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REUNITED AND IT FEELS SO GOOD Let's get the ''Bears'' back together!
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Release Date: Jul 26, 2002; Rated: G; Length: 88 Minutes; Genres: Comedy, Kids & Family; With: Haley Joel Osment
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Lisa Schwarzbaum
Lisa Schwarzbaum is a film critic for EW
This is a movie based on a Disney theme park attraction. This is a movie in which people in animatronic bear suits pretend to be real talking bears who were once members of a famous country music band and are now just aging, working-stiff bears. Then a preteen bear (voiced by Haley Joel Osment) who's sad because he doesn't resemble the rest of his adopted non-bear family reunites the band through a combination of flattery and nagging. It's sort of an ursine ''The Last Waltz,'' with more costumes and no direction from Martin Scorsese.
The whole talking-animal thing is grisly in The Country Bears, but there are some diversions. Christopher Walken delivers a singular, non-Method performance as a mean (non-bear) bank manager who performs an armpit-fart version of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture. And non-bear musicians including Elton John and Queen Latifah make cameo appearances.
Posted Jul 24, 2002
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