What makes it different from others?

Lack of good storyline.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Blistering performances.

THE BEAR, an enchanting 30-minute animation about a young girl's relationship with a polar bear that escapes from the local zoo, is very much a spiritual follow-up to that timeless Raymond Briggs classic, THE SNOWMAN. The two productions look and feel very similar to each other and, while THE SNOWMAN has the edge, THE BEAR comes close to reaching the same level of quality.As usual, there's far more going on than meets the eye, something that makes these Briggs stories suitable for adult viewers as well as the kids. On the face of it, it's simply a humorous tale about an unlikely relationship, but underneath it's all about friendship, being comfortable in your own skin, the tribulations of finding one's place in society, mysticism and nature versus technology and progress.Needless to say it's also touching, thought-provoking and magical, with expert, hand-drawn animation and beautifully realised characters.

If you liked The Snowman or Father Christmas, then here is another Christmas film from Raymond Briggs. It doesn't have any dialogue, but the music just makes it just as good as The Snowman, it even appears a tiny bit from it. Basically a little girl really loves bear's, especially polar bears. When she loses her teddy bear in the polar bear sanctuary, she is one night visited by a polar bear that returns it. Together that night they go through the snow, follow a large ghost polar bear, have a bath and much more. The animation is just quality, the music is perfect and the end theme sung by young Charlotte Church makes this one of the essentials for Christmas television. Very good!

THE BEAR, huge and gentle - which makes its way from the London Zoo into the bedroom of a lonely little girl - takes her on a magical journey across the Wintertime landscape.Haunting & evocative, this lovely little animated film - told entirely without narration or dialogue, is a most fitting successor to author Raymond Briggs' earlier triumph The Snowman, to which, at one point, it pays subtle homage. After enjoying the broad comedy of the Polar Visitor trying to hide in the proper English home, the viewer is swept into the Northern sojourn which fulfills the Bear's quest.Howard Blake's score propels the fanciful images onward; the final song is sung by Charlotte Church.

An Animated tale in the style of Raymond Briggs' "The Snowman" and "Father Christmas", This tale is about a girl named tilly who visits the zoo and accidentally drops her teddy bear into the polar bear exhibit. Crying herself to sleep she wakes to find the polar bear in her room with he teddy bear. Tilly cares for the polar bear and hides it from her parents, which is no small feet. But he call of the wild bear constallation takes her on an adventure accross the night sky.This is a must have Briggs' movie, all the charm and warmth of the first two animations are contained inside. Children and adults watch spellbound through another half hour of music and storytelling.My best to the author and producers, please make more.