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MPAA Rating: PG Content Advisory: Suitable for Children, Adult Humor Movie Release: 2002 DVD Release: 05/14/2002 Format: DVD - Pan and Scan Edition: Dual Layered Audio Tracks: English, French Subtitles: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 39 mins Studio: Walt Disney Video Total Copies: 12 Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Animal Picture, Family-Oriented Adventure, Family-Oriented Comedy

Two Oscar-winning actors add a family-oriented comedy to their resumes with this Disney-produced arctic adventure. Snow Dogs stars Cuba Gooding Jr. as Ted Brooks, a Florida-dwelling dentist with a successful chain of offices and a comfy, poolside lifestyle. All this changes, however, when he finds out that he was actually adopted as a child, and that his birth mother has died and left him an inheritance in her home state of Alaska, of all places. After arriving in the snow-bound clime, Ted learns that he has been willed a pack of cutely named sled dogs: Demon, Diesel, Dutchess, Nana, Mack, Scooper, Sniff, and Yodel. Problem is, the town's premiere sled-dogger, Thunder Jack (James Coburn), wants the pack for himself, and encourages Ted to go back to his tropical environs. But with a major sled-dog race looming, Ted's inspired to learn the ropes, as it were, and prove himself worthy of his birth mother's inheritance -- any way he can. Snow Dogs was directed by Jingle All the Way's Brian Levant and features some animatronic dog effects by Jim Henson's Creature Shop; the script was very loosely adapted from popular author Gary Paulsen's nonfiction book -Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod. ~ Michael Hastings, All Movie Guide

Cuba Gooding, Jr. - Ted Brooks
James Coburn - Thunder Jack
Sisqo - Rupert
Nichelle Nichols - Amelia Brooks

Brian Levant's family adventure Snow Dogs comes to DVD with a standard full-frame transfer that fails to preserve the original theatrical aspect ratio. English and French soundtracks are rendered in Dolby Digital 5.1 and a second English soundtrack has been recorded in DTS 5.1. There are no subtitles, but both English soundtracks are closed captioned. Supplemental materials include a commentary track recorded by Levant and producer Jordan Kerner, a trio of featurettes, an interactive games, and deleted scenes. This is a strong disc from Disney/Buena Vista, that suffers mostly from the non-letterboxed image. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Guide