Brother Bear [DVD]

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The song "Welcome" written by Phil Collins was later used as the theme song for Walt Disney's Parade of Dreams during the Happiest Homecoming on Earth, celebrating the 50th anniversary of Disneyland. The lines, "I don't care that you and Binky found the world's biggest pine cone ever" and "First of all, it's not Binky, it's Bucky, and it wasn't a pine cone, it was a pine nut" said by Kenai ( Joaquin Phoenix) and Koda ( Jeremy Suarez) was an accidental improvisation because Phoenix messed up his line and Suarez corrected it when they were recording.

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In March 2001, Joaquin Phoenix confirmed he was cast in the film, exclaiming, "Oh, but forget the Oscar nomination (for Gladiator). The film was the third and final Disney animated feature produced primarily by the Feature Animation studio at Disney-MGM Studios in Orlando, Florida; the studio was shut down in March 2004, not long after the release of this film in favor of computer-animated features. It was the only animated film to feature this technique, until The Simpsons Movie and Enchanted in 2007.I'll admit a bias: I live in the Yukon Territory, and the story obviously takes place in next-door Alaska (with characters named "Sitka", "Kenai", and "Tanana", it's pretty obvious). Meanwhile, Rutt and Tuke, having had a falling-out, reconcile in front of Koda, prompting him to forgive Kenai. Following the critical and commercial success of The Lion King, Disney chairman and CEO Michael Eisner urged for more animal-centric animated features, and suggested a North American backdrop, taking particular inspiration from an original landscape painting by Albert Bierstadt that he bought. On July 15, 2003, Disney announced that the release date would be moved up by one weekend from its previously scheduled slot of November 7, 2003.

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Phil Collins' music for TARZAN was quite good, but it mostly falls flat here (except maybe for "On My Way"). In 1997, veteran animator Aaron Blaise came on board the project as director because he "wanted to be attached so that [he] could animate bears", [7] and was soon joined by co-director Robert Walker. Yes, there's Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas revisiting their "Bob and Doug Mackenzie" roles as the two moose, but I didn't find them jarring at all. Kenai and his brothers pursue the bear, but a fight ends on top of a glacier, during which Sitka gives his life to save his brothers by dislodging the glacier, although the bear survives the fall.Jeremy Suarez as Koda, a cheeky grizzly bear cub who helps Kenai on his journey to where the Lights Touch the Earth. She said the movie itself was ok, but I could tell she was a little shell-shocked by the sheer intensity of the drama and the violence. Hurst and Byron Howard served as the supervising animators for Kenai in human and bear form respectively. On October 20, 2003, Brother Bear premiered at the New Amsterdam Theatre where fellow attendees included New York Governor George Pataki and cast members Michael Clarke Duncan and Estelle Harris.

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Friedman, Tab Murphy, Thom Enriquez, Kevin Deters (canon), John Puglisi (canon), Tom LaBaff, Kevin Harkey, John Norton, Tim Hodge, Brian Pimental, Stephen J. Because Blaise, Walker, and Williams enjoyed Duncan's vocal performance, Tug, the de facto leader of the bears at the salmon run, was written into the film.Kenneth Turan, reviewing for the Los Angeles Times, complimented "the richness and fluidity of its visuals" and the "satisfying ending", but derided that " Brother Bear has an appeal that can't be denied. We understand that not everyone can donate right now, but if you can afford to contribute, we promise it will be put to good use. They make a deal: Kenai will escort Koda to an annual salmon run and then the cub will lead Kenai to the mountain. In his print review for the Chicago Sun-Times, Ebert wrote the film "doesn't have the zowie factor of The Lion King or Finding Nemo, but is sweet rather than exciting.

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There are some exciting moments when Kenai fights the bear and when Kenai and Koda race through a sulfurous geyser field. On the syndicated television show At the Movies, film critics Roger Ebert and Richard Roeper both gave the film positive reviews.In a post- ice age Alaska, the local tribes believe all creatures are created through the Great Spirits, who are said to appear in the form of an aurora. The performance was then arranged by score co-composers Collins and Mark Mancina, and vocal arranger Eddie Jobson.