Scanialara You won't be disappointed!

Beanbioca As Good As It Gets

Chirphymium It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

nitro2038 I saw this on TV last night by accident. The opening scenes showing 'bears' having sex was surprising. I really appreciated seeing manly men for once instead of the usual pretty boys. I didn't find them attractive, but that wasn't the point (although Pedro is rather cute). But of course this film is much more than the few sex scenes. I was really hooked into the story. The gay Uncle left to look after his hippy sister's son. I really ended up liking Pedro a lot. Though for some reason I felt he was a lonely character really, despite his nephew and fantastic friends. Previous comments have already gone into more detail about this movie, so I really just want to say that I loved it and highly recommend you see it.

joeva_za A friend recently lent me a DVD of "Bearcub" that he got in Europe and I must say that I enjoyed it. It starts out a startlingly with three "bears" having a threesome but then evolves into a moving realistic tale of Pedro who cares for his young nephew Bernardo while his hippie sister travels to India. It is well directed and acted. I expected some thing quite B-grade but this was quite charming. Note I believe that the actor who played Pedro is "Jose Luis Garcia Perez". David Castillo who plays young Bernardo is amazingly credible - and there are some mature conversations between him and his uncle about sexuality (Bernardo's mum believes that he is gay too). There are some good characterizations of Pedro's lovers and friends; the babysitter and other neighbors as well as Bernardo's paternal grandmother who tries to gain custody of him.

scorseseisgod-1 With a title like this you'd be half-expecting live-action Disney or a Jean-Jacques Annaud follow-up on little Youk's life. Instead, we have a film that goes against everything I stand for, proving once again that it ain't what you say but the way that you say it.First, it's that loathsomely predictable (and manipulative) approach to storytelling, the set-'em-up-to-watch-'em-die. Bernardo (David Castillo) is left with his uncle Pedro (Jose Luis Garcia Perez) while his mother Violeta (Elvira Lindo) goes to India on "business." For reels I sat waiting for something to befall her. No plane crash. No CG-enhanced terrorist bombing. Not even a fiery car wreck. What keeps Bernardo and his uncle together is not death, but that other dependable cinematic punisher – drugs! Violeta is imprisoned for smuggling and director Albaladejo wisely spares us the "Midnight Express" torture route and heavy-handed moralizing.Not since Edith Massey's pleas for a queer son in John Water's "Female Trouble" has a cinematic mother so desired a gay offspring. Violeta's constant reassurance of her young son's homosexuality even wobbles Pedro's lascivious leanings.Any one of the films numerous subplot could be expanded into 90 minute, made-for-TV, crisis-of-the-week melodrama. Grandparents ought to have visitation rights, gays make loving parents, dentists with HIV deserve to make a living, HIV is not a death sentence, etc. The true villain (and victim) in the piece is Bernardo's paternal grandmother Teresa (Empar Ferrer). Infectiously despised by Violeta, Bernardo refuses to visit with her and Pedro respects his wishes until she blackmails him with photographic evidence of a nasty "tunnel bunny" tryst.Instead of transcribing yet another culture clash between gays and straights, each character is presented with depth, dimensionality and a revitalizing lack of sentiment.Teresa would want time with her grandson no matter what Pedro's sexuality. Were his condom-strewn, drug-soaked, sexually free-for-all ways centered on heterosexuality, grandma would have still found ways to blackmail.As in any good thirties programmer, crime and/or promiscuous behavior do not pay and the guilty must be punished. We learn that Pedro is HIV positive and thankfully he is allowed to live. It is particularly gratifying to leave a film that manages to transcend all that in lesser hands would be a ten-hankie male weepy. The director's honestly continually keeps the film from caving in under the weight of its own implications.Throw all the topical messages aside, for this is as much a film about lost love as "Citizen Kane." We exit the proceedings locked inside Teresa's gated burial grounds watching as an older Pedro and Bernardo leave her funeral. Death and imprisonment separate Bernardo from the two women in his life. Violeta and Pedro have come to terms with the impact she made on Bernardo's life, and it is only fitting that the last gaze before the final fade belongs to Teresa.

unclebear-1 It's refreshing to see a movie that portrays "another" kind of gay man. Not the kind with the funny talk, the limb wrist and the feminine strut, but the kind with hair on his chest, a healthy pot belly and a full beard. Gay issues aside, this movie is as funny as it can get. The accent is a killer (for those who understand castilian Spanish) and the acting is superb. The unexpectedly orphaned child finds a surrogate father within the very active social life of his gay uncle, portrayed brilliantly by José Luis García Pérez. Pedro's (the uncle) friends are truly a funny bunch of friendly bears in the Madrid forest as they try to assist him in raising the child the best way possible; the best way they know. The grandmother, who adds a touch of "evil" in the story, doesn't seem to think so. Here's the true conflict. I totally recommend this movie to anyone gay, with a gay in the family or simply to anyone that wants to have a good time following this cachorro (bear cub) in his adventures with his fully developed bear-uncle.