Toon Zone Talkback - "Care Bears: Share-a-Lot in Care-a-Lot": Good to Be Nice, But Nice to Be Good

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No one wants to talk about a "Care Bears" movie?

Really?
 
I saw most of this series episodes a while back.

Overall, it lacks the fun Nightmare Fuel aspects of the original series' villains, and I really miss the presences of the Cousins, but I really liked the redesigns. Watching Nelvana's episodes, I really couldn't help but notice that characters looked a little too..."chunky", for lack of a better term. The more SD look made their movements more expressive.

Funny bit of trivia: Scott McNeil voices Grumpy (thanks, Shift!). And Grumpy is still the best character on the show.
 
I was honestly a little amazed that a character like Grumpy even existed at all on the show, since his purpose is to be something of a negative nellie but he does it without being the usual "the complainer is always wrong" stereotype. He's only about a step away from being Grizzle, though, and that kind of amuses me.
 
I don't know; Grumpy's actually quite a bit more mature than Grizzle. The fun thing is that rather than be the complainer, his grumpiness is actually constructive. And he's the guy who makes all their stuff. Plus, he's got the single most broken power on the show.

And this isn't a recent thing, either. In the old cartoon, he played the badass by actually playing baseball with a thundercloud's lightning bolts. He also built a fully functioning transporter in the first movie, though Nelvana's run depowered him somewhat...

The one thing I really found missing with the new cartoon was the surreal adventure edge of the DiC series and the general atmosphere of the Nelvana one. It did score points for having a zombie apocolypse episode, though.
 
Too bad CBS doesn't carry the show anymore on weekends even on its Cookie Jar TV block. Not even THIS TV which has shows weekday and weekend mornings shows from the Cookie Jar library has picked up the recent Care Bears series yet.
 
That's why Grizzle always found Grumpy to be the most normal of the bunch :p I watched a few of the episodes too. Grumpy was always my favorite Bear no matter what version of the Care Bears.
 
Oooh so this is a return to the older show's style where they went and help kids down on Earth instead of wasting their time lounging about the clouds and learning 'lessons' like the Nelvana serie :p

If this show was on TV anywhere I'd watch it. I just don't have a reason to go spend money on the DVD.
 
They do that in like, all of two, maybe four episodes of the new series. And it was the same girl each time.




Yeah. Grizzle's funny, but he lacks that added punch of all the previous villains. Even Professor Coldheart could freeze the bears solid and had that creepy pedophile thing going on.
 
Aww man! BOOORING! I want to see the Care Bear (and the cousins) ride down on their mothereffin' cloud car and help the frell out of kids with their problems! Use their spiffy powers to solve problems in whimsical ways! Like in the soapbox race episode where they use giant ice cream to soften an accident or replace a broken wheel with a rainbow or a heart!

That's the Care Bears I want to see back. :yawn:

Care Bears help kids, they shouldn't be kids analogs in stories.
 
Yeah, I loved the Nelvana episodes, but DiC's were a lot more awesomely whimsical and surreal. Nelvana's felt a bit more like a normal "cartoon", for lack of a better term, and later on came up with every excuse they could to forget that the characters were, in fact, Care Bears. Even as a kid, I thought the Star Trek episods were a little much...

Though I love the character model variations they used for the "Food Facts & Fables" episode. Those could actually give the new series a run for their money in terms of cuteness.
 
My funniest memory of the DiC series was the episode about the kid with braces who was bullied by some jerk about it, and thus the Care Bears came to help. Eventually the bully broke his leg and was on a ledge above a cliff or something, and the braces kid told the Care Bears that they should leave him since he made fun of his braces. Even when I was young and watching that, I thought "HUH? He made of fun of you, so you'll leave him to die? Damn, kid, that's going a little too far!" :p



Sadly, that aspect got really toned down in the DiC show (and he got an annoying high-pitched voice.) The Nelvanna villains were generally better. The Spirit and Nicholas, Dark Heart and No Heart...they were really creepy. And while the Wizard of Wonderland and Toy Land Vizier were mostly funny (the Vizier unintentionally so, due to his YELLING OF EVERY LINE!), they also had their frightening moments: the Vizier's one-by-one turning the Care Bears into wood, and the Wizard....yeah, everyone who saw the Nostalgia Critic's Top 11 Scariest Moments should know this one. :eek: :ack:
 
I loved that. You have this surprisingly mellow "Dark Reprise/Villain Song", and then comes that moment.

That said, am I the only one who sometimes has a hard time remembering that CB2 had a happy ending? The fact that it's a brief celebration sandwiched between The Chandelier Of Frozen Feelings and Forever Young might have something to do with that for me...
 
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