The Care Bears' Big Wish Movie
The Care Bears' Big Wish Movie is a direct-to-
DVD CGI film from
Lions Gate Home Entertainment and
Nelvana Limited, released on
October 18,
2005. This movie is a follow-up to the
Care Bears' previous efforts in
2004's
Journey to Joke-a-lot, featuring that film's same voice cast.
This is the fifth movie based on the Care Bears franchise, and marks the return of Harmony Bear from
1986's
Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation, and the
television series' "
Great Race" episode.
(from
IMDb's
Plot Summary Page, as written by
Jeff Schechter)
Feeling sad that her fellow Care Bears don't seem to appreciate her wishes, Wish Bear uses her wish star, Twinkers, to find some bears who love wishing as much as she does. That's when three new bears move to Care-a-lot...with some very unexpected results.The movie starts with the Care Bears hearing a tale of baby Wish Bear finding her new friend, Twinkers, as she is having a picnic in the forest. The Care Bears are touched by the tale, but are bit worried when Wish Bear uses Twinkers' powers to wish them all some
popcorn. They worry it may be a frivolous use of Twinkers' power, but Wish Bear assures them she's a trained professional.
The next day, Wish Bear uses the wishing power to help out some friends in need. She wishes for plenty of rainbow
sap for Share Bear and for Grumpy Bear's
rocket to have lots of zoom. The wishes backfire, however, when the sap overflows and the rocket spins out of control.
A monthly meeting of the Care-a-Lot steering committee reveals a problem--the meter that measures how much caring there is in Care-a-Lot has moved towards the raincloud side. It's suggested that they have a special month of showing how much they care. Wish Bear suggests using her wishes, but is told that they don't always work out the way she intended.
Wish Bear is upset that nobody seems to like her wishes. As she laments this, she comes up with the idea of wishing for other bears who like wishing as much as she does. She makes a wish and three new bears arrive in Care-a-Lot--Me Bear, Messy Bear and Too-Loud Bear.
At first, everyone is pleased to welcome the new neighbours, but soon, things get out of control. The neighbours abuse Twinkers' power to create themselves a huge mansion and Me Bear creates an entire
gift shop dedicated to herself. The wishes drain the colour right out of Care-a-Lot and, worse, Wish Bear accidentally wishes away Twinkers to the three.
The new neighbors finally realise that what they've done has messed up Care-a-Lot. However, their idea of wishing the problem away simply leads to more problems. Finally, Twinkers loses his power from exhaustion. Wish Bear uses Grumpy Bear's rocket to bring him to Big Wish in the sky. She restores his power, but not before Wish Bear assures her that she's learned her lesson.
Back in Care-a-Lot, Wish Bear tells everyone that they can't simply wish this problem away. So they all work together to make Care-a-Lot beautiful again.
The movie premiered on the
Disney Channel (
United States) and
YTV (
Canada) on
October 17, 2005, just one day shy of its DVD release. Disney aired it at 11:00 A.M.
EST; YTV's turn came two and a half hours later.
(incomplete at present)
*Directed by Larry Jacobs and Ron Pitts
*Executive Produced by
Jeffery B. Harter,
Rick Reising and
Scott Dyer*Produced by Ron Maudsley and Cynthia Taylor
*Written by Jeff Schechter
*Art director
Paul Cieniuch(incomplete at present)
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Stephanie Beard as Wish Bear
*
Rob Tinkler as Grumpy Bear
*
Susan Roman as Good Luck Bear
*
Julie Lemieux as Funshine Bear
*
Louise Vallance as Share Bear
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Athena Karkanis as Harmony Bear
*
Scott McCord as Bedtime Bear
*
Stephen Ouimette as Too Loud Bear
*
Tracey Hoyt as Me Bear
*
Ron Rubin as Messy Bear
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Official site*
TV.com Guide Page*
Entry at MSN Movies*
Discussion about the film at the Memories Board*
Trailer at VideoDetective*
Lyrics to songs for this movie and Journey to Joke-a-lot
