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That said,
the leads do bring a touch of gravitas to a disposable romp that tries hard to
recreate the magic of family classics like "The Shaggy Dog" and "That
Darn Cat!".
Gooding Jr plays
Ted Brooks, a Miami dentist shocked to discover he was actually adopted. It turns
out his mom was really an Alaskan sled-racing champ, and that he has inherited
her talented team of pooches.
To add insult to
injury, his real dad (Coburn) is not only white, but also a grumpy old man who
wants nothing to do with his city slicker offspring - though he'll happily take
the huskies off his hands.
To win his biological
pop's respect, Ted enters the Arctic Challenge, a gruelling trans-Alaska sled
race. Cue much snowbound hi-jinks, interspersed with some father-son bonding and
a saccharine-laced romance between Cuba and the local barmaid (Bacalso).
There are too many
pratfalls - Gooding slips on the ice so often he resembles an Olympic speed-skating
final - and the computer trickery used to make the mutts wink, smirk, and (in
one scene) talk has the same rather sinister effect as last year's "Cats
& Dogs".
Kids, though, will
adore Cuba's four-legged compadres, and sci-fi fans will enjoy seeing Nichelle
Nichols - Uhura from Star Trek - as his well-meaning foster mother.
"Snow Dogs" opens at UK cinemas on Friday 31st May 2002.
Reviewed by Neil
Smith, BBC Films
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