The last thing I expected to see in the 2006 Sci-Fi Channel movie, “Savage Planet” was the Bear with the Rubbery Lips. “Terror strikes a group of explorers who have stepped through a portal to a distant planet.” And then it happened. Ten minutes into the movie, the Bear with the Rubbery Lips made his appearance. You know the bear I’m talking about, the same bear that has appeared in almost every bad action-adventure movie ever made; the trained Kodiak bear who rears up on his hind feet, flails the air with his massive, Godzilla-like paws, and — as the camera moves in for the trademark tight head shot — screws up his huge, slather-coated mouth into incredible rubbery shapes that are meant to be mortally terrifying but have since become so overused they are slapstick and comical.
So it was on the Savage portal Planet in a galaxy far, far away, VERY far away, indeed, from the rubber-mouthed Gentle Ben look-alike and his quick-take-the-money-to-the-bank trainer. CLICK went my TV remote.
It was time for a good book.
I guess he only got non-speaking parts, much to the chagrin of his trainer$.
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I understand that this bear (raised from a cub and now deceased) did not make any noises, the movie makers dubbed them.
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It’s ALWAYS time for a good book! Would be nice if my husband understood that.
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