There is cheesy, there is corny, and then there is cheese corn. You can get cheese corn in the three gallon metal drum, its usually accompanied by caramel corn and regular popcorn. Or you can get it from the movie "Snow Dogs".
I just recently read an article that was linked to IMDb.com that was about actors that had made poor career choices after having won an Oscar. Most notably on this list was Halle Berry for doing "Catwoman" and Cuba Gooding Jr. for projects after "Jerry Maguire". I racked my brain to think of what Gooding Jr. had done after Jerry Maguire. I thought of "Men of Honor", which was pretty good, "Rat Race", which was also fairly good, "Radio", which was very good, and then "Boat Trip" and "Snow Dogs" came to mind. "Boat Trip" and "Snow Dogs" were awful enough to effectively erase all good accumulated by the decent movies Gooding Jr. was in.
"Snow Dogs" is about a dentist (Gooding Jr.) who finds out he's adopted and finds out that his mother has passed away and left him a bunch of huskies. He goes to Alaska to claim his inheritance and there he finds out that not only was his mother White, but so was his father. Go figure?!! He proceeds to have some comical happenings there in Alaska, all which were forgettable because they weren't the least bit funny. I have to be honest and say that I don't know how the movie concludes because I had no interest in watching anymore of it. The story was absurd, and Gooding Jr. just over did it.
Some comedians are good when they are animated, e.g. Robin Williams and Jim Carey. Cuba Gooding Jr. is not. He tried very much to add to the comedic nature of the movie with his lively mannerisms, but it only succeeded in making the movie more cheesy. Couple that with the dogs and there equally corny contribution to the movie and you get a nice bucket of cheese corn. Eat up!
I just recently read an article that was linked to IMDb.com that was about actors that had made poor career choices after having won an Oscar. Most notably on this list was Halle Berry for doing "Catwoman" and Cuba Gooding Jr. for projects after "Jerry Maguire". I racked my brain to think of what Gooding Jr. had done after Jerry Maguire. I thought of "Men of Honor", which was pretty good, "Rat Race", which was also fairly good, "Radio", which was very good, and then "Boat Trip" and "Snow Dogs" came to mind. "Boat Trip" and "Snow Dogs" were awful enough to effectively erase all good accumulated by the decent movies Gooding Jr. was in.
"Snow Dogs" is about a dentist (Gooding Jr.) who finds out he's adopted and finds out that his mother has passed away and left him a bunch of huskies. He goes to Alaska to claim his inheritance and there he finds out that not only was his mother White, but so was his father. Go figure?!! He proceeds to have some comical happenings there in Alaska, all which were forgettable because they weren't the least bit funny. I have to be honest and say that I don't know how the movie concludes because I had no interest in watching anymore of it. The story was absurd, and Gooding Jr. just over did it.
Some comedians are good when they are animated, e.g. Robin Williams and Jim Carey. Cuba Gooding Jr. is not. He tried very much to add to the comedic nature of the movie with his lively mannerisms, but it only succeeded in making the movie more cheesy. Couple that with the dogs and there equally corny contribution to the movie and you get a nice bucket of cheese corn. Eat up!