Based on the same real-life story that inspired the 1995 animated feature “Balto” and Disney’s forthcoming “Togo” (and sliding into theaters not long before another sled-dog tale, the latest “Call …
Based on the same real-life story that inspired the 1995 animated feature “Balto” and Disney’s forthcoming “Togo” , “The Great Alaskan Race” promises at the very least to be a satisfying movie for dog lovers. What else could one expect, as its poster consists of a husky’s face in giant closeup? Unfortunately, it turns out that very least is still too much to ask for from this handsome but hokey drama, which barely seems to notice its canine players amid a focus on one-dimensional humans.
Though Presley does not attempt an accent, the real Leonhard Seppala left Norway for Alaska as an adult, turning to dogsled driving for a mining company when hopes of striking it rich in the Gold Rush proved illusory. We meet him here in 1917, the last of three consecutive years he won the All Alaska Sweepstakes race. The following annum, his Inuit wife died during a flu epidemic, after giving birth to their only child.
There’s too much time spent among various waiting worriers in Nome and elsewhere. When something visceral does occur — Seppala and his dogs suffer a serious fall — it’s so poorly staged, amid obscuring “blizzard” optics, that we’re unsure exactly what’s happened. Not that this failure to properly exploit the tale’s extreme climatic hazards is any big surprise by then.
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