rock music on a ghetto-blaster, which causes the loggers to dance around idiotically. Finally, McKenna appears before Thorne and intimidates him by turning into a bear; the terrified villain calls off the deforestation and confesses all of his wrongdoing to the authorities. With their forest saved, the townspeople rebuild the kids' treehouse while Austene sees McKenna's spirit reunited with that of his Native American wife. Cast Chuck Norris as Jebediah McKenna Terry Kiser as Travis Thorne Max Gail as Sheriff Ramsey Michael Beck as Arlen Slaighter Roscoe Lee Browne as Clovis Madison Loretta Swit as Shirley Megan Paul as Austene Slaighter Rags the bear cub as himself Production Filming The film was shot in Oregon in 56 days from January 14 until March 10, 1996. Reception Critical Response The film received mixed reviews from critics. Jonathan P wrote on Rotten Tomatoes, "Don't watch this unless you are expecting a film made for children. This is Chuck Norris in his most family-friendly movie to date. The plot is absurd and the acting pretty bad but again take it for what it is. I didn't expect a children's movie so was quite disappointed but I would imagine kids will enjoy it well enough". Doug Walker, aka "The Nostalgia Critic", has called the picture "a must-see for anybody who refuses to believe there are worse roles an actor can get stuck with than that of a corpse (referring to Terry Kiser's deceased title character in Weekend at Bernie's)." According to Richard Scheib on Wayback Machine, the picture is "...A desperate and ungainly attempt by Chuck Norris to reinvent himself as anything other than a one-dimensional macho-man (in this case, as a liberal eco-defender), with woeful results. Norris possesses all the acting ability of a tree-trunk; he simply doesn't have the range for something like this...The film takes its whole quasi-Sierra Club/Green-consciousness thing far too seriously. The reverence-for-the-land solemnity becomes absurd: the bad guys are blatant caricatures, being constantly associated with ecologically-unfriendly montages (smoke-belching trucks and factories, trees being mulched, etcetera); there are also lots of cute animals, with Rags the bear-cub giving a better performance than any of the human leads...The third act descends into Home Alone-style slapstick, with lots of childish sadism against the shallow and buffoonish heavies, all in the name of environmentalism...Although his name sells (or at least is supposed to sell) the movie, Norris stays off-screen for most of