| Show B Snow Dogs Learn New New t r Tr Tricks i c k s Snow Dogs proves to have a little more depth than advertised By Vanesa Caldwell Staff Writer Advertising for this movie may lead audiences to believe this is isa isa isa a talking dog movie Dont Don't be befooled befooled befooled fooled as I was by it It is an inaccurate assumption The dogs do all have their own unique personalities and their thoughts are communicated communicated communicated through computer ed body language but the only time they speak is during a hallucination hallucination hallucination hal hal- brought on by a cold They have such names as Diesel Scooper Yodel Sniff Mack and Duchess Two of the dogs stand out more than the others They are Nana a very sweet border collie and Demon who certainly lives up to his name With the exception of Nana they are all Huskies bred for sled pulling and they are champions who have won many awards Though the dogs are an integral part of the movie it is ismore ismore ismore more about the search for ty The main character Ted Brooks grew up always belie ing he should be a dentist like his father Then one day he gets a letter aletter from a mysterious woman who lives in Alaska It Itis Itis is is a summons to the reading of a will His mother confesses to him he was adopted and his real parents were from Alaska For someone who has spent his whole life living in Florida and thinking the people he lived with were his parents this is a great shock He decides to go to Alaska to hear the will find out who his parents were and in doing so maybe discover who he is One of the people integral to this process is a woman named Barb She knew his birth birt h mother and may have clues to who his father is as well Snow Dogs is rated PG for some mild crude humor Jordan Kerner George of the Jungle Fried Green Tomatoes The Three Musketeers is the producer of Snow Dogs Brian Levant Jingle All the lVa Way Beethoven The is the director Their movie credits prove they are not strangers to dealing with animal actors Cuba Gooding Jr Jerry Maguire A Few Good GoodMen Men Metz What Dreams May Come brings his usual charismatic charm to the part of Ted Brooks who is most famous for his album Enter the Dragon plays Teds Ted's best friend Rupert Nichelle Nichols Captain Zoom in ill Outer Space The Porgy and Bess most notably of Star Trek is Amelia Brooks Teds Ted's adoptive adoptive adoptive tive mother Joanna Bedazzled Dude Wheres Where's s My Car plays Barb who Ted gets a little crush on James Coburn The Magnificent Seven The Great Escape Our Man Flint is Thunder Jack a man who wants to buy the dogs from Ted The parts of other locals are filled out by such actors as Graham Greene M M. Emmet Walsh and Brian Doyle Murphy If you are willing to endure wallowing the great crowds of small children it will take to see this movie you may enjoy the light-hearted light humor and may even find yourself liking liking liking lik lik- ing the dogs My Grade B- B B-A B i |
