Former Oscar winner Cuba Gooding Jnr once had a blossoming career.
Neil Heath
Since his Oscar, he's hardly touched the base of the same heights he'd reached for Jerry McGuire. Now he's being upstaged by a pack of Disnified huskies, the same could be said for James Coburn.
The plot
Ted Brooks (Gooding Jnr) is a Miami dentist, who's shocked to discover he was actually adopted.
His real Mum was an Alaskan sled-racing champ, and in her will it's announced he's inherited her team of huskies.
His Father (Coburn) turns out to be a grumpy, feared local - he's also white, and the only thing they have in common is a passion for blue cheese...  | | Mush, mush complete mush! |
His Dad wants nothing to do with him, in fact the only thing he does want is his inherited mutts.
But when Ted's Dad goes missing in a snowstorm during the Sled-racing championship, it's up to Ted to rescue him - shame he couldn't rescue the film.
Review
Snow Dogs is the kind of film that can only be viewed and accepted by the whole family on Christmas Day. A day when cynicism has to stay out of the home. Other than at Christmas, there's little point in bothering to watch Snow Dogs, unless watching people falling over time after time, has you in unquenchable hysterics.
Disney has always humanised their animals in their animated films, but in Snow Dogs they've done the same things to the real life dogs.
They smile, wink and in one scene - albeit a dream sequence - they talk! This is incredibly creepy.
If Disney are going to give their animals expressions in 'real' films, why bother with the animated films?
There's not even a whiff of a good gag in the whole film, it's like no one bothered to make it worth seeing.
All it contains is a few pratfalls, a slushy plot line and a some talking dogs, please don't bother watching, spare that 90 minutes of your life! Snow Dogs is extremely disappointing, and it will be interesting to see where Cuba Gooding Jnr goes now - Alaska maybe?
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