Would have worked if Mr. Ranger and Boo Boo showed up

Rating: Null/10 (28 February 2000)

Bad movie. The fight scenes were poorly choreographed, most were shot too close-up, so the action on screen is jumbled and hard to follow. Others were shot in slow motion in a pitiful attempt to make them look more intense (hahaha). Some characters are thrown in without any development, such as Ahmed's love interest (actually, there is so little exchanged between the two, it is hard to call it love, lust, or whatever). The finale is ridiculous (spoiler ahead). An entire army stops a heated battle they are winning because the leader is killed, INSTANTLY STOPS?! And all future attacks, attempts at vengence, etc, are assured to be over, everything is better now. Please. I had an easier time believing that Ahmed learned how to speak perfect Norse just by listening. This might have worked well as a sci fi movie, making the bear clan some type of mythological tribe, possessing some power to transform, but instead we are told early on it is just a bunch of guys in bear costumes, and then they just seem to be a burden (how do we get rid of these jerks. I know, kill the head jerk with the big horns and they will all run away--yipe yipe yipe). I could go on about the flaws, but why bother. Bad movie.