Review of Bear Feat

. . . in a see-saw battle to be the main theme of this animated short, BEAR FEAT. The bear family featured here is comprised of a runty dad named "Henry," a mid-sized mom going by the handle of "Shaddup!" and a humongous son answering to "Stupid." Henry is a masochistic glutton for punishment, with Shaddup and Stupid serving as his half-willing enablers. They reside so far out in the boondocks that the newspaper boy is running 21 years behind. (Since that's a couple centuries in bear years, school cubs could learn to read from "breaking news" of their four-times-great grandparents' birth announcements, and there would be about 64 of those barring any in-breeding funny business.) If bear high schools teach physics, Henry ducked this course, to his greatly painful detriment here. Time after time, his attempts to perform trained bear acts end up with him looking more like a steamrolled bear. But viewers are unlikely to have a problem with that, since Henry is so mean that he deserves to spend his retirement as a bear rug on Yogi's floor.