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Brother Bear on DVD
• All new song added • Collins music video More DVD info... |
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Brother Bear on DVD
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Buy it... if you are a Phil Collins collector and would enjoy an easy, but not necessarily inspiring extension of his songs for Tarzan. Avoid it... if you'd rather not hear the same Collins songs re-hashed against a background of mundane score cues on a jumbled, short album. Filmtracks Editorial Review:
Thus, ghosts of Tarzan would haunt the music for Brother Bear at every turn. Collins' songs are less tied to the location of the film this time, making his songs sound like a customary solo release that he may have produced with or without the film. The actual construction of his songs does not vary often, making him the equivalent of James Horner in the pop song arena, and his songs for Brother Bear come across as a collection of ideas that he has previously introduced in either his solo work or in Tarzan. The pop style is consistently subdued for these songs, and never does Collins achieve the heart and genuine sense of family and love that we heard in Tarzan. Nor do we get outstanding instrumentation as well, with the few unique arrangements added by composer Mark Mancina often mixed under the traditional elements of the pop band. An interesting twist, though, is the inclusion of Tina Turner for the vocal performance describing the spirit of the land; while she doesn't pop into mind as the obvious voice of mother nature (can we say 'Thunderdome!'?), she effectively restrains her voice, never allowing her naturally harsh tones to show through, and yet this necessary move also makes her difficult to understand when following the generic lyrics. Mark Mancina's score does what Collins' songs completely fail with: insert a genuine Native American sound into the equation. Faint Inuit-language chanting in harmonic melodies and soft flute performances present a better representation of the setting. The percussion section is well stocked as well (although much of the tingling sounds could very well be synthesized these days), but the action sequences in Brother Bear are not as full-fledged as those in Mancina's other works. This may have been a mixing problem, but the brass in particular are muted either by the lack of numbers or a poor mix. Never, unfortunately, does Mancina capture the magic with chorus that he provided for some of the awesome landscape shots in Tarzan. On album, less than twenty minutes of Mancina's score would be countered by multiple arrangements and performances of the musical numbers that appeared in the film. Why can't these animation albums ever be chronologically sequenced with the rearranged pop performances of the songs at the end? In any case, no matter the track order, Brother Bear marches through the basic motions and ultimately comes out flat. **
* score by Mark Mancina (with themes by Phil Collins)
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