Jack the Bear (1993)
5/10
Nice family movie, but also a somewhat contrived one
6 June 2011
I really was in spell of this movie. I was loving it. It was funny and heartwarming. Characters are believable but then the plot goes downhill. the plot becomes expected and keeps falling into clichés. Everything that you think that movie shouldn't do, it does.

The whole thing really doesn't makes much sense and things just seem to happen to get the required emotions from the viewer. But even with these shortcomings in the plot, I have given it an average rating. Mostly due the interesting first half. It could have been really good if the movie had a better and more believable plot.

In the end, how you perceive it will depend mostly on your own experience. Naive viewers will fall in love with it. More jaded and more astute viewers will be able to see behind the ruse. I however felt in between. I was able to see through the ruse, but I still wanted the movie to redeem itself somehow.
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