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Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

While searching for their missing father in the mountains of Alaska, two siblings come across a baby polar bear on the run from a pair of poachers. Alaska is a 90's kids movie and a pretty decent one. The perfomances were quite alright nothing to really brag off on that scale, the cinematography quite beautiful and with alot of very good looking shots of rivers and basically the mountains and all that. The storyline quite interesting too and if you're not expecting some really oscar worthy or whatever you might actually very much enjoy it as well as i did. (7/10)

Alaska (1996): Dir: Fraser C. Heston / Cast: Vincent Kartheiser, Thora Birch, Dirk Benedict, Charlton Heston, Gordon Tootoosis: Disappointing family film about extraordinary events. It just should be noted that the film itself is not the extraordinary event. It stars Vincent Kartheiser and Thora Birch as two children searching for their father when his plane crashes. They free a baby polar bear from poachers, which bears nothing to the plot and the conclusion is laughable when factoring weight ratios between a bear and a plane. Director Fraser C. Heston does his best and casts his father Charlton as a poacher but the role is pretty standard. Kartheiser plays a rebellious brat who dislikes the fact that he lives in the middle of cold nowhere and now searches for his father out of guilt. Birch plays his smarter sister although her brain power hardly makes up for the amount of stupidity snow stormed into this fiasco. Dirk Benedict basically teeters in a plane and reflects upon times that didn't involve him teetering in a plane. An Indian gives sound advice, "follow the bear." Funny that it doesn't know where it's going either. It could have led them under an avalanche for all they knew. Had it been intelligent it would have sued Animal Planet for loaning him. Message uplifts smaller factors over the unlikely despite its implausible contrivances. Now if only those smaller factors wrote the screenplay. Score: 3 / 10

It's the state of Alaska itself plus some beautiful vistas from British Columbia that are the true stars of this film. An incredibly realistic animated bear named Cubby comes in second with all the human players in at a distinct third in Fraser Heston's film Alaska.You will be bowled over by the grand scale cinematography of the northern tundras. The terrain itself is a character in this drama about a brother and sister, Vincent Kartheiser and Thora Birch, who don't think that the authorities are doing enough to rescue their bush pilot father Dirk Benedict who has crashed his small cargo plane and it and he are hanging off a cliff with one of his legs broken.Birch has adapted well enough to Alaska life, the family is transplanted from Chicago and we're constantly reminded of that with Kartheiser's Chicago Cubs road uniform hat. He's missing Chicago real bad and can't understand why dad quit his job as an airline pilot after the death of their mother to go live here.Villain of the film is Charlton Heston who with Duncan Fraser are a pair of poachers. While on their mission the kids liberate a bear cub who adopts them and tags along. Heston and Fraser want that cub back and give chase.Starting in 1982 Charlton Heston who is best known for playing some of the noblest of heroes real and fictional started varying his resume with villains. For his son's version of Treasure Island Heston played a nasty Long John Silver, nothing cute and hammy like Wallace Beery or Robert Newton. Ditto for his portrayal here as a poacher. But I love the way the bear turns the tables on Heston and Fraser.Cubby is also indispensable in the rescue of Benedict. You'll have to see the film for his contribution in that effort.The scenery is as grand and large as our largest and most sparsely populated state. Alaska is a great film of high adventure and good family entertainment.

The clean cut stuff. Oh, don't forget the whole "family sticks together" moteef. Got to love it. The way I say this movie was through my family. You know, if you want to teach a lesson, that's fine. Why through this movie?The movie "Alaska" is alright. It's not horrible. But if a family member is lost in Alaska, which is one of the biggest states, would you go searching for them? In freezing weather, with polar bears? It's almost impossible to find that person. It was just a little hard to believe, that's all. The acting is alright. It's nothing too special to watch. I'll give it credit for it's moral lesson though.6/10