Watched Snow Dogs tonight. The previews always looked so cute; always wondered why the dogs were in deck chairs on a beach and talking. Let me assure you the scene isn't real, nor does it last for more than a minute.

Ted Baker is a well-off Miami dentist who discovers he was adopted, and his birth mother was from Alaska. At the reading of the will, he inherits his mother's cabin and her champion sled dogs, who peg Ted for a rookie right off. The only one who likes Ted right away is Nana, his birth mom's affable Border collie.

There's a lot more to it, but it turns out to be less. Cuba Gooding Jr tries, but his material is weak. His birth dad turns out to be a surprise, but except right at the end, there's no real feeling to any of the relationships. There's a snotty French celebrity musher who looks like he might be a good villainous rival, ala Peter Thorndyke in The Love Bug, but he's just used for a couple of incidents of comic relief.

The end does get a little teary, but by then it's too late. I did like the dogs; the dogs were great. And Nichelle Nichols is sweet as Ted's adoptive mom.

But on a whole this movie is like a rainy winter day.

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