Imperiled sled dogs pull on heartstrings (Contra Costa Times)
EVERY GENERATION deserves an “Old Yeller.” Disney owes it to them. A little bonding with cute dogs, then whammo. Something really bad happens to the dog or dogs, and we all grow up a little bit between the sniffles.

Dogs on ice (San Jose Mercury News)
Following the success of last year’s “March of the Penguins,'’ and now “Eight Below'’ — an equally triumphal processional of dogs across the bottom of the world — Cinema Antarctica is suddenly sizzling hot!

Courageous sled dogs melt hearts (Detroit Free Press)
It’s difficult to gauge who gets stranded more in “Eight Below”: the team of sled dogs left at the bottom of the world or audience members forced to sludge through two hours of very human melodrama to see them reunited with their handler.

Fire Destroys Home; 33 Dogs Left Homeless (WTAE ThePittsburghChannel.com via Yahoo! News)
Nearly three dozen dogs need a new home after a fire destroyed theirs.

‘Eight Below’ dogs go the distance (Baltimore Sun)
The determinedly cynical needn’t bother, but just about everyone else should love Eight Below, in which eight supremely gorgeous sled dogs are forced to make do for themselves on the frozen Antarctic field after being left behind by their owners.

Dogs have their day in Eight Below (Jam! Showbiz)
Eight Below is a film about people and dogs. It has too much of the former and not enough of the latter. This cheesed-up Disney outing is about the relationship between humans and canines, loosely based on the experiences of a Japanese exploration team rescued by sled dogs in Antarctica.

Film review: Eight dogs have their day (Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)
Walt Disney, the studio that gave us Old Yeller and Lady and the Tramp, has added eight new canines to its stable of memorable movie dogs. They’re the stars of Eight Below, a winner of a winter adventure, loosely based on a true story of Antarctic animal survival.

Traumatizing ‘Eight Below’ goes to the dogs (New Orleans Times-Picayune)
“Eight Below,” a competently made Antarctic adventure, has two things in its favor: an amusing comic turn by supporting player Jason Biggs (as a cartographer) and surprisingly expressive performances from the pack of dogs at the center of the tale.

Hard-hitting “Dogs” documents heartless brutality (Reuters via Yahoo! News)
Of all the horrific, gruesome, despicable things we see on our televisions, we’re unlikely to find another 75 minutes that offer more wonderful relief when they are over than “Dealing Dogs.” HBO’s latest “America Undercover” documentary scores a perfect 10 for degree of difficulty. It’s excellent and awful work.

Dogs can’t act, and that’s a great thing (Belleville News-Democrat)
– When you leave for work in the morning, how confident are your dogs that you will come back? I ask for two reasons: because I always wonder whether my dog is so excited to see me when I get home because he worried I might not return, and because this is the central dilemma in the poignant adventure “Eight Below.”