| Original Score: 2/5 | Dec 30, 2006

What Faustian bargain did Gooding make, forcing him to star in this insipid fish-out-of-water comedy that paints him as a Bolton fan?

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 20, 2002

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 21, 2002

It's all very cute, though not terribly funny if you're more than six years old.

| Jan 20, 2002

Pre-packaged dog crap, a dumb movie made by dull-witted adults who clearly believe that just because some viewers currently reside at the lower end of the age spectrum, they don't deserve better.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Jan 20, 2002

Two Oscar-winners are no match for irresistible dogs in this so-so slapstick comedy.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 18, 2002

Instantly forgettable.

Full Review | Jan 18, 2002

Phoned-in business as usual.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 18, 2002

If you have a soft spot for man's best friend, it's a pretty good throwaway movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 18, 2002

Five screenwriters are credited with the clich-laden screenplay; it seems as if each watered down the version of the one before.

Full Review | Jan 18, 2002

This silly youth-targeted comedy goes strictly by the book, which should give you a clue as to its quality.

| Jan 18, 2002

There's little to recommend Snow Dogs, unless one considers cliched dialogue and perverse escapism a source of high hilarity.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 18, 2002

A generic family comedy unlikely to be appreciated by anyone outside the under-10 set.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 18, 2002

Gooding offers a desperately ingratiating performance.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 18, 2002

A movie set in the frozen north that just idles, endlessly, in the sitcom hothouse where convention slowly but surely becomes moldy cliche.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jan 18, 2002

Show me the mugging.

| Jan 18, 2002

Cuba Gooding Jr. valiantly mugs his way through Snow Dogs, but even his boisterous energy fails to spark this leaden comedy.

Full Review | Jan 18, 2002

Disney's latest update of the lame live-action B comedies that have been among the studio's more dubious contributions to American pop culture.

Full Review | Original Score: 0.5/5 | Jan 17, 2002

Director Brian Levant, who never strays far from his sitcom roots, skates blithely from one implausible situation to another, pausing only to tie up loose ends with more bows than you'll find on a French poodle.

Full Review | Jan 17, 2002

Poor Cuba Gooding. As if it were not humiliating enough to play a guy so clumsy that he can't walk in the snow without pratfalling, he also has to do jokes about being a black man in the Great White North.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jan 17, 2002