Title Length Color Rating Essay on The White Mountains and My Brother Sam Is Dead The White Mountains and My Brother Sam Is Dead During childhood and adolescence. Brother Bear Disney Wiki. Brother Bear. Produced by. Brother Bear is a 2003 American animated fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation. Includes information on the cast and production. Chuck Williams. Written by. Tab Murphy. Lorne Cameron. David Hoselton. Steve Bencich. Ron J. Friedman. Gross revenue2. Brother Bear is a 2. American animated fantasy film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures, the 4. Disney Animated Canon. In the film, an Inuit boy named Kenai pursues a bear in revenge for a battle that he provoked in which his oldest brother, Sitka, is killed. He tracks down the bear and kills it, but the Spirits, angered by this needless death, change Kenai into a bear himself as punishment. Brother Bear 2 Movie Rating' title='Brother Bear 2 Movie Rating' />To be human again, Kenai must travel to a mountain where the Northern lights touch the earth, and learn how to see through anothers eyes, feel through anothers heart and discover the true meaning of brotherhood. Despite mixed reviews, the film was warmly received by audiences and was a box office success, grossing 2. Originally titled Bears, it was the third and final Disney animated feature produced primarily by the Feature Animation studio at Disney MGM Studios in Orlando, Florida the studio was shut down in March 2. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Feature, but lost to the fellow DisneyPixar film Finding Nemo. A sequel, Brother Bear 2, was released on August 2. Plot. The film is set in post ice age North America The US state of Alaska as well as the upper Canadian territories such as Yukon, Northwest Territories and Nunavut, where the local tribesmen believe all creatures are created through Spirits, said to appear in the form of an aurora. Three brothers, Kenai voiced by Joaquin Phoenix, Denahi voiced by Jason Raize and Sitka voiced by D. B. Sweeney, return to their tribe in order for Kenai to receive his sacred totem, its meaning being what he must achieve to call himself a man. Unlike Sitka, who gained the eagle of guidance, and Denahi who gained the wolf of wisdom, Kenai receives the bear of love, much to his objections, stating that bears are thieving monsters. He believes his point is made a fact when a bear steals some salmon. Kenai and his brothers follow the bears trail when they find the bear, Kenai recklessly throws rocks at it. Provoked, the bear attacks Kenai and he and his brothers battle the animal on a giant glacier. When the bear gets the upper hand, Sitka sacrifices himself to save his brothers by causing both himself and the bear to fall off the glacier. However, the bear survives and runs off into the woods. After Sitkas funeral, Kenai, outraged that Sitka died and the bear was allowed to live, heads out to avenge his elder brother. He chases the bear up onto a mountain and engages it in a fight, eventually stabbing it and killing it. The Spirits, represented by Sitkas spirit in the form of a bald eagle transforms Kenai into a bear after the dead bears body evaporates. Denahi arrives, and, mistaking Kenai for dead and his bear form is responsible for it, vows to avenge Kenai. Kenai falls down some river rapids, survives, and is healed by Tanana voiced by Joan Copeland, the shaman of Kenais tribe. She does not speak the bear language, but advises him to return to the mountain to find Sitka and be turned back to normal, but only when he corrects what he had done wrong she quickly disappears without an explanation. Kenai quickly discovers the wildlife can talk, meeting two brother mooses, Rutt and Tuke voiced by Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas. He gets caught in a trap, but is freed by a chatty bear cub named Koda voiced by Jeremy Suarez. The two bears make a deal, Kenai will go with Koda to a nearby salmon run and then the cub will lead Kenai to the mountain. As the two eventually form a sibling like bond, Koda reveals that his mother is missing. The two are hunted by Denahi who fails multiple times to kill Kenai, still unaware that he is his brother. Rutt and Tuke run into the bears multiple times, the group hitching a ride on a herd of mammoths to quicken the pace to the salmon run, but the moose are left behind when the bears move on. Next, the bears encounter some cave paintings, a pair of rams arguing with their own echo, and a land of geysers. Kenai and Koda escape Denahi again, and reach the salmon run, where a large number of bears live as a family, including the leader Tug voiced by the late Michael Clarke Duncan, a huge Grizzly Bear. Kenai becomes very much at home and at content with the other bears. During a discussion among the bears, Koda tells a story about his mother fighting human hunters on a glacier, making Kenai realize that the bear he killed was Kodas mother. Guilty and horrified, Kenai runs away, but Koda soon finds him. Kenai reveals the truth to Koda, who runs away heartbroken, because he is an orphan now. Unable to apologize to Koda because he cant find the cub, Kenai leaves to climb the mountain himself. Rutt and Tuke, having fallen off the mammoths Rutt having lost an antler in the process, reform their brotherhood in front of Koda, prompting him to go after Kenai. Denahi confronts Kenai on the mountain, but their fight is intervened by Koda who steals Denahis hunting spear. Kenai goes to Kodas aid out of love, prompting Sitka to appear and turn him back into a human, much to Denahi and Kodas surprise. Even though he cant talk to humans, Koda doesnt want Kenai to leave, because ever since he came into the cubs life, he has been like a brother to him. However, Kenai asks Sitka to transform him back into a bear so he can stay with Koda. Sitka complies, and Koda is reunited briefly with the spirit of his mother, before she and Sitka return to the Spirits. In the end, Kenai lives with the rest of the bears and paints his paw print on the village wall. At last, Kenai gains his title as a man, through being a bear. Voice cast. Joaquin Phoenix as Kenai, the younger brother of Sitka and Denahi. After needlessly killing a bear, Kenai is turned into one himself to teach him to see through their eyes. John E. Hurst and Byron Howard served as the supervising animators for Kenai in human and bear form respectively. Jeremy Suarez as Koda, a wisecracking grizzly bear cub, who helps Kenai on his journey to where the Lights Touch the Earth. Alex Kupershmidt served as the supervising animator for Koda. Rick Moranis as Rutt, a comic Canadian moose. Dave Thomas as Tuke, another comic Canadian moose. Jason Raize as Denahi, the middle brother. Ruben A. Aquino served as the supervising animator for Denahi and Harold Gould provided the voice of Old Denahi. D. B. Sweeney as Sitka, the oldest brother. Joan Copeland as Tanana, the shaman woman of Kenais tribe. Michael Clarke Duncan as Tug, a wise old grizzly bear. Greg Proops as Male Lover Bear. Pauley Perrette as Female Lover Bear. Estelle Harris as Old Lady Bear. Bumper Robinson as Chipmunks. Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley as Inuit Narrator Older Denahi. Frank Welker as Additional Animal Vocal Effects uncredited. Download Afro Samurai: Resurrection Movie Online. Production. In 2. Digital Media Effects reported the title of the film as Bears. An article in IGN in 2. Disney release with the title Bears as did Jim Hill of Aint It Cool News. Design and animation. The film is traditionally animated but includes some CG elements such as a salmon run and a caribou stampede. Layout artist Armand Serrano, speaking about the drawing process on the film, said that we had to do a life drawing session with live bear cubs and also outdoor drawing and painting sessions at Fort Wilderness in Florida three times a week for two months. According to Ruben Aquino, supervising animator for the character of Denahi, Denahi was originally meant to be Kenais father later this was changed to Kenais brother. Byron Howard, supervising animator for Kenai in bear form, said that earlier in production a bear named Grizz who resembles Tug in the film and is even voiced by the same person was supposed to have the role of Kenais mentor.