Snow Dogs (Clam)
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• Closed-captioned
• Color
• NTSC
In Theaters : 18 January, 2002
Video Release : 14 May, 2002 |
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inter-racial humor with dogs and dentists
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I enjoyed much of the humor in the story: the city-slicker out of his element in Alaska, and the dog-hater whose mother leaves him her sled-dog team. But I found it irritating that there was inter-racial humor which would not be accepted if a white person presented it the other way around - a dentist raised by white people who finds out he has a black ancestor, or who is raised in a white community and goes back to his - possibly - New Orleans Haitian roots, to inherit (what?) maybe a place as an ethnic clothing designer, and some rhode island red, voodoo-blessed roosters.
What reviewers skip is that Ted is the illigitimate son of a black mother and a white father, which is Thunder Jack. So she gave him up for adoption. This tension is played off and there is a gradual father-son reunion, as Thunder rescues Ted one time, and Ted returns the favor when Thunder goes missing in the big race. Naturally, there is a bad snow storm. Naturally no one else has a desire to brave it to find the musher. Naturally, foster-mom arrives to bid a tearful, worried farewell to her son who goes off to get Thunder.
The dogs are good characters in their own right, and the animatronics worked seamlessly, making "Demon" really seem like he was plotting against Ted with human intellect.
The movie was going well until the cliff-falling-off scene. That was so contrived it spoiled the credibility of the story. I snapped out of the movie and could not get reabsorbed again. The dogs could never have hauled 2 grown men up a cliff with the sled and gear. Deos Ex Machina (act of God) was a bad choice by the script writer.
It had a nice family reunion at the finish, and Ted gets his girl, the lovely eskimo-Indian girl, who runs the local pub. All in all, a nice story. There was no obvious sexual content, and no gore, no cussing, and no nudity - hooray!! |
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