My biggest problem with this movie is that the dogs are really not the stars, as was implied in all the publicity. Anyone could have expected a funny movie with talking dogs. This is NOT that, so please, don't expect it! The dogs say a few lines, and ONLY the ones seen on the commercial, and that's all. It's unfair to advertise with the dogs sitting in the beach chairs. That doesn't even really happen. Ted (Cuba Gooding Jr) just dreams it. So that was my one complaint. Other than that it was an enjoyable film. Never laugh-out-loud funny, but a worthy Disney picture.

Ted, a Miami dentist, finds out he's adopted and goes to find his parents in Alaska. His mother died and left him her sled dog team. His father is a legendary scary white guy named Thunder Jack (Coburn). I don't see how there is any bad acting in this movie. Not the best ever. But not bad. And there's a girl named Barb whom Ted falls in love with, and blah blah blah. The ending is typical happy Disney fluff that's unrealistic; in real life Ted would have probably died ten times over. But it's cute and, again, enjoyable. The song "Time, Love, and Tenderness" plays while he gets married.

Nana the border collie who wants to be a lead dog is really adorable. (She gets her wish, too.) She also becomes a mother when Demon, the ornery husky, finally eases up and starts liking everybody (especially her.) All in all, you should see "Snow Dogs." It's a good family film.


A farewell to James Coburn

This is a Disney's fish out of the water comedy. Cuba Gooding Jr takes the reigns of a championship sled of dogs. Gooding plays Ted Brooks, a Miami denist traveling, to Alaska too claiming an inheritance from his mother. Ted must adjust to harsh climates of Alaska in contrast to the warm climates of Miami Florida.. The self discovery is between his father Jack who tells Gooding about his independence mother making up years of memories.
Snow Dogs was advertised as a movie with talking siberian dogs to bring the audience into a comedy dialogue. You won't hear talking dogs.
There are many funny parts in Snow Dogs: 1. Ted's first encounter with the Dogs 2. Pizza delivery 3. Golf on the snow. 4. The lawyer making the inheritance speak 5. Gooding trying to get the dogs to Mush. 5. Ted falling in love with a tough but beautiful native girls. Ted eventual return as a denist in Tolketna. 6. The outhouse and all its contents being deeded to Jack

Thunder Jack enters the Kondic race and despite blizzard conditions moves out in the front. Gooding finds Thunder Jack refuged in a secret cave which he knows about, and Jack has been stranded by knee injury. Gooding comes to his rescue and wins the loyality of the lead pack dog by biting its ear; and the affection of a parental Jack. The dogs are bounding with energy and these thoroughbred dogs bring the energy of the race to the big screen. The sudden deviation on the high Alaskan cliffs test the dogs teamwork prevailing to save Jack and Ted.

Snow Dogs is a farewell to James Coburn adding a booming voice, a toothy smile, and a defacing snarl.


R.I..P Mr. James Coburn aka Thunder Jack

Although Cuba Gooding has always gotten on my nerves, this movie is worth the watch for James Coburn's turn as Thunder Jack, a grizzeled mountain man. To lose Rod Steiger, James Coburn and Charles Bronson all in such a short time marks the end of an era and a goodbye to the last of the 'Real Men' of both Hollywood and the world...