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Reviews Counted:138
Fresh:98
Rotten:40
Average Rating:6.5/10
Consensus: Featuring a stellar cast of marooned mutts, who deftly display emotion, tenderness, loyalty and resolve, Eight Below is a heartwarming and exhilarating adventure film.
Theatrical Release:Feb 17, 2006 Wide
Box Office: $81,593,527
Synopsis: Inspired by a true story and the hit Japanese film NANKYOKU MONOGATARI, Frank Marshall's (ALIVE, CONGO) EIGHT BELOW captures a rugged world of ice, snow, and threatening weather that few will ever... [More]
Starring: Paul Walker, Bruce Greenwood, Moon Bloodgood, Jason Biggs
Director: Frank Marshall
This is one of those lazy, lukewarm pictures that's even more disappointing than a purely bad one, and for one glaring reason: How could Marshall, his writers, and even his actors have let these dogs down so badly?
Top CriticCall the movie "uninspired by a true story."
The story is exciting and inspiring, the dogs and scenery are breathtakingly gorgeous, and director Frank Marshall expertly balances thrills, laughs, and tender moments that are genuinely moving.
Frank Marshall is smart enough to know his core audience of kiddies came to see the dogs, who take center stage in many of the film's best sequences.
[It] lives up to the fine tradition of Disney animal adventures.
Director Frank Marshall otherwise manages to tell his story with a minimum of nonsense.
It's an engrossing film that reminds us of the nobility and grace of man's best friend, and of the fierce will to survive in the face of the harshest of odds.
Abandoned by their masters when a storm hits Antarctica, eight amazing huskies find themselves instantly anthropomorphized.
This family adventure about a team of sled dogs abandoned in Antarctica naturally invokes the traditional shout of 'Mush!' urging the canines to go faster, but it's also an apt descriptor of both its shameless sentimentality and ineptly structured story.
...a thrilling, sometimes excruciating adventure and a real testament to the spirit and intelligence of the working animals at its core.
It looks like the old-fashioned animal adventure tale is back.
A family film that doesn't pander, preach, or poop out. That alone is a rare thing.
Following the success of last year's March of the Penguins, and now Eight Below -- an equally triumphal processional of dogs across the bottom of the world -- Cinema Antarctica is suddenly sizzling hot!
Top CriticIn 2002, the cringefest Snow Dogs stripped huskies of their dignity. Eight Below restores it.
Top CriticThe interaction between the dogs, some of whom have beautiful crystalline white coats, is far more fascinating than what goes on between the two-legged mammals, which is sometimes mushy (pun intended).
The eight canine stars of Eight Below pull their weight literally and figuratively in this lively dog-in-jep adventure from Disney.
Although the movie blatantly panders to pet lovers, it deserves high marks for not jettisoning credibility in the process. Its bite is as good as its bark.
Eight Below may be a Disney Lite version of a true story about sled dogs left to survive on their own in the Antarctic wilderness, but it's still a weeper for those for whom the loss of one dog is too much.
Top CriticTake away the plane crash, change the setting from South America to Antarctica, and swap humans for canines and Eight Below is a virtual remake of [1993's Alive].
There are human beings in this movie and they are fine, but it is the magnificent four-legged actors who give this movie its bite.
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