SNOW DOGS

What's happened to Cuba Gooding Jr.? Everything that made his Academy Award-winning blowhard performance in Jerry Maguire such fun is horribly amplified here. As a Miami dentist who discovers he's adopted and has been willed an Alaskan pack of huskies, he bellows and flails in one sustained emasculating spaz-out. Coburn, leashed with a surly-dog-musher role, plays his birth father. One can only hope that Gooding, who surely deserves better than movies in which animals wear sunglasses, was shown some serious money.

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