Brother Bear 2
By J. Byron Dean
Direct to DVD Release Date:
August 25, 2006
MPAA RATING:
G (USA & Canada)
Voices of: Mandy Moore, Patrick Dempsey, Benjamin Bryan, Rick Moranis
& Dave Thomas
Genre: Animated/Family
Recommended Age:
6+
Sex:
green
Language:
green
Violence:
green
Overall PTC Rating:
green
With all the beauty of
Mulan and the splendor of Pocahontas, Disney brings to DVD a
superbly animated film worthy of the big screen. Lovely to look at and with
an engaging storyline, Brother Bear 2 is a fine follow-up to the
original film, Brother Bear.
Picking up where the original
story left off, Kenai (Patrick
Dempsey) and Koda (Jeremy Suarez) are romping through the forest, just
wanting to have fun like brothers should. Yet all around them, Spring is in
the air and each animal they meet up with has only love on their mind.
Unknown to Kenai, his old human childhood playmate, Nita (Mandy Moore), has
also been bitten by the love bug as she prepares to marry a young tribal
warrior. However, during the wedding ceremony, as her father the Chief asks
for the spirit's blessings, thunder roars overhead and a boulder falls from
a nearby mountain causing a huge split in the ice where the bride and groom
are standing, leaving Nita cutoff from her intended.
Taking this as a sign that the spirits are
intervening to tell her that she should not marry this man, Nita seeks the
counsel of the tribe's medicine woman. Nita learns she is bound to Kenai
through the bear paw amulet he gave her when they were children. To break
the bond they must both burn the token so that they can each move on with
their lives. But Nita must first find Kenai and convince him that this is
best for both of them. Is it really best for both of them? Their journey
proves that nothing is ever as simple as it seems and that bonds of
friendship – and love – are not easily broken.
Striking animation, engaging and
entertaining characters, along with a storyline that is funny, exciting,
sweet and romantic without being sexual, makes Brother Bear 2 a film
that the entire family can enjoy and one that children will want to watch
again and again.
|
Sex |
none |
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Violence
|
mild—when Koda enters the village
the people begin to chase him and when Kenai comes in to rescue him some
hunters pick up spears and throw them at him. He is grazed by one spear and
we see the cut but no blood. There is a short fight scene between Kenai and
the man Nita was going to marry. They push at each other with the spear,
like a javelin, and Kenai is shoved off the bluff and falls into the shallow
water below. He is stunned but doesn't die. |
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Language
|
none |
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