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Jay Barney: I am the first person to criticize how Disney spends its money. However, I must applaud them for putting projects like these out there. For all of the moaning we do about the company performing a money grab when they put something like Planes out after the Cars films, planning to develop Star Wars films every couple of years, or buying the rights to this or that franchise, they do put a little effort into these quieter... nicer projects.

That said, the opening for Bears has to be seen as a little bit of a disappointment. Bears' $4.7 million is the lowest of the Disneynature projects thus far. Not that these have huge openings, but it will need to have some pretty good daily holds for it to approach the $15 million for African Cats or the $19 million of Oceans.

Another reason why this is a mild disappointment is it didn't even open in the top 10. It’s hard to get any sort of exposure when a new entry into the market loses out to films that have been playing for weeks. I guess I expected it to do a little better.

Felix Quinonez: To me all of these Disney nature docs feel like something I could watch on TV. Because of this I'm always surprised to see that people actually pay to see this in theaters. I think that any money they make off of these is gravy so the result is totally fine. But the fact that this is the lowest opening shows that maybe people are wising up.

Max Braden: When I was a kid, my favorite school days were when we all assembled in the gym to watch Disney nature films. Or maybe it was just one time and I so enjoyed seeing that bear tumble down the side of the snowy mountain that my mind has tricked me into believing that it was a regular occurrence. We may have also seen nature shorts in front of movies at the theater on Saturday mornings. But as much as I enjoyed them I don't recall ever feeling an urge to go to the theater to see a nature doc. Now that we have Animal Planet and National Geographic channels and streaming docs online, there seems to be even less of an urgency to go see nature docs in theaters. You really have to sex them up (Rated G style) with charm like March of the Penguins to make them stand out from the available material on TV.

David Mumpower: The only bear I care about is El Oso Blanco, the White Bear humans call Evan Gattis.

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