* AudienceAlienatingPremise: Trying to make a tenuously-connected road trip family comedy starring people in creepy bear suits based off a Ride/WaltDisneyWorld attraction that hadn't been popular with guests in nearly two decades went over with audiences about as well as you might think. What helps prove this point is that the Ride/{{Disneyland}} version of the attraction closed ten months before the movie came out, meaning the core concept wasn't popular enough to keep as a ride there, yet they still released a movie based on it.
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Many of the songs, such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNTTRxT3Bbc "Straight to the Heart of Love"]], are surprisingly well-done.
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment:
** Christopher Walken dancing around his office in boxer shorts and bunny slippers, while continuously smashing scale models of Country Bear Hall.
--> "Aww no! Aww no! Aww no! Country Bear Hall has been crushed!"
** The majority of the musical numbers have no connection to the plot and suddenly disappear as bizarrely as they start, with "Kick It Into Gear" being the biggest example.
* BileFascination: Nobody had particularly high hopes for it at the time, and some have to see if the end result is just as bad as one would expect.
* EnsembleDarkHorse: Most people agree that Creator/ChristopherWalken as the banker is by far the most entertaining part of the film. %%While he is the main villain, his screen time amounts to less than seven minutes of the film total, so he is okay to keep.
* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: EVERYTHING with Christopher Walken.
** When Walken kidnaps the bears, it's shown with a transition of the van in fast forward, with Walken's sped up laughter track.
** The policemen theorizing that whoever has abducted Beary are probably holding hostage, "in some creepy underground lair, high up in a building somewhere."
* HilariousInHindsight: [[http://forums.delphiforums.com/toughpigs/messages/16367/1 This thread]] touches upon some of the similarities between this film and another Disney film, ''Film/TheMuppets2011''. Basically, both films have a puppet character raised in an all-human family who feels different, tries to find his purpose, and ends up getting his favorite group back together so they can save a theater from being demolished by a CorruptCorporateExecutive played by a guy named Christopher. While it's not mentioned in the thread, there's also a subplot about a messy breakup, which is resolved when the couple involved in said breakup reunite to perform a duet during the climax of the film. Not to mention that ''Country Bears'' also had Henson involvement; namely, the bears were designed by Creator/JimHensonsCreatureShop.
* JustHereForGodzilla: Many people willingly watch this movie for Creator/ChristopherWalken.
* MemeticMutation:
** Thanks to WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic, this line that Christopher Walken's character says toward the end of the film, which the Critic describes as him suddenly remembering there are bears in the movie, became the most memorable thing about it.
--> "This is ''not'' over! *{{Beat}}* '''BEARS!'''
** To a lesser extent, "Oh no! Country Bear Hall has been crushed!"
** Thanks to WebVideo/SomeJerkWithACamera, this line, which he considers to be the greatest line in cinema history, uttered by Walken’s character:
--> "That day... '''IS TONIGHT!'''"
* SerialNumberFiledOff: The premise is very similar to ''Film/TheBluesBrothers'' but with country music, not blues/R&B; The band is bears; they aim to put on a show to save a special place; without swearing. Scenes in both movies in the search to gather the band members include a diner with a song and dance number. The wedding band scene is similar to the lounge band scene in The Blues Brothers.
* SpecialEffectsFailure:
** During a shot of a background building collapsing, one of the bears reacts in surprise by raising his eyebrows and reeling his head back. Unfortunately, both actions occur one after the other rather at the same time, making his reaction look really fake.
** During Music/EltonJohn's cameo, the controls for the bears got mixed up so the remote puppeteers were controlling the wrong bears. [[http://techjives.net/2012/05/11/040-peter-hastings-on-talkin-toons-with-rob-paulsen-weekly-voice-acting-and-voice-over-tips/ According to director Peter Hastings]] in episode 40 of ''Podcast/TalkinToonsWithRobPaulsen'' (at the 33 minute mark), the result was one of the bears ended up with a creepily crooked jaw, which Elton took one look at and said "Looks just like me after too much blow!"
* TearJerker: Tennessee's backstory, as described below under TheWoobie. During an interview, puppeteer (but not voice actor) Jennifer Barnhart cites him as one of her favorite characters she's done, mainly for his sensitive side.
* TookTheBadFilmSeriously: Only Christopher Walken can put that much sincerity into a role calling for him to arm fart the ''1812 Overture''.
* TrailerJokeDecay: Every TV spot included that clip of the policemen's hair getting messed up in the car wash, eventually reaching the point where Disney released a commercial that contained nothing '''but''' that clip.
* UnintentionalUncannyValley: In contrast to the cartoonish cute-looking bears of the Disneyland ride, the bears of this film are more realistically designed, with small eyes and sharp teeth, which causes them to look more frightening than endearing.
* TheWoobie: Tennessee O'Neal, whom Muppet Wiki describes as "the most sensitive of the Country Bears band". He was forced to quit the band when his lover left him for a panda, and tried to be a marriage counselor but broke down in stress during sessions. Which makes it all the more satisfying when she returns and they sing their duet.
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