Rutt and Tuke are supporting characters of Disney's 2003 animated feature film Brother Bear and its 2006 sequel. They are a pair of Canadian moose and brothers who befriend Kenai and Koda.
Background[]
Personalities[]
Rutt and Tuke are two very friendly moose who always seem to bicker amongst themselves. Their relationship is very close and based upon a brotherly love, although they don't always agree. Despite their dimwittedness, the two have moments of wisdom, as their words encouraged Koda to forgive Kenai for his past mistakes. In the DVD Commentary for the first film, they note how much of the film could have been avoided had Kenai made a proper knot for the fish basket.
Appearances[]
Brother Bear[]
Rutt and Tuke are some of the first creatures Kenai meets after being transformed into a bear. He attempts to tell them that he is originally a human, but they do not believe him. He asks them if they know where the lights touch the earth, but they do not. They walk away shortly after Kenai gets himself caught in a snare trap.
They meet up with Kenai again while trying to evade the hunter hoping that he could protect them. They join Kenai and Koda on their journey while riding atop the mammoths, but get separated again when they can't get themselves down.
They meet up with Koda after he discovers that Kenai has killed his mother, and through their own argument and make up, convincing Koda to forgive Kenai.
Brother Bear 2[]
In the sequel, spring-fever has affected most of the creatures living in the wilderness as the animals start to pair off into couples. Rutt and Tuke ask that Kenai help them attract the attention of two female moose (or "moosettes") Anda and Kata.
Kenai decides to help them by pretending to act like a ferocious bear and have Rutt and Tuke "protect" the two moosettes in order to impress them, but the plan ends in a disaster and Kenai's head being stuck in a beaver's dam.
Sometime later, Tuke suggests wooing the moosettes with poetry, but Rutt feels that approach won't work and asks for Nita's advice. Nita has them act brotherly towards Koda which attracts Anda and Kata's attention. Rutt then recites the poem that Tuke came up with before, as he was too nervous to speak. Later on, Tuke ends up attracting both the moosettes with the poem, much to Rutt's sadness. During which, Rutt meets up with Koda, who has just been feeling left out due to Kenai's and Nita's romantic feelings for each other. Rutt expresses how he knows how he feels after he felt that Tuke walked out on him and warns Koda in hopes that Kenai doesn't do the same thing to him.
As all the moose were sitting watching the aurora, Rutt (who was sulking) was asked to fetch some twigs and the former starts to cry as he walks off, which draws the moosettes' attention. At first, he denies he is crying but quickly changed his answer. Anda and Kata are surprised by his sensitivity and leave Tuke's side to join him instead. Cheering up a bit, he informs he is a hoofman when admiring Anda & Kate's hooves. Tuke wondered to himself why didn't he think of that.
The next morning, the moose wake up Kenai and told him that Koda went off to bring back Nita to him. Kenai knows that if he steps foot in the village, the hunters will get him. So, he heads for the village to rescue him. During the climax, Rutt and Tuke appear, saving Koda from two hunters, as both moosettes addressed them as their heroes. Later on, all moose were seen observing Nita transform into a bear by the spirits.
By the end of the film, Rutt and Tuke, and Anda and Kata have joined Kenai and Nita's wedding, Rutt and Tuke had both found mates in Anda and Kata respectively, and they saw The Great Spirits dance.
Trivia[]
- Rutt and Tuke are based on their voice actors' (Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas) famous SCTV characters the McKenzie Brothers, who were also Canadian. Two of their SCTV co-stars, Andrea Martin and Catherine O'Hara, played their mates in the second film.
- Originally, Brother Bear 2 was going to have the moose as the main characters, and Kenai, Koda, and Nita were not going to be in the film at all (and would be called The Rutt and Tuke Movie), and they were originally going to have their own spin-off TV series (just like Timon and Pumbaa from The Lion King did).
- During their final appearance in the first movie, not counting the outtakes and bloopers played over the credits, Rutt appears to have lost an antler, possibly during the "totaling a mammoth" incident between when Kenai and Koda left them riding on a mammoth before arriving at the abandoned village and when Kenai and Koda fell out after Kenai admits that he killed Koda's mother. Apparently, the antler grew back as seen in the sequel.
- Tuke's name could be based on a toque, a Canadian name for a hat.
- In the German version, Rutt and Tuke are called Benny and Björn, after the two iconic male members of the same name from the Swedish pop group ABBA.
- In the Spanish Version Rutt and Tuke are voiced by Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong.
- Rutt and Tuke finally observe a bear transformation in the sequel, which Kenai had failed to explain to them in the first movie.
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