Chilly Dogs

Idealistic travel agent Kevin Manley (Skeet Ulrich) quits his job and leaves the subtropical confines of his Southern Californian home when he's notified that he stands to gain an inheritance of 200 acres of Alaskan real estate from his late grandfather. There's a catch: He has to race in the ...more

Made a year before the remarkably similarly-themed Snow Dogs -- a warm weather young man goes to Alaska to run a sled dog race to gain an inheritance -- Chilly Dogs relies on broad -- waaaay broad -- cartoon-like slapstick action to generate laughs. Some of it works (the sight gag of Kevin's assemblage of mutts), some of it is tiresome (Kevin's predilection for falling into open manholes) but most of it is so inane as to slide right by. Segments of the movie play like blackout sketches without ...more