WasAnnon Slow pace in the most part of the movie.

Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

ChanBot i must have seen a different film!!

Anoushka Slater While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

luttrelljd I just saw this last night on BOOMERANG. I could have turned it off, but it was like watching a train wreck. I had to research it and found that it was based on a children's book written in 1946; the author was said to be very unhappy with this animated version. The argument is always "But its for kids, not for adults, right!" Yes! There are so may quality animations for kids out there, why waste time on junk like this! It is everything that was wrong with the late 60's - 70's animation. Stuff like this almost killed the animation art form. In fact it was the last feature to be produced by the MGM animation group. P.S. - The lowest rank this form allows is "1 star", I wanted to give it "0".

Lee Eisenberg While Chuck Jones remains best known for his Warner Bros. animated shorts, he also directed a couple of interesting pieces after he left WB. Probably best known are "The Dot and the Line" and "How the Grinch Stole Christmas", but another one is "The Bear That Wasn't", an eerily prophetic look at the industrial age. Based on a short story by Frank Tashlin (also a former WB director), it portrays a bear hibernating, only to wake up and discover that there's a now a factory surrounding his cave. While the cartoon maintains a lighthearted tone, it does get fairly serious - if inadvertently - when the bear tries to explain his predicament. Representatives of each successive echelon tell him that he's just a man who needs a shave and wears a fur coat.At the very least, we see the invasion of the natural world by industry; one might interpret this cartoon as a precursor to "The Lorax". But inside the factory itself, not only do they force the bear to perform labor similar to what Charlie Chaplin did in "Modern Times", but there's the hierarchy displayed when we see the president in his throne-like chair. Not to mention the fact that they do everything possible to berate the bear out of knowing that he's a bear.But even beyond all this, the cartoon brings to mind the fact that these factories have since shut down and moved production to the Third World. Michael Moore's "Roger and Me" is a prime example of what resulted from such a situation. In other words, first the factories destroy their natural settings, then they abandon the areas and let them rot. This is what we have become as a society.All in all, I certainly recommend this cartoon.

ccthemovieman-1 This is really different, an animated that you would think has to be really funny with the people that made it, guys like Chuck Jones and Frank Tashin, Paul Frees and Maurice Noble....but it isn't. It simply is a comment on being who you are, and perhaps a dig or two on our industrialized, impersonal society. Whatever the intent, there is one thing for sure: this is different.One could made the same analogy with an alligator and the state of Florida. One day it's a swamp; the next thing you know it's nothing but concrete and condominiums. Huh? That's the scene here as the bear hibernates, wakes up and now he's in the middle of a big city and then, inside a factory where nobody believes he's a bear. Why would they? Why would a bear be in a factor? What happened to the open land where he lived? Everyone has questions in here.However one interprets this story, I enjoyed the artwork and the modern style of it in this cartoon. Like the story, the artwork is very different from the Looney Tunes we are used to seeing from the 1930s through the 1950s. In some respects, it is very '60-ish looking, a la The Pink Panther cartoons.Whatever it is, if you own the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume Three, don't overlook this extra cartoon that is listed under "From The Vault."

Robert Reynolds Every time I see this cartoon, I remember what Anatole France once reportedly said: "If a thousand people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing." This cartoon is about a bear and the nightmare his life becomes when others persist in believing a foolish thing and manage to briefly convince him that it's the truth. Remember wht Shakespeare said: "To thine own self be true". This runs occasionally on Cartoon Network. Most recommended