The Country Bears

2002

Action / Comedy / Family / Music / Musical

7
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 34% · 84 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 34% · 10K ratings
IMDb Rating 4.3/10 10 6519 6.5K

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Plot summary

For Beary Barrington, The Country Bears' young #1 fan, fitting in with his all-too-human family is proving im-paws-ible. When he runs away to find Country Bear Hall and his heroes, he discovers the venue that made them famous is near foreclosure. Beary hightails it over the river and through the woods to get the Bears in the Band back together for an all-out reunion concert to save Country Bear Hall.

Director

Peter Hastings Photo
Peter Hastings

Top cast

Wyclef Jean Photo
Wyclef Jean as Self
Alex Rocco Photo
Alex Rocco as Rip Holland
Christopher Walken Photo
Christopher Walken as Reed Thimple
Daryl Mitchell Photo
Daryl Mitchell as Officer Hamm
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811.94 MB
1280*682
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 28 min
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1.63 GB
1920*1024
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles pt   us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 28 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Spanner-2 3 / 10

Bad

Unfunny adaption of the Disneyland attraction. The film tries to follow the "Blues Brothers" formula of "let's get the band back together" and basicaly bores the audience to death in the process.. For the very young only, anyone else will find themselves looking at their watches a few minutes into the film. GRADE: D-
Reviewed by SuperNoah 4 / 10

Even these actors can't save this film.

As I watched this movie, I couldn't help but think it must have been taken from the Disney Channel. Look at all the Disney standards: taken straight from, and in order to promote, their theme park division; hero feels out of place and quests for self-fulfillment; and random musical numbers totally out-of-place with the film (unlike animated musicals, the music in this movie is, in many cases, supposed to be spontaneously created from whatever's around, but is really overdone; it's hard to willfully suspend that much disbelief.).One GOOD thing about the movie is that most of the cast is well-known (household names like Walken and Osment join veteran voice talents Huss and Root, alongside the familiar faces of Mitchell and Bader); yet even such a strong cast (which also features Brad Garrett from Everybody Loves Raymond) can't rescue a script (and premise) that was doomed from the start. The cops and mom are stereotypes, the dad is an exaggeration, and Dex, who SHOULD be the sanest family member, can't help but fall into Disney's "everyone loves everyone" mode despite his efforts not to. While most of this is allowable to some extent in a movie aimed to kids... this is excessive. I watched it with a group of kids, and most were bored. Seems to me that to really enjoy this movie, one must combine a child's tolerance for saccharine moments with an adult's attention span. Otherwise, it's a below-average movie propped up by strong acting talent and slick animatronics.
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