The Care Bears' Big Wish Movie
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| The Care Bears' Big Wish Movie | |
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| Directed by | Larry Jacobs Ron Pitts |
| Produced by | Cynthia Taylor Ross Maudsley (technical) |
| Written by | Jeff Schechter |
| Starring | See below |
| Music by | Score: Ian Thomas Songs: Don Breithaupt Amos Carlen Creighteon Doane Daniel Leblanc Noah Shilkin Anthony Vanderburgh |
| Editing by | Jason Cohen |
| Distributed by | DVD: Lions Gate Home Entertainment TV:  Disney Channel YTV |
| Release date(s) | October 17, 2005 (TV) October 18, 2005 (DVD) |
| Running time | 75 min |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
| Preceded by | Care Bears: Journey to Joke-a-lot (2004) |
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| United States: | Not Rated (DVD) TV-G (TV premiere) |
The Care Bears' Big Wish Movie is a direct-to-DVD CGI film from Lions Gate Home Entertainment and Nelvana Limited, released on October 18, 2005. This movie is a follow-up to the Care Bears' previous efforts in 2004's Journey to Joke-a-lot, featuring that film's same voice cast.
This is the fifth movie based on the Care Bears franchise, and marks the return of Harmony Bear from 1986's Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation, and the television series' "Great Race" episode. It is also Nelvana's last film to feature the Bears; another studio, Sabella Dern Entertainment, is working on the next installment for 2007, Oopsy Does It.[1]
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[edit] Synopsis
(from IMDb's Plot Summary Page, as written by Jeff Schechter)
Feeling sad that her fellow Care Bears don't seem to appreciate her wishes, Wish Bear uses her wish star, Twinkers, to find some bears who love wishing as much as she does. That's when three new bears move to Care-a-lot...with some very unexpected results.
[edit] Plot
The movie starts with the Care Bears hearing a tale of baby Wish Bear finding her new friend, Twinkers, as she is having a picnic in the forest. The Care Bears are touched by the tale, but are bit worried when Wish Bear uses Twinkers' powers to wish them all some popcorn. They worry it may be a frivolous use of Twinkers' power, but Wish Bear assures them she's a trained professional.
The next day, Wish Bear uses the wishing power to help out some friends in need. She wishes for plenty of rainbow sap for Share Bear and for Grumpy Bear's rocket to have lots of zoom. The wishes backfire, however, when the sap overflows and the rocket spins out of control.
A monthly meeting of the Care-a-Lot steering committee reveals a problem--the meter that measures how much caring there is in Care-a-Lot has moved towards the raincloud side. It's suggested that they have a special month of showing how much they care. Wish Bear suggests using her wishes, but is told that they don't always work out the way she intended.
Wish Bear is upset that nobody seems to like her wishes. As she laments this, she comes up with the idea of wishing for other bears who like wishing as much as she does. She makes a wish and three new bears arrive in Care-a-Lot--Me Bear, Messy Bear and Too-Loud Bear.
At first, everyone is pleased to welcome the new neighbours, but soon, things get out of control. The neighbours abuse Twinkers' power to create themselves a huge mansion and Me Bear creates an entire gift shop dedicated to herself. The wishes drain the colour right out of Care-a-Lot and, worse, Wish Bear accidentally wishes away Twinkers to the three.
The new neighbors finally realise that what they've done has messed up Care-a-Lot. However, their idea of wishing the problem away simply leads to more problems. Finally, Twinkers loses his power from exhaustion. Wish Bear uses Grumpy Bear's rocket to bring him to Big Wish in the sky. She restores his power, but not before Wish Bear assures her that she's learned her lesson.
Back in Care-a-Lot, Wish Bear tells everyone that they can't simply wish this problem away. So they all work together to make Care-a-Lot beautiful again.
[edit] TV premiere
The movie premiered on the Disney Channel (United States) and YTV (Canada) on October 17, 2005, just one day shy of its DVD release. Disney aired it at 11:00 A.M. EST; YTV's turn came two and a half hours later.[2]
[edit] Cast
- Stephanie Beard as Wish Bear
- Rob Tinkler as Grumpy Bear
- Susan Roman as Good Luck Bear
- Julie Lemieux as Funshine Bear
- Louise Vallance as Share Bear
- Athena Karkanis as Harmony Bear
- Scott McCord as Bedtime Bear
- Stephen Ouimette as Too Loud Bear
- Tracey Hoyt as Me Bear
- Ron Rubin as Messy Bear
- Richard Binsley as Twinkers
- Sunday Muse as Cheer Bear
[edit] References
- ^ Ball, Ryan (2006-09-28). AG Properties Makes [sic] MIPCOM Debut. Animation Magazine. Retrieved on 2006-09-29.
- ^ The Care Bears' Big Wish Movie at TV.com. Retrieved on 2006-02-15.
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
- Official site
- The Care Bears' Big Wish Movie at the Internet Movie Database
- The Care Bears' Big Wish Movie at Rotten Tomatoes
- The Care Bears' Big Wish Movie at All Movie Guide
- The Care Bears' Big Wish Movie at the Big Cartoon DataBase
- Trailer at VideoDetective
- Lyrics to songs for this movie and Journey to Joke-a-lot
1980s: Rock & Rule (1983) - The Care Bears Movie (1985) - Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation (1986) - The Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland (1987) - Babar: The Movie (1989)
1990s: The Legend of the North Wind (1992) - The Return of the North Wind (1994) - Pippi Longstocking (1997) - Babar: King of the Elephants (1999) - Cardcaptor Sakura: The Movie (1999)
2000s: Redwall: The Movie (2000) - Franklin and the Green Knight (2000) - Franklin's Magic Christmas (2001) - The Little Bear Movie (2001) - Rolie Polie Olie: The Great Defender of Fun (2001) - Back to School with Franklin (2003) - Rescue Heroes: The Movie (2003) - Rolie Polie Olie: The Baby Bot Chase (2003) - Care Bears: Journey to Joke-a-lot (2004) - Beyblade: The Movie - Fierce Battle (2005) - The Care Bears' Big Wish Movie (2005) - Heidi (2005) - Franklin and Granny's Secret (2006)
