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| The Little Polar Bear | 
 enlarge | Directors: Thilo Rothkirch, Piet De Rycker
Actors: Mijail Verona, Maximilian Artajo, Jochen Busse, Mike Krueger, Bernd Stelter
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $19.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 9494
Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled), French (Dubbed)
Rating: G (General Audience)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 78
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: WARD28453D
UPC: 085392845323
EAN: 0085392845323
ASIN: B0000V8F5Q
Theatrical Release Date: 2001
Release Date: December 2, 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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 Unimaginative December 26, 2003
11 out of 21 found this review helpful
This one's not too good. This cartoon movie tells the story of Lars, a young polar bear, who can't swim until he learns from Robbie, a friendly young seal. Lars and Robbie aren't supposed to be friends, however, because bears and seals don't get along, and the bully bears in Lars's pack convince his Dad to give him a fatherly talking-to. But Lars doesn't want to give up his friend. The resolution is Lars's idea: if the seals agree to bring fish to the bears, the bears won't attack them. I could understand teaching children that bears are predators, but the idea that the strong force the weak to pay tribute is not exactly the lesson I want my child to be learning at his age.
The next adventure starts when Lars falls asleep on the ice, which breaks off and drifts southward to some place that looks like the Amazon (with Caribbean music). There Lars befriends Old Henry the hippopotamus, who brings him to Marcus the eagle, who finally deposits him with a killer whale, who is only too glad to bring Lars back to his home.
Finally, the seals discover a major problem: all the fish in the ocean have disappeared. This naturally threatens their recent truce with the polar bears. The humans in the "village" (an Eskimo girl and her grandmother, who live in a hut with a refrigerator and eat fish sticks) can't find any fish either; a malevolent and apparently unmanned tanker is swimming through the ocean, swallowing up all the fish with some kind of mechanical jaw-device. The tanker goes on to swallow all the seals, and many of the polar bears too, until Lars decides to lure it towards a sharp rock, where it crashes, allowing everyone to escape and praise Lars.
All in all, this ranks pretty low on the imagination scale.
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