Eric Stevenson I guess I'm right in the middle for this one, because it seems to at least represent the Care Bears franchise well. I think I may have been a fan of this when I was really little, but I've mostly just forgotten about it. I'll give the series credit for being better than something like Barney. It does have more of a plot and characters. I actually found the animation in this to be pretty good. It does seem to vary in some areas. It's like different animators worked on it. So this movie's plot is that a guy named Mr. Cherrywood is telling the story about how a kid named Nicolaus found an evil magic book and became good with help from the Care Bears.Yeah, it's pretty dopey, but if you do have little kids who are fans of the series, then honestly, I think you can probably show it to them. It's just nothing too memorable. It does get rather silly at the end when Nicolaus has this evil voice. It did entertain me with how it was trying to be serious with this silly design. The plot's pretty dumb. It features one of the kids being given a key he has to keep safe. In the end, the villain destroys it...only for another key to be easily made. Uh, what was the point of that? This introduces the Care Bear cousins which at least expands onto the mythology a bit. **

Veronika Vykoukalova When I was a small kid, this was one of my favourite movies - one of those I watched every time I was forced to be at home because I was ill, and believe me, it was something that happened to me quite a lot.First of all, I always watched only the Czech dubbed version of this movie, and since in my opinion those voices were masterfully chosen, it definitely added on the magic that is The Care Bears. That being said, maybe one of the reasons why I still like this movie is that there had been no madness with the same name, as some other reviewers say. True, the movie may seem as overly naive and even stupid to us nowadays, since we are used to see tons of blood and violence at every second step in absolutely everything, so this movie, focused on feelings, compassion and friendship is somehow alien to us.All in all, maybe it really is just naivety on my side, but I really can't imagine not watching this movie, once I've seen it for the very first time.

fire_n_ice01689 I was a massive fan of this movie as a child, and a VHS copy of it has graced our living room shelf as long as I can remember. I definitely plan to add a DVD copy to my collection when I have kids.. it's cheerful brand of moral teachings is something that kids these days seem to be missing out on.. the new episodes and movies just aren't as good! I actually pulled my copy out the other day when I was sorting through my childhood videos and books... and watched it. I've always been a great lover of Nelvana animations, but to my horror, I found an error! When the evil spirit is attacking Kim and Jason at the bottom of the cliff, and friend and secret bear are using the stare to hold him off... the others stare from around the corner on the boat, and as the boat comes into view, who should be at the helm of the boat? why Tenderheart should! but he isn't... friend bear is! despite not even being on the boat, but on the cliff face with secret bear. Major oops! I was amazed I'd never noticed it before.

tfrizzell The popular stuffed animals that dominated the toy market in the mid-1980s got the royal treatment with this pleasant, but forgettable animated feature that was basically only used as an elaborate marketing ploy to sell more of the product. "The Care Bears Movie" has our heroes becoming friends with some Earth children and spreading their good cheer to all around. That is about it for this sugar-coated cartoon. Youngsters of the time period dragged their parents to the theaters and the film made just enough of a dent at the box office to warrant multiple sequels. As we all know the 1980s was the junkyard decade of the American cinema and this production just blends in with the other wastes of the time. 2.5 out of 5 stars.