Given Kenai's prejudices about bears, he is extremely unhappy to be one himself, but soon he's getting bear lessons from little Koda ( Jeremy Suarez), a cub who shows him the ropes. The opening scenes are in a conventional screen ratio of 1:85 to 1, but after Kenai becomes a bear, the colors deepen and the screen widens to 2:35 to 1, so you'd better hope your projectionist is on his toes. Denahi continues the family tradition of vengeance by tracking down Bear Kenai, in an irony that is positively Shakespearean, and no wonder, since I learn that this story was originally inspired by ' King Lear,' although the notion of three siblings seems to be all that survived.

He succeeds, but the universe proves it has a sense of justice, or perhaps of humor, by transforming Kenai himself into a bear - so that Denahi assumes it was Bear Kenai who killed Kid Brother Kenai. Kenai is counseled by the tribe's wise woman Tanana ( Joan Copeland) to accept this outcome as the will of the universe, but determines to kill the bear. Kenai doesn't like bears, and picks a fight with one that tries to steal his fishing catch he recklessly chases the bear, and when Sitka tries to protect him, the older brother is killed and is transformed into an eagle. Sitka wears an eagle, Denahi a wolf, and Kenai - well, Kenai gets a bear, and considers himself short-changed, especially when he's told that the bear represents the quality of love, which he considers pretty far down, so to speak, on the totem pole. Each wears a totem around his neck, representing the animal spirit he is identified with. Sweeney), strong-willed middle brother Denahi ( Jason Raize) and the troublesome young Kenai ( Joaquin Phoenix).

We meet three brothers: brave older brother Sitka (voice by D.B. The story begins in a Native American tribe in the Pacific Northwest, thousands of years ago.

Brother bear and brave