Care Bears blast out, again, with silly, sugary love from their furry belly, in eight episodes focusing on friendship and sliding down rainbows and learning simple lessons.
- “Growing Pains”
Share-the-Care-Bear is enthusing all her pals with her awesome garden. Her pal Cheer is inspired by Share’s green thumb, or rather neon pink felt thumb, so she starts one and, before you know it, the two succumb to over-competitiveness, endangering their friendship.
- “King Grumpy”
Grumpy-the-Care-Bear abuses the friendship of his robot pal Wingnut. One thing leads to another and Wingnut needs rescuing from an evil castle.
- “Cheer, There and Everywhere”
The Care Bears throw a big parade and Cheer becomes lost over the planning and neglects her primary duty of making the Starshine centerpiece for the parade float.
- “Case of the Grumpies”
Grumpy is in a bad mood. His friends try to cheer him up but realize the hard way to cheer up Grumpy isn’t the same thing that cheers them up.
- “Gobblebugs”
The Gobblebugs are on the loose and they’re eating all the plants and trees in Care-a-lot. Paint the town yellow will get rid of them?
- “Grizzle-ized”
Girzzle, the evil bear that wants to blast away Care-a-lot, exploits Oopsie’s low self-esteem to smuggle in an evil machine that will fulfill his sinister scheming.
- “Two of a Kind”
Grumpy clones himself and offers double the irritation.
- “Stand Up and Cheer”
The Care Bears are ready to rock out at the Care-a-Lot Talent Show, with Cheer orchestrating the production.
The Care Bears relentlessly happy and often make mistakes but luckily they’re friends and can resolve any issue within the allotted eight minutes. It’s low-impact stuff, but the morals are spelled out clearly and the animation is bright and sugary. My daughter, who is eight, did enjoy the episodes, but more for the younger crowd.
The DVD auto-plays all eight episodes (full frame, 2.0 stereo) or you can work out of the main menu for episode selection or a badge match interactive game.
Screenhead has a copy of Care Bears Cheer, There and Everywhere for giveaway. Please post your name and we will pick the winner Wednesday, April 29, 2009.
