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Brother Bear 2

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Patrick Dempsey

Mandy Moore

Jeremy Suarez

Rick Moranis

Dave Thomas

Andrea Martin

Catherine O'Hara

Wanda Sykes

Wendie Malick

Kathy Najimy

Michael Clarke Duncan

Jim Cummings

Jeff Bennett

Jessie Flower

Jack Weber

Tress MacNeille

Carolyn Bates

Ben Gluck

Mary Locatell

Nick Kenway

Dave Metzger

Jim Ballantine

Peter J. Deluca

Rich Burns

Jamie Thomason

James Aaron Finch

Anthony Rocco

Leif Green

Todd Popp

Keiji Kishi

Kip B. Lewis

Libby Wilson

Matthew Jones

Nick Filippi

Kevin Harkey

Carole Holliday

Robert Lence

Carolyn Gair

Larry Leker

Chris Otsuki

Arturo A. Hernandez

Greg Guler

Ritsuko Notani

Archie Bolina

Zhiqiang Ding

Arlan S. Jewell

Vincenzo Nisco

Stefano Pastorino

Alex Casin

Jason Hand

Benoît Le Pennec

Gener Ocampo

Mark Sonntag

Lianne Hughes

Noel Cleary

Adam Murphy

Michael Badman

Silvana Ambar

Doug Ball

Christopher Brock

Barry Dean

Miguel Gil

Carolyn Guske

George Humphry

Jerry Liew

Sai Ping Lok

Pierre Lorenzi

Sara Rivers

Michael Rule

David Wang

Bernard Yohalin

James Zheng

Doug Little

Andrew Meagher

Barbara Gerety

Timothy P. Vila

Robert S. Birchard

Karen Hathaway

Tony Mizgalski

Gina Gallo

Mark A. Bollinger

Peiyu Foley

Desi Scarpone

Ronald Eng

Doug Jackson

Carol Lewis

Dana LeBlanc Frankley

Terry O'Bright

Keith Rogers

Erik Flockoi

Steven Gizicki

Dominick Certo

Jill Stirdivant

Warwick Gilbert

Dave Bossert

Robert Troy

Didn't expect this to be good, and yet it is.

<em>'Brother Bear 2'</em> can feel like a slight retread and it does the overdone Disney romance stuff, it also ends as dissatisfying as the original. With all that noted, it is actually an enjoyable and respectable sequel. The new characters are fun, as the older ones remain just that.

The animation looks similar, leaving equal impressions to the 2003 production. Patrick Dempsey is arguably better as Kenai than Joaquin Phoenix, or at least his voice suits better. The music, as much as I do like Phil Collins' efforts, is definitely improved here in my opinion.

All in all, given all that I've mentioned, it still tallies up lower than the first film. However, it does do some things well and it merits credit for that.

CinemaSerf

Now permanently a bear, "Kenai" and best buddy "Koda" are living life to the full but the former still dreams of his first love "Nita". They parted many years ago and the time has now come for her to wed. The spirits are not impressed though. They consider that she and "Kenai" are promised to each other. The only way she can appease their objections is to return to a place where he gave her an amulet, and then burn it! She seeks the pair out and together they journey to that spot, but en route they all have doubts about the best way forward and the young "Koda" fears he may lose his best friend. It's not quite as good as the first film, but it still taps into the spirituality of mankind's relationship with nature as well as humorously taking us on a few lively adventures - especially when her new beau follows and becomes increasingly miffed at what he sees. It moves along quickly and engagingly enough for just over an hour with some traditional looking animation and a fairly amiable, if maybe a little too sentimental, story.

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Patrick Dempsey

Mandy Moore

Jeremy Suarez

Rick Moranis

Dave Thomas

Andrea Martin

Catherine O'Hara

Wanda Sykes

Wendie Malick

Kathy Najimy

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