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The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

Whether you were in first grade, or a senior in high school, one of the most exciting phone calls you could ever get in the wee hours of the morning would be a canned recording of your district's superintendent informing you that school was cancelled for the day due to inclement weather. Living in the suburbs of Chicago my entire life, I vividly remember hearing reports of heavy snowfall that could potentially close schools, and going to bed those nights hoping to whatever God would listen to my ridiculous plea that I wouldn't have to go to school the following day. More often than not, it was wishful thinking on my part, due to the around-the-clock, persistent work of the snowplows, but on occasion, the snow and ice would be so bad that the school buses couldn't get through (the ultimate factor in a district's decision whether or not to close school) and I'd be blessed with great news when I woke up in the morning.These thoughts and memories flourished as I watched Chris Koch's Snow Day, but not because the film was extracting those paradoxically warm and fuzzy feelings, but because I was so disinterested in the characters and the events occurring in the film that the only outlet I had was my overactive, nostalgic mind. This is a film that has the ability to operate like an episode of the underrated Television show Recess, which concerned a group of six schoolage children who tried to do everything they could to live up the thirty minutes of liberation they got every school day. The kids in the show were bright, developed, adamant about sticking together, and clever in their abilities to stay one step ahead of their school administration. The children in Snow Day are a gaggle of underdeveloped and ill-behaved brats that mistake loud, ribald behavior and baffling choices as likability and logical motivations.The film concerns a group of young schoolkids in Syracuse, New York, who do everything they can to keep their school closed after heavy snowfall, which involves stopping the fearless snowplow driver (Chris Elliot) from getting through to plow the streets. One of the kids is Hal (Mark Webber), who spends the day trying to win the heart of his sweetheart Claire Bonner (Emmanuelle Chriqui), with the help of his best friend, Lane Leonard (Schuyler Fisk), who is secretly repressing feelings for him after a lifelong friendship. Then we have Natalie (Zana Grey), Hal's younger sister, and her two friends Wayne (Josh Peck), and Chet (Jade Yorker), who work to stop the aforementioned snowplow driver from plowing the sidestreets leading to the school. Finally, there's Hal and Natalie's father Tom (Chevy Chase), who works as a Television meteorologist, spends the day attempting to cover the record snowfall in a quicker manner than his competitor Chad Symmonz (John Schneider), both of whom fighting for their own job security.The biggest problem with Snow Day is it doesn't have a central focus, despite one pragmatically assuming that the effort to take out the snowplow driver would be the film's primary focus. The issue here is that the film doesn't invest enough time in the efforts to stop said driver, nor does it concoct many setups or provide much development to the idea that would allow one to believe what is actually happening in efforts to stop this man. Snow Day is simply a collection of subplots that make less a movie and more of an anthology film, strung together from comedic odds and ends, never materializing to something of a collective whole.Some of Snow Day's greatest sins could be forgiven if the film was the least bit humorous. Alas, however, Snow Day focuses on the kinds of things people with no knowledge of kids think kids say but never actually do; with that comes a barrage of stale, foreseeable humor and monotonous slapstick that never amounts to anything that is memorable in a long term sense. Even veteran actors like Chase and Elliot cannot save the project with their presence, for their characters have been hamfisted into pure stupidity and childishness beyond what should be acceptable for them as actors.Snow Day is a film bearing very little wit or craft in its writing and its characters. It's more or a less an assembly of parts, characters, situations, and subplots searching for a bigger picture to function in. It's the equivalent of someone dumping a toolbox all over the floor, with wrenches and hammers representing the actors, and the screws, nuts, bolts, and other connective devices representing things like writing, transitions, and characters, and hoping they'll all work together before their eyes and churn out something of untold greatness.Starring: Mark Webber, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Zena Grey, Chevy Chase, Chris Elliott, Schuyler Fisk, Jean Smart, Josh Peck, Jade Yorker, and John Schneider. Directed by: Chris Koch.

"Snow Day" is pretty flaky stuff. As the Nickelodeon Television Network's fourth feature film, this wholesome but prefabricated juvenile fodder emerges as tolerably entertaining comic nonsense with more than enough surprises and gender-bending twists to pass muster. Chevy Chase, Chris Elliot, Jean Smart, and John Schneider populate an appealing ensemble cast headed up by a youth Zena ("The Bone Collector") Grey and Mark ("Drive Me Crazy") Webber."Snow Day" covers 24 frivolous hours in the lives of the Brandston clan when anything can happen after a freak blizzard blankets Syracuse, New York, and school is canceled. Children cheer, but their parents cringe. The snowstorm halts virtually everybody except the Brandstons. They refuse to let a little bad weather get in their way. Consequently, adults taking kids to see this harmless hokum should find themselves occasionally amused by some of the insights and antics in this quadruple-plotted saga.The Brandston kids, fifteen-year old Hal (Mark Webber) and ten-year old Natalie (Zena Grey) occupy the foreground. Hal carries a torch for the school sexpot, Claire Bonner (jailbait beauty Emmanuelle Chriqui of "The Crow: Wicked Prayer"), and he believes that fate has given him a sign when she loses her anklet in the swimming pool. Hal recovers the trinket and bides his time for the right moment to return it.Fortuitously, Claire breaks up with her odious boyfriend, Chuck Wheeler (David Paetkau of "AVPR: Aliens Vs Predator - Requiem"), and then shows an interest in Hal that sends Chuck into a boiling rage. Ironically, the other sweet gal on Hal, Lane Leonard (Schuyler Fisk of "Orange County"), cannot get the guy to notice her, even though she is a constant companion.Meanwhile, intrepid little Natalie and her plucky pals struggle to stop the unsavory Snowplowman (a hammy Chris Elliot of "Cabin Boy") from clearing the streets so they can get an extra day off from school. Hunched over the wheel of his monstrous snowplow, nicknamed Clementine, with Trudy, his beaky black pet crow perched beside him; Snowplowman provides some hilarious over-the-top villainy. Snowplowman's reputation precedes him. Rumor has it that he assembled the chains on his huge tires from the braces of kids he ran down while shoveling snow.As meteorologist Tom Brandston (Chevy Chase of "Christmas Vacation") somehow maintains his dignity at the third-rated TV station in a three channel market. Lately, Tom has been wearing absurd costumes when he delivers his forecast. Where Tom's boss, Tina (Pam Grier of "Coffey"), gets the idea that clowning will help them topple their competition, rival weatherman Chad Symmonz (John Schneider of "Lake Placid 2") is anybody's guess. Tom sets out to expose Chad for the fraud that he is, especially after Symmonz takes credit for warning everybody about the accidental snowstorm.Although this potboiler boasts little redeeming artistic value, "Snow Day" qualifies nevertheless as ideal, family-oriented fare with nothing most objectionable than a fat kid that farts when he is frightened. Out of four stars, the above-average "Snow Day" scores two-and-a-half.

This movie has a predictable fairy tale plot. A boy tries to date the most popular girl in school. But another girl tries to get with him. He about to get beat up by the popular girl's boyfriend. But he ends up with the girl that wanted him. Plus a girl wishes for snow and sabotages the snow plower's snow plowing job. Unrealistic. The highlight of this movie was seeing fly Chilli and fly Pam Grier making a cameo. Chris Elliott has been type-casted as a stupid person in every movie that he is in. It is hard for Chevy Chase to top his National Lampoon movies. Any child knows that when it snows, they have to make up snow days on Saturdays, during Spring Break, or at the end of the school year.

Back in 2000 I heard about this movie and wanted to see it, since back then I wanted to see every Nickeleon Movie made.The plot looked funny with some humorous stuff.Only the results didn't come out well.The only thing wrong with this film is it has more romance scenes between 2 teens and less comedy.Has some parts that seem funny but aren't.Can't say it's too enjoyable or entertaining. It's one of them films that are only good seeing once then put back on the self for a long long time.So those who want to see this flick, just don't expect this to be the greatest movie ever. I mean if I were given a choice between this or Good Burger, i'd choose Good Burger cause it had a better plot and funnier stuff.my rate for this one 3/10.