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Snow Dogs (2002)
Director: Brian Levant
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Bequeathed an inheritance in Alaska, Miami dentist Ted 'Hot Smile' Brooks (Gooding) - an adoptee - hops across the continent for the reading of the will. There he finds (a) an attractive woman, (b) a team of huskies, (c) the call of the wild, and (d) his old man Thunder Jack. In this family, it's the father who's the true bastard. He's also as white as James Coburn's teeth. Determined to prove himself, Ted stays on and enters the Arctic Challenge dog sleigh race. This dire, utterly artificial and painfully predictable Disney movie must have been rushed into production to beat the threatened actors' strikes in 2001. Colour bland, if not entirely colour blind, it surely wouldn't have made any less sense with a white actor in the lead. Most of the nominal humour rests on the city slicker getting in touch with nature and falling flat on his face (Ted is variously chased by dogs, women and grizzlies). But the gusto with which Gooding performs these indignities is uncomfortably reminiscent of Hollywood's inglorious Stepin Fetchit days. Cuba, you know you're better than this!Author: TCh
Cast & crew
Director: Brian Levant
Producer: Jordan Kerner
Cast: Cuba Gooding Jr, James Coburn, Sisqó, Nichelle Nichols, Graham Green, Brian Doyle-Murray, Joanna Bacalso, M Emmet Walsh, Jean Michael Pare full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 99 mins
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