Jerry Shepard works as a guide at an Antarctica research base under contact with the National Science Foundation, as well a dog trainer. He loves his dogs more then anything else and is a dedicated trainer. One day, after an expedition with Dr. Davis McClaren to attempt to find a rare meteorite from Mercury, things go wrong, and Jerry and his colleagues has to leave the polar base, not only because Dr. McClaren will die if he doesn't have special medical assistance, but also because the proximity of a heavy snow storm, since the Antarctica's winter is coming. He goes against his wish, but only if someone agrees to rescue his dogs after it. When he is back in U.S.A., the mission to rescue his dogs is canceled. Now, the poor dogs will need to survive by their own in the cold Artic winter, the worst and most evil winter of the world.
''Eight Below'' is one of the cutest Disney's movies I watched in these last years. Not only the fluffy dogs, but also the love of the dog trainer for them, is very touching. Of course, there are things they used in the film, that I hardly imagine dogs doing ( like their strategy to take the birds or to eat the whale...honestly,I have sincere doubts about the dogs planning such a complex attack for themselves..but since I am not a dog trainer or scientist, I will not talk about these points). The fact that this movie was based on a Japanese expedition in 1958 is another surprise, since we think about the real dogs in the Antarctica's cold. But I imagine that their real trainer and team were not so worried with them as the movie shows.
Ps: That Leopard Seal is scary!
''Eight Below'' is one of the cutest Disney's movies I watched in these last years. Not only the fluffy dogs, but also the love of the dog trainer for them, is very touching. Of course, there are things they used in the film, that I hardly imagine dogs doing ( like their strategy to take the birds or to eat the whale...honestly,I have sincere doubts about the dogs planning such a complex attack for themselves..but since I am not a dog trainer or scientist, I will not talk about these points). The fact that this movie was based on a Japanese expedition in 1958 is another surprise, since we think about the real dogs in the Antarctica's cold. But I imagine that their real trainer and team were not so worried with them as the movie shows.
Ps: That Leopard Seal is scary!