Kenai reveals the truth to Koda, who runs away heartbroken, because he is an orphan now. Guilty and horrified, Kenai runs away, but Koda soon finds him. During storytime among the bears, Koda tells a story about his mother fighting human hunters on a glacier trying to protect her cub, making Kenai realise that he didn't just kill a bear, he killed.Koda's Mother. Kenai becomes very much at home and at content with the other bears. Kenai and Koda escape Denahi again, and reach the salmon run, where a large number of bears live as a family, including the leader Tug (voiced by the late Michael Clarke Duncan), a huge Grizzly Bear. Next, the bears encounter some cave paintings, a pair of rams arguing with their own echo, and a land of geysers. Rutt and Tuke run into the bears multiple times, the group hitching a ride on a herd of mammoths to quicken the pace to the salmon run, but the moose are left behind when the bears move on. The two are hunted by Denahi who fails multiple times to kill Kenai, still unaware that he is his brother.
As the two eventually form a sibling-like bond, Koda reveals that his mother is missing. The two bears make a deal, Kenai will go with Koda to a nearby salmon run and then the cub will lead Kenai to the mountain. He gets caught in a trap, but is freed by a chatty bear cub named Koda (voiced by Jeremy Suarez). Kenai quickly discovers the wildlife can talk, meeting two brother mooses, Rutt and Tuke (voiced by Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas). She does not speak the bear language, but advises him to return to the mountain to find Sitka and be turned back to normal, but only when he corrects what he had done wrong she quickly disappears without an explanation. Kenai falls down some river rapids, survives, and is healed by Tanana (voiced by Joan Copeland), the shaman of Kenai's tribe. Denahi arrives, and, mistaking Kenai for dead and his bear form is responsible for it, vows to avenge Kenai. The Spirits, represented by Sitka's spirit in the form of a bald eagle transforms Kenai into a bear after the dead bear's body evaporates. He chases the bear up onto a mountain and engages it in a fight, eventually stabbing it and killing it. Kenai and Denahi find the remains of Stika's clothes, knowing that their brother is gone.Īfter Sitka's funeral, Kenai blames the bear for Sitka's death, Denahi tries to tell his brother that killing the bear is wrong, but Kenai wouldn't listen and heads out to avenge his elder brother. However, the bear survives and runs off into the woods. When the bear gets the upper hand, Sitka sacrifices himself to save his brothers by causing both himself and the bear to fall off the glacier. Provoked, the bear attacks Kenai and he and his brothers battle the animal on a giant glacier. Kenai and his brothers follow the bear's trail when they find the bear, Kenai recklessly throws rocks at it. He believes his point is made a fact when a bear steals some salmon. Unlike Sitka, who gained the eagle of guidance, and Denahi who gained the wolf of wisdom, Kenai receives the bear of love, much to his objections, stating that bears are thieving monsters.
Sweeney), return to their tribe in order for Kenai to receive his sacred totem, its meaning being what he must achieve to call himself a man. Three brothers, Kenai (voiced by Joaquin Phoenix), Denahi (voiced by Jason Raize), and Sitka (voiced by D.B. The film is set in post-ice age in Alaska, where the local tribesmen believe all creatures are created through Spirits, said to appear in the form of an aurora.
To be human again, Kenai must travel to a mountain where the Northern lights touch the earth, and learn how to see through another's eyes, feel through another's heart and discover the true meaning of brotherhood. He tracks down the bear and kills it, but the Spirits, angered by this needless death, change Kenai into a bear himself as punishment. In the film, an Inuk boy named Kenai pursues a bear in revenge for a battle that he provoked in which his oldest brother, Sitka, is killed. Walt Disney Home Entertainment Brother Bear is a animated comedy-drama film produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation and released by Walt Disney Pictures and was released on November 1, 2003.