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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.
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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Jan 1, 1996
Reviews for Snow Dogs
"Snow Dogs" doesn't offer much, but to be fair, it had the youngest viewers at my screening cheering and laughing until the end.
...As fleeting and insubstantial as a snowflake, and about as much fun.
While kids will probably eat the whole thing up, most adults will be way ahead of the plot.
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?
Ten minutes into the movie Gooding already has screamed at least 57 times.
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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