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Snow Dogs (2002)

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Average Rating: 3.9/10
Reviews Counted: 80
Fresh: 19 | Rotten: 61

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

Average Rating: 3.5/10
Critic Reviews: 18
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 15

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

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Two Oscar-winning actors add a family-oriented comedy to their resumes with this Disney-produced arctic adventure. Snow Dogs stars Cuba Gooding Jr. as Ted Brooks, a Florida-dwelling dentist with a successful chain of offices and a comfy, poolside lifestyle. All this changes, however, when he finds out that he was actually adopted as a child, and that his birth mother has died and left him an inheritance in her home state of Alaska, of all places. After arriving in the snow-bound clime, Ted

PG, 1 hr. 39 min.

Action & Adventure, Kids & Family, Comedy

Directed By: Brian Levant

Written By: Jim Kouf, Tommy Swerdlow, Michael Goldberg, Mark Gibson, Philip Halprin

In Theaters: Jan 18, 2002 Wide

On DVD: May 14, 2002

Box Office:$81.1M

Buena Vista Distribution Compa

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Critic Reviews for Snow Dogs

All Critics (97) | Top Critics (23) | Fresh (21) | Rotten (62) | DVD (18)

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?

July 20, 2002 Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune

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Robert K. Elder

Chicago Tribune

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Instantly forgettable.

January 18, 2002 Full Review Source: Variety

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Joe Leydon

Variety

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Phoned-in business as usual.

January 18, 2002 Comment

Desson Thomson

Washington Post

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If you have a soft spot for man's best friend, it's a pretty good throwaway movie.

January 18, 2002 Comment

William Triplett

Washington Post

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Five screenwriters are credited with the clich�-laden screenplay; it seems as if each watered down the version of the one before.

January 18, 2002 Full Review Source: USA Today

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Claudia Puig

USA Today

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

September 12, 2007 Full Review Source: Bangor Daily News (Maine)

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Christopher Smith

Bangor Daily News (Maine)

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

May 20, 2003 Comment

Tyler Hanley

Palo Alto Weekly

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

February 8, 2003 Full Review Source: Film Quips Online

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John R. McEwen

Film Quips Online

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

September 20, 2002 Comment

Forrest Hartman

Reno Gazette-Journal Source: Reno Gazette-Journal

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It's not terrible, it's an entertaining family comedy and probably the best disney have made with some guy and some huskies.

August 15, 2011

Michael Miller

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This movie is so cliche and stupid im sad i ever saw it as a kid, and I hated it.

August 18, 2011

Brad Wright

Super Reviewer

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