âBearsâ opens with narrator John C. Reilly introducing a mama bear, named Sky, and her two newborn cubs, Scout and Amber. Soon after, Reilly sets up the filmâs central source of tension: Odds are that only one of the two cubs will reach its first birthday.
Top definition. catatonic. One who does not respond to external stimuli, for example through the senses. You could shoot a catatonic in the foot and they would not notice. Very few people can ever achieve complete catatonic status. Those who do rarely recover, resulting in pain and untold suffering for the victim's family.
Use the adjective catatonic to describe someone who is in an unresponsive stupor, as if suffering from a mental disorder. Sometimes in the summer it gets so hot that people lose all their energy and get catatonic. Catatonic can also be used to describe something that is related to psychiatric problems. Catatonic schizophrenia, for example, has symptoms that can include physical immobility, unresponsiveness, or strange movements. The weird thing about the word catatonic is that it can either mean not moving at all or moving in a frenzy â or it can mean having totally rigid muscles or having totally relaxed muscles.