Spirit Bear
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Actor: Graham Greene, Mark RendallBrand: Echo
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 91 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-02-21
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: 43669
Studio: Platinum Disc
Product features:
- SPIRIT BEAR (DVD MOVIE)
DVD Reviews of Spirit Bear
DVD Review: 5 Star Reviews - Are You Kidding Me?
Summary: 1 Stars
I saw this movie on sale in the grocery store for $5.99. I thought it might be a nice movie to introduce my four year old nephew to environmentalism - and I have a thing for spirit bears.
I immediately looked up the Amazon reviews on my iphone, right there in the store, and there were 14 reviews and 4.5 stars. Sounds good, right?
Oh My God. My boyfriend and I TRIED to watch this film, giving it every benefit of the doubt imaginable. At first it seemed like maybe it had been filmed for a Canadian After School Special - it had that sort of look and feel. Then it quickly went downhill.
The spirit bear shows up (yay!) as STOCK FOOTAGE (LOL!) ~ Stock footage of the bear by itself, different stock footage of the spirit bear fighting a brown bear, then the back of what appears to be a big white furry something interacting with the boy in the movie.
It looks like they didn't even try to make the stock footage match - it's obviously different film.
Oh, then there's the acting. Really bad. Even Graham Greene and Ed Begley, Jr. were really bad, and the kids. Heck, even the bears were bad. I think they realized on the first day of filming just how amateur a project this was going to be and were all just going through the motions after that. They probably signed on and may have worked for scale because it was sold to them as a great true story about a boy who became an environmentalist, stood up to the logging companies and saved the habitat of the spirit bear.
I'm sure if you met any of them at a party and said the words "Spirit Bear," they'd roll their eyes and look at their shoes and say, "Yeah, well..." Even the bears.
Aside from all that, still looking at it from my four year old nephew's point of view, I don't think he could follow it. A couple of times even I said, "What was that shot for?"
I have to admit I didn't watch the entire movie. After twenty minutes I couldn't justify wasting any more of my life watching it, and went to see what was happening on Twitter. ;)
My boyfriend lasted longer than I did, but didn't protest in the slightest when I finally had to ask him to turn it off because just hearing it in the background was annoying.
There is the possibility that it gets better after twenty minutes, but I doubt it.
It won the Canadian DGA Team Award for Outstanding Family Television Movie/Mini-Series AND was nominated for a Gemini Award (Candian Television Awards, yup, I guessed as much) for Best Children's or Youth Fiction Program or Series AND AND AND for Best Original Music Score for a Program or Mini-Series, which is HILARIOUS because we were certain the band in the movie HAD to be the director's brother's band because the music was so horrible and completely out of place in the film.
Canada must have really been hurting for television in 2006. Notice the director wasn't nominated for anything. Sheesh!
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