It's so funny to me that they went with a grizzly bear for the big scary threat and the lovable comic relief are.the polar bears bc as I know it, polar bears are way more dangerous lol
Believe it or not, grizzlies/brown bears are considered to be more aggressive. It's not uncommon for a grizz to chase off multiple polar bears at a garbage dump where their territories overlap. The largest male Kodiak Bears can get up to 1,500 lbs (equaling the largest male Polar Bears) during the salmon runs with the world record specimens of both species being 12 ft tall and weighing 2,000 lbs.
@@cmines73 Yeah and even though Steele is the main antagonist the huge bear seemed a lot more evil than even Steele. Bet he and his team are pretty glad they didn't run into this bear he would've destroyed all the medicine in an instant with one swift of his huge clawed paw.
Gregory Murphy The same thing with me, I remember the first time I watched this movie in 1998. Because after all this movie was from 1995 (The year that I was born in).
Yes. That was something I really wanted to see in ”The Fox and the Hound”. Y’know? Vixey (Tod’s love interest-turned-mate) attacking Grizzly Bear and actually doing something to save Tod’s life.
Probably the same reason when I asked my mom. She said “you weren’t smart enough to be scared of it.” Which makes sense cause I just thought the bear was cool, now I do find him intimidating.
@@zachariahkelley5298 to right! That’s always baffled me a bit considering it was walking on its 2 hind feet most of the time. We even hear the stomping sounds the giant bear thumps into the ground at 2:03 attacking Muk, Luk and Boris, and we hear the Bear stomping again when it nearly stomps on them walking backwards. Strange it made no such noise walking up to Boris?? 🤨🤪 Also notice how Boris when He backs into the bear Boris’s head hits the bears stomach. But in the following scenes the bears stomach is near enough 4ft from the ground. So did the bear grow 5 odd ft during this fight? Or was Boris unfortunate enough to be on high enough ground to bump into a bears stomach before the attack? The sounds and sizes don’t make much sense. At least in Fox and The Hound we don’t have such hair raising questions lol 😂. In that we can easily assume the bear was sleeping in a cave before bursting out from the shrubs in the mountain wall.
Animals move quieter than people realize. Elephants are known to bump into people by accident because of how quietly they were moving...through underbrush
I always remembered being spooked by this scene. Wanted to look it up so I could be like 'wow I can't believed I thought this was scary" but now that I see it again I'm not giving younger me any shit for being a baby. That bear is terrifying.
Try literally living in Alaska where this movie takes place watching this scene, after seeing this for the first time, it tripled my awareness while playing outside(surrounded by woods where i lived as a little kid).
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1:43 Boris’ jaw drop and his scream when the bear swipes at him had me dying of laughter as a kid, as well as “It’s time for this goose to kick a little bear’s butt!” XDDD
Yeah! Yeah! The reason this bear was so aggressive and savage was that Balto, Boris and the little Polar Bears have unwittingly walked into its territory.
Uncle Boris: I...HATE...B E A R S !!!! Later proceeds to run into the most evil and Goliath sized bear known to the history of the animal kingdom I dunno why but the irony of this cracks me up for some reason
Imagine encountering a bear like Mordu from Brave as well, I personally think that one is the scariest and he’s shown to have lots of durability against weapons as well, all 3 of these bears would be equally terrifying to encounter.
One of the first bears I've ever seen in movies at a very young age (along with the one from Homeward Bound)! No he didn't terrify me but instead fascinate me, and I think he's one reason why bears are one of my top favorite animals! 🐻❤ Btw, James Horner's music is so damn good even though this movie is really short!
1:08-1:55 This is literally the funniest part as well as my favorite scene from the whole film. "It's time for goose to kick a little bear butt!" Lmao! 🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂🦆🐻❄️
Balto was able to take down that bear just using his mouth. Even though Jenna was able to save him, Balto still put up a better fight. It was a good thing Jenna followed him
I think it helped the bear was standing on slippery snow ❄️ so tugging at the huge monster bears foot plus snow would of helped Balto a lot knocking the bear down. Had the bear not kicked Balto up into the air, Balto probably would been able to better defend his friends. Jenna did put up a good fight but she nearly made the best stomp on Muk, Luk, and Boris.
@@Matthew70371 Steele and the others are probably glad they didn't run into that bear he likely would've killed them as they tried to get away from him.
Oddly this would most likely be a Kodiak Bear, which is actually quite a bit bigger than a Grizzly. This also leads me to believe Muk and Luk are juvenile as Polar Bears and Kodiaks Bears are the same size.
3:24 As terrifying as this bear was during this scene, it's abrupt demise is arguably even more unsettling. One second it's stomping about, acting all menacing as before, then the ice finally breaks under its weight and it roars in alarm. Looking close you can actually notice the fear and desperation in its eyes and movements, trying to claw itself out of the water... then the bear's own weight causes the ice to break again, it reaches a paw out helplessly as its head goes under, and in the blink of an eye it's just *GONE.* The fact the scene doesn't linger on it at all, and that we never catch another glimpse of the bear after it goes under the water just makes it more eerie, for me at least.
I think the reason why they didn’t give the bear pupils was because they didn’t want us to feel bad when the bear went under the ice; they probably wanted to make the bear look less like an animal and more like a monster.
comedy relief characters, and easier to animate if they just have them trapped under a dead weed beneath the giant bear. Considering both baby polar bears are the same size as Balto they could have easily helped though.
I'd love to know or imagine what the bear would be saying if its roars were in English. I could never understand that about this film. Its pretty clear most animals can talk to one another. Polar Bears, geese, dogs, ect... .. so its always baffled me why the big bear could not talk.
@@kindnessark8064 Who knows? Possibly, because the bear wasn't too too important to be given a speaking role, as Balto finding Steele and his team were the main focus. However, Luk didn't speak all throughout the movie, despite being one of the important chars. That's also said with the red eye bear from Fox and The Hound, that had no speaking role too, despite having more screentime than this Alaskan bear.
Gotta give the bear big ups for sneaking on them, undetected til Muk and Luk saw him, which Balto would've long caught his scent, before he got to them and he's monstrously huge!!!
Seeing this makes me picture Copper from the Fox and the Hound as I remember when he fought that Bear to save his owner he put up a good fight, he and Balto would’ve made a great team
I wonder why the polar bear brothers never tried reasoning with this guy? They’re wild and they can talk. Maybe he was too deep in kill mode? Keith David would be perfect to play a brutal, psychotic grizzly bear.
That is a good question. I always thought Balto bear was creepier because we saw and heard it in a few scenes stocking the group in the darkness of the trees. Where as the Fox and Hound bear just simply jumped out of no where in attack and we never had a real fearful presence of something big watching them. Also as much as scary red eyes are, I thought it was more unique and scary seeing the entire of the bears eye in all bright orange colour.
@@kindnessark8064 I'd say the balto bear lok. Both are big yes but those big eyes the fact that he's massive and has black fur I think gives him the W. The bear in fath is more vicious and just as big but I think he stops short of terrifying due to the fact the hunter in the movie was prepared and might have been able to save himself if he wasn't caught by surprise
@@eldenlion5850 very true that. The hunter was much better prepared. I think Balto’s group was also more vulnerable. As Muk Luk and Boris has become trapped so easily they could not escape the giant bear, almost being slashed open several times and almost stomped too. The hunter in Fox and Hound also manages to get free shortly after the bear fell in the waterfall and it was just Tod and Copper trying to save each other.
Seeing Jenna a purebred husky taking on a grizzly bear,is amazing. She was thrown off,but she went right back into the fight. She fought the grizzly bear to protect Balto. She's got courage.
Visibly it's black, but grizzly bears are much larger than black bears and don't climb trees, looking at his mass size. Also, I read that this bear is an Alaskan or Kodiak Bear, not a mere grizzly.
