Alaska (1996) [HD]

Alaska : Decent Adventure Fare
ALASKA is a good ol', straight forward, adventure film reminiscent of the type of programming shown on THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISNEY tv anthology show back in the 60's and 70's. Good,solid, family entertainment with great location shots of the Alaskan wilderness. While delivering supplies, bush pilot Jake Barnes' (Dirk Benedict) plane is downed during a snow storm. Then, his son and daughter, Sean and Jessie, (Vincent Kartheiser and Thora Birch) take it upon themselves to find him and trek through the remote Alaskan wilderness and rivers. They run into two poachers (Perry and Ben) and let loose an illegally captive baby polar bear. The cub immediately 'adopts' the two kids as his new friends and follows them on their trek. Not too complicated, but entertaining nontheless with some narrow escapes and decent action sequences along with some light emotional scenes. Good to see actor Dirk Benedict (A-TEAM, BATTLESTAR GALACTICA) doing some work along with veteran Charlton Heston in an...

Predictable and unbelievable at the same time
This movie tells the story of two young people, Jessie and Sean, who have moved to Alaska with their father after their mother's death. Jessie is making the best of the move, but Sean is very unhappy that he has been uprooted from his home in Chicago. When their father's plane crashes during what was to have been a routine flight, Jessie and Sean decide to rescue him. What follows is totally unbelievable, but there is some exciting action during the rescue and the scenery is spectacular. Mostly designed as a children's movie, the scenery is probably the best part for adults.

great adventure for little adveturers
Sure this isn't an epic film that will rival the "Ten Commandments;" and knowing the Republican mind of gun toting Charleston Heston I am sure that this was an effort to keep his kid, the director of the film, off the dreaded bread lines in east L.A. But all in all this is a film that has kept my six year old grandson and my eight year old grand daughter glued to the TV/VCR when they come over the house for some fun times. I have a formidable collection of kids' videos, but the one that has just about worn out because it has been viewed so often is our copy of Alaska. This is a soft story of a crisis in a kid's world that challenges the kids involved to rise above it, and eventually with patience, time, ingenuity, and perseverence the problem is solved. What more do we want to have our children and grandchildren see happen? Too much realism destroys dreams, and dreams are what make things happen. Besides Charlton portrays a gun toting bad guy and that is worth the price of...

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