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The Review - AT THE MOVIES
 
The Disney dogs will always save the day

EIGHT BELOW
- Directed by Frank Marshall
Certificate PG

THE windswept wastes of Antartica is the setting for this action adventure from the kennels of Disney. Featuring a pack of dogs and some well-meaning research scientists, Eight Below is your standard man’s-best-friend fare.

Jerry Shepherd (Paul Walker) lives in a research station – and part of his brief is to care for a dog sled team. And Jerry is, as all Disney characters should be, totally in love with the little furry creatures.
Jerry and his mutts are given a mission to carry a scientist called Davis (Bruce Greenwood) to find a meteorite. But bad weather sets in – this is, after all, the South Pole – and the two narrowly escape intact. They owe their lives to their dogs but when an escape plane lands, there is no room for the mutts. Cue much sobbing from the little ones in the cinema who have so far ruined the show by crunching through copious amounts of pop corn.
The humans plan is to return when the weather clears – but, so the film can last a little longer, it gets worse.
However, these are Disney dogs and that means rather than howl at the moon while they slowly starve to death, they do something about it.
Thus begins Jerry’s frantic attempts to get back to the station and save his team, while the dogs themselves show they are no slouches when it comes to getting by in sub-zero temperatures.
It has an air of the nature documentary about it: this pack of dogs are pretty indistinguishable but it doesn’t matter. They will all become your favourite.
It is well shot, with the frozen landscape providing a suitably eerie backdrop for paw prints to leave their mark on.
Apparently this tale is based on true events, and the clever direction and the well-trained heroes means the sentimental and soppy moments are not enough to put you off enjoying this flick.
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