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Movie ID: 1209
RT slug: eight_below
RT URL: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/eight_below
Release year: 2006
Runtime: 120 mins
Wide release date: 2006-02-17
Limited release date: —
Festival premiere date: —
Streaming release date: 2013-10-25
Tomatometer final: 73%
Audience score final: 78%
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Kids & Family
Directors: Frank Marshall
Writers: David DiGilio, Mike Rich
Producers: David Hoberman, Doug Davison, Patrick Crowley
MPAA rating: PG
Executive Producers: —
Created: 2026-08-21 22:19:51
Updated: 2026-08-21 22:19:51
The frozen wasteland of Antarctica serves as the background for a tale about the bonds of friendship and loyalty. Three members of a scientific expedition, Jerry Shepard (Paul Walker), his friend Cooper (Jason Biggs) and an American geologist (Bruce Greenwood), must leave their beloved sled dogs behind after a devastating accident and increasingly perilous weather conditions. Alone, the dogs struggle to survive the harsh Antarctic winter.
Featuring a stellar cast of marooned mutts, who deftly display emotion, tenderness, loyalty and resolve, Eight Below is a heartwarming and exhilarating adventure film.
Canonical reviews: 152
Canonical fresh: 111
Canonical rotten: 41
Canonical calculated Tomatometer: 73%
Latest snapshot UTC: 2026-08-21 20:38:33
Snapshot Tomatometer: 73%
Snapshot review count: 152
Snapshot fresh count: 111
Snapshot rotten count: 41
Source note: Imported from manual review paste batch #2994 (full_snapshot)
| Company | Role |
|---|---|
| Buena Vista Pictures | distributor |
| Mandeville Films | production |
| Touchstone Pictures | production |
| Billing | Name | Character |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Paul Walker | Jerry Shepard |
| 2 | Bruce Greenwood | Davis McClaren |
| 3 | Moon Bloodgood | Katie |
| 4 | Jason Biggs | Charlie Cooper |
| 5 | Gerard Plunkett | Dr. Andy Harrison |
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| ID | Critic | Outlet | Fresh? | Score | RT Time Raw | Approx Published UTC | Quote |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 249209 | Danielle Solzman | Solzy at the Movies | Fresh | — | 2022-02-17T14:55:03.000Z | 2022-02-17 14:55:03 | ...Eight Below is a testament to the challenges of survival and friendship. |
| 249210 | Richard Propes | TheIndependentCritic.com | Fresh | 3.0/4.0 | 2020-09-07T06:32:27.000Z | 2020-09-07 06:32:27 | A marvelous family film. |
| 249211 | Rachel Wagner | Rachel's Reviews (YouTube) | Fresh | 7/10 | 2019-05-14T22:11:29.000Z | 2019-05-14 22:11:29 | [Director] Frank Marshall does a good job. |
| 249212 | Marcianne Miller | Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC) | Fresh | 4/5 | 2018-08-26T00:55:52.000Z | 2018-08-26 00:55:52 | This surprisingly impressive adventure tale from director Frank Marshall escaped being Disneyfied, meaning that the animals are heroic, wondrous and believable, but not cute. |
| 249213 | Dennis Schwartz | Dennis Schwartz Movie Reviews | Fresh | B | 2017-06-26T13:30:13.000Z | 2017-06-26 13:30:13 | It's a family friendly dog adventure film, with great wintry location shots, an emotionally pleasing feel-good story and a one-note but warm star performance by Paul Walker. |
| 249214 | Film4 Staff | Film4 | Fresh | 3/5 | 2011-05-27T13:13:18.000Z | 2011-05-27 13:13:18 | Kids will be enraptured (and a tad frightened) and all but the stoniest-hearted adults will join them for a bit of a cry. |
| 249215 | J. R. Jones | Chicago Reader | Fresh | — | 2011-05-27T13:12:21.000Z | 2011-05-27 13:12:21 | Live-action animal adventures have always been a Disney specialty, and this one has a pretty compelling plot. |
| 249216 | Joshua Starnes | ComingSoon.net | Fresh | 7/10 | 2011-03-21T13:23:59.000Z | 2011-03-21 13:23:59 | At first sight a fun but slightly sappy man-and-his-dogs story, Eight Below quickly evolves into a well-crafted wilderness adventure reminiscent of Disney's heyday. |
| 249217 | Felix Vasquez Jr. | Cinema Crazed | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2009-04-29T03:15:47.000Z | 2009-04-29 03:15:47 | It's heartbreaking, it's exciting, it's engrossing, it's a home run for Disney, and it's finally a good performance for Paul Walker. |
| 249218 | Kevin Lally | Film Journal International | Fresh | — | 2007-02-22T10:16:19.000Z | 2007-02-22 10:16:19 | It's the canine players who carry the movie and will capture the hearts of viewers young and old. |
| 249219 | Peter T. Chattaway | Christianity Today | Rotten | 2.5/4 | 2006-09-22T09:56:34.000Z | 2006-09-22 09:56:34 | The film is padded out to a full two hours, which may not be quite as long as the dogs have to wait for their rescue, but it does feel like it. |
| 249220 | James Plath | Movie Metropolis | Rotten | 6/10 | 2006-09-19T19:15:33.000Z | 2006-09-19 19:15:33 | The human interaction is just a little too precious and the digression away from the dogs and the main story is just too long for it to feel like anything but a major detour. |
| 249221 | Derek Adams | Time Out | Fresh | — | 2006-06-24T03:33:02.000Z | 2006-06-24 03:33:02 | It's heartwarming, occasionally exciting, and some of the cinematography is exemplary. |
| 249222 | John J. Puccio | Movie Metropolis | Rotten | 6/10 | 2006-06-12T09:43:29.000Z | 2006-06-12 09:43:29 | The film looks handsome, the photography is grand, and the dogs do their part admirably. Now, if it weren't for those pesky humans.... |
| 249223 | Jim Lane | Sacramento News & Review | Fresh | 3/5 | 2006-05-12T03:15:49.000Z | 2006-05-12 03:15:49 | The movie is a perfectly decent work of fiction and an enjoyable family adventure. |
| 249225 | Sandra Hall | Sydney Morning Herald | Fresh | — | 2006-05-06T03:30:12.000Z | 2006-05-06 03:30:12 | There are times when resisting the Disney line just isn't worth the effort. |
| 249224 | Andrew Pulver | Guardian | Rotten | 2/5 | 2006-05-06T03:30:12.000Z | 2006-05-06 03:30:12 | After two hours in Walker's slack-jawed company, you feel like you've just gone through the Antarctic winter yourself. |
| 249226 | Simon Braund | Empire Magazine | Fresh | 3/5 | 2006-05-06T03:30:11.000Z | 2006-05-06 03:30:11 | Walker and co. might get a healthy burst of screentime in the middle, but its the team of dogs who steal the show. |
| 249227 | Luke Buckmaster | In Film Australia | Fresh | 3/5 | 2006-05-04T03:16:01.000Z | 2006-05-04 03:16:01 | — |
| 249228 | Matthew Turner | ViewLondon | Rotten | 2/5 | 2006-04-21T18:40:49.000Z | 2006-04-21 18:40:49 | The dogs are adorable and the scenery is impressive, but this is poorly written, badly paced and at least 30 minutes too long. |
| 249229 | Urban Cinefile Critics | Urban Cinefile | Fresh | — | 2006-04-16T20:53:22.000Z | 2006-04-16 20:53:22 | The biggest accomplishment of all is keeping these wonderful, loveable sled dogs inhuman; they are dogs. And we love dogs. |
| 249230 | Rich Cline | Shadows on the Wall | Fresh | 3/5 | 2006-04-06T03:15:54.000Z | 2006-04-06 03:15:54 | It's entertaining and sweet, and rather annoyingly fake. |
| 249231 | Karina Montgomery | Cinerina | Fresh | 4/5 | 2006-03-27T20:59:09.000Z | 2006-03-27 20:59:09 | Now, this is a kids' movie, first and foremost, so my high rating is based on the film's core demographic and not geared to snobby, Milk-Dud encrusted cinephiles who scoff at a little Mark Isham -engineered heart tugging. |
| 249232 | James Kendrick | Q Network Film Desk | Fresh | 3/5 | 2006-03-18T03:39:07.000Z | 2006-03-18 03:39:07 | Perhaps you have to be a dog owner to be reduced to the blubbering mess that I found myself in by the end of Disney's Eight Below. |
| 249233 | Bruce Bennett | Spectrum (St. George, Utah) | Fresh | A- | 2006-03-14T12:46:53.000Z | 2006-03-14 12:46:53 | A cut way above. A nearly perfect family movie. |
| 249234 | Neil Smith | BBC.com | Fresh | 3/5 | 2006-03-14T03:15:47.000Z | 2006-03-14 03:15:47 | The dogs take the biscuit in Eight Below, an enthralling fact-based tale of man's best friend struggling to survive a harsh Antarctic winter. |
| 249237 | Unknown Critic | Hartford Courant | Fresh | 3/5 | 2006-03-11T03:39:49.000Z | 2006-03-11 03:39:49 | — |
| 249236 | David N. Butterworth | rec.arts.movies.reviews | Rotten | 2/4 | 2006-03-11T03:39:49.000Z | 2006-03-11 03:39:49 | Dogs rule, humans drool! |
| 249235 | Ethan Alter | Premiere Magazine | Fresh | 3/4 | 2006-03-11T03:39:49.000Z | 2006-03-11 03:39:49 | An example of a formula picture executed with the right mixture of professionalism and heart. |
| 249240 | Scott A. Mantz | Scott Mantz' Movie Reviews | Fresh | 4/5 | 2006-03-11T03:39:48.000Z | 2006-03-11 03:39:48 | You can't teach an old dog new tricks, but where Hollywood movies are concerned, sometimes those old tricks are still pretty darn impressive. |
| 249239 | Mark Bell | Film Threat | Fresh | 4/5 | 2006-03-11T03:39:48.000Z | 2006-03-11 03:39:48 | Could this be the beginning of a new era of excellence for Disney? We'll see. It's definitely a great start. |
| 249238 | Unknown Critic | ComingSoon.net | Fresh | 7/10 | 2006-03-11T03:39:48.000Z | 2006-03-11 03:39:48 | It gets a bit sappy towards the end as earnest movies often tend to do, but the trip is worth it, creating a fine piece of wilderness adventure, a genre that has languished in recent years. |
| 249241 | Lori Hoffman | Atlantic City Weekly | Fresh | 3/4 | 2006-03-09T09:06:50.000Z | 2006-03-09 09:06:50 | If you thought those marching penguins were brave and adorable, wait till you see an eight pack of courageous, intelligent and captivating dogs ... |
| 249242 | Mark Pfeiffer | Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema | Fresh | B- | 2006-03-01T12:06:11.000Z | 2006-03-01 12:06:11 | Eight Below doesn't anthropomorphize the dogs or play down the jeopardy they are in, creative choices that bolster the film's realism. |
| 249243 | Audrey Rock-Richardson | Tooele Transcript-Bulletin (Utah) | Fresh | B | 2006-02-28T10:03:04.000Z | 2006-02-28 10:03:04 | A pleasant re-imagining, thanks mostly to the great performances of eight beautiful dogs. |
| 249244 | Mike McGranaghan | Aisle Seat | Fresh | 3/4 | 2006-02-27T14:37:17.000Z | 2006-02-27 14:37:17 | Eight Below is so filled with action, adventure, and genuine emotion that it's easy to ignore the few little things that don't work. |
| 249245 | Angela Baldassarre | Sympatico.ca | Fresh | — | 2006-02-24T10:41:52.000Z | 2006-02-24 10:41:52 | "Eight Below" is exciting, and the arctic photography stunning but it's too long, and perhaps a little scary and too realistic at times for youngsters. |
| 249246 | John Wirt | Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA) | Fresh | — | 2006-02-24T09:51:44.000Z | 2006-02-24 09:51:44 | Disney throws family audiences a bone with this chilly dog story. |
| 249247 | Eric Lurio | Greenwich Village Gazette | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2006-02-24T06:10:00.000Z | 2006-02-24 06:10:00 | A year hence, the academy should give Mike Alexander a special Oscar (R) for animal wrangling. |
| 249248 | Emily Yoffe | Slate | Rotten | — | 2006-02-23T18:00:40.000Z | 2006-02-23 18:00:40 | Eight Below runs two hours and would have benefited from losing 30 minutes of that -- all of it from Jerry's (Paul Walker) protracted quest. The other human actors are simply types. |
| 249249 | Thomas Delapa | Boulder Weekly | Rotten | 2/4 | 2006-02-23T15:11:51.000Z | 2006-02-23 15:11:51 | ... a shaggy-dog version of a Jack London story, enhanced with an animatronic leopard seal that looks like Charlie the Tuna. |
| 249250 | Matt Brunson | Creative Loafing | Fresh | 2.5/4 | 2006-02-22T17:28:04.000Z | 2006-02-22 17:28:04 | Those pesky creatures known as actors keep getting in the way of total enjoyment. |
| 249251 | John P. McCarthy | ReelTalk Movie Reviews | Rotten | — | 2006-02-21T17:14:19.000Z | 2006-02-21 17:14:19 | 'Eight Below' makes a compelling case for preferring animals to people. |
| 249252 | Richard Roeper | Ebert & Roeper | Rotten | — | 2006-02-21T15:13:13.000Z | 2006-02-21 15:13:13 | It's too clichéd, it's too rote, and honestly I think you have to care a little bit more about the individual dogs to believe that these people would care so much. |
| 249253 | Peter L'Official | Village Voice | Rotten | — | 2006-02-21T13:01:36.000Z | 2006-02-21 13:01:36 | The plot's slavish schmaltz proves as oppressive as the harsh winter that descends upon the dogs. |
| 249254 | Cynthia Fuchs | Common Sense Media | Fresh | — | 2006-02-21T09:58:21.000Z | 2006-02-21 09:58:21 | The dogs in EIGHT BELOW are excellent -- courageous, expressive, smart, and adorable. Their human costars? Well, they're okay too. |
| 249255 | Todd Jorgenson | Denton Record-Chronicle | Fresh | — | 2006-02-21T09:26:29.000Z | 2006-02-21 09:26:29 | ...a rousing tale of canines courageous that warms the heart enough to offset the chilly surroundings. |
| 249256 | Jackie K. Cooper | jackiekcooper.com | Rotten | 6/10 | 2006-02-20T18:28:24.000Z | 2006-02-20 18:28:24 | A good movie but with a little tweaking it could have been a classic Disney film |
| 249257 | Robert Roten | Laramie Movie Scope | Fresh | C+ | 2006-02-19T17:01:19.000Z | 2006-02-19 17:01:19 | The dogs are the best actors in the film. |
| 249258 | Tony Medley | tonymedley.com | Fresh | 9/10 | 2006-02-19T12:57:24.000Z | 2006-02-19 12:57:24 | Disney can make a real live animal appear as if it is thinking and reasoning like a human being, and can somehow get us to believe that its facial expressions are indicative of what it's thinking. |
| 249259 | Linda Cook | Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) | Fresh | 3/4 | 2006-02-18T20:43:34.000Z | 2006-02-18 20:43:34 | I'd say I agonized over writing this review more than any other film I've seen in the last 18 years. |
| 249260 | MaryAnn Johanson | Flick Filosopher | Fresh | — | 2006-02-18T13:42:40.000Z | 2006-02-18 13:42:40 | [D]og lovers, I'm totally serious when I say: Bring lots of hankies. |
| 249261 | Susan Granger | Modamag.com | Fresh | 7/10 | 2006-02-18T07:06:29.000Z | 2006-02-18 07:06:29 | Parents should know that it's too scary for very young children and be prepared that some dogs do die in this live-action animal adventure. |
| 249262 | Betty Jo Tucker | ReelTalk Movie Reviews | Rotten | — | 2006-02-18T06:20:26.000Z | 2006-02-18 06:20:26 | I wish 'Eight Below' had spent more time showing those wonderful dogs instead of including so many uninspired segments with human actors. |
| 249263 | Greg Maki | Star-Democrat (Easton, MD) | Fresh | 3/4 | 2006-02-17T21:25:58.000Z | 2006-02-17 21:25:58 | ... Deserves to be seen on the big screen in all its glory |
| 249264 | Jennie Punter | Globe and Mail | Fresh | — | 2006-02-17T17:49:01.000Z | 2006-02-17 17:49:01 | ... the canine cuteness, breathtaking action and acts of bravery are worth braving the Disney elements -- overpowering, poignant music, an unnecessary romantic subplot -- if you like your movies doggy-style. |
| 249265 | Ken Fox | TV Guide | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2006-02-17T17:26:20.000Z | 2006-02-17 17:26:20 | [A] top-notch survival adventure that will reduce the coldest heart to a puddle of warm slush. |
| 249266 | Geoff Pevere | Toronto Star | Rotten | 2/4 | 2006-02-17T17:24:57.000Z | 2006-02-17 17:24:57 | Providing you park your reason outside and let these amazing dogs do the work, which they appear delighted to do, Eight Below is an engaging enough way to spend an hour or two with the kids. |
| 249267 | Jeff Shannon | Seattle Times | Fresh | 3/4 | 2006-02-17T17:16:44.000Z | 2006-02-17 17:16:44 | If you don't choke up at least once during the dogs' engaging adventure, you obviously prefer cats. |
| 249268 | Peter Hartlaub | San Francisco Chronicle | Rotten | 1/4 | 2006-02-17T17:14:33.000Z | 2006-02-17 17:14:33 | The movie is overly long and much too intense for small children, yet it's filled with dialogue and plot turns that are too juvenile to thrill adult audiences. |
| 249269 | David Elliott | San Diego Union-Tribune | Fresh | 2.5/4 | 2006-02-17T17:09:33.000Z | 2006-02-17 17:09:33 | Eight Below can give you eight sniffles and friendly frostbite. |
| 249270 | Carla Meyer | Sacramento Bee | Fresh | 3/4 | 2006-02-17T17:03:40.000Z | 2006-02-17 17:03:40 | Emotive, great-looking and physically nimble, the principal actors in Eight Below are born movie stars. The human actors are ok, too. |
| 249271 | Jack Garner | Rochester Democrat and Chronicle | Fresh | 8/10 | 2006-02-17T16:57:33.000Z | 2006-02-17 16:57:33 | Eight Below is engrossing and inspiring, with an undeniable appeal, especially for animal lovers. |
| 249272 | Timothy Knight | Reel.com | Fresh | 2.5/4 | 2006-02-17T16:54:53.000Z | 2006-02-17 16:54:53 | The dogs are so compelling to watch that you're mostly willing to overlook the flaws in the picture, which, thankfully, never sinks to the jokey cinematic nadir of Snow Dogs. |
| 249273 | Steven Rea | Philadelphia Inquirer | Fresh | 3/4 | 2006-02-17T16:50:57.000Z | 2006-02-17 16:50:57 | Eight Below is dazzling to look at, and nicely intercuts the human relationships with the pooches' awesome struggles to stay alive in the white, wintry wild. |
| 249274 | Gary Thompson | Philadelphia Daily News | Fresh | — | 2006-02-17T16:43:54.000Z | 2006-02-17 16:43:54 | It's a sturdy, old-fashioned adventure yarn. |
| 249275 | Jan Stuart | Newsday | Rotten | 2.5/4 | 2006-02-17T16:31:12.000Z | 2006-02-17 16:31:12 | The requisite tagline 'inspired by true events' should read 'actually inspired by a much grittier Japanese film from 1983, which was based on events that occurred in 1957, that have here been updated to 1993.' |
| 249276 | Lisa Rose | Newark Star-Ledger | Rotten | 2/4 | 2006-02-17T16:24:45.000Z | 2006-02-17 16:24:45 | Watching the canines scamper across glaciers is far more entertaining than watching Walker wander around depressed. The movie should be more March of the Huskies and less Dude, Where's My Sled? |
| 249277 | Kyle Smith | New York Post | Rotten | 2/4 | 2006-02-17T16:18:16.000Z | 2006-02-17 16:18:16 | The dogs deserve the star treatment, because whenever [Paul] Walker and the other two-footers take over it's as if Jack Nicholson has yielded the spotlight to, say, David Schwimmer. |
| 249278 | Jami Bernard | New York Daily News | Rotten | 2.5/4 | 2006-02-17T16:10:04.000Z | 2006-02-17 16:10:04 | Walker, of 2 Fast 2 Furious, is 2 flat 2 forgettable. |
| 249279 | Sue Pierman | Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Fresh | 3/4 | 2006-02-17T15:53:39.000Z | 2006-02-17 15:53:39 | It is a Disney adventure movie that does old Walt himself proud. |
| 249280 | Connie Ogle | Miami Herald | Fresh | 2.5/4 | 2006-02-17T15:50:31.000Z | 2006-02-17 15:50:31 | The film milks every opportunity to yank the heartstrings, but despite the calculation in its soul, Eight Below still manages to be a moving story about -- what else? -- the power of love. |
| 249281 | Matt Pais | Metromix.com | Rotten | 2/4 | 2006-02-17T15:40:18.000Z | 2006-02-17 15:40:18 | Uninspiring and bland, Eight Below leaves you with nothing more than a greater appreciation for the insulating power of fur. |
| 249282 | Liz Braun | Jam! Movies | Rotten | 2.5/5 | 2006-02-17T15:35:46.000Z | 2006-02-17 15:35:46 | This is soggy filmmaking, with cute doggie behaviour and cute human behaviour lobbed into the story like some form of insurance. Sad. |
| 249283 | Evan Henerson | Los Angeles Daily News | Fresh | 3/4 | 2006-02-17T15:30:51.000Z | 2006-02-17 15:30:51 | Dog fanciers and lovers of white-out arctic-looking scenery should be plenty pleased. |
| 249284 | Robert W. Butler | Kansas City Star | Fresh | 3/4 | 2006-02-17T15:23:56.000Z | 2006-02-17 15:23:56 | A throwback to the good old days of Disney live-action entertainment. |
| 249285 | John Venable | Supercala.com | Fresh | 8/10 | 2006-02-17T13:50:30.000Z | 2006-02-17 13:50:30 | What's not to like? These dogs will EASILY win you over. |
| 249286 | Carol Cling | Las Vegas Review-Journal | Fresh | B | 2006-02-17T13:40:32.000Z | 2006-02-17 13:40:32 | Q: How can a movie set in icy Antarctica be all warm and fuzzy? A: When it's a heart-warming survival adventure that manages to transcend its cutesy-poo Disney pedigree. |
| 249287 | Amy Biancolli | Houston Chronicle | Rotten | 2.5/4 | 2006-02-17T12:55:14.000Z | 2006-02-17 12:55:14 | Basically, what we have here is a stranded-animal movie in which the stranded animals are forced to split screen time with a mopey human character and his annoying, redundant friends. |
| 249288 | E! Staff | E! Online | Rotten | C | 2006-02-17T12:38:53.000Z | 2006-02-17 12:38:53 | A paint-by-numbers family adventure, nothing less, nothing more. |
| 249289 | John Monaghan | Detroit Free Press | Rotten | 2/4 | 2006-02-17T12:23:27.000Z | 2006-02-17 12:23:27 | It's difficult to gauge who gets stranded more in Eight Below: the team of sled dogs left at the bottom of the world or audience members forced to sludge through two hours of very human melodrama to see them reunited with their handler. |
| 249290 | Jeff Vice | Deseret News (Salt Lake City) | Rotten | 2.5/4 | 2006-02-17T12:20:11.000Z | 2006-02-17 12:20:11 | The human co-stars are considerably less interesting [than the dogs], and that's the biggest problem with this outdoor adventure drama, which spends too much time with the humans and not enough with the considerably more watchable animals. |
| 249291 | Cherryl Dawson and Leigh Ann Palone | TheMovieChicks.com | Fresh | 3.5/5 | 2006-02-17T12:19:37.000Z | 2006-02-17 12:19:37 | It's a great dog story told in traditional Disney fashion. |
| 249292 | Lisa Kennedy | Denver Post | Fresh | 2.5/4 | 2006-02-17T12:09:57.000Z | 2006-02-17 12:09:57 | If you thought imperiled emperor penguins were heartwrenching, beware of these dogs. |
| 249293 | Kit Bowen | Hollywood.com | Fresh | 3/4 | 2006-02-17T11:55:38.000Z | 2006-02-17 11:55:38 | A Kleenex-producing tale of survival and friendship that may just make you grab your favorite pooch and promise you'll never leave him/her stranded in the frozen wastelands. |
| 249294 | Allison Benedikt | Chicago Tribune | Rotten | 2.5/4 | 2006-02-17T11:45:15.000Z | 2006-02-17 11:45:15 | Eight Below is the Brian's Song of dog movies: schmaltzy, feel-goody, inspired-by-a-true-story-y. It's formulaic and frequently over the top, 30 minutes too long and altogether too slow. |
| 249295 | Sean P. Means | Salt Lake Tribune | Rotten | 2/4 | 2006-02-17T11:43:33.000Z | 2006-02-17 11:43:33 | In this contest of emoting, the dogs win over the reliably bland Walker. |
| 249296 | Lawrence Toppman | Charlotte Observer | Fresh | 3/4 | 2006-02-17T11:37:05.000Z | 2006-02-17 11:37:05 | The film works best among the beasts. Their training is impeccable, their emotions are palpable, and almost all of their behavior is credible. |
| 249297 | Mark Keizer | Boxoffice Magazine | Fresh | 3/5 | 2006-02-17T11:31:35.000Z | 2006-02-17 11:31:35 | These dogs, as it turns out, can do anything -- even make us ignore the rough patches in a Disney movie. |
| 249298 | Wesley Morris | Boston Globe | Fresh | 3/4 | 2006-02-17T11:24:19.000Z | 2006-02-17 11:24:19 | It's the most touching love story about tragically separated sexy beasts since Cold Mountain. |
| 249299 | Josh Larsen | Sun Publications (Chicago, IL) | Rotten | 2/4 | 2006-02-17T10:42:15.000Z | 2006-02-17 10:42:15 | ...has little of the palpable tension of `March of the Penguins' and more of the anthropomorphized antics of Disney's `Snow Dogs.' |
| 249300 | Rob Thomas | Capital Times (Madison, WI) | Fresh | 3/4 | 2006-02-17T10:11:58.000Z | 2006-02-17 10:11:58 | In the era of "Narnia." "Harry Potter" and "Kong," it's downright refreshing to watch a movie that finds Planet Earth to be an exciting place. |
| 249301 | Tyler Hanley | Palo Alto Weekly | Fresh | 3.5/4 | 2006-02-17T10:07:38.000Z | 2006-02-17 10:07:38 | Eager dog owners may find themselves hounding for a husky after nibbling on this cinematic treat. |
| 249302 | Jeffrey Westhoff | Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL) | Fresh | 3/4 | 2006-02-17T09:55:38.000Z | 2006-02-17 09:55:38 | Eight Below is Disney's long-form apology for Snow Dogs. |
| 249303 | James Sanford | Kalamazoo Gazette | Fresh | 3/4 | 2006-02-17T08:46:40.000Z | 2006-02-17 08:46:40 | an engrossing, even suspenseful adventure, along the lines of old-school Disney films like 'The Incredible Journey.' |
| 249304 | David Kaplan | Kaplan vs. Kaplan | Fresh | — | 2006-02-17T07:26:06.000Z | 2006-02-17 07:26:06 | This movie is just about perfect in every sense ---- the acting, the writing, the cinematography, the music --- combining to bring us a thrilling, absorbing and especially moving story about courage and determination. |
| 249305 | Jeanne Kaplan | Kaplan vs. Kaplan | Fresh | — | 2006-02-17T07:25:06.000Z | 2006-02-17 07:25:06 | This film has more thrills, excitement and tense moments than any I have seen in a long while. |
| 249306 | David Foucher | EDGE Boston | Fresh | B+ | 2006-02-17T06:40:07.000Z | 2006-02-17 06:40:07 | Even performance and plot deficiencies can't stop a husky from emoting effectively on screen. Charming! |
| 249307 | Robin Clifford | Reeling Reviews | Fresh | B- | 2006-02-17T06:24:21.000Z | 2006-02-17 06:24:21 | a solid, if a by-the-numbers, piece of work that gets you at an emotional level |
| 249308 | Peter Canavese | Groucho Reviews | Fresh | 2.5/4 | 2006-02-17T04:31:47.000Z | 2006-02-17 04:31:47 | Marshall sort of gets away with murder by walking the line of pitiless Antarctic cold and family-film warmth. |
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