Chilly Dogs
The lovely snowy expanses of Alaska are the setting forChilly  Dogs, a goofy comedy about a travel agency clerk (Skeet Ulrich,Scream,The Newton Boys) from Los Angeles who has to prove  his mettle by racing a team of mismatched sled dogs from Anchorage to  Nome. Only this will allow him to claim his grandfather's inheritance--and  a wily lawyer (Leslie Nielsen, mugging shamelessly as usual) intends to  claim that inheritance for himself by knocking the clerk out of the race.  It's not surprising to see Ulrich in a movie full of clumsy, half-baked  slapstick and bodily function humor, but why is Natasha Henstridge  (Species,The Whole Nine Yards) thrown away as a bland  romantic foil? Her intelligence and sexy/tough persona deserve better--she  providesChilly Dogswith what little momentum it has. Also  featuring Rik Mayall (The Young Ones).--Bret Fetzer