Long since inside the post-ice age land when mammoths still survive, there are triad brothers known as Kenai, Denahi, & Sitka. Denahi, a middle brother, & Sitka, a oldest, operate stiff. It believe Kenai should act further & play less. Kenai, a immature, hatred bears because it fight for a equivalent food, overtake the l&, ransack his village and ruin his coming-of-age ceremony. Apiece brother is given his have totem: Sitka, the eagle of guidance; Denahi, a wolf of wisdom; and Kenai, a bear of love. Kenai scorns a totem he has been given, believing that love is non brave or even nobleman.

After Sitka is flushed inside the battle by using a bear that Kenai provoked, Tanana, the tribal shaman, officiates a funeral rite for Sitka. Suddenly Kenai ignores a village teachings of brotherhood using animate being & sets intent on hunt a bear for revenge & eventually kills it, and Kenai cut a line from either his spirit totem, and then that he might never put on it once more. To punish Kenai for this mean action, a Smashing Spirits, represented by the spirit of Sitkthe, transform him into a bear to teach Kenai just about love & brotherhood. Unluckily his more brother, world health organization was pursuing Kenai to prevent him, doesn't understand what has happened. He finds Kenai's torn fabric & believes a bear took his brother's life. Inside grief, he vows retaliation.

Disoriented & barely escaping Denahi's wrath by falling into a flow of any stream, Kenai awakens on the shore & when in contact with Tanana, world health organization eases him across his initial shock at his vary. Although she just potty't see his bear speech, she advises Kenai to buy in which a brush a mountain then that he can ask Sitka's spirit to vary him back, so she disappears while forgoing yielding him directions. To Kenai's surprise, he finds he may locate a more critters - however a just creature world health organization come uncoerced to talk to him come deuce stunned sib moose, Rutt and Tuke, world health organization come thomas more concerned inside cracking jokes at Kenai's claims to become the human than helping him. Along a way, Kenai meets a talkative, galling bear cub known as Koda, world health organization claims to underst& a way to a salmon begin in which a bears gather to fish and in which the lights seem to hug the mountain.

What follows occurs as journeying where Kenai, after non dodging Denahi world health organization is nowadays hunting him, grows like fond of the uncontrollable Koda world health organization he learns shares his spiritual beliefs. This successively puts his hate of bears around a stark perspective that forces him to reconsider, especially after he learns that Koda understands man when the equivalent kind of unsafe monsters when he himself another time believed bears to become. This culminates once it eventually email a salmon start & Kenai has a awkward case of existence surrounded by bears. Eventually, a bears quickly assume him & he successively learns just about a caring community one brute that makes his hatred seem and then dopey just as he learns to enjoy himself.

This contentment is shattered while Koda tells a story of his separation from either his mother. Kenai is appalled to underst& a story is all about a fight he and his brothers got by using a killer bear. It immediately dawns in Kenai that he is the of these that flushed Koda's mother. Within shame at deeply harming a cub he has grown to love, Kenai flees the gathering, however Koda follows & asks what's wrong. By having smashing self-reproach, Kenai confesses that he is responsible the dying of Koda's mother. Koda is overwrought & diarrhea away around grief, loss, & betrayal when ignoring Kenai's apologies & pleas for forgiveness.

Using nothing left to keep him using a bears, Kenai scales a mountain to call for a spirit of Sitka. Koda mourns alone, on a other h& has a risk encounter by having the squabbling Tuke and Rutt world health organization reconcile because of their brotherhood, which makes Koda understand the importance of his relationship by owning Kenai. Meanwhile, Denahi eventually hunt down Kenai; inside the following fight, Kodthe, getting forgiven Kenai, rushes in to help at a critical moment in the fight. Kenai struggles to protect Koda & is unforced to sacrifice himself to save a cub, very much like Koda's mother got done; sustaining this altruistic work, Kenai shows the spirits that he has deeply changed for the better & it allow Sitka to vary Kenai back into a homo.

Eventually, when Kenai revelry at his regained humanity, he understands that he may there is no hanker locate Kodthe, a cub world health organization is currently orphan eventually over again per bear he got begun to assume as a brother. Like than abandon Koda, Kenai asks Denahi that Koda needs him, & Denahi known as Kenai "little brother" instead of "baby brother", & Sitkthe transform Kenai back into a bear, & he & his brothers hug together, & say goodbye, & Koda & his mother hug together, & say goodbye.

A film terminates using Kenai as a bear, accompanied by Koda, existence welcomed back by his tribe & pressing his pawprint to a cave wall which bears a handprints of innumerable generations of more tribe members world health organization too fulfilled the vocation of their totem beast.

Critical reaction
A reaction from either film reviewers was severely mixed by using numbers of panning a film as a recap of older Disney films rather The Lion King and the 20th Century Fox film, Ice Age (although Brother Bear began production before Glacial period did), when others defended a film as a legitimate variation of the theme.

the Western reaction to the film revealed a sharply difference of opinion between Christian fundamentalists and the rest of society. a fundamentalistic reviewers attacked a film when immoral for presenting a story globe of divine spirits & promoting a idea of the fundamental spiritual equality of humanity & brute which was at odds by owning the Bible. But then, The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops praised the film as extolling a philosophy similar to St. Francis of Assisi. Additionally, laic critics world health organization liked a film praised its story as a super moral function by owning messages all about forgiveness, empathy, & brotherhood.

Of note to numbers of critics & viewers was a have of the film's aspect ratio as a storytelling device. the film begins at a standard widescreen aspect ratio of Unity.75:Ace (similar to the 1.85:1 ratio park in U.S. cinema or the 1.78:1 ratio of HDTV), while Kenai is a human; in addition, the film's art direction and color scheme are grounded in realism. When Kenai transforms into the bear twenty-two dozen proceedings into a picture, the film itself transforms too: to a CinemaScope aspect ratio of 2.35:1 and towards brighter, more fanciful colors and slightly more caricatured art direction.

Box office
Brother Bear mass produced $85,336,277 when you took its household theatrical rerun, & Disney considered the film a failure. Still, Brother Bear went around to prove to become the hit about the world, amassing $164,700,000, supplementary in worldwide pack professional than fellow Walt Disney Feature Animation Florida film Lilo and Stitch, bringing its worldwide total to $250,036,277. Additionally, its DVD release was successful, bringing in extra than 165 milliin sales on DVD & VHS sales.

Voice cast
A film star a voices of: Joaquin Phoenix as Kenai, the youngest of trine brothers world health organization gets off into the bear Jeremy Suarez as Koda, a bear cub world health organizatiin assists Kenai on his journeying to in which a Lights Touch a Earth Rick Moranis as Rutt, a amusing Canadian moose Dave Thomas as Tuke, another comical American moose Jason Raize as Denahi, the middle brother D.B. Sweeney as Sitka, the oldest brother Joan Copeland as Tanana, the priest-doctor of Kenai's tribe Michael Clarke Duncan as Tug, a caring old bear

Wil Wheaton is listed by several sources, including a Internet Movie Database (IMDb) as providing "additional voices" for the film. Willie Wheaton, a credited voice actor, occurs as different human.

Songs
"Great Spirits", performed by Tina Turner "On My Way", performed by Phil Collins "On My Way (Koda's Version)", performed by Koda (Jeremy Suarez)--this song is not on the soundtrack disc "No Way Out (Theme)", performed by Phil Collins "Look Through My Eyes", performed by Phil Collins "Transformation", performed by Phil Collins "Transformation", performed per Bulgarian Women's Choir "Welcome", performed by Phil Collins Score by Mark Mancina

Trivia
Remarkably, a film was freed in November 1 2003, a Saturday. This was done to refrain from opening the film in a Halloween Friday, as it was believed that children would like trick-or even-handle than return a moving-picture show.

Rutt & Tuke come knock-offs of Bob and Doug McKenzie, two similar brothers of American parody. As a matter of fact, it is voiced per equivalent actors.