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Snow Dogs (2002)

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Reviews Counted:17

Fresh:3

Rotten:14

Average Rating:3.5/10

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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    11/06/02
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    08/09/02
    Robert Denerstein
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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
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    01/25/02
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    Instantly forgettable.

    Full Review Source: Variety | comment Comment
    01/18/02
    Joe Leydon
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    Phoned-in business as usual.

    Full Review Source: Washington Post | comment Comment
    01/18/02
    Desson Thomson
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    If you have a soft spot for man's best friend, it's a pretty good throwaway movie.

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    01/18/02
    William Triplett
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    Five screenwriters are credited with the cliché-laden screenplay; it seems as if each watered down the version of the one before.

    Full Review Source: USA Today | comment Comment
    01/18/02
    Claudia Puig
    Claudia Puig
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    There's little to recommend Snow Dogs, unless one considers cliched dialogue and perverse escapism a source of high hilarity.

    Full Review Source: San Francisco Chronicle | comment Comment
    01/18/02
    Neva Chonin
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    A generic family comedy unlikely to be appreciated by anyone outside the under-10 set.

    Full Review Source: New York Post | comment Comment
    01/18/02
    Lou Lumenick
    Lou Lumenick
    New York Post
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    Gooding offers a desperately ingratiating performance.

    Full Review Source: Globe and Mail | comment Comment
    01/18/02
    Liam Lacey
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    A movie set in the frozen north that just idles, endlessly, in the sitcom hothouse where convention slowly but surely becomes moldy cliche.

    Full Review Source: Detroit News | comment Comment
    01/18/02
    Susan Stark
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    Show me the mugging.

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    01/18/02
    John Monaghan
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    Detroit Free Press
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    Cuba Gooding Jr. valiantly mugs his way through Snow Dogs, but even his boisterous energy fails to spark this leaden comedy.

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    01/18/02
    Loren King
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    Boston Globe
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    Disney's latest update of the lame live-action B comedies that have been among the studio's more dubious contributions to American pop culture.

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    01/17/02
    A.O. Scott
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    Director Brian Levant, who never strays far from his sitcom roots, skates blithely from one implausible situation to another, pausing only to tie up loose ends with more bows than you'll find on a French poodle.

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    01/17/02
    Nancy Churnin
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    Poor Cuba Gooding. As if it were not humiliating enough to play a guy so clumsy that he can't walk in the snow without pratfalling, he also has to do jokes about being a black man in the Great White North.

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    01/17/02
    Carrie Rickey
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    The huskies are beautiful, the border collie is funny and the overall feeling is genial and decent.

    Full Review Source: Atlanta Journal-Constitution | comment Comment
    01/17/02
    Eleanor Ringel Gillespie
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    Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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