Care Bears: Journey to Joke-a-Lot (DVD)

This movie marks the first appearance of the Care Bears in a feature film since 1987's The Care Bears Adventure in Wonderland. The movie (and all Care Bears movies since) only features the Care Bears, not the Care Bear Cousins, and also introduces many new characters from a land known as Joke-a-lot.Funshine Bear loves jokes and enjoys making the Care Bears laugh. One day however, Funshine tries to cheer up Grumpy Bear (after his newly built rainbow carousel breaks apart) by telling jokes, which only makes Grumpy feel worse. Grumpy even goes so far as to tell Funshine that if he doesn't understand that cheering up is not making fun of, then Funshine does not belong in Care-A Lot. So Funshine runs away and ends up in Joke-a-lot, where a rat named Sir Funnybone declares him to be the long-lost King of that place. What he doesn't know, though, is that Funnybone is actually using him as part of a plot to gain power. The other Care Bears, of course, miss Funshine and want him to come back to Care-A-Lot where he belongs. Thus Funshine must in the end make a very difficult decision; to come back to his home in Care-A-Lot or remain king of Joke-A-Lot and no longer live with his fellow Care Bears.

Pros: Great for young children. Adventures with-out villians.

Cons: Not so great for parents, quite repeditive singing, gets annoying after a few times of hearing it. Also they changed a few of the bears colors.

Funshine bears journy to joke-a-lot, begins after picking on grumpy bear. Funshine gets his feelings hurt, and decides to run away. Great story for kids to learn why they shouldn't make fun of others. Also teaches them why running away is not the answer. WoW, they really are refacing the whole Care Bear image with this movie, they all use to be about helping kids. Ware were the kids in need? My daughter loves this one, alot... We have plenty of Care Bear movies, old and new. I enjoyed watching this one with her the first time, the computer animation is great. I would like to know what happened to the regular Care Bear cartoons. They seem to be doing every thing different. Even creating new bears, and changing the old ones.

I like the values that the 2 CGI Care Bear movies (Journey to Joke-a-Lot and Big Wish) have. Nobody's trying to kill anyone, nobody's truly evil (even the villian in this one turns out to be a decent guy) and nothing is too scary for a 2-year-old. (I wish I could say the same about the current and past Care bears TV shows, which my daughter is not allowed to watch.) The Joke-a-lot national anthem is annoying, but other than that, I have no complaints about this movie. It shows good values of friendship, apologizing when you've hurt someone else's feelings and that caring about others is more important than having fun (especially laughing at someone when they need your help). I would recommend this movie and the Big Wish Movie (I think I like Big Wish better, but this one's not bad).

I bought this movie bacause my son has The Big Wish Movie and this is the movie before that one. I love these 2 Care Bears CGI movies because they lack scary charactors and situations. My son is autistic and he scares easily, when he watches movies with certain scary situations he has nightmares and the next few nights has troubles sleeping. This happens with a lot of Disney Pixar movies, and others. This movie is geared toward toddlers or toddler minded children who are afraid of scary situation movies and scary "bad guys". The graphics aren't the best but they are colorful and light and fun-loving. Your little one will love this playful, laugh-out-loud, silly movie!

My granddaughter has just about every Care Bear DVD, and this is by far her favorite! She is a big fan of the Care Bears, and I bought it since it is so hard to find Care Bear items that are reasonable now.