SnoopyStyle It's the National Science Foundation Research Base in Antarctica. Jerry Shepard (Paul Walker) is an expedition guide with a team of dogs. Dr. Davis McClaren (Bruce Greenwood) from UCLA has just arrived. Charlie Cooper (Jason Biggs) is the Jack of all trades. Katie (Moon Bloodgood) is the pilot. When a storm comes bearing down on the base, they have to quickly evacuate. Katie can't return for the dogs and they are left behind.The movie has two different sides. The human side of the story is fine but nothing special. Paul Walker has his good guy persona. Jason Biggs is joking around. The human struggle to rescue the dogs seem secondary. It's the dogs that are so endearing. After 50 minutes, the dogs take center stage. They project more human emotions than most of the human characters. They have the most powerful emotional story. They are the true stars of this movie.

Prismark10 In a mission to find rare meteorite from the planet mercury in Antarctica, Paul Walker who is a guide at the research base has to leave his Huskies behind as treacherous winter weather approaches. Back at home, Shepard is guilt ridden about leaving his dogs and is determined in rescuing the dogs.However the main part of the film is the dogs story, The dogs break free of their chains except for Old Jack who is too old and dies at the base camp. The rest of the dogs hunt seals, birds and penguins to survive. One of the dogs gets fatally injured while looking at the southern lights one night another is attacked and injured by the seal when they find whale meat and it may be too late for her unless rescued in time.The Huskies are the real stars of the movie, the way they act on screen and inject personality is well done. The icy landscape is breathtaking the humans in many ways take back seat.The film is inspired by a true Japanese story. The late Paul Walker shows great love for the dogs and its nice to know that he will not just be remembered for the Fast and Furious films. Jason Biggs provides comic relief.

Melody PK i'd like to give this movie with 10 star but there're the things that i can't do it. this movie tells about the love between the 8 dogs and their owner that you should feel in the way that he doesn't want to but i'm still thinking if i was him i won't do something like that with my dogs. someone should put them in the house and left them some feeds until they can come back to pick them up. why did he tied them outside? his owner didn't get hurt so hard he can do it. if they were mine, i will stay with them instead. i love the movies of the animal but i don't want to take the dramas, the reason i watch this movie is it's belong to walt Disney, i know that walt Disney's movies are not sad, but in this you lost 2 dogs so i wonder that is it really base on the true story? there're 6 dogs left in the end, Jerry knew that Old Jack died but the other he didn't even try to find out, just thought by himself that the other must died too. some in this movie doesn't make sense. that's why i can't give 1 more star.

WakenPayne And this is supposed to be family entertainment? I do enjoy a good family movie once in a while. I enjoy them if they're entertaining to an adult mind, but with that being said the movie must also be entertaining to the kid in me.For children and animal lovers, this might have the same effect on you that the German movie Downfall had on me (I have called it on many notable occasions one of the most depressing movies ever made).This movie based on the trailers might seem like it was a movie where dogs get trapped in Antarctica and the owner will stop at nothing to get the dogs back. However the owner doesn't seem to really care about the 8 dogs that he left behind to freeze to death because he doesn't really do anything until the movie is almost over.So what we are left with are a bunch of dogs walking on the snow from scene to scene, dying. But because it's a kids film it should have a happy ending (no matter which country it's from). This "happy ending" is that the owner finds only 2 dogs (one of them without the strength to stand) and the attitude seems to be "okay, that's good enough for me". Does this sound like family entertainment?Now this movie in the slightest did not make me sad (unlike what I maybe leaning towards when I said that children and animal lovers might find this movie depressing). All that it did make me feel is the need to ask the person I rented this from his definition of "family entertainment" because this isn't for the family nor is it entertaining.