| Plot Synopsis |
by Matthew Tobey |
In the Disney-animated adventure Brother Bear, Joaquin Phoenix provides the voice of Kenai, a young Native American boy whose brother, Sitka (voice of D.B. Sweeney), is killed by a mother bear protecting her cubs. With revenge in mind, Kenai sets out into the woods only to find himself magically transformed into a bear himself. Seeing the world through the eyes of his prey, Kenai is forced to learn a lesson about nature and life. On a comic footnote: Brother Bear also features the voices of Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas as Rutt and Tuke, moose characters reminiscent of their beer-guzzling McKenzie brothers from SCTV and Strange Brew; because this is a family-oriented cartoon - and it would be inappropriate for the moose to quaff beer -- the two moose express a fondness for eating wheat hops instead. |
| Similar Works |
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The Lion King
(1994, Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff)
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Pocahontas
(1995, Mike Gabriel, Eric Goldberg)
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Mulan
(1998, Barry Cook, Tony Bancroft)
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A Goofy Movie
(1995, Kevin Lima)
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Bambi II
(2006, Brian Pimental)
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Bambi
(1942, James Algar, Samuel Armstrong, David Hand, Graham Heid, Perce Pearce, Bill Roberts, Paul Satterfield, Norman Wright)
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The Jungle Book
(1967, Wolfgang Reitherman)
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The Little Polar Bear
(2001, Piet de Rycker, Thilo Rothkirch)
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The Land Before Time: The Great Longneck Migration
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Balto II: Wolf Quest
(2001, Phil Weinstein)
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