Brother Bear is a 2003 American animated musical/fantasy/comedy-drama film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures. It is the 44th animated feature in the Disney Animated Canon. In the film, an Alaska Native boy named Kenai pursues a bear in revenge for a battle that he provoked in which his oldest brother, Sitka, is killed. He tracks down the bear and kills it, but the Spirits, disappointed by this needless killing, change Kenai into a bear himself as a punishment. To be human again, Kenai must travel to a mountain where the Northern lights touch the earth, and learn how to see through another's eyes, feel through another's heart and discover the true meaning of brotherhood.
Despite mixed reviews from critics, the film was warmly-received by audiences and was a box office success, grossing $250 million worldwide on $46 million budget. It was better than the box office performance of the previous two films, even though it had to compete a bit with Love Actually, the infamous The Cat in the Hat and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
Originally titled Bears, it was the third and final Disney animated feature produced primarily by the Feature Animation studio at Disney-MGM Studios in Orlando, Florida, as the studio was shut down in March 2004, shortly after the release of this film in favor of computer animated features. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Feature, but lost to the fellow Disney/Pixar film Finding Nemo. A sequel, Brother Bear 2, was released in 2006. Making this as of 2020, the most recent Disney movie to get a direct-to-video sequel.
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Brother Bear received a G rating by the MPAA. This is the thirty-ninth Disney animated film to be rated as such in the US after Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Fantasia, Dumbo, Bambi, Saludos Amigos, The Three Caballeros, Make Mine Music, Fun and Fancy Free, Melody Time, The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Lady and the Tramp, Sleeping Beauty, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Sword in the Stone, The Jungle Book, The Aristocats, Robin Hood, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, The Rescuers, The Fox and the Hound, The Great Mouse Detective, Oliver & Company, The Little Mermaid, The Rescuers Down Under, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King, Pocahontas, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Hercules, Mulan, Tarzan, Fantasia 2000 and The Emperor's New Groove.
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