Comedy Section
Year: 2001
Featured Bears: Samuel L Jackson Ricky Tomlinson Michael Starke Meat Loaf |
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Review:
Samuel L Jackson in a kilt carrying golf clubs? Yes, indeedy. He plays a master chemist who lands up in Liverpool having escaped the clutches of his boss, The Lizard, played by Meat Loaf. Ricky Tomlinson, aka Jim Royle of The Royle Family fame, plays a drug baron with piles and Michael Starke, Brookside's Sinbad, stars as a put-upon detective. Something for everyone! [Not yet available on video - Ed.]
BearMovie: #117 | ||
Year: 1994
Featured Bears: Bill (I) Hunter |
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Review:
The hilarious story of three drag queens in the Outback doesn't have much in the way of bear interest until the middle when they meet up with woofy Bill Hunter.
BearMovie: #019 | ||
Year: 1997
Featured Bears: Joe Son |
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Review:
Joe Son makes only brief appearances in this movie, playing the Dr. Evil's hitman Random Task. But if you like Asian bears, Joe's performance is definitely worth checking out. (Though beware the scenes where Austin Powers takes his shirt off -- his fake chest hair is downright nauseating.)
BearMovie: #82 | ||
Year: 1998
Featured Bears: John Goodman Sam Elliott |
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Review:
John Goodman with a van dyke. Need we say more? Sam Elliott acts as the narrator. Jeff Bridges has a beard throughout the movie. Another bear is one of the bowlers, James G. Hoosier (who I swear I've seen somewhere else).
BearMovie: #013 | ||
Year: 1993
Featured Bears: Ritch Brinkley Russ Tamblyn Andy Richter |
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I expected this movie to be really bad. However it's intentionally tacky, incorporating it's own set of sea "legends" including Russ Tamblyn ("Twin Peaks" Dr. Jacoby) as a half-man, half-shark. Watching Tim Burton's influence on the movie reminded me of Terry Gilliam's stuff, esp. Baron Munchausen. The big bear interest here is Ritch Brinkley (Carl the Cameraman on Murphy Brown) who plays the ship's captain. Andy Ritcher (from Conan O'Brien) has a small part.
BearMovie: #018 | ||
Year: 1964
Featured Bears: Francis De Wolff |
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Review:
A cameo role by a stalwart British actor, Francis de Wolff, who plays the hefty, bearded Agrippa who tries assassinate Caesar, as played by Kenneth Williams. A simple enough task, but no. Fate intervenes and Agrippa and his fellow assassins are killed themselves! One of the best in the Carry On series, before the 60's caught up with them.
BearMovie: #114 | ||
Year: 1997
Featured Bears: Kevin Smith |
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Review:
Ahhh, Kevin Smith. Bear Icon in the making! This is his best movie as director, even if his onscreen appearance is more of an elongated cameo near the end. Gay men and women should all see this movie, about a straight guy (Ben Affleck, lookin' alright with that goattee)who unwittingly falls for a lesbian, who eventually becomes taken with him on a different level. They fall in love with each other for who they are, while their respective cliques and closest friends abandon them. This is risky territory, but well handled here. It's really a twist on coming out, but you're free to draw your own conclusions about a lot of things. The lesbian ultimately teaches the straight guy a few lessons about his own ignorance and assumptions of sexuality and "normal" behaviour. A great, smart ending that doesn't pander to the audience, and some wonderful, funny, frank conversations to get you there. Smith's films tend to have a TV or film student feel to them, but once you get past that I think you'll enjoy this. As for the Bear content? I'd say Smith's appearance as Silent Bob could fit your required daily allowance.
BearMovie: #95 | ||
Year: 1971
Featured Bears: Allen Garfield |
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Review:
Several years ago, I came across a website that was dedicated to chubby bears in movies. There were many stills from those movies. "Cry Uncle" was one of them that gave me a unforgetable impression, but I have not watched it yet.
BearMovie: #31 | ||
Year: 1998
Featured Bears: Sean Astin Brian Dennehy |
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Review:
A pair of aimless surfer dudes who just want to drift through life, discover girls (ick) and decide to settle down. This rather silly romantic comedy/drama has a double treat for bear lovers - primarily there's oh-so-cuddly cub Sean Astin with tons of shirtless scenes (and he's getting nicely hairy here). And then there's his mentor (in both surfing and Life), the always-woofy Brian Dennehy, who does a couple of scenes shirtless or in a wetsuit!
BearMovie: #131 | ||
Year: 1999
Featured Bears: Kevin Smith |
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Review:
The fourth movie from the incredibly woofy director/writer Kevin Smith, reprising his role as "Silent Bob", who with sidekick Jay are (unknowing) prophets enlisted to shield the last descendent of Christ in a wonderfully funny (and surprisingly reverent in the places is should be) apocalyptic comedy.
BearMovie: #50 | ||
Year: 1987
Featured Bears: Nosher Powell Lemmy |
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Review:
Nosher Powell, ex-stuntman, stars as the Prime Minister of Great Britain (!) in this mad comedy, directed by Peter Richardson, and starring many stars of the Comic Strip, who are now big stars, such as Robbie Coltrane. Loads of star turns from Angie Bowie and Paul McCartney, plus a small role for the Sean Connery of Heavy Metal, Lemmy, who at one point has his lights punched out by ex-soap star!
BearMovie: #99 | ||
Year: 1994
Featured Bears: George Steele |
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Review:
Steele plays Tor Johnson ("Lobo" in almost every movie he was in). He's really the only bear (no beard, but a pelt to envy), but the casting in this movie comes so close to the people portrayed (with the exception of Depp) that it's creepy. Martin Landau won an well- deserved Academy Award for his portrayal of Bela Lugosi.
BearMovie: #017 | ||
Year: 1994
Featured Bears: Simon Callow Corin Redgrave Robert Lang Rupert Vansittart |
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Review:
The definitive English Bear movie, due in large part to the appearance of Simon Callow in complete full-on mood as Gareth, the older lover of John Hannah's character, an obvious Bear admirer. Other notable appearances include Corin Redgrave, son of the great actor knight Michael Redgrave, who is following in his footsteps, Robert Lang as Lord Hibbott and Rupert Vansittart, who plays George the Boor at The Boatman, who remembers his schooldays with relish! Okay, the last three are not Bears in the strict sense but how many chances do you get to legitmately call someone Rupert the Bear?!
BearMovie: #78 | ||
Year: 1997
Featured Bears: Mark Addy |
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Review:
Mark Addy is a an out of work steel factory worker who turns to stripping as a way to bring in money. Cute and Cuddly.
BearMovie: #36 | ||
Year: 1995
Featured Bears: James Gandolfini Gene Hackman |
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Review:
James Gandolfini plays a character called 'Bear' in this movie. He is extrememly woofy and has a full beard. Just one look at this guy will convince you that he should be in your movie list and of course part of every bears video collection. He also plays Tony Soprano in the wonderful 'The Sopranos' in which you do get to see his nice hairy chest.
BearMovie: #40 | ||
Year: 1997
Featured Bears: Vincent D'Onofrio |
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BearMovie: #33 | ||
Year: 1999
Featured Bears: William H. Macy M.C. Gainey |
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Review:
A GREAT first film by Mark Isley And Ed Stone. A Hilariously funny movie about Escaped Cons Posing As A Gay Couple who are hired by the town as "Pagent Professionals" Macy, as Sheriff "Chappy "Dent Is An Absolute Delight (He's A Daddy-Bear Type AND he's GAY) M.C.Gainey is a Rogueish Escaped Con. IF you look close you will see an unidentified tall,blond cowboy with a goatee and great butt in several scenes
BearMovie: #132 | ||
Year: 1955
Featured Bears: Cecil Parker Danny Green Philip Stainton |
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Review:
Classic Ealing comedy featuring the comedic skills of Alec Guiness and Peter Sellers, as well as featuring Herbert Lom and a cameo performance from camp comic Frankie Howerd. Two of the gang are played by two enticing British bears. Cecil Parker as the cowardly ex-Major with a bristling moustache and the working class but not so dumb ox Danny Green. Other eye- candy is provided by an uncredited Stratford Johns, Philip Stainton as a policeman, plus another uncredited actor playing another bobby on the beat who calls on the little old lady at an inopportune moment.
BearMovie: #125 | ||
Year: 1979
Featured Bears: Graham Chapman |
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Review:
Very funny Monty Python movie. Has a quite (ahem) revealing scene with a bearded Graham Chapman.
BearMovie: #32 | ||
Year: 1999
Featured Bears: P.H. Moriarty Lenny McLean Steven (II) Collins Stephen Marcus |
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Review:
Released in the US as Two Smoking Barrels, Guy Ritchie's debut feature exploded onto the scene, inadvertantly making Vinnie Jones, an ex- soccer player, a star. However, those not into thuggish footballers, there is plenty of eye candy for Bear lovers. First of all, Steve Colins, the Irish boxer, who makes a cameo appearance. Stephen Marcus, as Nick the Greek, for the Chubbier end of the market. The late, great Lenny McLean, former bareknuckle boxer, as Barry the Baptist. Honours, however, go to P H Moriarty (the English James Cosmo), known to many as Razors in The Long Good Friday, immortalises the character of Hatchet Harry, who beats one poor unfortunate to death with a dildo! What more could you ask?
BearMovie: #73 | ||
Year: 1997
Featured Bears: Jason Alexander |
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Review:
Funny yet moving portrayal of 8 gay men spending Memorial Day, Independance Day, and Labor Day together at a country home. Sort of a gay Big Chill or Four Seasons. Some may find the characters too stereotypical, the performances too cliched... I LOVED IT... laughed and cried. John Glover as good twin/bad twin, and Jason Alexander as the pudgy Broadway showtune-singing AIDS victim are excellent. From Terrence McNally's Tony-winning play.
BearMovie: #48 | ||
Year: 1995
Featured Bears: Kevin Smith Ethan Suplee |
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Review:
Two bears of note: Smith (Silent Bob) with more scenes than in Slackers or Chasing Amy, and Suplee who is a chubby bear trying to make sense of those annoying 3-D art things. The DVD version of this move contains over one hour of Deleted Scenes, plus commentary from writer/director (and bear of great note) Kevin Smith.
BearMovie: #014 | ||
Year: 2001
Featured Bears: James Gandolfini |
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The plot revolves around various hoods and gangsters chasing after a priceless antique pistol called "The Mexican". Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts star as a neer-do-well hood and his whiny girlfriend. Gandolfini's character, a reserved but determined hitman who kidnaps Roberts as ransom for the gun, provides a welcome respite from the self-absorbed boorishness of the main characters. Gandolfini is a bear's wet dream and the best thing about this film: stocky, goateed, nice eyes, cuddly smile -- breathtakingly handsome. Overall it's not a great movie -- the ending is a big let-down -- but good enough for a Friday night rental.
BearMovie: #108 | ||
Year: 1993
Featured Bears: Brian Blessed Jimmy Yuill Gerald Horan |
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Review:
Fun communal bathing scene at the beginning of the movie. There are other bears than just Blessed (Antonio), Yuill (Friar Francis), and Horan (Borachio), but that's a good start!
BearMovie: #004 | ||
Year: 1999
Featured Bears: Pruitt Taylor Vince |
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Beyond its appeal as an insightful comedy, PTV portrays a sexually repressed patient who reveals his steamy fantasies in a way some/most bears might be able to relate with. And the bear finds happiness in the end!
BearMovie: #64 | ||
Year: 1988
Featured Bears: John (I) Reynolds |
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Widely regarded as the WORST movie ever featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000, "Manos: The Hands of Fate" is staggeringly bad in every imaginable way. Bad acting, bad script, bad effects, bad camerawork. Which provides plenty of comedic material for the satellite crew. The late John Reynolds plays Torgo, an eccentric groundskeeper with really big knees. (Trivia: supposedly he's a satyr with goat's hoofs but the MST3K silhouettes block the few shots where you can see them.) In this reviewer's opinion, Torgo's kind of cute for an Igor-like minion of evil, in a scruffy rough-trade sort of way -- but your mileage may vary. Regardless, this MST3K episode turned him into a minor cult icon.
BearMovie: #91 | ||
Year: 1982
Featured Bears: Tim Rossovitch |
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There's only one short scene with Rossovitch, He's the "john" of the buildings hooker-But, he's 6'4 200+ lbs of solid MAN wearing only a cowboy hat , jocky shorts and socks
BearMovie: #103 | ||
Year: 1979
Featured Bears: Nick Nolte John Matuszak |
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Review:
Football team is abused by the management and particularly by the owner. Some locker room scenes worth noting.
BearMovie: #020 | ||
Year: 2002
Featured Bears: Ricky Tomlinson James Cosmo Antony Strachan |
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Shane Meadows directs an all star cast, including Robert Carlyle, Kathy Burke and Rhys Ifans. Meadows has employed bears before, notably Bob Hoskins in 24/7, but here he outdoes himself. Ricky Tomlinson plays a country and western star with muttonchop whiskers and James Cosmo plays Billy a gangster after Carlyle's character who has gotten away with ill-gotten gains from a joint robbery. Strachan, who plays most of the movie in a head- brace (!)is one of Billy's gang. The gang has a penchant for nicking unusual getaway vehicles, including a milk float!!
BearMovie: #127 | ||
Year: 1978
Featured Bears: Bradford Dillman Kevin McCarthy Paul Bartel Keenan Wynn |
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For no apparent reason (other than that they look good) this Roger Corman produced campy fish fest manages the rare feat of having four of it's leading actors with full beards, and goes to show that a face full of fur is no protection from man-eating mutant fish. All this and Barbara Steele!
BearMovie: #52 | ||
Year: 1993
Featured Bears: Eric Allan Kramer Matthew Porretta |
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Pretty funny but not as good as some of Mel Brooks' other movies. Unlike Kevin Costner's Robin Hood movie, at least this one is *intentionally* funny. Plenty of merry men in TIGHT tights. Hirsute actors include Roger Rees (Sheriff of Nottingham), Mark Blankfield (Blinkin), Dom DeLuise (a medieval gangster), and a goateed Patrick Stewart in a cameo as King Richard. A very cute and cubby Matthew Porretta plays Will Scarlett. But the real woof material is burly Eric Allan Kramer as Little John. Broad chest, nice legs, and nice - um - tights. When he refuses the advances of a big Swedish woman, you begin to wonder...
BearMovie: #57 | ||
Year: 1966
Featured Bears: Fred Emney Stanley Holloway David Lodge Terry-Thomas |
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Michael Bentine, ex-Goon and old Etonian, wrote this with director Robert Hartford-Davis and is a curate egg's of a gentle comedy that strolls effortlessly through a sunny day in the London of the Swinging Sixties. Apart from its cinematic curiosity value and some politically incorrect racial stereotyping, there are a myriad of cameos from British comedy stalwarts such as Norman Wisdom to Bernard Cribbins. For the chubby chasers, daddy- and bear-lovers, there is Fred Emney, Stanley Holloway, Terry- Thomas in shorts (as a Scoutmaster!) and a beautifully bearded David Lodge; for once not accompanied by Peter Sellers.
BearMovie: #126 | ||
Year: 2000
Featured Bears: Brad Pitt Sam Douglas Dennis Farina Rade Serbedzija Jason Flemyng |
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Guy Ritchie's superlative follow-up to his cult hit, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. Something for everyone, as far as Bears and their admirers are concerned! From the cuddlesome features of the reborn Brad Pitt to the rotund pleasures of Sam Douglas as Dennis Farina's henchman, Rosebud (obviously a nod to Citizen Kane), with a side order of Rade Serbedzija as Boris the Blade and Jason Flemyng, unrecognizable with mullet and beard, from his previous outing with Ritchie. Also, something for the chubby chasers, with the appearance of Ade, the hopeless getaway driver. A steal, a deal and one to sit back, enjoy and relish the eye candy.
BearMovie: #72 | ||
Year: 1998
Featured Bears: Billy Connolly Timothy Spall |
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Aging 60's band tries to ride the "reunion" bandwagon in the 90's. Sort of like "This is Spinal Tap" only with more bears. Connolly plays the band's roadie. Spall is the drummer. Fun movie.
BearMovie: #001 | ||
Year: 2000
Featured Bears: Donal Logue |
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A romantic comedy with a difference. The central character is Dex, a twentysomething, who is a Bear in all but name. He's got a gut, he rides a motorbike and he works part-time as a kindergarten teacher. Strangely, he's not gay, but he has plenty of women friends. Charming, witty, intelligent. Beats When Harry Met Sally... into a cocked hat! Donal Logue is a true find, a combination of Jeff Bridges and John Goodman. Sure to mature into a gorgeous Daddy Bear!
BearMovie: #87 | ||
Year: 1997
Featured Bears: Huw Ceredig |
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Not only the directorial debut of Kevin Allen, younger brother of Keith Allen, but also that of Rhys Ifans who went on to steal Notting Hill from Hugh Grant and Julia Roberts. Anarchic, explosive, swearing in English and Welsh, plenty of sex although the relationship between the two central characters could be construed as mildly diverting. They share a bath at one point but the real diversion is Huw Ceredig, a beefy Welshman, who plays their father whose injury at work kicks off most of the mayhem contained in the plot. Also an interesting early appearance by the Scottish hunk Dougray Scott. Give him a few pounds, years and no visits to the barber and he's going to be extremely doable!
BearMovie: #122 | ||
Year: 1982
Featured Bears: Alex Karras James Garner John Rhys-Davies |
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Takes place in pre-WWII Paris. Karras plays James Garner's bodyguard. In case you haven't seen this movie before, I won't reveal the surprise (but you'll like it). Robert Preston is fabulous as a flamboyant gay man teamed up with Julie Andrews.
BearMovie: #021 | ||
Year: 1994
Featured Bears: John Candy Abraham Benrubi |
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John Candy's final film. He plays a drunk wagoneer leading a caravan of disgruntled settlers back east, and is quite woofy with his full beard, as is the younger and relatively lighter Abraham Benrubi, who you might remember from "ER." Benrubi plays one of a group of degenerate brothers who accidentally gets drawn and quartered. All in all, not one of John Candy's better movies, but he couldn't help it if he died before he could make a better one, could he?
BearMovie: #34 | ||
Year: 1966
Featured Bears: Aldo Ray |
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Seeing Aldo Ray without his shirt or with his shirt open for extended period of time is well worth the cost of the tape. Hunky bearish dude!
BearMovie: #133 | ||
Year: 1987
Featured Bears: Richard Griffiths |
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Review:
The classic comedy about two unemployed actors spending the end of the 60's in a country cottage in the Lake District. It catapulted Richard E Grant to international stardom, but the true acting honours go to Richard Griffiths, as the licentious Uncle Monty, a prime example of a modern Falstaff. If you want to know more about the genesis of this character, check out Vested Interest on www.richard-e-grant.com.
BearMovie: #79 | ||
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