As ridiculous and as smile inducing as one would hope. A real grizzly bear trying to look mean, a guy in a bear costume trying to look scary. A film where the token black guy is called Mr. Brown and the fascist Nazi is called Mr. White. It's subtlety like that you just got to love. I really enjoyed the practical effects, and the fact that the bear could rip off your head by simply stroking it. The serial killer sub-plot is a nice red herring and allows for a bit of action during the suspenseful build-up. Morshower's talents are way above this, but he isn't too pretentious or up himself to think so. He gives it his all and has fun along the way. Rodriguez is simply beautiful and Brody the Bear has a bright future ahead of him. A B-Movie I shall be revisiting again and again when I have some beers to get rid of.

Eight rowdy, unruly, and unrepentant young adult troublemakers are assigned to do community service at a remote California forest preserve under the strict supervision of the no-nonsense Ranger Bob (a fine and credible performance by Glenn Morshower). However, there's not only a vicious escaped serial killer on the loose in the immediate area, but also an even more deadly and ferocious grizzly bear stalking the grounds as well. Writer/director Tom Skull relates the delightfully inane story at a snappy pace, handles the blithely absurd premise with a sly sense of deadpan self-mocking humor (the surprise ending in particular is absolutely gut-busting), delivers a handy helping of graphic gore, and makes the most out of the gorgeous sylvan scenery. The eager and attractive cast have a field day with their stock juvenile offender parts: Randy Wayne as swaggering gas-huffing white supremacist Michael "Scab" White (the scene with White confronting the grizzly while stoned is simply sidesplitting), Emily Foxler as sweet and ditsy bimbo Bebe, Shedrack Anderson III as smooth dude Ty, Zulay Henao as scrappy'n'sultry street gang moll Lola, Julie Skon as sexy'n'snooty rich tramp Candy, Kavan Reece as smug and stuck-up wealthy preppie Ryan, Jelynn Rodriguez as the brassy Kiki, and Trevor Peterson as sarcastic smartaleck Trickster. Popping up in nifty bits are Rance Howard as the folksy Ranger Howard and Susan Blakely as a fierce castigating shrew. Matt Cantrell's polished cinematography boasts lots of neat prowling camera shots and a few sweeping helicopter shots of the beautiful woods. Anthony Marinelli's twangy and harmonic score hits the flavorsome spot. A good deal of amiably inane and campy fun.

I am so glad that I did not pay for this movie. I just happened to be up feeding my baby one night and saw this on the Chiller channel. I thought it sounded interesting so I dvr'd it to watch the next day. I would rather watch paint dry. First the stupid song. I felt like I was listening to nursery school rhymes! What in the hell was that?? Then the whole serial killer plot. That had nothing to do with the movie. He died before the juvenile delinquents. No point to him in the movie at all. I guess they were trying to tie it up with the end scene and Ranger Bob, but why would Ranger Bob want the other park ranger to die. I am little confused by the ending, but I guess I will just remain confused. Hopefully they will spare us and never make a sequel to this mess. I gave it two stars because Ranger Bob was funny, that is about it. Do yourselves a favor. If you see this mess on TV, keep channel surfing and don't bother giving it a second of your life. It is a second you can never get back.

just nasty scenes of people getting bad non-real injuries, in real life bears do not attack and hurt like that, and we all know that, and when bears want to eat it will get busy for a period of time, while in this movie the bear didn't eat and he just kept attacking and killing roughly, actually an animal never do that, only a human being can do that so why this unfair and unreal misrepresentation of facts about grizzlies life style? I really like to watch horror movies with animals starting, but I feel like these actor's and writers of these kind of movies want people like me to stop liking these movies...I think we need an organization to put an eye on this movies to correct such stupid mistakes..