Advantages: Wonderful music, great animation, unique storyline Disadvantages: None! (maybe the length of it..)
...Bear' since it was in the sale. I wasn't disappointed!
'The Bear' is based on the book by Raymond Briggs and was released in 1999.
The cover of the dvd case has a blue background with the bear on the front of it and Tilly, the little girl in the film. At the top of the dvd case 'The Bear' is written in large white letters and 'based on the book by Raymond Briggs' underneath it. At the bottom of the case it says 'from the makers of the Snowman' ... ...is a picture of the polar bear of the star constellation 'Ursa Major', which is really beautiful, the at the side it has a picture of Tilly riding on the bear.
On the inside of the dvd case there are some really interesting 'Bear Facts' which give interesting facts about the film. There are 11 facts in total.
Howard Blake wrote the music to the film, just as he wrote the music to 'The Snowman'. There is orchestral music playing to accompany the ...
ivytoad 04.03.2008
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Advantages: Amazing scenery Disadvantages: Week story and can easily get bored watching
The Bear is one of my husbands favourite films and he has been trying to get it on DVD for a very long time so I decided I would treat him for when he returned home from Afghan. The only trouble with getting it for him is that he wanted me to watch it with him!
THE FILM
The film is set in the mountains of British Columbia in 1885.
The film is based on a bear cub who looses his mother when a big rock falls on her. He is left all alone struggling ... ...the bear wants nothing to do with the cub as the male bears do not rear the cubs. The male bear gets shot by hunters who are out in the forest looking for a kill. The wounded bear goes off and tries to heal his wound. The brave bear cub goes over to him and helps him by licking his wound. The male bear befriends the cub and decides that he will watch out and protect him from the hunters.
The hunters are angry that the bear was not killed when they ...
sewbizzie 25.03.2008
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Action/Adventure - Director: Gore Verbinski - Original Language: English - Classification: 12 years and over - Starring:Bill Nighy, Keira Knightley, Johnny Depp, Geoffrey Rush, Orlando Bloom, Chow Yun-Fat
Production Year: 2002 - Action/Adventure - Director: Vincenzo Natali - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring:Lucy Liu, David Hewlett, Anne Marie Scheffler, Joseph Scoren, Matthew Sharp, Jeremy Northam
Production Year: 1964 - Action/Adventure - Director: Cyril Endfield - Original Language: English - Classification: Parental Guidance - Starring:Stanley Baker, Jack Hawkins, Ulla Jacobsson, James Booth, Michael Caine, Nigel Green
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