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Movie Reviews of Alaska
Movie Review: excellent
Summary: 5 Stars
i would highly recommend this to anyone interested in the outdoors or
family values.
Movie Review: Alaska
Summary: 5 Stars
Brilliant video! very good example of modern youth; very good story; fabulous views of Alaska.Movie Review: Almost a great kid's action movie
Summary: 4 Stars
Overall, I really liked watching this movie with kids from 10-13 years old. The bear cub is a cute idea to keep younger children interested but not very believeable since polar bears don't live in the mountains. There is some character development as the boy, Sean, regrets mean things he said to his father and appreciates and uses the skills he has learned from him. There is a strong femaale, the sister, good to see in a kids' movie. The special effects are really quite well done. I only have two real gripes. First is the needless swearing of the "bad guys". Lots of "dammit" all through the movie.
Second,the climax, where Cubby takes the end of the rope and supposedly saves the father, is a disappointment. Up until then Cubby has just been a distracting side bar. Just when we are engaged in the most exciting part of the movie and there is an opportunity for the children to really pull off a heroic deed, it is Cubby who grabs the tail of the rope and gnaws on it to save the dad.
The scenery is beautiful. There are wonderful shots of a glacier, kayaking on open water, canoeing on a river, and rock climbing that just make me want to hop a plane to Alaska. The writing and editing are well done. The characters are believable for the most part (it is a children's movie, after all).
There are a few other minor problems. The father is in the open on a snowy mountain for 3 days with no blanket but doesn't seem to suffer from hypothermia. The police give up the search way to early. And the kids don't leave a note or anything about where they are going when they take off for the Devil's Thumb Pass to find their father.
I think parents should watch this with their kids and point these things out as they watch the movie. This can be a good way to teach critical thinking.
This is an exciting, beautiful movie with something for everyone in the family. Have fun with it.
Movie Review: Alaska : Decent Adventure Fare
Summary: 4 Stars
ALASKA is a good ol', straight forward, adventure film reminiscent of the type of programming shown on THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISNEY tv anthology show back in the 60's and 70's. Good,solid, family entertainment with great location shots of the Alaskan wilderness. While delivering supplies, bush pilot Jake Barnes' (Dirk Benedict) plane is downed during a snow storm. Then, his son and daughter, Sean and Jessie, (Vincent Kartheiser and Thora Birch) take it upon themselves to find him and trek through the remote Alaskan wilderness and rivers. They run into two poachers (Perry and Ben) and let loose an illegally captive baby polar bear. The cub immediately 'adopts' the two kids as his new friends and follows them on their trek. Not too complicated, but entertaining nontheless with some narrow escapes and decent action sequences along with some light emotional scenes. Good to see actor Dirk Benedict (A-TEAM, BATTLESTAR GALACTICA) doing some work along with veteran Charlton Heston in an uncharacteristic villian role as one of the poachers. He's probably in the film because his son Fraser C. Heston directed.Movie Review: Absolute happy horse manure...but uplifting
Summary: 4 Stars
A movie cannot get any further from reality and for that reason alone may not be suitable for children. If kids watch they have to understand that it is completely HAPPY HORSE MANURE.
...but it is uplifting to imagine for just a moment that the impossible is possible... I live in the Rockies so I know a fair amount about bears, severe weather, and hypothermia. Dad would have been dead long before the kids got there...the kids would never have made it there...the bad poachers would have killed the kids...the polar bear cub would never have cozied up to the kids...and you have a better chance of hitting the lottery than that cub had of having the polar bear sow adopt him.
It doesn't matter. It is a feel good movie and made me feel good.
I did need to take a shower to wash off all of that happy horse manure....
:-)