Synopsis
Our juvenile imagination abgout a bear seems to stay at the reproductional level of patriarchal system, as described in a nursery rhyme. Or it shapes up an image of bear as a cute and sweet friend to children as in the Walt Disney Animation, Pooh's Grand Adventure. Bear It And Grin is kind of a sequel to Pooh's Grand Adventure, more likely to a little Pooh's grown-up version. The polar bear calls a gorrila in tropic zone informing he's lack of foodstuffs. The bear asks for some bananas and the gorrila accepts the bear's request. Then the gorrila asks the bear to send an igloo in return because the gorrila wanted to keep himself away from the heat of his zone. They both sincerely keep their promises... However, igloo is delivered to the Gorrila as melt out and bananas to the bear as frozen. What can we say to them? "Bear It And Grin" or "Grin And Bear It" What else? An animation from Finland, Bear It And Grin, raises all those established imaginations on Pooh's grand Adventure to more realistic level. Personalified characters and reality of puppet animation actually reflect such an intention and effort. Bear It And Grin is mainly targeted on children and families just as both the producer and the director agreed. This summer again, Walt Disney comes back to the public with a cell animation splendidly decorated by technology and capital. Though not more splendid than Walt Disney's, Bear It And grin brings a rather unsophisticated freshness to our imagination that might have been tamed by Walt Disney's. (PARK Ji-Yeon)