Movie 145: Snow Day

A Nickelodeon original! Which could be just as bad a Syfy….

This is actual a couple of stories that intertwine, centring on different members of the same family. A teenage boy trying to get the girl of his dreams. His younger sister who desperately wants a second snow day, and has to defeat the evil “Snow Plow Man” with her friends to do it. A mom who works far too much. And finally Dad Chevy Chase, a local weatherman who is an actual meteorologist but is in third place, first being taken by a shiny haired shiny toothed idiot, and was first to see the snow coming after some unseasonably warm weather.

OH and a minor plot with the school principle being pelted with snow balls a lot.

Yes, this is very much a tween movie. For me the most enjoyable part, not that it sucked or anything, was the Chevy Chase storyline. This is from 2000 so its in that period between Chevy being a leading man and his sort of return now in Community and other stuff. Young, but relatively washed up. He’s still good though. My guess is it’s the agent that failed not Chevy as he never seemed to lose it, for me anyway. This is a Steve Martin type movie though, on a lower budget and with a kid that farts the same fart for no reason bar the fact he’s fat.

The teen love story is pretty outlandish but no more so than the usual fair on the channel that made the film. Trying to get the amazing dream girl, make an enemy of the douche that she sees most of the time, best friend is a girl who sticks by you regardless. If your over 14 you know what’s going to happen.

The younger sisters story would be creepy outside of goofy movie territory. Plow Man terrorises kids, kidnaps one at one point and is generally creepy. The kids end up acting somewhat like Mac Culkin in Home Alone, but in a mob. Either side would probably be arrested in the real world.

And the mum story is probably something that any working mother could sympathise with, and is a bit of a life lesson thing.

As you can probably tell this tries to be all things for all people to make a family movie that the kids, the teens and the parents can enjoy together. It doesn’t entirely fail, but its not smart enough to quite pull it off either. Not terrible, not amazing. Worth watching on a snow day actually.

Next up: The African Queen