The Bear That Wasn't

The Bear That Wasn't

1967
Comedy, Animation
Short Film
10m
The Bear That Wasn't is a 10 min cartoon about a bear that settles down for his long winter nap. While he is asleep the progress of man continues. He wakes up to find himself in the middle of an industrial complex. He then gets confused by the foreman as a worker and is told to work. To this he responds "but I'm not a man, I'm a Bear" He is taken to each of his succesive bosses, who try to convince him that he is just a very hairy man that needs a shave... (imdb)
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The Bear That Wasn't

1967
Comedy, Animation
Short Film
10m
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Avg Percentile 59.98% from 68 total ratings

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Rated 29 May 2009
3
38th
Repetitive, but the joke isn't beaten to death. The situation is so silly that you can't help but laugh every time some higher-up repeats the "very hairy man" line.
Rated 25 Mar 2009
80
74th
charming, why dont they make cartoons for kids like this anymore, instead we have naruto--that just sad.
Rated 20 Oct 2011
70
26th
Amusing idea, though the 60s touches in the sound effects and general style get grating.
Rated 08 Feb 2015
80
77th
Excellent music. The design is dated and pretentious but amusing. This undoubtedly played well in the hippie era of "just do your thing", and the original book, pitted against post-war conformism, was downright subversive. But with its appeal to positivism and notions of natural order that are increasingly unpopular across the board, it's an awkward fit to apply one way or the other to today's popular issues of identity and personal liberty.
Rated 17 Sep 2011
37
17th
You're just a silly man who needs a shave and wears a fur coat!
Rated 12 Aug 2010
56
7th
The art was kind of cool, but I the short overall was just too simplistic for me.
Rated 03 Mar 2009
75
59th
Pretty funny and some clever satire. Gorgeous stylistic animation, though Jones should be ashamed of himself for blatantly recycling some animation from The Grinch Who Stole Christmas.
Rated 24 May 2011
50
33rd
A very '60s cartoon. Despite Jones's and Tashlin's high reputation these days, I continue to not dig their aesthetic sensibility. Nice of them to sort of say something about personal sovereignty in the face of "authoritative" opinions, but even at ten minutes this darn thing seems too long

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