Grizzly Man


Rating = B

This documentary movie has some beautiful video of Alaskan scenery and bears, and it clearly shows that Timothy Treadwell was nuts in some sense. But even with all of Teadwell's video footage (right up to the time he was eaten by a grizzly bear) and all of the interviews with people who knew him, the director can't make him an attractive character — he was apparently determined to behave in life threatening ways and to show only his nutty side while doing so. The movie also gives us no hint how he got so obsessed with bears other than that he had a teddy bear as a child.

[2005-09-22]