BROTHER BEAR (2003) ** It should be a source of amazement that honkeys can take Native American mysticism and turn it into something so simple. It's not the simplicity that's the problem-it's the shallowness-but if we're wondering why something is rendered phonetically-rather than in chords-why not approach the matter equally improperly? Therein lies a paradigm for concordant and irrelative discourse aimed wide of the presumed target, itself tangentially related to purpose. In other words less pleasant than this film, but probably as sensible and more challenging. Its heart is in the right place, and that's something too often underestimated, but every time they start getting something going Phil Collins breaks into songs desperately calculated to sound like Elton John's inferior Disney work. There is something for vanguard avatars of high art, however: Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas as Canadian elk in search of the magic potion (portion?) of barley and hops. There may be things that Moranis can't do, artistically, but if there are he's already identified them and doesn't go near there. Interior mysticism and the rapport with Levinas' "other."
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