You could probably call this an animated road movie. It runs for 70 minutes only and is almost 10 years old. Tiger and Bear decide to go on a journey to Panama. Actually, they like where they live now, their juicy green home, but Panama has to be even better. They meet all kinds of other animal friends on their trip and, in the end, with some help reach their destination, or do they? The cast is pretty good for a children's film. Til Schweiger, Dietmar Bär (fittingly voices the bear), Anke Engelke, Ralf Schmitz, Mirco Nontschew and Santiago Ziesmer (the German voice of Spongebob and Steve Urkel) are featured here. The two directors are Martin Otevrel and Irina Probost. The latter has worked on several other Janosch (famous German children's book author) works as well.
The center of the film is probably the friendship between the two protagonists. The only fairly dramatic scene is when they get into a heated argument and fight each other. (They have enough of only eating bananas and want their mushrooms again.) But they quickly make up in the next scene already, so you see this is a really harmony-oriented film. The ending is okay as well, but the whole thing is so simple and lacks depth so much that I would only really recommend it to very young audiences and maybe grown-up who grew up with the stories of Janosch. Schweiger made another kids-oriented animation movie a couple years later together with his daughter, a spin-off from "Keinohrhasen" and I have to say I liked that one a bit more.
The center of the film is probably the friendship between the two protagonists. The only fairly dramatic scene is when they get into a heated argument and fight each other. (They have enough of only eating bananas and want their mushrooms again.) But they quickly make up in the next scene already, so you see this is a really harmony-oriented film. The ending is okay as well, but the whole thing is so simple and lacks depth so much that I would only really recommend it to very young audiences and maybe grown-up who grew up with the stories of Janosch. Schweiger made another kids-oriented animation movie a couple years later together with his daughter, a spin-off from "Keinohrhasen" and I have to say I liked that one a bit more.