Metacritic reviews

If the other theme-park movies are as appealing, go ahead, bring 'em on.

After a while, the only way for a reasonably intelligent person to get through The Country Bears is to ponder how a whole segment of pop-music history has been allowed to get wet, fuzzy and sticky.

It's sort of an ursine ''The Last Waltz,'' with more costumes and no direction from Martin Scorsese.

Toddlers and pre-teens will be entertained, and parents will be pleasantly surprised, by this more-than-just-bearable musical road movie.

If you're looking to take your children to something harmless, that doesn't embarrass anyone, this light comedy (a gentle parody of those "Behind the Music" specials on cable TV) is your next outing.

It's hard to figure who the movie is intended for. In shape and purpose, it's like a G-rated version of "This Is Spinal Tap," but will its wee target audience understand the joke?

It makes no sense, but then again neither does much of anything in The Country Bears.

Most of the resulting film is downright bizarre. Which, as it turns out, is not entirely to its disadvantage.

Nearly unbearable.

An unintentionally surreal kid's picture.