Synopsis
Filmmakers Alastair Fothergill and Keith Scholey chronicle a year in the lives of an Alaskan brown bear named Sky and her cubs, Scout and Amber. Their saga begins as the bears emerge from hibernation at the end of winter. As time passes, the bear family must work together to find food and stay safe from other predators, especially other bears. Although their world is exciting, it is also risky, and the cubs' survival hinges on family togetherness.
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Cast
- John C. ReillyNarrator
Recommendations
- 83
The Playlist
What's amazing about the documentary, though, is that it's oftentimes just as engaging as the Disney bears that play in jug bands or crave ooey-gooey honey. - 80
New York Daily News
A three-act story narrated by the affable John C. Reilly is grafted onto one “How’d they get that?” shot after another. - 75
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
It’s gorgeous, intimate and beautifully photographed. And it’s cute and kid-friendly, with just enough jokes to balance the drama that comes from any film that flirts with how dangerous and unforgiving The Wild actually is. - 75
USA Today
It has lighthearted moments, but is also suspenseful at the right times. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
Disneynature’s Bears combines sweeping vistas and remarkably intimate wildlife photography to typically stirring effect. - 70
Variety
Surely some of the film’s various incidents have been creatively stitched together from stray bits and pieces of footage, but its central conflict is an entirely organic one, and rarely is any offscreen string pulling distractingly evident. - 70
Los Angeles Times
Bears has warmth and fuzziness in spades, especially when the lot of them snoozes on logs. Amid its heaping serving of cuddliness, though, the film doesn't sugarcoat the harsh reality and unforgiving elements with which the bears have to contend. - 63
New York Post
This is one of those nature documentaries that’s pretty much solely interested in being entertaining, and so is cleverly edited to look like the linear story of a mother (dubbed Sky) and her newborns (Scout and Amber).
