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NUMBERS
Box Office: $16,892,873
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CONSENSUS
Despite all the celebrities on hand, this spin-off from a theme park attraction still feels tired and hokey.
CAST & CREW
Christopher Walken, Haley Joel Osment, Daryl Mitchell
Directed by Peter Hastings
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SYNOPSIS
A bear raised in a human environment, Beary (Haley Joel Osmet), is a confused adolescent, despite his loving home. more...
MPAA RATING
G
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Jul 26, 2002
Video: Dec 17, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
Buena Vista Pictures
GENRE
Childrens, Live-Action, Comedy, Pop Music, Rock And Roll, Children, Children/Family, Disney Film, Comedy (General), Tours, Music, Rock Bands, Bears, Musicians
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official The Country Bears Site
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PARENTS EVALUATION
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 "The movie is not as terrible as the synergistic impulse that created it."
-- Jeffrey Westhoff, NORTHWEST HERALD (CRYSTAL LAKE, IL)
"The disarming cornball atmosphere has a way of infecting the entire crowd as the film rolls on."
-- Phil Villarreal, ARIZONA DAILY STAR
 "It's hard to understand why anyone in his right mind would even think to make the attraction a movie. And it's harder still to believe that anyone in his right mind would want to see the it."
-- Jeff Vice, DESERET NEWS, SALT LAKE CITY
"Although I didn't hate this one, it's not very good either. It can be safely recommended as a video/DVD babysitter."
-- John Venable, SUPERCALA.COM
"The film has a childlike quality about it. But the feelings evoked in the film are lukewarm and quick to pass."
-- Tony Toscano, TALKING PICTURES
"True to its animatronic roots:...as stiff, ponderous and charmless as a mechanical apparatus...'The Country Bears' should never have been brought out of hibernation."
-- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION
"An unintentionally surreal kid's picture ... in which actors in bad bear suits enact a sort of inter-species parody of a VH1 Behind the Music episode."
-- Steve Simels, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE
"By turns numbingly dull-witted and disquietingly creepy."
-- Marc Savlov, AUSTIN CHRONICLE
"Could The Country Bears really be as bad as its trailers? In a word -- yes."
-- Steve Rhodes, STEVE RHODES' INTERNET REVIEWS
"Bears is even worse than I imagined a movie ever could be."
-- Jon Popick, PLANET SICK-BOY
"While obviously aimed at kids, The Country Bears ... should keep parents amused with its low groan-to-guffaw ratio."
-- Bill Pearis, CITYSEARCH
"...the movie just might be worth a rental if only for the sight of watching Christopher Walken belt out a musical number using only his hand and his armpit."
-- David Nusair, REEL FILM REVIEWS
"Many went to see the attraction for the sole reason that it was hot outside and there was air conditioning inside, and I don’t think that A.C. will help this movie one bit."
-- Danny Minton, KBTV-NBC (BEAUMONT, TX)
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"The message becomes the savior for "The Country Bears," an equal parts silly and sweet tale that wears its great big ol' heart on its grizzly-sized sleeve."
-- John Urbancich, SUN NEWSPAPERS OF CLEVELAND
"Too damn weird to pass up, and for the blacklight crowd, way cheaper (and better) than Pink Floyd tickets."
-- Luke Y. Thompson, NEW TIMES
"Bearable. Barely."
-- Eric D. Snider, ERICDSNIDER.COM
"'...both hokey and super-cool, and definitely not in a hurry, so sit back, relax and have a few laughs while the little ones get a fuzzy treat.'"
-- Anita Schmaltz, METRO TIMES
"an "O Bruin, Where Art Thou?"-style cross-country adventure... it has sporadic bursts of liveliness, some so-so slapstick and a few ear-pleasing songs on its soundtrack."
-- James Sanford, KALAMAZOO GAZETTE
"Stuart Little 2 and Lilo & Stitch were respectable...in their own right, but The Country Bears is the most satisfying family film of the summer."
-- Dustin Putman, THEMOVIEBOY.COM
"The Country Bears wastes an exceptionally good idea. But the movie that doesn’t really deliver for country music fans or for family audiences"
-- David Poland, HOT BUTTON
"...a plotline that's as lumpy as two-day old porridge...the filmmakers' paws, sad to say, were all over this "un-bear-able" project!"
-- Frank Ochieng, MOVIE EYE
"It's fitting that a movie as artificial and soulless as The Country Bears owes its genesis to an animatronic display at Disneyland."
-- Adam Nayman, EYE WEEKLY
"Flounders due to the general sense that no two people working on the production had exactly the same thing in mind."
-- Mervius, FANTASTICA DAILY
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ROTTEN 17%
Avg. Rating: 4.2/10 |
"Is it really an advantage to invest such subtlety and warmth in an animatronic bear when the humans are acting like puppets?"
-- Michael Wilmington, CHICAGO TRIBUNE
"It's a diverting enough hour-and-a-half for the family audience."
-- Susan Stark, DETROIT NEWS
"After a while, the only way for a reasonably intelligent person to get through The Country Bears is to ponder how a whole segment of pop-music history has been allowed to get wet, fuzzy and sticky."
-- Gene Seymour, NEWSDAY
"The plot combines The Blues Brothers and Almost Famous (but with bears, and a G rating), with an excruciating dollop of Disney sentimentality mixed in for good measure."
-- A.O. Scott, NEW YORK TIMES
"The whole talking-animal thing is grisly."
-- Lisa Schwarzbaum, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
"Trying to figure out the rules of the Country Bear universe -- when are bears bears and when are they like humans, only hairier -- would tax Einstein's brain."
-- Steven Rosen, DENVER POST
"It's mildly amusing, but I certainly can't recommend it."
-- Richard Roeper, EBERT & ROEPER
"The Country Bears has no scenes that will upset or frighten young viewers. Unfortunately, there is almost nothing in this flat effort that will amuse or entertain them, either."
-- C.W. Nevius, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
"Entertains not so much because of its music or comic antics, but through the perverse pleasure of watching Disney scrape the bottom of its own cracker barrel."
-- John Monaghan, DETROIT FREE PRESS
"Harmless fun."
-- Lou Lumenick, NEW YORK POST
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"It's like an all-star salute to Disney's cheesy commercialism."
-- John R. McEwen, FILM QUIPS ONLINE
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* In fairness to critics whose last name begins with a letter at the end of the alphabet, certain pages are sorted in reverse order, z-a.
* Certain "The Country Bears" article data provided by the Movie Review Query Engine.
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