Eight Below (2006)

one of my absolute favorites!

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

I knew this would be a great one... and it didnt led me down. By far one of my favorite movies for dogs. I am a dog owner and i put my self in paul walker shows. I would have returned!! I am overwhelmed by how the dogs were... they were a team and this is a lesson about survival!You wont waste your time watching it! It is really amazing

I just decided to watch this movie again after not seeing it for years. I forgot how sad it was. I had to pause the movie when Dewey died because I was crying too much. My poor friend had the entire movie spoiled for her if she were to ever decide to watch it, because I was freaking out and texting her everytime I thought a dog was gonna die. Which was quite often. But I loved the movie. It was really sweet how the dogs banded together and tried to protect one another, even if I did find the intelligence level of the dogs to be a bit exaggerated. The scene where they break free and chase the birds is more than a bit far fetched, learning to catch birds would involve quite a bit of trial and error, and defiantly would not involve the "alpha dog" or in this case Maya barking out orders (quite literally). Personally I would deem this movie too sad for young children but maybe I just get too attached to canine characters (which is a very valid possibility, on account of the fact that I always cry when a dog dies in a movie). And the concept of a bunch of dogs being stranded in the wilderness and trying not to starve and or freeze to death might be a bit much for a 7 year old. But then again, I was probably 5 when I watched this movie the first time, and I barely remember it now 10 years later. Anyways. Great movie. But if you don't like sad dog stories, maybe it's not for you.

In "Eight Below," as in Jack London, the dogs are not turned into cute cartoon pets but are respected for their basic animal natures. To be sure, the sled dogs here do some mighty advanced thinking, as when one dog seems to explain a fairly complex plan to the other dogs by telepathy. I was also impressed by the selfless behavior of the dogs as they bring birds to feed a member of the pack who has been crippled. I was under the impression that if a dog died in such circumstances, the others would eat it to avoid starvation, but apparently not (you can't assume the idea didn't occur to Frank Marshall, the director, since he made "Alive," the story of the Andes survivors).

i'd like to give this movie with 10 star but there're the things that i can't do it. this movie tells about the love between the 8 dogs and their owner that you should feel in the way that he doesn't want to but i'm still thinking if i was him i won't do something like that with my dogs. someone should put them in the house and left them some feeds until they can come back to pick them up. why did he tied them outside? his owner didn't get hurt so hard he can do it. if they were mine, i will stay with them instead. i love the movies of the animal but i don't want to take the dramas, the reason i watch this movie is it's belong to walt Disney, i know that walt Disney's movies are not sad, but in this you lost 2 dogs so i wonder that is it really base on the true story? there're 6 dogs left in the end, Jerry knew that Old Jack died but the other he didn't even try to find out, just thought by himself that the other must died too. some in this movie doesn't make sense. that's why i can't give 1 more star.