Save your money for something good and enjoyable

Boring, long, and too preachy.

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

.Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

I went to Blockbuster with a friend of mine and we rented this movie, thinking it looked pretty good. We were pretty bored. We went home, ate some marshmallows, fooled around some, and sat down to watch the movie. My friend, her sister, and I ALL HATED IT. Just plain, simple, trash. This is a horrible movie, and definitely my least favorite movie of all time. But it got rated higher than The Da Vinci Code, a great movie! (i rated a 10, awesome movie by the way) But this movie is hard to follow, has stupid characters, and the storyline is broken up. My least favorite movie ever. Save a couple bucks by not renting this movie. (and go rent The Da Vinci code instead)

I first saw a rough cut of this film a couple of years ago, and am really happy to see it released (at last) for Christmas 2005. The initial release is small (mostly in California as I understand it) but will hopefully expand.I like this film so much partly because it's funny and touching, and partly because it's sentimental without that really wrenching sentimentality towards which Christmas films are prone. But what really works best for me is the fact that the Native Americans depicted here are by-and-large just *people* who happen to be Native Americans. The Native aspect is important as setting and backdrop, and it informs the characters and how they behave, but ultimately it's the universal humanity that matters.Great characters, great story, beautiful visuals (in and around Robert Redford's Sundance ranch!) and a lot of fun.

I cannot forget this comedy which I saw with an overflow crowd at a film festival in 2001. I never saw a review of it, so I went to see it because of word of mouth. I had no idea it would be so delightful. I liked it better than My Big Fat Greek Wedding and keep hoping it will get similar success. Charming, unique and yes - feel good - it has all the elements for a good date flick. An Indian tribe runs a ski lodge that desperately needs snow so that it can bring in customers to stay in business. The lodge manager also wants to impress a travel writer who will be staying incognito to write a review of their facilities. But mistaken identity leads to romance between the lodge manager and supposed travel writer, and a bit of slapstick ensues. In the end, more than one couple falls in love and of course -- it's a comedy -- it finally does snow like heaven.

Be ready to laugh, cry and feel good when you see this film. The main characters are Native Americans, in a non-Native quandry. A freshly divorced, hunky, yuppie Native American hotel owner has to shape up his authority-resistant, rag-tag domestic staff for a make-or-break visit from a hot-shot hotelier guide book spy. The hotel owner's mischievious tribal Chief dad has been writing misleading love letters to a female pen pal on the opposite coast. Her curiosity gets the better of her and she decides to do some spying of her own. Nothing is what it seems. Both visits coincide and collide with the deepest desires of the hotel owner, his dad, the spy and the pen pal gal. Loaded with charm, naturalistically acted and beautifully cast with some familiar faces-some new faces-Graham Green [Dances With Wolves]is a standout as the passive-aggressive-vegetarian-activist Cordon Bleu chef. Tim Vahle is adorable as the yuppie Native, and MariAna Tosca is captivating as the unexpectedly lovely pen pal widow. 'Clouds has a modern day Capra-esque feel of mistaken identity, pure chemistry, fantasy and higher instincts refound. Shot in the new, gorgeous SUNDANCE lodge in Utah, it really makes you long for Christmas to come early. You can take your kids, the only nude scene is the turkey's.