Chilly Dogs

UPC: 025192281020

Studio: Universal Studios

MPAA Rating: PG13   Contains:[Adult Language, Adult Humor]

Summary: Idealistic travel agent Kevin Manley (Skeet Ulrich) quits his job and leaves the subtropical confines of his Southern Californian home when he's notified that he stands to gain an inheritance of 200 acres of Alaskan real estate from his late grandfather. There's a catch: He has to race in the Iditarod, the grueling 1,000 mile dog sled contest through the snowy Alaskan mountains. But there's another catch: A local attorney (Leslie Nielsen) knows the property is priceless and sets out to stop Manley from completing the race by having Carter, a crazed competitor (Rik Mayall), sabotage his dogs and equipment at every turn. What's worse, Bonnie (Natasha Henstridge), the lovely woman who teaches Kevin how to mush, finds out he's a Manley -- and their families are in a generations-old feud. Can Kevin and his team of mongrel mutts finish the race with so much going against them? ~ Buzz McClain, Rovi

Category: Comedy

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Chilly Dogs

Format: DVD

Release Date: 02/04/2003

Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Pre-1954 Standard

Audio: DD2 Dolby Digital Stereo

Runtime: 102 Minutes

Sides: 1

Number of Discs: 1

Language(s) English

Subtitles: Spanish

Chapters: Side #1 --
1. Alaska [5:13]
2. The Iditarod [7:03]
3. Blanket Toss [3:45]
4. My Destiny [5:22]
5. Supplies [5:12]
6. Mush [2:33]
7. Trapper's Ball [9:11]
8. Straighten Up Boy [3:58]
9. Cometh the Hour [6:37]
10. All Down Hill [8:14]
11. Linked Spirits [5:41]
12. Days Slide By [3:13]
13. Close to His Heart [4:42]
14. The Key Is Fear [6:49]
15. Devils Gully [4:17]
16. Go for Launch [5:54]
17. The Winner [7:59]
18. make A Life Together [2:23]
19. Credits [4:13]

Buzz McClain

Made a year before the remarkably similarly-themed Snow Dogs -- a warm weather young man goes to Alaska to run a sled dog race to gain an inheritance -- Chilly Dogs relies on broad -- waaaay broad -- cartoon-like slapstick action to generate laughs. Some of it works (the sight gag of Kevin's assemblage of mutts), some of it is tiresome (Kevin's predilection for falling into open manholes) but most of it is so inane as to slide right by. Segments of the movie play like blackout sketches without coherent segues from one scene to the next, a sure sign the story isn't supporting the gags. Skeet Ulrich,who plays like a combination of Adam Sandler and Johnny Depp, just doesn't impart the effortlessness necessary for this sort of shtick. You need a Leslie Nielsen for that, but here Nielsen is cast against type as the villain, which hamstrings his comedy. Natasha Henstridge, however, can do no wrong and is as charming as ever. There are a couple of things that pre-teens will find racy and parents will find alarming -- two sequences involving opposite sexes sleeping together -- which obviates the most likely audience to laugh at the material -- little kids. Oddly enough, both Ulrich and Snow Dogs star Cuba Gooding Jr. co-starred in 1999's Chill Factor before assuming starring roles in competing sled dog movies. You think it was personal? ~ Buzz McClain, Rovi

Cast and Crew: William Osborne  Executive Producer 
William Osborne  Screenwriter 
Jamie Brown  Producer 
Bob Spiers  Director 
Gary Howsam  Executive Producer 
Thomas Hedman  Producer 
Colin Gibson  Composer (Music Score) 
Kenny Craddock  Composer (Music Score) 
Skeet Ulrich  Actor 
Natasha Henstridge  Actor 
Rik Mayall  Actor 
Leslie Nielsen  Actor 
Lochlyn Munro  Actor