Toon Talk: Snow Dogs DVD - May 14, 2002

Toon Talk: Snow Dogs DVD
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Deleted Scenes:

  • Show Me the Mushing: An obvious joke that surprisingly didn’t make the final cut.
  • Ted Offers Jack a Deal: A cabin scene between Ted and Jack that was later restaged in the cave.
  • You’re Looking Much Whiter and New Caps: Two brief comedy scenes set in Ted’s Miami dental office.

Extended Scenes:

  • Girls at the Beach: After Ted finds out he’s adopted, he causes a fender bender and scares off some bathing beauties.
  • Rush Hour: Upon Ted’s arrival in Tolketna, he first encounters the eXtreme sporters seen later in the bar.
  • How About a Big Hug for Daddy?: Another parental gag is inserted in the beachside dream sequence.
  • Understanding Lucy: More back-story to Ted’s birth mother Lucy.
  • Open Wide: Adds a little Little Shop of Horrors into the final scene.

Toon Talk Rating: C-

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Toon Talk Trivia:

  • White guy soul singer Michael Bolton appears in a self-parodying cameo. Bolton sang the pop version of “Go the Distance” in Hercules.
  • James Coburn’s long career includes the Disney television series The Nine Lives of Elfego Baca and the voice of Waternoose in Disney/Pixar’s Monsters, Inc.
  • Cuba Gooding, Jr. starred as real-life hero Dorie Miller in Touchstone’s Pearl Harbor and is lending his voice to the upcoming Disney animated musical Sweating Bullets.
  • Five, yes, five writers contributed to the script of Snow Dogs, including Jim Kouf (Operation Dumbo Drop) and Tommy Swerdlow & Michael Goldberg (Cool Runnings).
  • Theme park plug: Listen up for a clever reference to a Disney theme park near the end of the film.

Final Word:
“All you got to do is hang on.”

-- James Coburn, explaining how easy it was for him to ‘mush’, in the Chillin’ With the Actors featurette.

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Coming Soon in Toon Talk:

  • Return to deep in the Hundred Acre Wood with the Collector’s Edition DVD of The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, now available.
  • Also available, Disney DVD presents the new “Vault Disney” collection with four certified live action classics: Swiss Family Robinson, Old Yeller, Pollyanna and the original The Parent Trap.
  • Rope ’em up and move ’em out: DreamWorks’ Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron rides into theaters May 24th.

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-- Posted May 14, 2002

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