The Reel Rejects - BROTHER BEAR (2003) MOVIE REVIEW!! FIRST TIME WATCHING!!
Episode Date: January 20, 2025SO MANY FEELS!! Brother Bear Full Reaction Watch Along: https://www.patreon.com/thereelrejects Follow Us On Socials: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ Tik-Tok: https://www.tiktok.c...om/@thereelrejects?lang=en Twitter: https://x.com/thereelrejects Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ It's Animation Monday once again as Andrew Gordon & John Humphrey return to give their FIRST TIME Reaction, Commentary, Analysis, Breakdown, & Full Movie Spoiler Review for the 2003 Disney Animated Feature, Brother Bear! In this beautifully animated tale of grief, purpose, & family, a young Inuit hunter needlessly kills a bear, only to be magically changed into a bear himself as punishment with a talkative cub being his only guide to changing back... The Voice Cast features Joaquin Phoenix (Joker, Gladiator, Signs), Jeremy Suarez (Jerry Maguire), D.B. Sweeney (Fire in the Sky, Megalopolis), Joan Copeland (The Peacemaker), Michael Clarke Duncan (The Green Mile, Sin City, Daredevil), Estelle Harris (Toy Story, Seinfeld), Rick Moranis (Ghostbusters, Honey I Shrunk the Kids), Dave Thomas (Rat Race, Strange Brew), Greg Proops (Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, The Nightmare Before Christmas), Pauley Perrette (Almost Famous, NCIS), & MORE! Andrew & John REACT to all the Best Scenes, Songs, & Most Touching Moments including Transformation, On My Way, Look Through My Eyes, Great Spirits, This Year I lost My Edgar, Kenai's Confession, Kenai Learns about Koda's Mother, & Beyond! Follow Andrew Gordon on Socials: YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@MovieSource Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/agor711/?hl=en Twitter: https://twitter.com/Agor711 Support The Channel By Getting Some REEL REJECTS Apparel! https://www.rejectnationshop.com/ Music Used In Manscaped Ad: Hat the Jazz by Twin Musicom is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ POWERED BY @GFUEL Visit https://gfuel.ly/3wD5Ygo and use code REJECTNATION for 20% off select tubs!! Head Editor: https://www.instagram.com/praperhq/?hl=en Co-Editor: Greg Alba Co-Editor: John Humphrey Music In Video: Airport Lounge - Disco Ultralounge by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Ask Us A QUESTION On CAMEO: https://www.cameo.com/thereelrejects Follow TheReelRejects On FACEBOOK, TWITTER, & INSTAGRAM: FB: https://www.facebook.com/TheReelRejects/ INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/reelrejects/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/thereelrejects Follow GREG ON INSTAGRAM & TWITTER: INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/thegregalba/ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/thegregalba Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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John, I was really impressed with this film.
Again, I did not, other than the poster,
I didn't know a lot about this film,
but I really like a good film.
I know you use the term bear out of water.
But I like a film where a character's got, you know,
lessons to learn, understands the error in their ways.
And I like how the film started, you know,
with our main character, how, you know,
he's very rambunctious and, you know,
he's kind of not into the whole, I mean, again, he respects, you know, the spiritual side,
but he does it by his own course rather than, you know, going by everyone else's course.
He goes by it by his own speed rather than everyone else's speed.
And, you know, I can understand that because I'm kind of a free spirit myself.
And like, again, I'm all respectful and stuff.
But like if I, if sometimes I don't go at other people's speeds, I go at my own speed.
So I could kind of resonate with that.
Oh, hold on.
There we go.
come and give us one sec
people.
Rick Moranis,
you called that one.
You called that one.
His name's Tuck,
of course,
yeah.
Michael Clark.
Estelle Harris.
That's the one
I was Mrs.
Potato Head.
Greg Proops.
No way.
From like,
so many good voices in this.
Oh,
yeah.
Nancy Cartwright was in this.
Sure.
That's awesome.
It got part.
Anyways,
yeah,
like,
I could just like,
again,
I didn't agree
with some of his choices,
but again,
he was a very
immature character
at first.
Oh,
yeah,
he's got to make a mistake.
And again, yeah, but I knew like we had lessons to learn and he had a great arc, I thought.
And while it was a little bit predictable in terms of what had happened with the mother bear, I kind of called that.
But that did not, that did not, because I called that, that did not take away from.
It's heavily implied.
Yeah, exactly.
And I know I said at one point, let's make sure, you know, that's actually the case.
But like it does seem like that's probably what's going to happen.
Right.
And sometimes when I'm able to predict things, that kind of takes a little bit of my.
enjoyment. In this case, it didn't. And I still thought, like, it's still strong for a very
emotionally depth film in terms of what the characters. And also just building upon the
relationship. Because, look, he still was gaining a strong foundation with Coda, regardless,
even if that didn't happen, even if he didn't have, wouldn't have done that. He still, like,
was, there was still a foundation there between him and Coda. And I was still invested in both
characters. And he still cared about him either way. But then when he found out what had happened,
he really understood, like, and also, too, just.
like seeing the wonder and and the beauty and all these bears and like oh my god they're not the
monsters i see them to be i'm like i just thought this was a beautiful lesson like you know we only
fear what we don't understand and like he i think he also understood too like hey like i'm the one who
got in that bear's way i'm the one who threw the rocket i'm the one who went after the bear like
my brother and that bear are both gone because of me and i understand this lesson that i've learned
and I'm ready to embrace that and I take responsibility.
And I appreciate that this character, like, you know, did that.
And I loved his arc in this film.
I also loved the arc for Joaquin characters.
I'm already forgetting.
Keenai.
I love the arc that his character went in because, you know, he was,
I guess his trait was about wisdom.
But once both his brothers, he...
Oh, hold on.
In accordance with all federal and state wildlife regulations,
no fish will harm during the...
Yes.
Or bears?
Oh, God.
No.
What about that fish?
No.
I'm calling PETA.
That fish was harmed.
I saw it, John.
That is a very interesting button to throw on this.
Yes, I liked it.
Wait a minute.
Whoa, hold on.
I know that
we joked about that
in the movie
about like
I wonder how the fish feel
but like
this is an interesting
I don't know
it's an interesting
tonal button to put on that
after not focusing on it
during the actual movie
I'm like
well if the fish are alive
I can tell you how the fish feel
should we maybe not eat them too
I don't know
I can tell you how the fish feel
whenever they see the bears
coming at them
the Jaws music plays
of course
they're being hunted
I have so many questions
Where's Brother Fish?
Brother Fish is going to happen pretty soon with one of these bears.
We'll write the script for that one.
New perspective for, you know, the bear, the bears will turn into the fish.
That's funny, but like also it's an odd note to, anyway, continue.
No, I was just saying with Keenai, I really, like, again, his character, he was kind of, even though he was, his spirit was wisdom, you know, he was more of the, the brother that kind of just didn't see eye to eye.
um what's what's our main dena hi or dena hi is the one with the wisdom totem yeah denahi he's the one who didn't see eye to eye with uh keeney and you know um and that that again that resonated with me too i've got two brothers one i don't see eye to eye with a lot of times i still love him um and one i see a lot more eye to eye with so like this actually really like the whole brother like the three of them like that it was so damn relatable to me um but the point i'm making is
is I like that, like, once he thought both his brothers were gone, like, everything was
out the door from wisdom, like, and it just showed, like, revenge is just, it's a poison, like,
you know, logic and grief will blind you.
Yeah, of course, of course.
And, like, it'll lead you down a road, like, you cannot come back from.
And I'm glad, like, he saw before it was too late, obviously with the, uh, his brother,
like, with Sitka making, you know, the spirits come alive, uh, with, uh, Keeney, making him,
alive again in terms of his human spirit, his human body.
Yeah, I'm glad that, yeah, human form. But I'm glad that he was able to like, you know,
see the air of his ways as well. And I just think all these characters had just such
great arcs. It's like, I wasn't expecting such a heavy-handed film just from the poster.
I was like, it's going to be such a cute little movie, which it was. But I'm like,
oh my God, there's a lot of emotional depth. There's great characters. There's great arcs.
Phenomenal animation. Great songs. The background score was great. John, I've let you
talk way too much we're going to wrap this i'm sorry go ahead buddy oh you're good you're good absolutely
would you think john it'sio of brother bear no yeah i enjoyed it quite a bit as well and i think to
your point like you know certain things especially in an environment like a disney animated movie
like there are ways in which formulas can exist and i think that yeah sometimes predictability
does take away from a movie but other times it's not really about that and other times it's about
the execution rather than you know if yeah and and and especially
in a movie that's like intended for families and and that's supposed to touch and reach you know young
children to some degree um you know that yeah i think it's absolutely like you know it's fine that a
couple of things you might be able to see coming down the line because it's all about yeah how the
movie articulates its points and executes its you know story developments and uh and yeah like for
what this is i got really pulled into it and i think similarly at the time i had expected something
maybe a little lighter, a little fluffier.
I think this just came out around a time
where I wasn't as interested in
or compelled to check out
whatever the new Disney movie was.
This is from kind of a wave that I missed
that probably also includes,
I mean, recently I watched Lilo and Stitch
for the first time,
but that's kind of from a similar moment in time
or the Emperor's New Groove,
which I watched a little while ago as well.
These are films I would have missed
due to lack of interest, really.
And yeah, this really kind of pulled me in
impressed me just because yeah it's absolutely beautiful to look at and one of my favorite things these days on like the internet is those like
you know tumbler and instagram accounts that will basically compile the background plates from so many
animated shows and features and watching this you know it made me curious because i know that we're in an
earlier stage 2003 with you know the convergence of drawn and painted animation with more computer-oriented
techniques and certainly a movie like this seems to it's interesting i miss the balance because
obviously these are huge massive undertakings to make but watching every frame there's a
account or a there's a thing called every frame of painting and really truly this movie lives
up to that sort of sentiment because each frame is like a beautiful landscape's like painting of
some kind some of them look like oil paintings some of them look like more of the ink and and
paper style that you're used to seeing
in an animated film and then there are
CG embellishments and I mean coming on the heels
of I know Aladdin had a particularly
notable CG
use of CG certain
CG elements that were groundbreaking for its time
and certainly here it's like you can tell when
a couple of those moments
arise but they are you know
utilized in understandable
sequences where it would be probably
prohibitive to really go all out
with drawn animation for whatever
reason so just yeah the physical
formation of this movie is really interesting and beautiful
and it made me want to go out into nature,
go visit a national park,
made me wish I could behold earth
when it was just all natural
and it kind of transports you out of the idea
that like, oh, I'm watching, again, moving paintings
and more like, damn, I wish I could, yeah,
just jump into the screen and go explore this environment.
It feels like a travelogue of, you know, just the continent
in a lot of ways, you know, that you could almost forget is an animated picture, which I think is really cool.
And then, yeah, the music along with that, a lot of the sort of indigenous sounds that they would use in terms of the percussion, the wind instruments, the chanting and the voices in the backdrop.
And then you have certain, you know, more direct songs that have, yeah, the choir element and certain a couple that have, you know, the more Phil Collins direct sort of, you know, here's a big sweeping.
sort of, you know, a number for this.
And yeah, I mean, it was an interesting one because it is a musical, but it doesn't quite
100% feel like that's the way to describe it.
It's like there are songs and we're in a culture too where, you know, I think more in, you know,
earlier times when there's less like mass entertainment.
Like obviously people commune and sing.
And so like the music even took on a semi different life, even though it is like,
some of it is non-diagetic some of it is diagetic as well um but yeah like i i had always heard that
this movie had had a notable soundtrack a lot people love the soundtrack and also uh i think now that
now that i think about it you know i feel like maybe people had alluded to this being yeah a bit
heavier or a bit more of a tear jerker than you might have expected and uh and this really got
me because yeah i think the journey is a coming of age story that you can definitely kind of
map the beats for but at the same time i think in disney fashion they used you know again the concept
of the circle of life and the concepts of mortality and perspective really nicely because yeah you know
you get where uh keeney is coming from at his age when yeah you're just coming of age and you know
you're about to gain all this purpose and you probably have some idea of what that ought to be
and then you know oh i'm presented with love and a bear not the coolest options necessarily
um and then yeah watching you know as this
guy who is like grieving and is like certainly abrasive Dakota for a lot of it, you know,
come around and redevelop that love in the face of such grief and develop new perspective
and then have the firsthand experience. Like I think a well done body swap or something like that
is always going to be real effective when, yeah, you have these moments where, you know,
they make the loss of Sitka hit really hard. And that sequence is intense. And the bear gets away and you have
that aftermath where, you know,
Danahi is, is trying to encourage him
to see past the circumstance
and to know that, yeah, the bear isn't being
malicious or evil. It's just,
you know, either instinct
or it's, it felt, you know, there are a lot
of natural reasons this might have been.
Yeah, absolutely. And
through, you know, the journey of this,
not only does
Keeney take responsibility
for, you know, his
role in, I just thought it nicely
depicted a difficult situation,
It's like you would blame yourself for the loss of your brother and you would probably want to strike out and get revenge on the bear.
But then, yeah, seeing the perspective of like, who is a monster and what does that really mean?
And because we're separated by a barrier of communication, you know, it's easy to maybe, especially as a young person, look past the fact that so many creatures are just trying to live, you know, and there is a circle of life.
And some animals eat other animals.
And certainly in more indigenous cultures, there is that theme of, yes, even if you do need to.
take a life in order to feed the village or clothe the village, you use every part.
You make it so that at least nothing is being, you know, dishonored via waste.
And so that beat at the end with the fish was funny to me because, like, it's a joke,
but it does sort of open up an additional layer of like, oh, the perspective here.
Again, like, you know, we're laughing at this fish's agony when we just learned that like, you know,
the message of oneness that like, yeah, we might be different.
We might have different cultures.
We might not be able to speak to each other, you know, the way we all understand, but everyone has community and love and, you know, is trying to eat and, you know, sleep and thrive and all the other things about life.
So, yeah, I thought this really nicely in a, you know, always pretty compact, like, you know, an hour and 20, 90 minute package, like communicated all that stuff.
And then, yeah, made a compelling, just coming of age journey for Keeneye, a really compelling little, you know, opening up of his heart to Koda and the little.
little brotherhood bond forged there.
And I think the title is great, because it's like,
our brother is turned into a bear,
but he also gets like a little brother in the form of a bear.
But also there's the brotherhood that is kind of formed
between the people and the bears.
And yeah, there's just a really nice blending of themes there.
And then with Coda, like, again, not shying away
from the harshness of that.
Like you, it's so heartbreaking watching him allude to the story.
And then, yeah, the foreshadowing.
And then you hear the story.
and the way all the other bears are affected by it.
And it was interesting how they showed that, too,
with not actually hearing Kodi, like, tell it him,
but hearing, like, with no dialogue
and then seeing his facial expression.
The perspective ship is beautiful because he's listening
and envisioning the story from his perspective still,
and then as, you know, Koda continues
and more details emerge and the reality becomes clear,
then you see more from mom's perspective.
Right. That was an effective choice of that.
Yeah, and it zeroes in on this idea
that like yeah in a harsh moment or in a moment of intensity or in a moment of grief like yeah something
unintended might happen or just things get messy and and yeah i thought that fulcrum for everything
you know like going after uh this bear and you know i got us into this because i wanted to go out
on some right of passage and then i got my i feel responsible for the circumstances that transpired
to you know lose my brother and then uh uh uh yeah just like wanting to strike out
on revenge and everything.
And I kind of lost my train and thought there.
But basically, yeah, you have all these really great sort of one to the next developments that feel very,
it just, yeah, it doesn't shy away from the harshness of loss and the muddy reality that,
you know, sometimes natures intersect and just crash into each other.
And I got to say, too, some of the emotional beats in this movie, I mean, with Sitka,
like, I mean, that had happened, what, 10, 15 minutes into the movie.
and again we had the you know the establishment of the brothers their dynamic and we didn't really know sitka like way too well it was only 10 15 minutes but we knew him enough to feel emotionally invested enough to give a damn at that point and like that was heavy handed for me and also so early as well and I like yeah it really does like that early on it was almost Guardians of the Galaxy-esque were in the first five minutes I'm like shit yeah and then also too like a couple other like with Coda with the perspective
beat how they had that and then also on top of that when keen I had been turned back into a human
Cota like embraced him and like I'm never going to see you again because now you're you're embracing
your human side and I'm obviously I can't be with you're human like that really freaking hit me so
for a movie to hit me that heavily and that hard and a Disney animated movie too like it's like they
just have a way of doing that the Disney animated movies and it's the execution when they're
hitting yeah because too I mean this manages and
a short period of time to hit you with some stuff that like authentically hits emotionally,
but then there's also fun. You have the moose characters. You have the goat characters and
stuff. You have a lot of like funny little bits that don't feel like they're out of place too much
or didn't to me or like they're detracting. And so yeah, it's like you have all the fun elements.
You have all the sweeping beauty of the art. And then you also have, yeah, like a touching little
story and great uses of spirituality, great uses of, you know, the northern lights and the elements.
and the totems.
Yeah, the visuals.
And yeah, I really like that aspect with the older brother.
It's like without too much time,
we learn at least to kind of understand
and bond with the major characters.
And then, yeah, having him come as a spirit
and sort of really embracing that spiritual,
fantastical side of things
and having him appear to his brothers
and kind of guide them throughout.
I thought, you know,
that's another thing that could be heavy-handed
and it could be, you know, trite.
But I thought it was actually really nicely handled here.
So, yeah, I mean, like, this lived up to the hype for me.
Before I get into trivia, do you know who voiced Coda?
I was wondering.
I was wondering, who's that?
Cuba Gooding Jr.'s son and Jerry Maguire Tyson.
Okay.
I was going to say, I know I've heard this kid's voice before.
I was like, I know this voice not familiar.
I'm like, I've seen Jerry McGuire 10,000 times.
It's no wonder.
It was a great voice performance.
Oh, he did great.
So charming.
Absolutely.
The Joaquin Phoenix one of Keeney, like that one really disturbs me.
the way, the actor who voiced
Deny, he passed
away one year after this movie.
Oh, wow. Oh, no. I'm sorry
to hear that. Yeah. So I'm seeing that
right here. And then
the actress who voiced
Old Lady Barrett, like I said, that was Estelle
Harris. That was Mrs. Potato Head, and she did
so many other things.
Is there anything else you'd like to add
before I read off some trivia?
I think we're good. This was really impressive.
I really enjoyed this. Yeah, great. We could
say a bunch of more things, but
But, yep, so the lines, I don't care that you and Binky found the world's biggest pine cone ever.
And first of all, it's not binky, it's Bucky.
And it wasn't a pine cone.
It was a pine nut said by Keenai, Joaquin Phoenix, and Coda, Jeremy Suarez, was an accidental improvisation.
Because Phoenix messed up his line and Suarez corrected it when they were recording and they kept it.
That's so cool.
And it's got to be harder to adjust for things like that in animation.
I can't remember if an American animation they start with the voice or they do the voice after.
but that's funny.
Most of the characters are named after actual places in Alaska
where the story is set.
For example, Kinae is named after the Kenei Peninsula.
There we go.
We're in Alaska.
Okay, that makes sense.
Interesting.
Disney Pixar prepared a special trailer for the film to show before mine, mine, mine,
finding Nemo during its initial theatrical release.
Tuck and Rutt say, and I quote,
if you see only one movie this year, see this one.
Tuck then reminds Rutt that for those who see only one
movie this year. It's a little late now, but both moose then encourage everyone who is only going to
see one movie this year to leave the theater. As the scene fades to black, Rutt says, I see some of them
leaving. And Tuk replies, maybe they're going to find that Nemo guy. In the German version,
Tuck and Rutt are called the Benny and Bajorn after the two male members of the Swedish pop group,
ABBA. Abba. Abba. Oh, that's funny. In the weeks before the theatrical release in Germany, they
appeared in short funny clips telling the audience to switch off cell phones during the film.
That's funny. I guess they would have to port them over into some other recognizable duo.
If Bob and Doug are not that recognizable across the globe, then yeah, they would have to do that.
In the DVD commentary, Rutten to comment that if Kinae had bothered to tie up the basket with the fish properly, it's possible that most of the movie never would have happened.
It is 100% possible.
Yeah, I was going to say, yeah, nothing really.
There's no move if he doesn't, if he does that.
He's so funny.
When Kinae is transformed into a bear, the aspect ratio changes in white.
It's from 1.751 to 2.351, representing the character's expanded perception of the world.
I was initially confused because on Disney Plus, yeah, there's just a black box around the whole frame.
But yeah, when that perspective shift opens up, that was really cool.
In the Italian, German, Spanish, and French versions, Phil Collins sings on my way, no way out and welcome in the local.
languages as he did for the songs in Tarzan, which I mentioned.
He also performed Look Through My Eyes in French and No Way Out in Japanese.
Wow.
You can do it all.
Go Philip.
Yeah.
The first Walt Disney Animation Studios filmed to have a post-credit scene.
Wow.
I'm glad we kept it.
I'm glad we kept it on.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know, just in case.
Yeah.
Originally, Keenai was supposed to have an older bear named Grisguide him through the woods
and become like a brother to him.
He didn't work out and was replaced by Coda.
I like Cota.
I like Cota. I'm glad they went that route.
It makes sense that they would have him
because he's like the youngest brother.
So it makes sense that they would put him
in the position of a big brother
because then that gives him a better inroad
to understand the perspective of his brothers
who have tried to help and guide him along the way.
And also too, Coda had a lot of that rambunctious spirit
of C&D.
He's clearly a little.
little brother. Yeah. So it's like, yeah, it, yeah, it's a solid choice. Having another big brother
could have worked, but it would, to me, feel a bit more redundant. I agree. So we'll do a couple more.
The leader of the bears in the salmon run is a clear character of his voice actor, Michael Clark
Duncan. Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. God, rest in peace, man. What a great voice. Yeah. What a great actor.
Mm-hmm. Yeah. The scene where Keeney tells rut and touc, I'm not a beaver. I'm a bee. I mean, I'm not a bear. I
a man after they call him a beaver after seeing him being turned into a bear by Sitka's
ghost could be a reference to a scene in the sword and the stone which came out in
1963 where Arthur Wart and Merlin are turned into squirrels by Merlin's magic and
Merlin tells the old lady squirrel I'm not a boy I'm a squirrel I mean I'm not a squirrel
I'm a boy after she falls in love with his squirrel form I'll give it to him I bet that's
a nod of some variety you know a gentle nod yeah Jason Rays who plays
what's the brother who was on the hunt?
Who's been hunting him like most of the movie?
Danahi.
Danahi.
Jason Reyes,
who plays Donahe's final film,
released three months before his death.
With Denahi being one of his only two non-stage acting roles,
the other one was the TV film Kitchen, 2001.
Wow.
Well done.
Well done on the voice performance.
And same person, Jason Rays,
who played Denahi,
also played Simba in the Broadway production of the Lion King.
Okay, that makes a lot of sense.
All right, all right, all right.
That makes a lot of sense.
See if there's any spoiler ones.
Yeah.
The cliff where Kinaik kills Kota's mother
then changes into a bear.
It's shaped like a bear's head.
Yes.
Wow.
That was a good.
Because it's just bare enough for you
to be able to catch it,
but it's not so obvious
that you'd be like,
there it, you know,
even though I probably pointed just like that.
During the post-credit scene,
one of the salmon can be heard talking
as if he's being chased by a hungry bear,
it is unknown which actor voiced the salmon.
That's funny.
I wonder if it was like a director or something.
Yeah.
Last one.
Let's see.
Sitka's spirit in the form of an eagle
can be seen throughout the film.
After Keenai is changed into a bear,
after Keenai first wakes up as a bear,
an eagle sitting on a tree branch,
watches him, then flies off.
When Keenai and Kota are riding on the mammots tusk,
after Kota says,
I always wanted a brother,
the camera moves upward to reveal an eagle
sitting on a tree branch watching the bears.
when Kenai and Cota are going through the lava path
after Cota and Kenai walk off screen before Cota scares Kenai
and eagle flies after them.
And also last one, an eagle meets up with the Danahi in the mountains.
Yeah.
Always watching over them.
I like the personification of the spirit guide
and the spirituality generally in the...
Yeah, and last one.
Keenai blames the bear for Sitka's death
when he was the one who provoked the bear in the first place.
Not to mention the bear wouldn't have stolen the fish
if he'd have tied the basket properly,
eventually culminating and Sitka sacrificing himself.
Absolutely.
I mean, that's, yeah, like,
and this tie into the themes of responsibility.
I guess that's one thing that this does remind me
to close off points.
I feel like I really like the way
that they captured the scene of him
coming clean to Cota.
Yeah.
And he didn't shy away from that.
He didn't run away from that.
No, but even more so, like,
we got to that moment quicker than I expected to
in a good way.
Like, there didn't need to be, like,
a whole big debate. Like when he hears Kota
tell his story, like the reality
becomes clear and then it's just like
we need to have this talk. And then when they have the talk
we already know because we live through
it. So like they let the music kind of take over
and they let the visuals kind of take over
and let you. I think that's a really
smart way, especially
in anything music oriented, music often speaks
where words alone
fall short. So
I thought that was a nice artistic moment
and a impactful emotional moment
of him. Yeah. Coming clean and
Yeah. I agree. Well, guys, let us know in the comments section. What did you think of Brother Bear?
Where does this rank on the pathion of Disney animated films? Just animated films in general.
We'd love to hear your thoughts below. Do you want Janizio, my brother bear here? And I had to react to Brother Bear 2?
I'm game. I'll try. I don't know anything about it. I would love if it's as beautiful as this.
Like, I so miss this tradition of animation. It's so bad. I would love to do the second one.
Living, breathing pieces of art are like. Do you and do you think Janitio's idea?
of Brother Fish should become a spin-off.
Brother Fish.
Let us know in the comments.
Justice for the salmon.
Yeah, or Brother Salmon,
whatever you guys think it should be called.
Let us know and below if you're still here with us.
Guys, we really appreciate you sticking with us this long.
You guys are awesome.
Be kind to one another.
Be nice to your siblings and treat people well.
All right.
See you guys next time.
Later.
Brian 79.
Brian 79.
You're new.
You're new.
Look at that.
file pick. If that's you, you look like you're be gazing upon the heavens.
It looks like the Asian guy, Mandalorian, from here.
Yeah, you mean Carson?
Oh, good for you.
Michael taught me this because so many times during, and Brian knows what I'm talking about
before we do the classic, you know, I know that you love skeleton crew.
And so many times, I was like, when's homie and the X-wing going to show up?
And finally, in the finale, he's like, his name is Carson.
They were setting up a whole thing around.
Well, B stands for bedazzled
Because we deck you out with these shoutouts
R stands for resplendent
Because that is how I feel
When gazing upon your beautiful profile pick right here
And you yourself are resplendent
I stands for
Isotope
you're radioactive bro
thank you hells you know i thought
springfield isotopes and they got the little atomic
thing so
yeah but we use an isotope program to like dialogue isolate dialogue
so i guess that's for cool people because it's got a zed in it
so it's you know isotope they're just going like i don't think sounds even have isotopes
what is a stand for
a stands for amateur which you are not
but you know it's a good conversation starter in your name it's a good chance for you
to point out all your various expertise.
And N stands for Necronomicon.
Because we know you are the true developer
of the worst evils in the world.
Just the horriblest stuff.
Let me tell you, Jay stands for Jankham.
And that's why we didn't go as far as to do
the rest of your name, because, like, who wants that in their life?
Well, that's 79 stands for one-upping 69.
Ooh, that's an even sexier position to be in if I'm interpreting this correct thing.
I can't even do it.
Brian's Jay 79.
I hope that the fallatio pleasures in your life are going according to plan.
Yeah, get some.
Thank you so much for being here.
Seriously, contributing this amount of money.
You're an all right guy, Brian, Jay 79.
Jay stands for generous.
Thank you.