He is easily amused and will make himself laugh, even when others don’t follow along. The Croatian bear is good-humored, as he reacts with amusement when Kenai eliminates his stockpile of salmon. He has several distinguishing features, such as thick eyebrows and a sagging lower lip. His main pelt is gray, and he has a ring of paler fur around his neck as well as a tan muzzle. The Croatian bear is a somewhat short bear, though he is heavyset and pudgy. Meanwhile, the Croatian bear falls over in gales of laughter. However, the other bears do not understand him and chuckle uncertainly. Later, during story hour, the Croatian bear tells an impassioned story in a foreign language about how he nearly froze to death. Though at first annoyed, the Croatian bear laughs when Kenai emerges from the water with a stick in his teeth. While there, he stacks a large pile of salmon, only for Kenai to knock the majority of the pile into the water. Both formats have their strengths one is not better than the other, simply different.The Croatian bear visits the Salmon Run. Variety says this will be the last 2-D animated film from Disney for the foreseeable future the studio is switching to the 3-D style originally popularized by Pixar. There's also a curious early moment when the animators reproduce the effects of sunlight refracting through a lens, even though animation uses no lens and refracts no light. Note: The movie, a product of the same Orlando animation studio that produced Disney's ' Mulan' and 'Lilo & Stitch,' is very good looking, and sometimes seems to want to burst through the boundaries of conventional animation to present a more visionary portrait of its time and place a sequence involving cave drawings comes impressively to life. The outcome of the story, which I would not dream of revealing, has Kenai making a career choice that is far from practical but certainly shows he has learned to see things from a bear's point of view. Two Canadian moose named Rutt and Tuke turn up and have conversations that sound amazingly like the McKenzie Brothers from SCTV, maybe because they are voiced by Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas. Their trek there involves many adventures, including a scary encounter with flowing lava from a volcano. Kenai discovers from the spirit of Tanana that he must seek Eagle Sitka on a mountain where light touches the Earth, and Koda leads him on the mission - perhaps because he really knows where the mountain is, perhaps for reasons of his own. Given Kenai's prejudices about bears, he is extremely unhappy to be one himself, but soon he's getting bear lessons from little Koda ( Jeremy Suarez), a cub who shows him the ropes. The opening scenes are in a conventional screen ratio of 1:85 to 1, but after Kenai becomes a bear, the colors deepen and the screen widens to 2:35 to 1, so you'd better hope your projectionist is on his toes. Denahi continues the family tradition of vengeance by tracking down Bear Kenai, in an irony that is positively Shakespearean, and no wonder, since I learn that this story was originally inspired by ' King Lear,' although the notion of three siblings seems to be all that survived. He succeeds, but the universe proves it has a sense of justice, or perhaps of humor, by transforming Kenai himself into a bear - so that Denahi assumes it was Bear Kenai who killed Kid Brother Kenai. Kenai is counseled by the tribe's wise woman Tanana ( Joan Copeland) to accept this outcome as the will of the universe, but determines to kill the bear. When an impulsive boy named Kenai is magically transformed into a bear, he must literally walk in anothers footsteps until he learns some valuable life. Kenai doesn't like bears, and picks a fight with one that tries to steal his fishing catch he recklessly chases the bear, and when Sitka tries to protect him, the older brother is killed and is transformed into an eagle.

Sitka wears an eagle, Denahi a wolf, and Kenai - well, Kenai gets a bear, and considers himself short-changed, especially when he's told that the bear represents the quality of love, which he considers pretty far down, so to speak, on the totem pole. Each wears a totem around his neck, representing the animal spirit he is identified with. Sweeney), strong-willed middle brother Denahi ( Jason Raize) and the troublesome young Kenai ( Joaquin Phoenix). We meet three brothers: brave older brother Sitka (voice by D.B. The story begins in a Native American tribe in the Pacific Northwest, thousands of years ago.

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