Disney's Brother-Bear 002

**Disney's Brother-Bear 002** is .

## Plot

Picking up several months after the events of the first film, Kenai (voiced by Patrick Dempsey) now a cave bear is living happily with his foster brother Koda (voiced by Jeremy Suarez). Having just awoken from hibernation, the bears are off to Crowberry Ridge for the first berries of the season. Unfortunately, Kenai's haunted by memories of his childhood friend Nita (voiced by Mandy Moore), to whom he gave a special amulet many years ago. When he was a human child, he became friends with Nita, the daughter of the elder of a neighboring tribe. The pair's past friendship collides with the present as Kenai and Nita must undertake an excursion as bear and woman, respectively. The bears Kenai and Koda are on their way to Crowberry Ridge when they meet up with Nita, Kenai's childhood friend. Nita was given an amulet from Kenai, and wants to burn it at Hokani Falls so she can marry Atka (voiced by Jeff Bennett). However, she has to do it with Kenai (the person she received it from) to send the bond back up to the spirits. At first, Kenai refuses, but finally agrees. Nita misses Kenai, but does not tell him. Instead, she asks if he misses being human, and if he ever thought of changing back. He replies that he has thought about it. Koda, who heard it all, races up a mountain and is finally found by Nita. **They make it to Hokani Falls, and burn the amulet. Nita can no longer understand animals, so she says goodbye. Koda asks his mom in the spirit-land to turn Kenai back into a man so he can be happy. Koda goes to the village to retrieve Nita, and Kenai is told by Rutt and Tuke (voiced by Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas). Koda cannot go to the village because they will try to kill him. Kenai makes it there, and gets into a fight with Atka. He falls off a cliff into shallow water, where the spirits come. Koda tells Kenai that he asked the spirits to change him back into a man. Kenai tells Nita that he cannot because he does not want to leave Koda, but Nita tells him that *she* can. So, she turns into a bear that has same coloring as Kenai, and they get married. The film ends with Kenai and Nita getting married and Rutt and Tuke finding mates, and the spirits changing the picture of young Nita and Kenai into two bear cubs, since neither are human anymore.**

## Cast

* Patrick Dempsey - Kenai
	+ Jack Weber - Young Kenai
* Jeremy Suarez - Koda
* Mandy Moore - Nita
	+ Jessie Flower - Young Nita
* Rick Moranis - Rutt
* Dave Thomas - Tuke
* Michael Clarke Duncan - Tug
* Andrea Martin - Anda
* Jeff Bennett - Atka
* Catherine O'Hara - Kata
* Wanda Sykes - Innoko
* Wendie Malick - Aunt Siqiniq
* Kathy Najimy - Aunt Taqqiq
* Tress MacNeille - Hoonah
* Jim Cummings - Bering (the Raccoon) and Chilkoot (Nita's father)

### Additional Voices

* Benjamin Bryan
* Jason Marsden
* Krista Swan

## Trivia

* Denahi is absent from this movie, whereas Sitka makes a cameo as an eagle during Nita's Transformation.
* Kenai is not seen as human throughout the whole movie, except as a child.

## Goofs

* When Nita first encounters Kenai (as a bear), Koda is visible in the log under Nita. In the next shot, as Kenai charges, Koda has disappeared.
* When Aunt Siqiniq and Aunt Taqqiq display their outfits for Nita, one is of caribou hide, the other, reindeer. 'Reindeer' and 'caribou' are two terms for the *same* animal species.
* The scene where Koda runs into the snow mountains is recycled from the first film.