Cartoon fans Cartoon Network is back with another movie only this time they kind of didn't mean to be back so soon. I'll fully admit to not having watched an episode of the show in a long while and so I wasn't aware that there was even a movie coming out let alone a spin off in the works but after seeing the movie i'm kind of excited to see where the show goes from here and what the spin off show even becomes and so here is my review "We Bare Bears: The Movie" animation fans enjoy.
The plot of the film the bears find themselves kicked out of there home town after the residents grow tired of there antics as well as being chased by Agent Trout a nature preservationist who wants to split the brothers up. I'm going to try and keep this as spoiler free as possible but I will say that I thought the story was honestly really good but at the same time it was the kind of story you'd expect to find in a special episode of the show and not a movie.
Starring in the movie is Eric Edelstein as Grizz , Bobby Moynihan as Panda and Demetri Martin as Ice Bear. Also starring in the film is Marc Evan Jackson as Agent Trout , Keith Ferguson as Officer Murphy , Jason Lee as Charlie , Patton Oswalt as Nom Nom , Charlyne Yi as Chloe Park , Mel Rodriguez as Darrell Saragosa , Cameron Esposito as Ranger Dana Tabes , Ellie Kemper as Lucy and Sarah Sobole as Angry Kitty.
The acting in the film I felt was for a TV movie really good but at the same time I felt that it could have been alot better. The acting from the three brothers was really good with all three of them turning in really funny performances as for the rest of the actors they were fine but I felt that they weren't given enough to work with and so even tho they do the best they can they could have done alot better if the script gave them more to work with.
Now for the life of me I cannot find who's doing animation for the film but I have to assume it's the same studio that's doing the animation for the show. Sadly tho the animation is another negative for me because it looks like something you'd see in a TV show and not something that fits a movie and while many would see that as a good thing because the movie looks like the show to me its a bad thing because visually there needs to be an upgrade between the show and the movie and sadly here there isn't one.
Now this film was due to air on Cartoon Network on June 8th of this year but for some reason Cartoon Network delayed the release of the film. However online streaming services such as Amazon and Itunes and Google Play leaked the film on the day that it was due to be released and so I have to thank those services for bringing us this movie when it was originally meant to be seen but I have a feeling that Cartoon Network won't be using them when they officially release the film on demand on June 30th of this year or ever again for that matter.
Now then i'm not going to say what but if you've seen a movie adaptation of a show about a group of friends or family and it gets turned into a movie then what you think happens happens. Which I personally hated because it was so predictable and it comes right when you think it's going to happen as well it makes me wonder why a show this creative has to resort to such a cliche thing for it's first movie it's beyond cliche at this point what it is they do.
Let's talk about the villain of the film Agent Trout as played by Marc Evan Jackson in my opinion he is both very entertaining and yet very underdeveloped as a character. I honestly do feel that they could have done a better job with this character since we don't get to find out anything about this character at all he's just evil for the sake of being evil which isn't good enough and it doesn't give us a reason to hate the character.
This film is an hour and nine minuets long and that oddly feels about right for this franchise since there's not alot of story and so they don't need to stretch it to be an hour and a half long. That being said tho if they did have a slightly longer running time then they should use it to fix the issues that I had with the main villain of the film since it would make him more of a threat and not just someone for our heroes to overcome.
This is a comedy film and so that does mean that we have to talk about the jokes that are in the film itself. I honestly feel that the jokes are the best thing about this movie simply because this film had me laughing so much I cannot count the amount of times that one of the bears had me laughing because it happened that often that's how good the jokes are in this film and yes alot of them are aimed at little kids but that oddly made them more funny to me.
Overall while I cannot say that this is better then Steven Universe: The Movie I can say that I did have a good time watching this film. I honestly hope that Cartoon Network still air this film because given everything that's going on in the world right now this little distraction is what we need and when it comes out I hope alot of you watch it because it's worth watching just for the jokes in my opinion but it does have alot of flaws and so it gets a 5.5 out of 10 from me.