Of course, the entertainment value of the commentary, like Strange Brew, is totally subject to taste. Disney Television Animation was set to produce a television series titled Brother Bear: The Series for Disney Channel. Genre: Action-Adventure, Animation, Family, Fantasy. And well, Disc 1 of course is heavily cropped and the film's nice compositions are wrecked. It's like they recycled a bunch of Disney stories and threw them together and made this. While riding on mammoths, Rutt and Tuke play "I spy," but can only spot trees on the desolate landscape. It would have been nice to have this character commentary on the properly-framed disc. The moose Rutt and Tuke are voiced by Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas, the same actors who played the MacKenzie Brothers (two self-professed beer enthusiasts) in their shows and movie Strange Brew (1983). It's called The Bears. The Sing Along Song of "On My Way" (4:02) of course presents the musical segment of the film (in 1.66:1 non-windowboxed anamorphic widescreen) with the lyrics on screen. [6] 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. Rutt and Tuke are . : Why Disney Channel turned down Brother Bear: The Series", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Brother_Bear&oldid=1142673273, Best Performance in a Voice-Over Role - Young Actor, This page was last edited on 3 March 2023, at 19:40. The Mackenzie Brothers were a regular skit on SCTV. There are two options to choose from "Brother Bear Games." DVD Details The film's creators have sought to create a distinct and illuminating order to the world of wildlife, a mood that worked in The Lion King as supporting the story, but never felt forced or preachy. google_ad_format = "300x250_as"; WesternAnimati. It was getting really late and I have to get up at 5 am. Disney's Brother Bear games were released in November 2003 for Game Boy Advance, PC and mobile phones. This warms the moosettes to the pair, though Rutt ruins the plan by nervously breaking into verse. While Brother Bear is obviously not quite on par with Classic Disney movies like Beauty and the Beast or . As one of just three Disney animated classics debuting on DVD in 2004, Brother Bear should be near the top of your list of sets to buy. Unfortunately, there is no section containing trailers for Brother Bear, even though a few different previews for the film appear on other discs, including The Lion King and Treasure Planet. Tukes name could be based on a toque, a Canadian name for a hat. The one remaining human brother Denahi, seeks to track down the bear (who is actually Kenai) that he thinks is responsible for both of his siblings' deaths. Thus Rutt and Tuke sound quite a bit like Bob and Doug, but they aren't. google_color_link = "FF6600"; Later, after losing Kenai, Rutt and Tuke get into an incident with the mammoths in which Rutt loses an antler. Disc 1 also contains Rutt & Tuke's audio commentary (reviewed with other Bonus Features) below. Every spread has one or two bold and bright colours. Kenai is excited to be receiving his totem from tribe elder Tanana, but when he winds up with the "Bear of Love" as his symbol he is disappointed. I am wondering if there has been any info about other titles. 1.66:1 Anamorphic Widescreen (reformatted) Has anyone listened to "our" commentary on Brother Bear? By Cory Gross on Fri, . Brother Bear | IMDb Cat a Cupcake If You Give a Dog a Donut If You Give a Moose a Muffin If You Give a Mouse a Cookie If You Give a Pig a Party Elmer's Friends - David McKee 2013-03-07 This charming book of colours for very young children features all the colours of the much-loved patchwork elephant Elmer. raves Clay Smith of Access Hollywood. The Disc 1 presentation of Brother Bear is reformatted, but oddly enough it is reformatted in a 1.66:1 anamorphic widescreen transfer. The most substantial extra of the entire set is "Paths of Discovery: The Making of Brother Bear", a 45-minute documentary. 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. Let's face it, if you had an older brother, they probably did something like this. Conceptual and development art for Brother Bear, accompanied by the film's score, is described by art director Robh Ruppel and Byron Howard, the supervising animator of Kenai. [16] However, Collins explained, "Slowly, the bad news started to trickle down that I wouldn't be singing it all. Brother Bear Quotes Kenai sacrifices himself for Koda, out of love, prompting Sitka to appear and turn him back into a human, much to Denahi and Koda's surprise. He is then transformed into the animal by the Great Spirits who want to teach him about empathy. Koda (voiced by Jeremy Suarez) is adopted by Kenai and the two become quick friends. Better not to take chances. So, like Walt Disney Company says, 'Draw a bear exactly like this,' and they get thousands of drawings of bears in, and then they put them all together and color them in, and that becomes the bear part of the movie.''. In Disney's 2003 animated feature film, Brother Bear, a young boy named Kenai the youngest of three brothers kills a bear to avenge the death of his oldest brother, Sitka.Spirits, enraged by his actions, punish him by transforming him into a bear (a plot device similar to the one later seen in Pixar's Brave).He then ventures to the Northern Lights in the hopes of restoring his human form. "[17] While Collins composed six songs for the film, he shared vocal performance duties with Tina Turner, who sang the opening song;[18] the Blind Boys Of Alabama and the Bulgarian Women's Choir, who performed the song, "Transformation". Still angry at Tuke, Rutt blames his brother for failing him and being selfish, but Tuke responds by reminding Rutt of all the times he had helped his brother. google_ad_channel = "5429178602+2431886621"; They walk away shortly after Kenai gets himself caught in a snare trap. To track the "king" idea, the hero would naturally be a bear, the king of the forest. Disc 2 presents Brother Bear in English and French Dolby Digital 5.1 tracks, plus a DTS English track. I assume that they are the same actors as Bob and Doug McKenzie???? ''We wanted that sort of sense of irreverence about the movie,'' Mr. Williams said. It may be geared towards a young audience,