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Snow Dogs (2002)

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Reviews Counted:79

Fresh:18

Rotten:61

Average Rating:3.9/10

Consensus: A mediocre live-action children's movie, Snow Dogs is filled with cliched dialogue, tiresome pratfalls, and stale fish-out-of-water jokes.

Rated: PG [See Full Rating] for mild crude humor

Runtime: 2 hrs 19 mins

Genre: Comedies

Theatrical Release:Jan 18, 2002 Wide

Box Office: $81,110,575

Synopsis: Director Brian Levant (BEETHOVEN) goes to the dogs again in Disney's SNOW DOGS. Cuba Gooding, Jr. stars as Ted Brooks, a successful Miami dentist who finds out that he was adopted, and has to... Director Brian Levant (BEETHOVEN) goes to the dogs again in Disney's SNOW DOGS. Cuba Gooding, Jr. stars as Ted Brooks, a successful Miami dentist who finds out that he was adopted, and has to travel to Alaska for the reading of his birth mother's will. There, he meets the small community of crazies that were his mother's friends. Barb (Joanna Bacalso), a beautiful bar owner, is the most welcoming. Ted learns that he has inherited his mother's property, including her team of rambunctious sled dogs. A crusty old-timer, Thunder Jack (James Coburn), tries to buy the dogs, but Ted decides he will learn how to race a dogsled, and enter the Arctic Challenge, a local race. Handling the mischievous pooches, particularly the "alpha" dog, Demon, turns out to be much harder than expected. Levant keeps the action moving at a swift pace, particularly during Ted's hilariously disastrous first run with the dogs. Gooding clowns like a pro, and Coburn is wonderful as the grizzled dogsled veteran. Kids will fall in love with all the dogs, who are given animated facial expressions. Nichelle Nichols (of STAR TREK fame) plays Ted's mom, and pop star Sisqo plays his best friend back in Miami. [More]

Starring: Cuba Gooding, James Coburn, Nichelle Nichols, Joanna Bacalso

Starring: Cuba Gooding, James Coburn, Nichelle Nichols, Joanna Bacalso, M. Emmet Walsh, Graham Greene, Brian Doyle-Murray, Sisqo, Michael Bolton

Director: Brian Levant

Director: Brian Levant
Screenwriter: Jim Kouf, Tommy Swerdlow, Michael Goldberg, Mark Gibson, Philip Halprin
Producer: Jordan Kerner
Composer: John Debney
Studio: Buena Vista Pictures

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  • Snow Dogs
  • Make no bones about it -- Disney's SNOW DOGS is a hilarious action-packed comedy your whole family will love. Eight adorable but mischievous dogs get the best of dog hater Ted Brooks (Cuba Gooding Jr.) when he leaves his successful Miami Beach dental practice for the wilds of Alaska to claim his inheritance -- seven Siberian huskies and a border collie -- and discover his roots. As Ted's life goes to the dogs, he rises to the occasion and vows to learn to mush with his inheritance. Totally out of his element, he faces challenges he's never dreamed of. There's a blizzard, thin ice, an intimidating crusty old mountain man named Thunder Jack (James Coburn), the Arctic Challenge Sled Dog Race that's only two weeks away, and a life-and-death rescue. This fish-out-of water, tail-wagging comedy is nothing but doggone good fun and a celebration of family -- both human and canine!
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    Felix Vasquez Jr.
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    Cinema Crazed

    "Snow Dogs" doesn't offer much, but to be fair, it had the youngest viewers at my screening cheering and laughing until the end.

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    12/15/03
    Christopher Tookey
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    Daily Mail [UK]

    Whoever let the dogs out should probably consider a career change.

    Full Review Source: Palo Alto Weekly | comment Comment
    05/20/03
    Tyler Hanley
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    Palo Alto Weekly

    ...As fleeting and insubstantial as a snowflake, and about as much fun.

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    02/08/03
    John R. McEwen
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    10/30/02
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    10/15/02
    Margaret A. McGurk
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    Cincinnati Enquirer

    While kids will probably eat the whole thing up, most adults will be way ahead of the plot.

    Full Review Source: Reno Gazette-Journal | comment Comment
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    08/09/02
    Robert Denerstein
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    Denver Rocky Mountain News
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    What Faustian bargain did Gooding make, forcing him to star in this insipid fish-out-of-water comedy that paints him as a Bolton fan?

    Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune | comment Comment
    07/20/02
    Robert K. Elder
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    Chicago Tribune
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    Ten minutes into the movie Gooding already has screamed at least 57 times.

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    06/20/02
    Jeffrey Westhoff
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    This is a family film like they used to make, where the humour balances the drama, the personal tragedies are life lessons and the animals are so darn cute, by golly.

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