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- The Care Bears Movie (en Hispanoamérica, Los cariñositos: la película; en España, Los osos amorosos) es una película animada producida por la compañía canadiense Nelvana y estrenada en los Estados Unidos en 1985 por la compañía . (es)
- The Care Bears Movie is a 1985 animated musical fantasy film and the second feature film from the Canadian animation studio Nelvana (after the 1983 film Rock & Rule). It is one of the first films based directly on a toy line (and the first based on Care Bears), it introduced the Care Bears characters and their companions the Care Bear Cousins. In the film, an orphanage owner (Mickey Rooney) tells a story about the Care Bears, who live in a cloud-filled land called Care-a-Lot. Traveling across Earth, the Bears help two lonely children named Kim and Jason, who lost their parents in a car accident, and also save a young magician's apprentice named Nicholas from an evil spirit's influence. Deep within a place called the Forest of Feelings, Kim, Jason, and their friends soon meet another group of creatures, the Care Bear Cousins. American Greetings, the owners of the Care Bears characters, began development of a feature film adaptation in 1981. Later on, the card company chose Nelvana to produce it, granted them rights to the characters, and financed the film along with cereal manufacturer General Mills and television syndicator LBS Communications. Nelvana's founders served as producers, while fellow employee Arna Selznick directed the film. Production lasted eight months, with a production budget of at least $2 million, and took place in Canada, Taiwan, and South Korea. The voice cast included Mickey Rooney, Georgia Engel, Jackie Burroughs and Cree Summer. Two pop music stars, Carole King and John Sebastian, contributed several songs. Although major American film studios passed on the project, newly established independent distributor The Samuel Goldwyn Company acquired the distribution rights to the film and soon spent a record $24 million promoting it. The film premiered on March 24, 1985, in Washington, D.C., and was released in North America on March 29, 1985. Another Nelvana work, Strawberry Shortcake Meets the Berrykins, played alongside the feature in theatres. The Care Bears Movie received mixed reviews from critics, who raised concern over its potential as a full-length advertisement for the title characters among other aspects. It went on to earn $23 million domestically; it was the highest-grossing Canadian film during 1985 (with C$1.845 million), it won a Golden Reel Award. With over $34 million in worldwide sales, it set a box-office record for Canadian and non-Disney animation and has remained one of Goldwyn's largest-earning releases. The film's success saved Nelvana from closing and helped revive films aimed at children in the US market. It has since been cited as inspiring a spate of toy-based animated and live-action features. It was soon followed by two sequels, A New Generation (1986) and Adventure in Wonderland (1987); neither surpassed the original financially or critically. The Care Bears franchise continues and has included television series, specials, videos, and films. (en)
- Les Bisounours, le film ou Les Calinours, le film au Québec (The Care Bears Movie) est un film d'animation, produit par la société canadienne Nelvana et sorti le 29 mars 1985. (fr)
- Gli orsetti del cuore - Il film è un film d'animazione del 1985 diretto da . Con protagonisti gli orsetti del cuore, il film ha avuto un sequel nel 1986 Gli orsetti del cuore 2 - La nuova generazione. (it)
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- dbr:Carole_King
- dbr:John_Sebastian
- Walt Woodward, David Bird, Becky Goldstein, Susan Kross, Anne Marie Prunty, Christine Selbert, NRBQ & Tower of Power (en)
- John Sebastian & Cast (en)
- Carole King, Harry Dean Stanton, Louise Goffin, Robbie Kondor & Levi Larky (en)
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- "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." (en)
- "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." (en)
- "The Care Bears Movie has become a word-of-mouth success—out of the mouths of babes, so to speak." (en)
- "Nelvana has proven that pure, wholesome entertainment for the 2-to-10 age group can be successful." (en)
- "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." (en)
- "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." (en)
- "[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." (en)
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- Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (en)
- Betsy Sharkey (en)
- Joe Fox, The Windsor Star (en)
- Lain Johnstone, The Times (en)
- Scott Cain, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (en)
- Edward Hansen, vice-president of animation, administration and production for Disney (en)
- Dan Bennett, in a San Diego Union-Tribune report on the film's popularity with young viewers (en)
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- The Care Bears Movie (en Hispanoamérica, Los cariñositos: la película; en España, Los osos amorosos) es una película animada producida por la compañía canadiense Nelvana y estrenada en los Estados Unidos en 1985 por la compañía . (es)
- Les Bisounours, le film ou Les Calinours, le film au Québec (The Care Bears Movie) est un film d'animation, produit par la société canadienne Nelvana et sorti le 29 mars 1985. (fr)
- Gli orsetti del cuore - Il film è un film d'animazione del 1985 diretto da . Con protagonisti gli orsetti del cuore, il film ha avuto un sequel nel 1986 Gli orsetti del cuore 2 - La nuova generazione. (it)
- The Care Bears Movie is a 1985 animated musical fantasy film and the second feature film from the Canadian animation studio Nelvana (after the 1983 film Rock & Rule). It is one of the first films based directly on a toy line (and the first based on Care Bears), it introduced the Care Bears characters and their companions the Care Bear Cousins. In the film, an orphanage owner (Mickey Rooney) tells a story about the Care Bears, who live in a cloud-filled land called Care-a-Lot. Traveling across Earth, the Bears help two lonely children named Kim and Jason, who lost their parents in a car accident, and also save a young magician's apprentice named Nicholas from an evil spirit's influence. Deep within a place called the Forest of Feelings, Kim, Jason, and their friends soon meet another group (en)
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