Years ago, Troy Hurtubise, a Canadian scrap-metal dealer and nature enthusiast, had an experience that would change him forever. After being attacked by a bear, Hurtubise not only counted himself lucky to be alive, but found himself filled with both a genuine surprise at the situation and a need to relive it. To that end, he began constructing a series of increasingly elaborate bear-proof suits, designed to withstand any onslaught. Under the banner of research, although exactly what Hurtubise is trying to prove on any scientific level remains unclear, he sets off on annual trips to the grizzly-filled Canadian Rockies. The tremendously entertaining documentary Project Grizzly covers one of those expeditions and its preparations. Because nothing much happens, director Peter Lynch has plenty of time to allow Hurtubise to explain himself, which he can never quite do; though clearly intelligent and good-humored, Hurtubise seems only to know that he has to build mechanical suits of armor and confront bears. That he and his extremely cumbersome suit both seem to have been plucked out of a low-budget action movie only adds an extra layer of strangeness to a funny film that, in an odd, indirect way, ends up justifying Hurtubise's actions in a way he can never quite do himself.