The World is in trouble…and it’s up to the Care Bears to save it! Starring everyone’s favorite animated characters and featuring the voices of Mickey Rooney and Georgia Engel, as well as songs performed by Carole King. The Care Bears Movie will dazzle and delight viewers of all ages. Way up high where the clouds and rainbows live, the Care Bears watch over the Earth and make sure everyone is kind and friendly to one another. So when they see an evil spirit trick a lonely boy into helping make people mean, the huggable heroes jump into action! They come to the rescue with the animals from the Forest of Feelings…but it’s going to take an awful lot of love to defeat the spirit’s powerful spell.The Care Bears were a line of multicolored teddy bears that racked up more than $200 million in retail sales in 1984. The Care Bears Movie was essentially a 75-minute commercial to introduce the new Care Bear Cousins, disguised as a smarmy story about sharing feelings. The film earned $23 million theatrically and ushered in a spate of cheap animated films created to sell merchandise to children. The plot interweaves the stories of Kim and Jason, two lonely orphans who have given up caring, and of Nicholas, a friendless magician’s assistant who’s seduced by an evil spirit. The Care Bears resolve everyone’s problems. Years later, the Care Bears’ popularity has waned and the film stands as a reminder of one of the less admirable uses of animation. The stars, hearts, rainbows, and saccharine songs can’t disguise the barefaced commercialism behind the threadbare story. –Charles Solomon
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April 4, 2010
#1
I am schooled in the age appropriateness of literature and film as an educator and now a mom. I know what my child can grasp cognitavely and emotionally, and this one just did not sit well with me at all. I hadn’t read any reviews and when my 2+ year old daughter had started to collect care bears as I did at her age, I saw this movie and decided to buy it. This movie is the reason I now read reviews on movies before I buy them for my precious children! I think I had seen this movie as a child but I did not not recall just how scary this movie is for very young children. My daughter watched it and told me she didn’t like the “evil spirit” that is the actual name of the evil character in the movie. I would fast forward through those scenes- but the scary scenes actually make up most of the movie! I hid the movie from her after I saw what it was doing to her. My child had bad dreams and wouldn’t sleep for weeks. I gave the movie to her older girl cousins who said they wanted it, but I feel bad because I know it is a horrible movie for any audience. It would have been best for preschoolers to have left the creepy villains out and kept only the care bears and cousins in a care free adventure. Not the case with this one folks! The real reason we bought the movie was to see the lovable care bears. If your kids love care bears do NOT buy this movie or they will soon become their least favorite toys- even scare bears. Trust me, it is just that bad!!If you are looking for a cutesy care bear movie-a good new one is The Care Bears Big Wish movie- my daughter enjoys that one now.
April 4, 2010
#2
This movie is the most frightening film I’ve tried to watch with my [...] daughter. It is NOT suitable for very young children. I was rather horrified by just how creepy it is. The juxtaposition of the saccharine bears with the sadistic cruel scary “spirit” is truly bizarre and could;ve been created by someone who in fact HATES children. If you are not buying this movie due to your own nostalgic desire to relive the 80′s, but to watch something sweet and cuddly with your sweet and cuddly children, be forewarned. This movie is not only bad, it’s kinda ‘bad’. Like, not in a good way. If children are not involved in the purchase- but you are reliving the 80′s or getting some really weird gift for a friend, then, you know, maybe you’ll dig it. I didn’t.
April 4, 2010
#3
I hated everything about this movie. Everyone knows that it is impossible to stand on a cloud. Filling children’s heads with such silly ideas is like telling them they can get bad grades and still be president…
April 4, 2010
#4
I though I was getting a harmless piece of fluff when I sat down to watch this movie with my 4-year old, but I was infuriated to find that it contained many scary scenes that were completely inappropriate for a preschooler. Why they felt the need to include such an overtly frightening storyline is beyond me. Plus, they obviously made this movie on the cheap. The animation is terrible! And the whole movie is designed to sell products. This is not a good movie for preschoolers.
April 4, 2010
#5
This movie is really bad on so many levels I hardly know where to start. For whatever the reason, most of the movie is involves a boy possessed by an evil spirit. Any attempt at a positive message is totally lost in the EVIL imagary and theme. Attempting to get a happy, nice movie for my young children, I ended up with a totally disturbed movie.