The Bear
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Movie Reviews of The Bear
Movie Review: Great Movie, Great DVD....
Summary: 5 Stars
How I love this movie! Very touching... Even brings tears to my eyes whenever I see it. A beautiful story about love between two bears and friendship and sympathy between bears and human beings. I think that Jean-Jacques Annaud, the director, should be admired for his excellent job and sincere efforts for years given to this movie. I can't resist commenting that the baby bear is so cute and seemed to be very good at acting(?). I also liked the nature scenes and music played by London Symphony Orchestra.The technical quality is great. I think it's more than 3.5/4.0 described here. The DVD provides some special features including "making of the movie" and two screen formats of regular and 16:9 wide you can choose from. I have 4:3 TV but found the wide version more watchable. If you like this kind of nature movies, I would recommend you to try "Adventures of Milo & Otis". You will love it too.
Movie Review: Nature meets Art...
Summary: 5 Stars
"The Bear" is hands down one of the Best "Critter Movies" ever made. It is easy to see why the Director has won Academy Awards for some of his films. Particularly exceptional is the absence of a narrator, and a miniscule (less then 5 minutes) of Human dialogue, yet the storyline is very clear.
I strongly recommend watching the "Special features" before the Movie, in order to appreciate the full extent to which the Director went to make the Movie as authentic as possible. He even created a "sound stage" for the Animals to record their "voices", as it was impossible to record sound in many of the scenes, without affecting the behavior of the Animals.
Rarely seen behavior is captured, up close, like raiding an actual Beehive in a tree trunk, and mating. The cinematography is suburb and the Movie does not have that amatuerish "home-movie" look of many documentaries.
This Movie is Amazing...!
Movie Review: An Endearing Gem
Summary: 5 Stars
"The Bear" is one of those rare movies that it's hard to imagine anyone disliking. Kids and adults alike will find this film genuinely heartwarming. The dialogue is minimal; the little bear and his surrogate father do most of the "acting" -- and do it very well.One disturbing point about a movie that has been made with such care: the most memorable segment of the musical score, played several times during the movie and throughout the closing credits, is in fact by Tchaikovsky. It's his Barcarolle in G minor, Op. 37, No. 6 ("June" from "The Seasons" suite). Nowhere in the film is Tchaikovsky credited as the composer. Although this musical theft is not illegal -- the piece is in the public domain -- taking credit for someone else's work sits uncomfortably with the movie's message of fair treatment and ethical behavior.
Movie Review: Possibly The Best 'Animal Film' Ever
Summary: 5 Stars
Almost 20 years later, this remains the best of "animal" movies I've ever seen - where there is little dialog and animals dominate the screen. The amazing photography with the bears, the stunning cinematography overall and the great landscape (British Columbia) all make this a visual treat. Even better, it's an interesting story and has remained that with each of the viewings I've had of this film since discovering it in the mid '90s.
It's a solid adventure story, and the little bear in here is lovable. The "bad guys" (the hunters) aren't really all that bad, either. The bears' performances are fascinating, simply amazing. It must have taken incredible patience to film this movie.
Outside of a couple of "damns," there is no profanity and, I would think, is a great film for any age person to see. Highly recommended.
Movie Review: This film IS for children and adults
Summary: 5 Stars
I have to disagree with the reviewer who said this is not a film for young children. My son - now 12 - first watched this on video with me when he was 3 years old and he loved it. It became one of his favourite films. Yes, he did cry (quietly) when he thought the cougar was going to hurt the cub, and we did discuss other sad bits of the film, but it's about real life which children can actually be very good at dealing with. (I will conceed that if I'd had 3 children and been in a cinema this may have been more difficult!)
I have 5 year old twins now and my daughter gets scared watching most children's films because of the scary 'baddies' in them, but I'm not going to start telling all parents to avoid them!
The Bear is a beautiful film - if you're not sure whether your child will like it - watch it yourself first and then decide.