Directors – Lin Yongchang, Qu Caijia – 2025 – China – Cert. PG – 107m
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Park Ranger Vick unwittingly releases pink spores into the atmosphere, reducing the earth to a toxic wasteland, then he and the bears time travel forward 100 years to sort it out– in a dubbed format for family audiences – out in UK cinemas on Friday, April 18th
One hundred years in the future, cities (and a cute rabbit that gets less than a minute of screen time) have been subsumed by toxic spores. This is because of one man. Flashback into the present and Park Ranger Vick (voice in the English language dub: Chris Boike), familiar from previous Boonie Bears outings, holding a cute baby, seeing the child’s beautiful mother approach them and then coming down to Earth when her tourist husband turns up behind him.
The disappointed Vick guides his charges to snow-covered mountain Crystal Peak, where a combination of awkward customers and Vick’s slipping on a banana skin causes a noise which triggers a deadly avalanche. And a wormhole opening in the sky, from which falls a boy with jetpack shoes. He perches on a high branch, marvelling as a butterfly alights on his glove.… Read the rest