jupiterspecht When Disney does it right, Disney does it right! Country Bears was a breath of fresh air after that flop Pirates of the Caribbean. All star cast, sick music, awesome bears! The plot is so deep as well. Who knew you could learn so much about family from bears! I can't wait for the Country Bear franchise to take off. There are so many potential sequels that I'm sure Disney will cash in on for years to come. I could even see them making a show at Disney World based on Country Bears just like they did with that Pirate crap.Trust me, see this movie! Thank God I'm a Country Bear! SPOILERS: The bears sing.

anthony-rigoni Yeah, I know, forgive that stupid pun I put up on the summary of this review. This movie is nothing but a piece of drugged up grizzly bear s---. Why did this movie bombed the box office? Well, get your hunting rifles ready and find out...First of all, I am appalled by how atrocious the acting is. Do the actors look like they're even trying?! Then, there's the costumes. Jiminy crickets! Those are the worst bear costumes since the Garbage Pail Kids Movie and Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles III. Where'd you get those costumes from, Wal-Mart?! Brad Garret, what are you doing in this terrible excuse of a movie? You were in Everybody Loves Raymond and Finding Nemo! Did you see the look of jealousy on everyone's faces while you were in Everybody Loves Raymond?! Third, the musical numbers. Good grief, the musical numbers are so teeth-grindingly bad that they make Tom and Jerry the Movie look like Yellow Submarine.Whoever came up with an idea about making a pathetic movie based on a park attraction at Disneyland should be fired from not only working, but for breathing. Bottom line: Terrible costumes, terrible musical numbers, bland acting, and generic music are the reasons why you should avoid Country Bears like the Flu!

vchimpanzee Regardless of its faults, I found this to be a fun movie. The music was not necessarily my taste, but it was all well-done.There was a silly plot, and human characters that, with a few exceptions were too moronic to care about. The idiot cops, though, were a lot of fun and I particularly liked Chill Mitchell in what had to be one of his last roles without a wheelchair. Queen Latifah gave a brief but enjoyable performance as a bartender who may have also run the place; too bad she didn't sing too.The actors giving voice to the bears were better than most of the people playing people. True, most of the writing was still silly. Haley Joel Osment did a good job considering the material.I don't really care for Bonnie Raitt or Don Henley as singers, but I realized immediately what was going on when a male bear and female bear sang together and then they showed those two famous people together. The joke about The Eagles was great; I do like some of their music.I didn't recognize Elton John, but someone commented that he looked like Elton John. It turned out to be true, and one of his songs was used too.Jennifer Paige did a good job as a singing waitress and a silly scene reminiscent of "Glee". Not my taste musically, but it was well done. Brian Setzer cam closer to what I like in a duel with Zeb. Ordinarily I don't like rock and roll but I'll make an exception for Brian Setzer.And of course the bears themselves are quite talented. Not quite country, but a lot of what's on so-called country radio isn't. Some of the music was "real country", though.And I really did care about whether the Country Bear Hall would be saved. It's a nice building, in the sense of being historic.I don't recall any offensive content, if you don't mind one use of the F-word or the sound. I do mean the F-word that kids use, not the other one.It's a silly but fun movie.

GrandpaBunche ..is that it contains the indelible sight of Christopher Walken performing "The 1812 Overture" via armpit farts — yes, you read that right — for a captive audience of bipedal, talking redneck bears. And Walken is joined in this bit of lysergic lunacy by no less than Elton John, Bonnie Raitt, Alex Rocco, Willie Nelson (!!!) Wyclef jean and Brian Setzer, so it's simply got one brain-trampling moment after another. Yeah, I know it's a kid's film, but what kids were clamoring to see this? Was it made as a tax write-off? But even with those burning questions in mind, it's certainly a truly bad movie, but I sat through it in a state of greatly amused slack-jawed disbelief, so I say see it. Preferably girded with a couple of sixers of beer.