does kinda' sound like a cult, now that I think of it...*grin*). Seriously, if you want to experience (or let your children experience) a truly HAPPY moviethat was a true landmark of the 80s... this is it!
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Summary: Cute
Review: I really enjoy this movie. It brings back so many wonderful memories as a kid. I think it's good for children of the eighty's and new kids, who can't find any thing else great on TV. The Care Bear series really does teach about caring. As corny as that sounds.
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Summary: WASTE OF MONEY!!!!!!!!
Review: If you let your kids watch satanic, evil movies then this is for you! I previewed this movie and will never let my 3 year old watch it! It is full of evil and scary implications!
Why can't the care bear movies and tapes teach love and caring without all the evil! For one thing it starts out with orphaned children. How normal is that in most people's lives! I am not going to explain to my child why these kids parents are gone!
I do not recommend any of these movies or tapes. We love the care bear toys, but for our viewing entertainment, we'll stick to Dora and the Wiggles.
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Summary: A very cute movie
Review: This movie boils down to care for others, everyone is worth something, and do good. That is it. This movie is very cute. I have to admit my litle boy who is 4 was scared by the scary character. However, after he sat through it a time or two, he really enjoyed it and got the idea about caring for others. This is a good movie and I have enjoyed watching it with my children. Enjoy.
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Summary: Great Movie
Review: ... I still love these movies and they really teach kindness is good. Isn't that all we want for our children? Something that teaches them goodness and caring while still entertaining them?
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Summary: Wonderful
Review: What can I say the care bears are still the best way to teach a child morals and how to be nice. They are very lovable bears and this movie was great. I am 22 years old and I still love the care bears. I got my daughter most of the stuff animals and I am working on finishing the collection. She adores them.
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