摇滚歌手 Phil Collins 继【泰山】之后再度帮迪士尼动画製作音乐，本片中 Phil Collins 不但负责写歌曲，还同时负责配乐。Mark Mancina 则也在音乐製作名单上。本片开场曲则请来摇滚女歌手 Tiner Tuner 主唱。 　　从筹备之初，迪斯尼就希望《泰山》的音乐制作班底能再次为《熊的时代》作曲，菲尔·柯林斯和马克·曼西纳愉快地接受了邀请。菲尔为《狗熊兄弟》创作了《凝视我的眼睛》、《没有出路》等六首新歌，继续保持了昂扬向上的风格，马克的配乐也更加豪迈宽广，表现出对自然生命的尊崇与赞颂。如果没有意外，三年多失意于奥斯卡音乐奖项的迪斯尼公司有望在今年翻身。 　　为了能让片中的音乐更加富有感染力，迪斯尼特地请来已经退出舞台的摇滚乐传奇歌后的蒂娜·特纳演唱主题歌《伟大的精神》，当年《黄金眼》的轰动，曾让沉寂多时的蒂娜再度受人注目，不知这次的《伟大的精神》是否能有青出于蓝的效果呢？ 　　Disney retired what was once Sir Elton John from the office of animated-film/adult-contemporary hitmaking and replaced him with the yet-to-be-knighted Phil Collins. A squire he may be but, unlike fellow composer Randy Newman, Collins is in no danger of writing intelligent and engaging songs that go largely ignored by the masses, making his Brother Bear score a likely Oscar contender. That's not to say that middle-of-the-road pop confections like "On My Way" and future American Idol standards such as "Look Through My Eyes" are devoid of craftsmanship — they positively radiate Hollywood gloss — it's simply indicative of pop culture's voracious appetite for audio fast food. Here Disney continues to regurgitate the same musical formula that fueled The Lion King by dipping mediocre pop songs into a heap of worldbeat dressing and dropping them into the public's open mouths like a mama bird. Collins, a talented and accomplished musician, does his best to rise above the restrictions of the cartoon genre by inserting some good old-fashioned Genesis-like prog rock into the mix. The exhilarating "Transformation," which features the heavenly voices of the Bulgarian Women's Choir, channels the superb work done by Hans Zimmer on the aforementioned Lion King soundtrack, and like "The Circle of Life" before it, its serpentine melody features prominently throughout the piece, firmly establishing a sense of place that is sorely lacking in forgettable exercises like "Welcome" and "No Way Out." Tina Turner utilizes the cool mystique that made Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome's "We Don't Need Another Hero" such a gem, in the lush, mid-tempo hymn "Great Spirits," but even she can't save Brother Bear from being, forgive me, unbearable.