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  Brother Bear (2003)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The bears are realistically depicted, all the animals are their true forms but for the caricature of their funniest features and habits.
The soundtrack for "Tarzan" was inspirational: the soundtrack for "Brother Bear" is varying and lackluster.
"Brother Bear" may have fallen flat on its face without the two distinctly Canadian moose brothers (notice the number of brothers in the film) that are by far the funniest of Disney's recent creations.
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 Brother Bear
"Brother Bear" is the latest in a long string of formulaic manufactured junk that points out the disparity between Disney's "product" and the terrific films from their former partner Pixar.
In reality, "Brother Bear" can't touch the routine but clever quality of the latest direct-to-video Pooh video or even the delightful "The Lion King 1 1/2." Both those films show the creative spark missing from this dud.
Kenai (Joaquin Phoenix) faces a trial by fire after killing a bear in revenge for the death of his oldest brother, he himself is turned into a bear.
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 Brother Bear
The bear kills Sitka (actually he falls to his death, the preferred way for a Disney movie to kill people) and Kenai, in a fit of rage, goes after the bear to return the favor.
He meets a bear cub, Koda (Jeremy Suarez), who knows where this location is. It is near a bear habitat, and along his journey, Kenai learns the value of life and what it's like to see from a bear's point of view.
Ignoring the ending, Brother Bear works as the usual imaginative Disney animated movie, not aspiring to be a masterpiece, but settling for a lower position in the company's line of respected releases.
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 DVD Times - Brother Bear
Brother Bear is the third film to be produced entirely at Walt Disney Pictures' feature animation unit in Orlando, Florida, and judging by Disney management's latest decisions, it is likely to be the last.
When the early trailers for Brother Bear began to emerge, it was passed off as a rip-off of The Lion King, due to the similar theme of animals and a number of shots which looked incredibly similar.
Brother Bear is Disney's second collaboration with Phil Collins, the talented drummer who here lends his voiceless wailings to the film's many musical numbers.
www.dvdtimes.co.uk /content.php?contentid=6213   (1466 words)

  
 brother bear on dvd, brother bear dvd review!
Brother Bear is the story of three human brothers living with their tribe in the Ice Age.
Conceptual and development art for Brother Bear, accompanied by the film's score, is described by art director Robh Ruppel and Byron Howard, the supervising animator of Kenai.
Surprisingly, Brother Bear's DVD is not housed by a cardboard slipcover the way other recent 2-disc Disney releases have been.
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 Lee's Movie Info - Brother Bear Review
With “Brother Bear,” Disney takes a big step down; while the film is moderately entertaining, it fails to display the magic and usual flair Disney is known for.
Brother Bear tells the story of Kenai (voiced by Joaquin Phoenix), a young Native American boy who has two older brothers; when one of his brothers is killed, he seeks revenge on the bear that committed the crime.
In the process, he magically becomes a bear, only to befriend Koda (voiced by Jeremy Suarez), a young bear who has been separated from his mother; this is a friendship Kenai does not expect to have, and he ends up learning some valuable life lessons in the process.
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 Brother Bear
As the glaziers retreat and the ice age draws to an end, the youngest of three brothers Kenai (Phoenix) is desperate to become a man after he receives his totem from the tribe's Sharman.
His two older brothers follow him only to discover that Kenai is taking on a bear that is far too large and powerful for one man. The brothers are drawn into the fight but Sitka (Sweeny) is tragically killed saving his two younger brothers from the advancing bear.
Brother Bear is good, solid Disney entertainment that, while it might not be the most inventive or original movie, does exactly what it set out to do, entertain the kids.
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 Brother Bear Review :: Hollywood.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
His brothers rush to stop him, and the ensuing battle with the bear ends in tragedy: Sitka dies trying to save Kenai, and the grief-stricken younger brother vows to hunt the fleeing animal down in revenge.
Brother Bear's dialogue sounds more preachy and Saturday morning cartoonish, which leaves the voice cast very little to work with--including the Oscar-nominated Joaquin Phoenix as Kenai; Bernie Mac's Jeremy Suarez as little Koda and D.B. Sweeney as Sitka.
Disney's Brother Bear animators use all their handy little tricks to paint a rugged and spectacularly beautiful Pacific Northwest landscape, but Bear ultimately comes off as another commercial Mouse House product made to generate Christmas merchandising bucks.
www.hollywood.com /movies/reviews/movie/1732423   (579 words)

  
 Brother Bear DVD Review
The one remaining human brother Denahi, seeks to track down the bear (who is actually Kenai) that he thinks is responsible for both of his siblings' deaths.
Overall, Brother Bear is a step-up from the more experimental recent efforts from Disney Feature Animation such as the disappointing Atlantis and though it's less certain to please crowds like Lilo & Stitch, it feels more of a return to quality filmmaking from the studio.
In theaters, Brother Bear began presented in a 1.85:1 aspect ratio, and then after 24 minutes, expanded to fill the wider 2.35:1 screen for the rest of the film.
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 SCREEN IT! PARENTAL REVIEW: BROTHER BEAR
DENAHI is Kenai's older brother who sets out to get revenge for what he believes is Kenai's death at the paws of a bear that he now hunts (and in reality is really Kenai).
As Kenai hunts a bear for revenge (for Sitka's death), he hears a noise in the wilderness, but it turns out to be a small animal instead.
The bear is then over him, chases him up a small rock formation and then charges at Kenai who runs for his spear, gets it and is then on the ground with his spear pointing up.
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 Brother Bear film review
When Kenai, the youngest of the brothers, is presented with a totem of a bear symbolising the animal spirit he embodies, he's unhappy.
Not only does he dislike bears, but in their culture the bear represents love and not a more dynamic quality he was hoping for.
When Bear Kenai is told by the tribe's wise woman Tanana (Joan Copeland) that he must go to where the light touches the earth and meet the eagle spirit of his dead brother Sitka, Kenai undertakes a journey on which he teams up with a young bear cub Koda (Jeremy Suarez).
www.tiscali.co.uk /entertainment/film/reviews/brother_bear.html   (611 words)

  
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Disney's Brother Bear seems to aspire to the level of The Lion King, a true masterpiece in the studio's best tradition.
Brother Bear is the story of Kenai (pronounced “Keen Eye”), a native north American Indian boy who is forced to walk in the footsteps of another – in this case another species.
He's hunting down the bear responsible for the death of his brother when he's magically transformed into a bear – and hunted by his other brother.
www.technofile.com /dvds/brother_bear.html   (745 words)

  
 BBC - Films - Brother Bear
There are whisperings that this rites-of-passage animal adventure - boy kills bear, boy becomes bear, bear learns to respect nature - will be one of Disney's last traditionally-animated features.
Brother Bear was drawn in Orlando, but it doesn't even live up to the earlier offerings from the Mouse House's Florida outfit, Mulan and Lilo and Stitch.
Brother Bear is released in UK cinemas on Friday 5th December 2003.
www.bbc.co.uk /films/2003/11/27/brother_bear_2003_review.shtml   (425 words)

  
 Brother Bear Movie review
While "Brother Bear" is a charming, entertaining and occasionally touching movie, it's minor stuff with a story that never quite lives up to its obvious potential.
There's a confrontation between Kenai, still a bear, and his brother Denahi at the climax, but the movie clearly isn't going to end with either of them dead.
For the record, "Brother Bear" was directed by Aaron Blaise and Robert Walker from a screenplay by Tab Murphy, Lorne Cameron, David Hoselton, Steven Bencich and Ron J. Friedman.
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When his oldest brother is killed by a ferocious grizzly, Kenai ignores the village teachings of brotherhood with animals and sets out to hunt the bear for revenge.
There is an intense scene where one of the brothers falls into a raging river, another falls into a crevice, a man chases a bear and they fight on a rock ledge, a bear falls on a spear when she charges a man and we see a bear lying dead on the ground.
In the end, when Kenai (as a bear) has been led to the top of the mountain and is being chased by his brother, then his brother who is dead and now in heaven appears changes Kenai back into a human.
www.cbn.com /entertainment/screen/movie_brother_bear.asp   (989 words)

  
 Brother Bear (2003)
This week, Disney is releasing Brother Bear, a sombre, dull and altogether uninspired animated retread about a self-centered young man who learns how to be a better person after he’s turned into a bear.
When his older brother, Sitka (voiced by D.B. Sweeney) is killed by a bear, an angry Kenai is overcome with a need for vengeance.
He’s befriended by a precocious bear cub named Koda (voice by Jeremy Suarez) and encounters a variety of woodland creatures along the way, all of whom are meant to teach him about tolerance and love (the latter of which is his totem).
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 Brother Bear   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
So in an effort to trade fur for skin (and try to save his hide), Kenai follows Tanana’s direction to find his brother on the “mountain where the light touches the earth.” Joining the expedition is a young bear looking for his mother and two slow-witted moose along for the ride (and some comic relief).
Although at first irritated by bear cub Koda, Kenai (in bear form) spares his life, and later attempts to rescue his brother from falling off a cliff.
Brother Bear is no Lion King or Monsters Inc. It’s more like Jungle Book 2—easily forgotten and bearly worth the time.
www.pluggedinonline.com /movies/movies/a0001547.cfm   (1171 words)

  
 Brother Bear
The bear proves more than he can handle, and his two older brothers come to his rescue.
Kenai vows again to kill the bear, and the spirits change him into one as a way of teaching him a lesson.
Ironically, Denahi believes that the bear, who is actually Kenai, killed Kenai, and now vows to kill the bear.
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 brotherbear
Brother Bear is a perfect example of how 2D animation still can hold its own against 3D animations such as Finding Nemo.
The animations were nicely drawn by Disney as always although Brother Bear is not as colorful as their previous works such as Mulan or Lilo and Stitch.
Regardless of its shortcomings, Brother Bear is a heartwarming tale of brotherhood and loyalty which will appeal to a wide audience.
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 BROTHER BEAR (G): ChildCare Action Project (CAP) Media Analysis Report MAR23112
The story is about three young adult to teenage brothers: mature and most loving Sitka, the eldest (voice of D. Sweeney); somewhat cerebral or at least approaching level-headed Denahi (voice of Jason Raize), the middle son; wild and arrogant Kenai (voice of Joaquin Phoenix), the youngest of the three.
Seeing his brothers in mortal danger, Sitka commits suicide to save his brothers from the bear by causing an ice fall that took him and the bear into the icy waters below.
There was only one sexual innuendo as a bear told an affectionate bear couple to "Get a cave", capitalizing on the increasingly popular expression among our teens, "Get a room (motel room)" said to a pair making out implying a suggestion to satisfy their lust.
www.capalert.com /capreports/brotherbear.htm   (2263 words)

  
 Movie-List - Brother Bear Trailer Page
Set in the Pacific Northwest before the invasion of the white man, this is the story of the youngest son of a chief killed by a bear.
Enraged, the young man sets out to hunt the bear himself when his older brother, the new chief, refuses to form a hunting party right away.
especially when he learns that his brother has finally formed a hunting party, aiming to kill *all* bears to avenge their father's death...
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 LADYDRAGON.COM - Brother Bear
Brother Bear is the latest animated movie from Walt Disney that contains 2 DVD disk.
Brother Bear is the story about a boy named Kenai who is magically transformed into a bear.
Brother Bear is an interesting story where hopefully youngster will learn why they should appriciate wildlife better.
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 Brother Bear
"Brother Bear" will be the last 2-D or cel animated feature cartoon to come out of Disney for a long time.
For "Brother Bear" is a playful movie that celebrates nature and the spirit world with striking imagery and a smooth blend of drama and comedy.
Later that day, when he discovers a bear has made off with his basket of fish, he hunts the grizzly down only to become trapped in the confrontation.
www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/reviews/review_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=2006016   (594 words)

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