Okay, okay. It's supposed to be fun and fantasy. Yet this formula film disturbs me because you know it is the product of hard nosed beancounters married to a politically correct format. I suspect they didn't even chuckle if they even viewed their handiwork. It's not the sort of genuine story that Disney once produced before it became a big ugly conglomorate. One gets the feeling it was stamped out much like sugar donuts...uniform, bland, nutritionally void and manufactured as cheaply as possible and to sell without satisfying. Sure, it has its entertaining moments. But the whole thing is, well, so damned goodie two shoes that I felt my stomach had been pumped full of treacle. Even the mandatory bad guy turns out to be a good guy. And they all do live happily ever after. Everybody. Ecstaticly. Even the damned dogs! Furthermore, if they wanted to do a story about Alaska, why didn't they shoot it there rather than stealing and misrepresenting Alberta. The least they might have done would have been to put a Canadian flag in the scene at the finish line where there are several other national flags including that of Norway. Why does Hollywood --- or in this case, Lake Buena Vista --- ignore Canada with such offensive and xenophobic determination.
