The Road to the Wharf

Metro Astro Distribution Animation [international]

***The Road to the Wharf*** is a 1997 American computer-animated comedy buddy fantasy film produced by Kennedy Hill Animation. Written and directed by Tom McCarthy, the film follows a bear named Bunsen who was kept as an exotic pet as his lifestyle by living in his home with food stored and is able to communicate and to talk to his owner takes a turn as he is finds himself lost in a flooded area after a car crash as he meets other birds such as Blu and Twilight the Bald Eagles who are able to try and get the animal back to its owner before it is the ceremony of his own show.

The film was released on July 18, 1997, in the United States by Handmount Pictures and internationally by Metro Astro Distribution. It received mixed (almost positive) reviews from critics and grossed $221.5 million over a $55 million dollar budget. through home video releases and television syndication, it gathered cult following. It has since been expanded into a multi-media franchise with a live-show; and a number of video games, books, toys, theme park attractions, and 15 episode television series named The Road to the Wharf: Bear Takeover, witch was released 1 year after the film, despite this, it had gained some controversy with the villain, Mr. Fatty being offensive to people who are obese, such as his own song where he shows off his butt, witch had mildly disgusted children as not only was it seen in VHS and original DVD releases but also has been edited out from some international and even post-2000 digital releases of the film and were replaced with a shot of the main characters in disgust after flashing his butt on them.

## Plot

At the streets of Clam Avenue at Buzzard Town, there lived a man named Max and a tamed bear named Bunsen, who was the least wildest out of all the bears in the world and is able to speak and communicate to his owner and is the one who also eats food with him whilst watching television and spending time with him everyday and his daily routine, while getting prepared for a show in three weeks, he did not see things coming as he was trapped in the box but thanks him to avoid being hurt unless something went wrong, it took a turn as it was stormy outside and as a monster truck while speeding hits the truck of his owner and Bunsen in his box tumbles down the hill to a flooded area leading to a wharf as he finds himself in the middle of nowhere,

he finds an eagle nest on the rooftop of the closed building surrounded by flood, he was then met by the eagles who were about to attack them if it were a bird but wouldn’t attack a mammal as if it were a bear, the bald eagles, Blu and Twilight welcomes Bunsen to the lost animal establishment in witch he meets Garfield the Goose, who was Twilight's friend and greets him to tell him a story about why he was lost and as Bunsen tells a story about that he was getting ready for his ceremony in 6 days, the people were shocked to find out why Bunsen ended up here, the animals comfort Bunsen while upset with a cosy room, Bunsen thanks the lost animals for finding the right room for him as told by the leaders, the eagles.

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