Title: Not Half Bad for Genre, Cute Bear Actor
Product review: Tough to make a clean family type adventure film without being too sappy, poorly shot or overacted. Take this for what it is, and it makes for an OK entertaining night at the movies.Dad(Jason Priestly) takes new wife of two years and teenage "don't want to be there" daughter from first marriage on boating trip to beautiful but isolated Bear Island to have family connection.Storm kicks in, boat shipwrecks, and there just happens to be an angry grizzly on the not so Gilliganish island. With the man injured, the women take charge.The scenery's great, the acting's adequate, the survival choices, for the most part, are quite reasonable, the story's of course predictable, and there's a cool bear doing his acting with gusto.I give it 3 1/2 stars. No language, no sex, no real blood and guts, but too stressful for little ones to watch: Dad gets hurt, bear's trying to kill them. I think OK preteens and older. The extras include a 'making of' documentary.
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