I’m not down with hockey movies, and I’m definitely not down with movies in which animals play sports, yet somehow I’m a huge fan of this video. And all it is is bears playing hockey.
Maybe it’s because, unlike most hockey movies, I don’t need to actually worry about the game or the plot. I just need to become hypnotized by giant bears skating around on ice and hitting a puck with a hockey stick. Maybe the puck goes into a goal, maybe not, I don’t care. Maybe there’s a ragtag, underdog team on that ice, maybe not, I don’t care. There’s no dialogue, voiceover or narration of any kind, no attacking and killing the referee as if he were Grizzly Man’s Timothy Treadwell, just the calming visuals of a hockey game played by bears.
And apparently those are real bears really playing hockey, which is what makes it better than most animals-playing-sports movies. A lot of those feature real dogs or whatever, but special effects are typically employed when it comes to the animals’ seeming athletic ability. That dog in Air Bud is not really playing basketball. And that dog from Karate Dog is not really doing kung fu. And he’s definitely not doing karate, either, for that matter. Put 90 minutes of this on the big screen and I’ll go see it, because it’s genuine and it’s amazing.
Seriously, this is almost as enjoyable as that popular live puppy cam. If only this were perpetual, too.
