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NUMBERS
Box Office: $81,110,575
VHS Rentals: $16,260,000
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CONSENSUS
A mediocre live-action children's movie, Snow Dogs is filled with cliched dialogue, tiresome pratfalls, and stale fish-out-of-water jokes.
CAST & CREW
Cuba Gooding, James Coburn, Nichelle Nichols
Directed by Brian Levant
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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 travel to Alaska for the reading of his birth mother's will. more...
MPAA RATING
PG, mild crude humor
RELEASE DATES
Theatrical: Jan 18, 2002
Video: May 14, 2002
RELEASE COMPANY
Buena Vista Pictures
GENRE
Comedies, Action, Alaska, Dogs, African Americans
OFFICIAL SITE
• The Official Snow Dogs Site
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PARENTS EVALUATION
TRAILER & MEDIA
PHOTOS
NEWS ARTICLES
SUBMIT/EDIT ARTICLE
SUBMIT USER REVIEW
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 "Behind the snow games and lovable Siberian huskies (plus one sheep dog), the picture hosts a parka-wrapped dose of heart."
-- Ross Anthony, HOLLYWOOD REPORT CARD
 "Like shave ice without the topping, this cinematic snow cone is as innocuous as it is flavorless."
-- Sean Axmaker, SEATTLE POST-INTELLIGENCER
"Frequent flurries of creative belly laughs and genuinely enthusiastic performances...keep the movie slaloming through its hackneyed elements with enjoyable ease."
-- Rob Blackwelder, SPLICEDWIRE
"Gooding and Coburn are both Oscar winners, a fact which, as you watch them clumsily mugging their way through Snow Dogs, seems inconceivable."
-- Jay Boyar, ORLANDO SENTINEL
"Manages to please its intended audience -- children -- without placing their parents in a coma-like state."
-- Ross Brooks, CITYSEARCH
"Snow Dogs finds its humour in a black man getting humiliated by a pack of dogs who are smarter than him"
-- Walter Chaw, FILM FREAK CENTRAL
"Adults, other than the parents...will be hard pressed to succumb to the call of the wild."
-- Robin Clifford, REELING REVIEWS
"Kids don’t mind crappy movies as much as adults, provided there’s lots of cute animals and clumsy people. 'Snow Dogs' has both."
-- David Cornelius, AMAZING COLOSSAL WEBSITE
"Releasing a film with the word 'dog' in its title in January lends itself to easy jokes and insults, and Snow Dogs deserves every single one of them."
-- Michael Dequina, MR. BROWN'S MOVIES
"Even those of a single digit age will be able to recognize that this story is too goofy... even for Disney."
-- Michael Elliott, MOVIE PARABLES
"Trailer trash cinema so uncool the only thing missing is the "Gadzooks!""
-- Ed Gonzalez, SLANT MAGAZINE
"Its aims are modest -- to make kids laugh as Cuba Gooding falls down a lot and to show how thrilling sled dogs are -- and it achieves them."
-- Chris Hewitt, ST. PAUL PIONEER PRESS
"Slapstick buffoonery can tickle many a preschooler's fancy, but when it costs a family of four about $40 to see a film in theaters, why spend money on a dog like this when you can rent a pedigree instead?"
-- Mary Kalin-Casey, REEL.COM
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"Every bit as bogus as most Disney live action family movies are -- no real plot, no real conflict, no real point."
-- Liz Braun, JAM! MOVIES
"This film was made to get laughs from the slowest person in the audience -- just pure slapstick with lots of inane, inoffensive screaming and exaggerated facial expressions."
-- Annette Cardwell, FILMCRITIC.COM
"the type of broad, fish out of water comedy where each crossed signal is
telegraphed a mile away and the lead character falls down a lot"
-- Laura Clifford, REELING REVIEWS
"It's all very cute, though not terribly funny if you're more than six years old."
-- Tim Cogshell, BOXOFFICE MAGAZINE
"The Iditarod lasts for days - this just felt like it did."
-- Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone, THEMOVIECHICKS.COM
"It's playful, corny, silly, adventuresome and enjoyable."
-- Christine Dolen, MIAMI HERALD
"Large doses of slapstick humor and Gooding's vitality keep Snow Dogs from slipping into dull 'family entertainment.'"
-- Maria Garcia, FILM JOURNAL INTERNATIONAL
"While kids will probably eat the whole thing up, most adults will be way ahead of the plot."
-- Forrest Hartman, RENO GAZETTE-JOURNAL
"A film with almost as many delights for adults as there are for children and dog lovers."
-- Louis B. Hobson, JAM! MOVIES
"Despite the usual pratfalls, a cute snow job."
-- Harvey S. Karten, COMPUSERVE
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ROTTEN 18%
Avg. Rating: 3.6/10 |
"There's little to recommend Snow Dogs, unless one considers cliched dialogue and perverse escapism a source of high hilarity."
-- Neva Chonin, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE
"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."
-- Nancy Churnin, DALLAS MORNING NEWS
"The huskies are beautiful, the border collie is funny and the overall feeling is genial and decent."
-- Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, ATLANTA JOURNAL-CONSTITUTION
"Phoned-in business as usual."
-- Desson Howe, WASHINGTON POST
"Gooding is the energetic frontman, and it's hard to resist his enthusiasm, even if the filmmakers come up with nothing original in the way of slapstick sequences."
-- David Hunter, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER
"Cuba Gooding Jr. valiantly mugs his way through Snow Dogs, but even his boisterous energy fails to spark this leaden comedy."
-- Loren King, BOSTON GLOBE
"Gooding offers a desperately ingratiating performance."
-- Liam Lacey, GLOBE AND MAIL
"A generic family comedy unlikely to be appreciated by anyone outside the under-10 set."
-- Lou Lumenick, NEW YORK POST
"Show me the mugging."
-- John Monaghan, DETROIT FREE PRESS
"Five screenwriters are credited with the cliché-laden screenplay; it seems as if each watered down the version of the one before."
-- Claudia Puig, USA TODAY
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"...this isn't even a movie we can enjoy as mild escapism; it is one in which fear and frustration are provoked to intolerable levels."
-- David Keyes, DAVID KEYES' CINEMA 2000
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