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The Care Bears Movie
A group of animals—four bears, a lion, a raccoon, a rabbit and an elephant—are sailing aboard a ship made of clouds. On its sails are a star and the film's title logo; two young bears, one pink and one blue, are swinging upon ropes attached to them. Above, an eagle swoops above the menagerie; a green face within a book, and several of the film's scenes (in different tints), dominate the lower portion of the artwork.
Original theatrical poster
Directed byArna Selznick
Screenplay byPeter Sauder
Produced byMichael Hirsh
Patrick Loubert
Clive A. Smith
StarringMickey Rooney
Jackie Burroughs
Georgia Engel
Sunny Besen Thrasher
Billie Mae Richards
Hadley Kay
Dan Hennessey
Marla Lukofsky
Cree Summer
Jayne Eastwood
Narrated byMickey Rooney
Edited byJim Erickson
Tom Joerin
Gordon Kidd
Stephen Mitchell
Sheila Murray
Steve Weslak
Michael O'Farrell
Music byPatricia Cullen
Production
companies
Distributed byUnited States:
The Samuel Goldwyn Company
Canada:
Astral Films[4]
Criterion Pictures Corporation[5]
Release dates
United States:
  • March 24, 1985 (1985-03-24) (Washington, D.C.)
[1]
  • March 29, 1985 (1985-03-29) (national)

Canada:
  • March 29, 1985 (1985-03-29)
Running time
75 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish
Budgetat least US$2 million[nb 1]
Box officeNorth America:
US$22,934,662[18]
Worldwide:
US$34,000,000[19]

The Care Bears Movie is a 1985 Canadian animated feature film, produced by the Toronto animation studio Nelvana. One of the first films to be based directly on a toy line, it was the first to feature the Care Bears characters, and also marked the first ever appearance of the Care Bear Cousins in the media franchise.[nb 2] The second animated feature from Nelvana (after the unsuccessful Rock & Rule), it was financed by three U.S. companies: American Greetings Corporation (AGC), the owners of the Care Bears franchise; General Mills, the toys' distributor; and television syndicator LBS Communications. In the film, a middle-aged couple at an orphanage tells some orphans a story about the Care Bears, who live in a cloud-filled land called Care-a-lot. Travelling across Earth, the Bears help two lonely children named Kim and Jason find new parents, and also save a young magician's apprentice named Nicholas from the influence of an evil spirit. Deep within a place called the Forest of Feelings, Kim, Jason and their friends are soon introduced to another group of creatures, the Care Bear Cousins.

Development of a feature film based on the Care Bears had been underway as early as 1981, at the same time the characters were first conceived. The animated Bears made their first inroads in two syndicated television specials from Atkinson Film-Arts of Ottawa. Later on, Toronto's Nelvana was the first of several studios to propose a full-length film. American Greetings eventually granted Nelvana the rights to the Care Bears characters, thanks to the studio's television specials featuring another American Greetings franchise, Strawberry Shortcake. The Toronto company spent eight months on the film; outside work was handled in Vancouver, Taiwan and Korea. The film involved a roster of Nelvana regulars, from Arna Selznick (who served as director) to the studio founders (who produced), as well as several staff members of the financing companies. Two pop music stars, Carole King and John Sebastian, contributed several songs. The voice cast included Mickey Rooney and Georgia Engel, along with Billie Mae Richards, Marla Lukofsky, Luba Goy, and Cree Summer. Towards its completion, major U.S. studios turned down the project since none saw children's films as highly profitable at the time. Eventually, newly established independent distributor The Samuel Goldwyn Company (and its eponymous founder, Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.) endorsed the idea; that company soon spent a record US$24 million promoting the picture's domestic release. A campaign, aimed at both the film's target audience of youngsters and older viewers, was backed by tie-ins from fast-food chain Pizza Hut and General Mills' Trix cereal. Two tie-in books and a soundtrack album (from Kid Stuff Records) also accompanied the film's release.

The Care Bears Movie premiered in Washington, D.C., on March 24, 1985. Five days later, on March 29, it entered wide release[nb 3] via Samuel Goldwyn (in the United States), and Astral Films and Criterion Pictures Corporation (in its native Canada). It also participated in 1985's Cannes Film Festival (in France) and USA Film Festival (in Dallas, Texas). Another Nelvana effort, Strawberry Shortcake Meets the Berrykins, played alongside the feature during its theatrical run. Reviews for the feature were mixed from the outset; critics raised concerns over its potential as a full-length advertisement for the title characters, and many of its aspects were criticised as well. Reviewers also observed influences from Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's poem The Sorcerer's Apprentice. Opening in more than 1,000 theatres across North America, the film went on to earn US$23 million in that market; to the dismay of animators at Walt Disney Animation Studios, it subsequently managed to outdraw The Black Cauldron, which had a higher cost. It was Canada's highest-grossing film during 1985 (with C$1.845 million), and won a Golden Reel Award for this achievement. Various distributors also marketed Nelvana's surprise hit across Europe, Australia and Latin America. With over US$34 million in worldwide sales, it set a box-office record for Canadian animation and non-Disney animated features; it is also among the largest releases from U.S. distributor Goldwyn.

The profitable success of The Care Bears Movie saved Nelvana from closing down, and was responsible for reviving theatrically released children's entertainment in the U.S. market. The project was cited as an example of licensed merchandise preceding a major motion picture's debut; as such, a spate of animated and live-action features based on toy lines succeeded it in the years ahead. It was followed by two more feature films, also from Nelvana—1986's A New Generation and 1987's Adventure in Wonderland—neither of which surpassed the original financially or critically. In the wake of the film's success, DIC Entertainment and Nelvana produced two television series with the characters, airing on ABC in the U.S., Global in Canada, and in syndication. After a 1988 Christmas special, the Toronto studio ceased further work on Care Bears material until 2004's Journey to Joke-a-lot.

Plot

Mr. and Mrs. Cherrywood are a middle-aged couple who run an orphanage. Mr. Cherrywood tells the orphans a story about the Care Bears and their home in the clouds called Care-a-lot. As the story starts, two of the Care Bears (Friend Bear and Secret Bear) travel around the Earth, looking for people to cheer up. They soon meet Kim and Jason, two lonely children whose parents have died. Friend and Secret introduce themselves and remind the children of their ambitions; neither of them takes interest.

Meanwhile at an amusement park, another Care Bear, Tenderheart, spots a magician's apprentice named Nicholas. While unloading a trunk of goods for his master, the "Great Fettucini", Nicholas finds an old book with a diary-style lock. When he unlocks the book, an evil spirit appears as a woman's face and starts corrupting him. With Nicholas' help, the spirit lays waste to the amusement park, and begins a quest to remove all caring from the world.

Back at Care-a-lot, some of the other bears are working on their new invention: the Rainbow Rescue Beam, a portal that can send any Bear to Earth and back. The two youngest bears, Baby Hugs and Baby Tugs, interfere with the machine and bring forth a group of unexpected visitors — Friend Bear, Secret Bear, Kim, and Jason. The Bears introduce themselves to the children, and give them a tour of their home. Tenderheart soon returns before a "Cloud Quake", caused by the spirit, ruins Care-a-lot; he informs the others of Nicholas' troubles on Earth. Bringing them to the Rescue Beam, he sends Kim and Jason to the park, along with Friend Bear and Secret Bear; the four of them end up in the Forest of Feelings after the portal malfunctions. From a nearby river, the rest of the Care Bears begin searching for the group aboard a cloud ship.

Within the Forest, the children and their friends are introduced to Brave Heart Lion and Playful Heart Monkey, two of the Care Bear Cousins. Later on, the other Bears discover more of these creatures, among them Cozy Heart Penguin, Lotsa Heart Elephant, Swift Heart Rabbit, and Bright Heart Raccoon. During their stay, the spirit attacks them in several guises—as a spearfish, a tree, and an eagle. After the Care Bears and their Cousins defeat it, the friends venture back to Earth to save Nicholas from the spirit's influence.

At the park, Nicholas obtains the ingredients for his spell against the children and the creatures. After he casts it, the Care Bears and company engage in a long battle. The bears shoot beams of bright light on him, forming their "Stare"; the Cousins help with their Call. As the creatures' power drains out, Nicholas and the spirit briefly regain control. But after Kim and Jason assist him, the apprentice finally realises his misdeeds; with Secret Bear's help, he closes the spirit's face back into the book and saves himself, the park and the world. Nicholas thanks the group and reunites with Fettucini, while Tenderheart Bear inducts the Care Bear Cousins into the Care Bear Family, and Kim and Jason find new parents at one of Nicholas' shows.

After Mr. Cherrywood finishes his story and looks over the orphans, his wife reveals his first name, Nicholas, before both head to sleep. Tenderheart Bear, who has been listening from outside a window, returns to Care-a-lot in his Cloud Mobile. The film ends with every member of the Care Bear Family waving good-bye.

Cast

Name Character Source
Mickey Rooney Mr. Nicholas Cherrywood / Narrator [3][23][24]
Jackie Burroughs The Spirit [3][23]
Georgia Engel Love-a-lot Bear [3][23]
Sunny Besen Thrasher Jason [3][23]
Eva Almos Friend Bear / Swift Heart Rabbit [3][16][25]
Patricia Black Share Bear / Funshine Bear [3][16]
Melleny Brown Birthday Bear [3][16]
Bob Dermer[nb 4] Grumpy Bear [3][25]
Jayne Eastwood Additional voices [3]
Anni Evans Additional voices [3]
Gloria Figura Additional voices [3]
Cree Summer[nb 5] Kim [3][25]
Brian George Additional voices [3]
Janet-Laine Green Wish Bear [3][25]
Luba Goy Lotsa Heart Elephant / Gentle Heart Lamb [3][25]
Terri Hawkes Baby Hugs Bear [3][26]
Dan Hennessey Brave Heart Lion [3][25]
Jim Henshaw Bright Heart Raccoon [3][25]
Hadley Kay Young Nicholas [3][25]
Marla Lukofsky Good Luck Bear / Playful Heart Monkey [3][25]
Pauline Rennie Grams Bear / Cozy Heart Penguin / Treat Heart Pig [3][25]
Billie Mae Richards Tenderheart Bear [3][25]
Brent Titcomb Additional voices [3]
Harry Dean Stanton Brave Heart Lion (singing voice) [3][16]

Production

Development

The Care Bears were created in 1981 by Those Characters from Cleveland (TCFC), a division of the Cleveland greeting card company American Greetings Corporation (AGC).[16] That same year, the title characters made their debut on greeting cards by Elena Kucharik,[27] while American Greetings began to develop a feature-length film with those characters.[9] Kucharik, along with Linda Denham,[28] Linda Edwards, Muriel Fahrion, Dave Polter, Tom Schneider, Ralph Shaffer and Clark Wiley, created the original characters.[3][29] Early in their tenure, the Bears appeared as toys from the Kenner company,[30] and starred in two syndicated television specials from a Canadian animation studio, Atkinson Film-Arts of Ottawa: The Care Bears in the Land Without Feelings (1983)[31] and The Care Bears Battle the Freeze Machine (1984).[32]

After the specials, production of their first feature took place at another Canadian outlet, Toronto's Nelvana studio. This came early in an era which Nelvana co-founder Michael Hirsh refers to as its "dark years".[33][nb 6] At the time, Nelvana had just finished production of its first full-length film, 1983's Rock & Rule, which was produced using almost all of its resources (for around US$8 million)[14][35] and failed to find proper distribution.[16] Soon after that film put them on the verge of closing down, the Nelvana team began doing work on television shows like Inspector Gadget (from DIC Entertainment),[33][36] 20 Minute Workout (from Orion Television)[36] and Mr. Microchip.[33] During this period, they also made syndicated specials based on American Greetings properties: Strawberry Shortcake,[14] The Get Along Gang,[37] and Herself the Elf.[38] "In some instances," noted Harvey Levin, vice-president of marketing and entertainment communications at Those Characters from Cleveland,[39] "their capabilities [on the Strawberry Shortcake specials] surpassed Disney quality."[14] Nelvana was the first company to propose a feature film based on the Care Bears, and wanted to do it after hearing it was in development;[40] DIC Enteratinment also vied to produce it.[40] Thanks to the Strawberry Shortcake specials[35] and their experience on Rock & Rule,[10] Nelvana acquired the rights to the characters[33] and gained a contract from American Greetings[14] to helm the script.[10] To convince the production partnership of TCFC and Kenner Toys, Hirsh held a competition inspired by Pepsi-Cola's "Pepsi Challenge" commercials of the time, in which he tested clips from Nelvana and other vying studios and checked the "animation quality, music, sound effects, and colour" within each. He then asked the producers to decide on the best demo, and Nelvana scored highest. Hirsh later recalled the words of his partners: "We know you've rigged this against everybody else because you've chosen the clips. But we like the approach."[10]

Crew and companies

The Care Bears Movie was one of the first films to be based directly from an established toy line.[41] It featured the ten original Bears, along with six additions to the lineup,[14] and (as stated in the opening credits)[3] marked the media debut of the Care Bear Cousins.[2] The film was financed by American Greetings, the owners of the Care Bears franchise; General Mills, the toys' distributor; and television syndicator LBS Communications.[2][8][nb 1] The Kenner company also took part in the production.[2][10] Brought in under budget, The Care Bears Movie became Nelvana's second feature-length production,[42] and was made over an eight-month period[10][33] that lasted until February 1985.[23] Michael Hirsh is quoted as saying in Daniel Stoffman's 2002 book, The Nelvana Story: "Nobody had ever made an animated movie for theatrical release for as little money and in as little time."[10] In 2009, his partner Clive A. Smith told Canadian Business magazine: "I swear I grimaced at the thought of doing a Care Bears feature. But Michael [Hirsh] went out and actually brought that project in."[43] Nelvana was also responsible for the script,[44] along with several special effects including those for the "Care Bear Stare",[45] and also hired musicians and voice actors.[44] With this project, Arna Selznick became the third of only four women ever to direct an animated feature;[16][nb 7] prior to this, she worked on several Nelvana productions, including Strawberry Shortcake and the Baby Without a Name.[16] Nelvana's founders—Michael Hirsh, Patrick Loubert and Clive A. Smith—participated as the main producers.[3][16][47][48] The studio's roster also included Charles Bonifacio, the director of animation,[3] and supervising animator David Brewster,[3] who previously took part in the animation courses at Ontario's Sheridan College.[6]

Four employees of the film's financiers served as executive producers:[3] Louis Gioia Jr., president of Kenner's Marketing Services division;[49][nb 8] Jack Chojnacki, co-president of Those Characters from Cleveland;[50] Carole MacGillvray, who became president of General Mills' M.A.D. (Marketing and Design) division in February 1984;[51] and Robert Unkel, LBS' senior vice-president of programming.[52] A fifth one, American Greetings staffer W. Ray Peterson, went uncredited.[3][53] Three associate producers worked on the film:[3][23] Paul Pressler, another employee at Kenner;[54] John Bohach, who later became LBS' executive vice-president;[55] and Harvey Levin.[3] Lenora Hume, the director of photography on Rock & Rule,[56] was the supervising producer.[3][23]

Animation

Along with Inspector Gadget,[36] The Care Bears Movie was Nelvana's first foray into animation outsourcing.[10] Production took place at Nelvana's facilities;[47] Taiwan's Wang Film Productions (Cuckoo's Nest Studio);[3][57] and the newly established Hanho Heung-Up and Mihahn studios in South Korea.[3] Delaney and Friends, a Vancouver-based outlet, did uncredited work.[3][58] Nelvana faced several problems with their Korean contractors,[10] among them the language barrier between the Canadian crew and the overseas staff,[10] and the unwieldy processes through which the film reels were shipped back to the West.[59] At one point, Patrick Loubert, Clive A. Smith and fellow staffer David Altman spent three days trying to persuade several unpaid animators to return important layout sketches back to them. In exchange for the layouts, Nelvana gave them US$20,000 in Korean won.[60] By then, the production was falling behind schedule, and an opening date was already underway; Loubert sent half of the work to Taiwan (where Lenora Hume supervised), while the remainder stayed in Korea under Loubert's and Smith's watch.[61]

Back in the Americas, Hirsh tried to promote the unfinished feature before its deadline; unable to get available footage, he instead managed to show potential marketers some Leica reels and a few moments of completed colour animation.[62] According to him, it was the first time an animated "work in progress" was screened to exhibitors; this ploy has since been used by the Disney company,[62] particularly in the case of Beauty and the Beast (at the 1991 New York Film Festival).[63] "People loved the movie anyway," he said of this experiment. "I was told it was considered great salesmanship. It made [them] feel that they were part of the process because they were seeing unfinished work."[62]

Music

Untitled

The music for The Care Bears Movie was composed by Patricia Cullen.[3][47] The film's soundtrack album was released in LP and cassette format[65] by Kid Stuff Records in the United States,[65][66] and on Cherry Lane Records in the United Kingdom.[67] The film's six songs were performed by Carole King, John Sebastian, NRBQ and the Tower of Power;[3] actor Harry Dean Stanton had a guest appearance as Brave Heart Lion for the song "Home is in Your Heart".[3] The songs were produced by Lou Adler and John Sebastian, with additional lyrics and music by Ken Stephenson, Walt Woodward and David Bird;[3] Nelvana crewmember Peter Hudecki prepared the song sequences.[3]

Before The Care Bears Movie, Sebastian contributed to several other Nelvana specials, including 1978's The Devil and Daniel Mouse. When asked to compose three tracks for the film, he learned about the characters since he was unfamiliar with the franchise. Despite his misgivings on the marketing aspects, Sebastian said in April 1985, "I think their central theme—being candid about your feelings, sharing your feelings—is a very positive message for children."[68]

Adele Freedman of Toronto's The Globe and Mail wrote positively about the music in the film:

A lot of caring has gone into the soundtrack. It doesn't attack the eardrum in the manner of so much current kids' stuff. It supposes that a child's ear can discriminate between good music and aural pollution as well as anybody else's. Carole King (of Tapestry fame) wrote and performed the theme song, "Nobody Cares Like A Bear". [sic] The remaining songs, written by John Sebastian, are likewise entertaining and imaginatively arranged. The music does a lot to make the kingdom of Care-a-lot, where the goody-goody bears hang out on clouds monitoring life below on their Caring Meter, a slightly less irritable place.[24]

Other critics tended to differ. The Houston Chronicle's Stephen Hunter insisted that "the film integrates its music into the story very clumsily. It's not merely that the numbers are forgettable—they are—it's that they're shoe-horned so obviously into the story that they don't amplify it, they stop it cold."[69] Likewise, Michael Blowen of The Boston Globe said that "the uninspired songs [...] add nothing to the banal plot."[70]

Song Writer Performer(s) Producer
"Care-a-lot" Carole King Carole King Lou Adler
"Home Is in Your Heart" Carole King Carole King
Louise Goffin
Robbie Kondor
Levi Larky
Harry Dean Stanton		 Lou Adler
"Nobody Cares Like a Bear" John Sebastian John Sebastian John Sebastian
"When You Care, You're Not Afraid to Try" John Sebastian John Sebastian
Cast		 John Sebastian
"Look Out! He's After You!" Walt Woodward
David Bird
Ken Stephenson (additional lyrics)		 Walt Woodward
David Bird
Becky Goldstein
Susan Kross
Anne Marie Prunty
Christine Selbert
NRBQ
Tower of Power		 Walt Woodward
"In a Care Bear Family" John Sebastian John Sebastian John Sebastian

Release

A blue rabbit stands upon one of the branches of a possessed tree, looking at its menacing face.
Swift Heart Rabbit staring at the Spirit's spell possessing a tree. An element from this scene was featured in an advertising campaign aimed at the film's potential older viewers, despite its target audience being young children.[71]

In 1984, before the film's completion, Carole MacGillvray offered The Care Bears Movie for consideration to major studios in the U.S.[71] Since they did not see the financial potential in a picture aimed strictly for children, they declined the offer.[8] MacGillvray told Adweek magazine in April 1985, "I made several trips, and I was really disappointed. They kept telling me things like 'Animated movies won't sell' and 'Maybe we'd consider it if you were Disney,' but most just said, 'You're very nice, good-bye.' "[71] When few takers were left, she took it to the Samuel Goldwyn Company.[8][71] A newcomer in the independent market, it agreed to release the film.[8] Comparing the title characters' appeal to Hollywood stars like Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford,[13] founder Samuel Goldwyn, Jr. remarked: "Having my [two] children, I know these bears are stars, too."[8]

According to the 1985 edition of Guinness Film Facts and Feats, the Samuel Goldwyn Company spent up to US$24 million on the publicity budget for The Care Bears Movie, the largest at that time.[72][nb 9] For the film's promotion, Goldwyn's staff partnered with Kenner Toys and the fast food chain Pizza Hut; there were also tie-ins on Trix cereal boxes.[71] In addition, Parker Brothers published two tie-in books, Meet the Care Bear Cousins (ISBN 0-910313-98-9) and Keep On Caring (ISBN 0-910313-84-9), shortly after the film's release;[73][74] both were reissued in October 1985 by Childrens Press.[75][76]

The Goldwyn staff also came up with two advertising strategies, which tested well with the company—one was aimed at the film's target audience of children as young as age five; another targeted grown-ups, parents, and older children.[71] In the words of Cliff Hauser, the distributor's executive director of marketing, "We didn't want parents to think the movie was threatening. So the big debate was—although the formula for success in animated film is the triumph of good over evil—how can you do that in single-image ads?"[71] Jeff Lipsky, vice-president of theatrical at Goldwyn, referred to the first one as "the cheery approach"; ads therein featured the Care Bears on clouds, and carried the tagline "A movie that'll make the whole family care-a-lot". Hauser said, "That's one that a mother can look at and know she can take the 2-year-old to it and not worry."[71] The other campaign, which Lipsky called "more Disney-esque", featured an evil tree whose hands reached out to capture the Bears; its tagline, "What happens when the world stops caring?",[71] was also seen on the official poster. Bingham Ray, Goldwyn's vice-president of distribution, was also involved in the promotional efforts.[77]

Around opening time, Michael Hirsh predicted that The Care Bears Movie would be its decade's response to Pinocchio and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, both from Walt Disney Productions.[45] Patrick Loubert added, "These characters say something important to children. Our challenge has been to create a very distinct character for each Care Bear. A lot of effort went into bringing out their individuality."[45] Some time afterward, Hirsh conceded that parents had to come to the film, out of respect for the dark content within. "Frightening scenes," he said, "are a necessity for the reality of the hero and villain—just as it works in nursery rhymes. Kids work out their fears this way."[78] TCFC's Jack Chojnacki offered this vindication in the Wall Street Journal: "We consider a film one of the many products we license. When we started the whole Care Bears project we knew the importance of bears in the market but that there was a void. There were no specific bears. In the movie marketplace there was a void for good family-fare films."[8] And, in the words of Carole MacGillvray, "Toy recognition drives this movie."[8]

North America

"Nelvana has proven that pure, wholesome entertainment for the 2-to-10 age group can be successful."

Edward Hansen, vice-president of animation, administration and production for Disney[14]

"[W]hen watching a movie as sweet and tasty as The Care Bears Movie, a 4-year-old girl needs to have all the luxuries a Saturday matinee brings to stay in the right mood."

Dan Bennett, in a San Diego Union-Tribune report on the film's popularity with young viewers[79]

"The Care Bears Movie has become a word-of-mouth success—out of the mouths of babes, so to speak."

Betsy Sharkey[71]

The Care Bears Movie premiered in Washington, D.C., on March 24, 1985, as part of a Special Olympics benefit;[1] Georgia Engel, the voice of Love-a-lot Bear, attended this event.[80] The film opened on March 29, 1985, in the United States and Canada,[18][81] as Nelvana's first widely released feature.[45] It became surprisingly successful at the North American box office,[82] playing primarily at matinees[17][82] and early evening showings.[78][83][nb 10] At the time, the North American film industry was bereft of children's and family fare;[8][78][85] with The Care Bears Movie, Michael Hirsh said, "There's such a large audience for a film that appeals primarily to 6-year-olds."[82] He remarked later on, "What we've done [at Nelvana] is tailor the film to a pre-literate audience, the very young. It's interesting to see the audience. The kids are fixated on the screen. [It's] awesome to them."[78] Clive A. Smith observed that some children came to showings with their Bears; despite this, long lines held back its audience in several cities.[14] When shown in theatres, the feature was immediately followed by Nelvana's TV special, Strawberry Shortcake Meets the Berrykins.[86] Among those attending the matinee screenings was John Waters, a filmmaker known for Pink Flamingos and Polyester.[87] The film also made an appearance at the USA Film Festival in Dallas, Texas, during its release.[88]

The Care Bears Movie ranked fourth at the North American box office on its first two weekends, grossing US$3.7 million and US$3.2 million respectively.[89][90][nb 1] It was screened in 1,003 venues during its first four weeks.[91][92] After three months, it grossed about US$23 million in the United States,[18][81][nb 11] and placed 40th among 1985's major films;[94] it brought in US$9,435,000 in rentals for the Goldwyn company.[95] In Canada, the film was released by Astral Films[4] and Criterion Pictures Corporation,[5] and made C$1,845,000 by the end of 1985.[96][97] It was the year's highest-grossing release in that market, followed by Disney's One Magic Christmas and a Quebec production called Le Matou.[96]

Several months after The Care Bears Movie, Walt Disney Pictures released its animated feature The Black Cauldron. Costing US$25 million, it was the most expensive animated film of its time,[98] but grossed nearly as much as Nelvana's production (US$21.3 million).[99] As a result, The Care Bears Movie's performance alarmed animators at the Walt Disney Studios;[7] Don Bluth, a former recruit, dismissed the "public taste" factor that it demonstrated.[100] Another animator, Ron Clements, later reflected on this: "Everyone was kind of scared about the future of Disney animation. It wasn't a good time. It was really a terrible time."[101] This sentiment was echoed in Waking Sleeping Beauty, Disney's 2010 documentary on the revival of its animation unit.[102] While comparing The Black Cauldron with The Care Bears Movie, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution singled out the "putrid pastels" of Nelvana's production and commented that they "don't even deserve to be mentioned in the same review."[103] Months afterward, however, a re-issue of Disney's One Hundred and One Dalmatians surpassed both The Care Bears Movie and The Black Cauldron with over US$30 million in sales.[104][105]

By 1989, The Care Bears Movie made over US$34 million worldwide, according to Maclean's magazine;[19][nb 12][nb 13] this made it the highest-grossing animated feature film to come from Canada.[107] It became the highest-grossing animated film not produced by the Disney company,[107] surpassing the US$11 million of Atlantic Entertainment Group's 1983 release The Smurfs and the Magic Flute;[108] Don Bluth's An American Tail (1986)[33] and The Land Before Time (1988)[109] later took over this position. As of 2024, that title is held by DreamWorks Animation's Shrek 2 (2004) with US$441 million.[110] The film virtually saved a fledgling Nelvana from going out of business,[47][48] and was the company's highest-grossing venture;[nb 14] it is also among the highest-grossing releases from either incarnation of Samuel Goldwyn.[114][115]

Sometime after the film's release, Children's Video Library (a division of Vestron Video) picked up the video rights to The Care Bears Movie for US$1.8 million.[116] It was released in the United States on July 10, 1985, on both videocassette and Betamax formats.[117] On August 10, 1985, it debuted in 26th place on Billboard's Top Videocassette Rentals chart.[118] It ranked fourth on the first edition of the magazine's Top Kid Video chart (on October 5).[119] It was tracked by Video Insider's children's chart (on August 30, 1985), as one of five toy-related titles on tape (along with two compilations of Hasbro's Transformers series; another with Hallmark Cards' Rainbow Brite; and the last with Strawberry Shortcake).[2] By 1988, Vestron's edition sold over 140,000 copies.[120] In 1990, Video Treasures reissued it on videocassette;[121] on October 10, 1995, Hallmark Home Entertainment published another VHS edition as part of a six-title package from Goldwyn and Britain's Rank Organisation.[122]

On September 5, 2000, MGM Home Entertainment re-released the film on video as part of its Family Entertainment Collection;[123][nb 15] the DVD edition premiered on August 6, 2002, and was packaged with the 1978 British family film The Water Babies.[126] In 2003, the film was inducted into the MGM Kids line.[127] In honour of the Care Bears' 25th anniversary, another DVD edition of the film was released on March 20, 2007, with restored picture quality, and contained the franchise's second Atkinson Film-Arts special, The Care Bears Battle the Freeze Machine, as an extra.[128] American Greetings also launched an official anniversary website and a Dodge Grand Caravan giveaway as part of the proceedings.[129] By 2007, home video sales of The Care Bears Movie totalled over five million units.[130]

The Care Bears Movie was scheduled to premiere on the U.S. premium television network, Disney Channel, in June 1986,[131] but did so one month in advance.[132] In September 1987, the film made its terrestrial broadcast premiere on the ABC network's Saturday morning schedule.[133] It also aired on American Movie Classics in July 1991,[134] and on Showtime[135] and The Movie Channel[136] in the 2000s. The film aired on Starz Entertainment's Encore channel in September 2007, as part of its "Big '80s" Labour Day marathon chronicling various releases from that decade.[137] In October 1994, it was among the first films shown on Canada's Moviepix channel.[138]

Overseas

Amid the U.S. and Canadian success of The Care Bears Movie, Goldwyn took the film to the 38th edition of the Cannes Film Festival, where it was highly received;[139] a group of costumed Care Bears strolled along the Croisette in order to promote it.[8][140][141] Among its overseas distributors was Germany's Filmwelt, which released it on March 20, 1986, under the title Der Glücksbärchi Film.[142] It sold 538,487 tickets in that territory, placing 47th among new releases, and grossed over €2,051,600 (the equivalent of DM4,013,000, or US$2,868,000).[143][144][nb 16][nb 17] The film was released on VHS in October 1986 by the local division of CBS/Fox Video, and aired on national broadcaster ARD during the 1988 Christmas season.[142]

The Care Bears Movie was released in the United Kingdom by Miracle Films[146] (in August 1985),[147] and did well in matinee-only engagements;[44] a video edition from Vestron's local branch came out some months later.[148] In February 1986,[149] the film was released by France's Artédis under the franchise name Les Bisounours;[29] publishing rights were held by Hachette Livre.[149] It opened on March 20, 1986, in the Netherlands as De Troetelbeertjes.[150] On July 21, 1986, the Bermudez de Castro company opened the film in Madrid, Spain, as Los osos amorosos; it grossed €142,606 from 93,294 admissions.[151] Among that country's Catalan speakers, it is known as Els Óssos Amorosos.[152] The film was released in Czechoslovakia by Ústřední půjčovna filmů on December 1, 1988, as Starostliví medvídci.[153] It was also advertised in Italy as Orsetti del cuore,[154] and in Poland as Opowieść o Troskliwych Misiach.[155]

In Mexico, The Care Bears Movie was released on April 24, 1986, as Los ositos cariñositos.[156] In Brazil, the film was promoted as As novas aventuras dos ursinhos carinhosos.[157] Television airings occurred on Australia's Nine Network in 1987,[158] and Malaysia's TV2 (in August 1993)[159] and Disney Channel (in April 2002).[160]

Aftermath

Unlike Rock & Rule (which Nelvana owned outright),[36][62] The Care Bears Movie was the property of American Greetings, who paid Nelvana a service fee to work on the film.[62] Nelvana, however, hardly received any profits from the production; this caused its founders to express regret about the situation.[84] In The Nelvana Story, Patrick Loubert explained the catch-22 that they would face numerous times in the years to come: "We could have waived our fee and taken a big piece of the film. We were offered that deal. But if we had waived the fee, we couldn't have made the payroll. Once the picture was hugely successful, we thought we should have waived the fee. But we couldn't have."[84] At the time of production, Nelvana had begun embarking on service work that other companies provided them,[36] not only to help ease the debts the studio incurred after Rock & Rule,[161][162] but also because it proved profitable in due time.[36][84][162]

Reception

Critical analysis

"Movies for 6-year-old girls are as scarce these days as hot fudge sundaes in the Sahara and, if The Care Bears Movie satisfies a first-grader's craving for diversion, then I am satisfied."

Scott Cain, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution[163]

"No one but a grinch would point out that The Care Bears Movie has a strange similarity to a 75-minute commercial for the snuggly little greeting card varmints on which it is based.

"No one but a craven wretch would stoop to pointing out that the animation in this theatrical release is no better than the goshawful techniques used to grind out those despicable Saturday morning TV cartoons. After all, even the Disney people aren't making them like the Disney people used to do."

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette[164]

"Understand that Care Bears: The Movie simply and logically in the merchandisers' minds follows Care Bears: The Pyjamas, Care Bears: The Lunchboxes, Care Bears: The Pillow Cases and, of course, Care Bears: The Bears, the stuffed toys that started it all."

Joe Fox, The Windsor Star[165]

"These multi-coloured ursine cartoon characters, with names like Funshine Bear, Love-a-lot Bear, Baby Hugs Bear—I won't go on—are about as nourishing for children as sugar is for their teeth. Why even the Americans should bother to create this syrupy bear garden called Care-a-lot, dripping with singing quadrupeds who want to save the world from evil, is a mystery to anyone who has seen the fun and fibre that can be obtained from infinitely better children's stories, especially the droll moral fables in Winnie the Pooh."

Lain Johnstone, The Times[147]

During its original release, The Care Bears Movie had varying degrees of success with critics.[166] The New York Times' Richard Grenier wrote, "[The film] recalls vintage Walt Disney, both in substance and in the style of hand animation."[167] Rick Lyman of Knight Ridder News Services said in his review: "Any movie—even an animated one—that has characters with names such as Funshine Bear, Love-a-lot Bear, and Lotsa Heart Elephant is obviously going to rank quite high on the cute meter. And this one sends the needle right off the chart. You've never seen such cuteness."[168] Adele Freedman also gave it a positive review, commenting: "[It] has a lot going for it if you can tolerate the Bears."[24] Edward Jones of Virginia's The Free Lance-Star praised it, but stated that "More comedy would have helped broaden [its] appeal to older youngsters."[169] The Deseret News of Utah gave it three stars out of four (a "Good" grade) with this comment: "Sticky sweet, but a nice message."[170]

Michael Blowen began his review of the film by stating that "[it] satisfies the primary obligation of a bedtime story—before it's half over the children will be fast asleep." He added that "this sugar-coated trifle could only satisfy the most ardent Care Bears fan", and that "the characters themselves lack definition".[70] The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette said, "Who except a callous scrooge would carp about the fact that The Care Bears Movie espouses a psychopop philosophy of 'sharing our feelings' that seems drawn straight from the pages on one of those insufferable self-motivation tomes? No one, that's who."[164] In the words of The Washington Post reviewer Paul Attanasio, "The best cartoons recognize the dark side of kids, their penchant for violence, their fearful fantasies. [This movie] just patronizes them. It even has a child chortling, 'Aren't parents great!' Well, they are and they aren't, and kids know that."[171]

The animation in the film received mixed reviews as well. Adele Freedman praised the style and backgrounds, and called the special effects "stunning".[24] Likewise, John Stanley wrote that "The style is cartoonish and cute" in his 1988 film guide, Revenge of the Creature Features.[172] While complimenting it as "a harmless film diversion", Stephen Hunter said that "the movie has the lustrous, glossy look of the very best in children's book illustrations". "On the other hand," he added, "the producers obviously couldn't afford an expensive [multiplane] camera, the staple of the Disney product, and so the scenes have a depressing flatness to them. And the backgrounds, so brilliantly developed in Disney, tend to be blurry and hastily done."[69] Jim Moorhead of Florida's The Evening Independent said, "[Nelvana's] animation is not the best. Far from it. Everything's in pastels, fine details are largely missing, mouth movements are minimal and the motions of the figures are scarcely better than some of those awful Saturday morning cartoons on TV."[173] The staff at Variety magazine stated that the "style ... tends towards a primer reading level."[174] Halliwell's Film Guide called it "sluggishly animated and narrated, with appeal to nobody over five years old".[175] As with the Atlanta Journal Constitution,[103] The New York Times' Janet Maslin found that the quality paled in comparison to Disney features (in this case, 1940's Pinocchio).[176]

The Los Angeles Times' Charles Solomon (in his 1989 book Enchanted Drawings: The History of Animation),[85] and Michael Janusonis of Rhode Island's Providence Journal,[177] faulted the plot. The Evening Independent's Moorhead[173] and Jim Davidson of the Pittsburgh Press[178] noticed at least two parallel storylines in the film, one of which involved the magician Nicholas. The National Coalition on Television Violence counted at least 20 acts of violence throughout the picture.[179]

Critics questioned its purpose as a feature-length advertisement for Care Bears merchandise;[180] among them were Charles Solomon,[85] Paul Attanasio,[171] and Bill Cosford of The Miami Herald.[181] The Boca Raton News' Skip Sheffield commented, "I couldn't help being bothered by the blatant commercialism of this whole venture."[182] The British magazine Films and Filming remarked: "The purpose of the film is presumably to sell more toys as it unashamedly pushes the message that without at least one Care Bear around life can be very lonely."[183]

Film critic Leonard Maltin gave it two stars out of four in his Movie Guide. He expressed that it was "strictly for toddlers, [and] tough sledding for anyone older".[184] The 1986 International Film Guide called it "an elementary piece of animation lacking colour and character, with not much humour, quite lacking in charm, and indifferently scored".[185] The Gale Group publication, VideoHound's Golden Movie Retriever, gave it two bones out of four in its 1997 edition.[186][nb 18] According to Derek Owen of Time Out's Film Guide, "Adults forced to accompany three-year-olds to the movie would have had a little moment of satisfaction when the time came to shovel the Care Bears toys out of the house into landfill sites."[188]

The mixed reception carried on in the years ahead: in her 1995 book Inside Kidvid, Loretta MacAlpine said of the film and its subsequent follow-ups, "If you can hack the sugarcoated attitudes of this group of cuddly bears, more power to you! There's nothing insidious about the Care Bears, but their overbearing sweetness may not appeal to all viewers." She also cautioned parents of the merchandising aspect behind the tapes.[189] Dave Gathman of Illinois' Courier-News wrote in 1998, "One Care Bears Movie ... can give all G-rated entertainment a bad name."[190] In 2003, the Erie Times-News acknowledged its financial success, but commented on its "lack of a creative title".[191] Animation expert Jerry Beck wrote in his 2005 book, The Animated Movie Guide, "It's a simple, serviceable adventure with several standout sequences. ... There's no doubt about it, this is a children's film aimed at the under-seven crowd. But it's one of the better animated children's films produced during this period."[16]

Accolades

At the 1985 Genie Awards in its native Canada, The Care Bears Movie won the Golden Reel Award for being the country's highest-grossing film of the year.[97] Ron Cohen, president of the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, presented the award[192] to producers Hirsh, Loubert and Smith.[193] John Sebastian's "Nobody Cares Like a Bear" received a Genie nomination for Best Original Song;[194] his performance was part of CBC's live telecast of the ceremony (on March 20, 1986).[195] The film also got a Young Artist Award nomination for "Best Family Animation Series or Special", but lost to the CBS series The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show.[196]

Allusions

A green face, resembling that of a woman, is resting upon a book; the pages on either side are marked with Runic-like inscriptions. A cunning smile runs across her face, and her yellow eyes are looking upward.
Critics of the film saw comparisons between the Spirit (voiced by Jackie Burroughs) and two characters from Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.[69][169][173][174]

In his Christian Science Monitor review, David Sterritt observed that The Care Bears Movie was mostly influenced by The Sorcerer's Apprentice, a 1797 poem by German author Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, along with "a trace of H. P. Lovecraft "that probably wasn't intended". He went on to say, "I also noticed a subtle sexism at work. Why must it be the little girl [Kim] who dreams of being a nurse and the little boy [Jason] of being a jet pilot—and not the other way around, to stimulate young imaginations instead of echoing past patterns?"[197] Blowen wrote that the two children both get turned "from cynics to idealists".[70] Joe Fox of Ontario's The Windsor Star, and Stephen Hunter, compared the Bears' home of Care-a-lot to King Arthur's mythical castle of Camelot;[165] Blowen commented that in this place, "altruism is king".[70] Hunter noted that "the celestial physics are left vague", concerning Kim and Jason's trip from Care-a-lot to the Forest of Feelings.[69] Critics compared at least two aspects of the film to Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs: the Spirit received similarities to the Magic Mirror[69][169][173] and the Wicked Queen,[174] but Charles Solomon confided that the Bears lacked the individual qualities of the Dwarfs.[85] Solomon noted that in animated features of that era, villains such as the Spirit "lacked motivation—if the viewer accepts their evil intentions, it's only because he's been told to".[198] According to Tom Ogden (in his 1997 book Wizards and Sorcerers: From Abracabadra to Zoroaster), the Bears' Stare against the Spirit serves as a kind of white magic.[199][nb 19] "Such a non-violent solution," wrote Bruce Bailey in The Montreal Gazette, "should sit well with peace lobbyists".[201] According to a 2005 article in The Times of London, an Internet reviewer called The Care Bears Movie "a fine example of Christian socialism".[202]

Legacy

In the words of Jerry Beck, "[The Care Bears Movie's] box-office gross signalled to Hollywood a renewed interest in animated features, albeit for children. This is something The Secret of NIMH tried to accomplish but failed to do."[16] As it turned out, a plethora of children's and family film entertainment followed in its wake, such as Sesame Street Presents Follow That Bird from Warner Bros., and a re-issue of Universal Studios' E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.[203] Atlantic Releasing joined this movement by establishing Clubhouse Pictures, which showed G-rated films during 1986.[204] Nelvana's film also helped to bring back matinee engagements to prominence across North America.[17]

Mentioning The Care Bears Movie as "the most recent example", Charles Solomon brought up the subject of feature-length toy adaptations in an April 1985 interview on Los Angeles' KUSC-FM.[205]: 130  He spoke to Warner Bros. animator Chuck Jones, who replied thus: "I feel that it's proper—after all, that's the way Alice in Wonderland was written: the dolls were all made first, then they made the picture about the dolls, right?"[205]: 131  In July 1985, Sarah Stiansen of United Press International (UPI) called The Care Bears Movie "another licensing innovation for TCFC", following the department's previous endeavours.[206] UPI's Vernon Scott (in 1985),[78] and Bruce A. Austin (in his 1989 book Immediate Seating),[207] observed how the merchandising arrived in advance of the film's release. In forthcoming years, several media adaptations based on established toy lines would follow a similar marketing tactic.[85][208][209] Examples included films based on Hasbro's Transformers (in 1986 and 2007)[208] and My Little Pony;[210] features with Tonka's Gobots (Battle of the Rock Lords)[208] and Pound Puppies (Legend of Big Paw);[211] and a television series[209] and feature[212] with Hallmark's Rainbow Brite. The Care Bears Movie was parodied in "At the Movies", a 1991 episode of Nickelodeon and Klasky Csupo's animated series Rugrats. In that episode, the Pickles family goes to see The Land Without Smiles, starring the Dummi Bears (who are patterned after the Care Bears).[213]

Follow-ups

After the release of The Care Bears Movie, DIC Entertainment produced a syndicated 11-episode television series featuring the title characters.[214][215] Another series, Nelvana's The Care Bears Family, premiered on ABC in the U.S. and Canada's Global in September 1986,[216] and was subsequently broadcast in 140 countries.[217] Nelvana followed the first film with another two theatrical instalments, Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation (1986) and The Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland (1987); neither made as much of a critical or commercial impact.[218] A New Generation, released by Columbia Pictures,[219] made over US$8.5 million in North America[219] and US$12 million worldwide.[11][12] Adventure in Wonderland was self-financed by Nelvana[12] and released by Cineplex Odeon Films,[12][220] and grossed US$2.608 million domestically;[220] with worldwide earnings of US$6 million,[12] it barely made its costs back.[12][19] Because of this, Michael Hirsh later declared, "It was just one sequel too many."[19] The Bears returned for one more animated production, Care Bears Nutcracker Suite, which debuted on video and television in December 1988.[221][222] The franchise's next feature film, 2004's Journey to Joke-a-lot,[223] also premiered on video[224] (via Lionsgate and Family Home Entertainment).[225]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Sources differ as to the actual cost of The Care Bears Movie.
    • US$2 million: Foley (2003),[6] Stewart (2005)[7]
    • US$3 million: Salamon (1985),[8] Daniell (1985),[9] Stoffman (2002)[10]
    • US$3.5 million: Adilman (1987),[11] Lerch (1988)[12]
    • US$4 million: Harmetz (1985),[13] Walmsley (1985),[14] Englehardt (1986),[2] Solomon (1986),[15] Beck (2005)[16]
    • US$4.5 million: Thomas (1986)[17]
  2. ^ Introduced by American Greetings in 1984,[20] the Care Bear Cousins are a group of animals who serve as relatives to the Care Bears.[21] The group consists of different species, such as monkeys, elephants and penguins.[21]
  3. ^ In the U.S. and Canadian domestic market, wide release occurs when a film is playing in 600 or more theatres.[22]
  4. ^ Credited as Bobby Dermer.
  5. ^ Credited as Cree Summer Francks.
  6. ^ According to Michael Hirsh, this period lasted from 1983 to 1986.[34]
  7. ^ Before Selznick's Care Bears Movie, Lotte Reiniger of Germany directed 1927's The Adventures of Prince Achmed, and Great Britain's Joy Batchelor directed Halas and Batchelor's 1954 adaptation of Animal Farm.[16] The fourth one, Brenda Chapman, was responsible for 1998's The Prince of Egypt, from DreamWorks Animation.[46]
  8. ^ Credited as Lou Gioia.
  9. ^ The film's advertising budget was US$4 million. In the words of Variety magazine, "the beneficiaries of [its] merchandising tie-ins have earmarked [the remaining] $20,000,000 to promo Care Bear products in step with the film's release".[2]
  10. ^ "Made for two- to four-year-olds," wrote Stoffman, "[The Care Bears Movie had] one of the youngest target audiences of any animated movie".[84]
  11. ^ Approximately US$65 million in 2024 dollars.[93]
  12. ^ Approximately US$96.3 million in 2024 dollars.[93]
  13. ^ In 1987, Long Island's Newsday newspaper gave a US$40 million figure for both this film and its sequel, A New Generation.[106]
  14. ^ In 1993, Nelvana co-founders Michael Hirsh and Patrick Loubert served as executive producers for the live-action thriller, Malice;[111] its US$46.4 million domestic gross[112] surpassed The Care Bears Movie's worldwide earnings. The Nelvana studio, however, is not credited in that film.[113]
  15. ^ In 1996, John Kluge of the Metromedia company acquired the Samuel Goldwyn Company for US$125 million.[124] Metromedia sold its film units—Goldwyn, Orion Pictures and the Motion Picture Corporation of America—to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) in April 1997.[125]
  16. ^ In 1986, the average price of a movie ticket in Germany was equivalent to €3.81.[145]
  17. ^ Filmwelt is abbreviated as "FW" on the InsideKino chart.
  18. ^ The Golden Movie Retriever uses bones as its equivalent of stars. According to the staff's "Bone Ratings" system, a title given two bones "May be perfectly delightful for certain tastes. A waste of time for others. Usually uninspired genre flicks."[187]
  19. ^ According to Ogden's Wizards and Sorcerers, "White magic calls on natural forces or appeals to angelic spirits in order to provide benevolent results."[200]

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Awards
Preceded by
The Dog Who Stopped the War (La Guerre des tuques)
(1985)
 Canadian Golden Reel Award
1986 		Succeeded by
The Decline of the American Empire (Le Déclin de l'empire américain)
(1987)
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