adonis98-743-186503 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)

bkoganbing 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.

Ravi S Rao Captivating scenery of Alaska and a casual but simple story. I am not sure why this movie rating is anything less than 7 as I am freak of Adventure movies with simple plots. This one stands out.Have not seen Alaska being captured in such finesse in any movie or documentary as natural as this one.The Polar bear looks great. Also the poacher problems highlighted in the movie are so real and a fact of life in Alaska. The Kids acting are natural and superb. For the technology available in 19996, the whole movie is incredible in terms of everything. Looking at the movie, I have decided that it's high time that I need to make a travel plan to go to Alaska sometime soon. The real beauty is captivating.A great movie for the kids, family and everyone.

Sjoerd (Filmfan-NL) True, I've seen worse. It has all the ingredients all the other quadrillion movies of this type have. Kids, growing pains (never understood what that element has to do in these stories), beloved father gone missing, a save-the-day animal, two flatter than flat bad guys, some sidekicks (friend, an old Indian, sigh) and a flimsy excuse for a story. If I am really honest, the only thing that I will remember about this one is Thora Birch's relatively large chest for a girl her age. Acting is all poor. Benedict was better in his worst A-team episode, Birch is or at least was no actress (sorry to say) when she made this. Her brother is ridiculously bad, and whatever made Charlton Heston accept a role in this vehicle, must be they had something on him to blackmail him with. Even the pictures of the Alaskan nature are nothing to write home about. Your kids may like it, for adults it just lacks too much in all areas.