Family-Friendly Ketchikan: Embracing the Shear Magic with Kids in Tow

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This is a wonderful family movie for everyone to enjoy. But I guess I'm kinda biased because I love almost everything Thora Birch is in, and if not I love every single scene of the movie that's terrible she's in. I had seen Thora Birch playing Harrison Ford's daughter in "Patriot Games" and enjoyed her work, so I wanted to check her out in this movie and was rather impressed."Alaska" was a great movie I took my cousins to see.I thought Alaska was awesome! Much better than all that mindless wholesome movies starring actresses like Hilary Duff and the Olsen twins anyway. I do believe people under the age of 40 would like it better than others because I was one of the youngest ones in the theater when I watched it. Now that's really saying something. But besides that, it's a really good movie and I may be wrong and everyone may enjoy it! Take the whole family to see it! It's a really great movie! When this film was released I knew it would get criticism, either by the premise of stealing money, or by it's similarities between Gold Diggers:The Secret of Bear Mountain. I do not agree that it is like Gold Diggers, "Alaska" is a lot better. It even made me tear up a bit as Jessie and the bear cub's friendship was shown.The movie is about Jessica (Thora Birch-Monkey Trouble, Now and Then) and Sean Barnes (Vincent Kartheiser) who are two kids living in Alaska with their dad Jake (Dirk Benidict) who flies supplies to small towns in the wilderness. On one of his flights, Jake encounters bad weather and his plane ends up crashing into a mountain side. Frustrated by unsuccessful rescue attempts, Jessie and Sean set out on their own to find their dad whose wrecked plane hangs from the edge of a mountain peak. Along the way the kids encounter Collin Perry (Charlton Heston) and Mr. Koontz (Buck Fraiser), two poachers who've just killed a mother polar bear and taken its cub to sell overseas. The kids free the bear, which they nickname `Cubby," and it follows them for the rest of their journey. Of course the poachers want their bear cub back so they follow the kids hoping to get Cubby. From then on, the kids must deal with the poachers, as well as the dangerous Alaskan landscape, as they make their way to rescue their dad. This movie had some really neat climbing sequences, good action, spectacular scenery but it lacked a few laughs. Fraser Clarke Heston manages the climbing scenes well, and the film has some pretty odd moments.Thora Birch is great and gorgeous, she gives a good performance, and her dad and brother are also good.The poachers are a bit one dimensional, but it doesn't really matter to the kids, which is the audience most likely to be attracted to this movie. When seeing this with your kids and that it's just a movie. Don't let them take it too seriously, but hey, they're kids. With so many children's movies about kid's bank heists and a whole lot of action, wholesome family movies starring teen queens traveling to some foreign place, this movie is, not to sound cliche, a complete breath of fresh air, educational, good acting. 7/10.

The Alaska scenery in this movie is spectacular and varies: sea, rivers, mountains, snow, rock, skies, shot with sweeping helicopter and crane shots.

But the soundtrack is embarrassing: like something out of the Ten Commandments, great blaring trumpets, soaring strings, Tibetan bass horns, South American flutes, tom toms, fanfares, all preposterously overblown like something of a bygone era. It was seriously distracting.

The dialog is silly, like something out of 50's cowboy and Indian dramas e.g. "Trust the bear" and "Dad, can we keep him?" The movie has no subtlety. Everything is spelled out with the explicitness of a TV sitcom.

The plot is utterly improbable, with various anomalies that distress, like packing no more than a sandwich for a four day hike without it turning into a problem. Even the bear finds a adoptive mother, something that never happens in real life. No bad guys were harmed in the making of this movie.

Cubby the orphaned polar bear cub is the star of the show, sort of like Wookie in Star Trek, who repeatedly saves the day from the evil poachers. It is a bit like the old Rin Tin Tin adventures, only Cubby is much cuter.

However, the movie far from boring. I could not help but fear for the actors creating the film because they do so many dangerous stunts. Kids or adults without problems suspending disbelief will most enjoy this film.

This movie is visually stunning. In a nutshell this movie is about a father who is a pilot and delivers toilet paper around the Alaskan wilderness. His plane crashes and his kids go out to search for him after being angry at the authorities for not doing enough to find their father. They free a cute little polar bear cub who has been caught by a poacher and the polar bear helps them find their lost father. The storyline isn't anything special and basically we have all seen a movie like this many many times. You know the..'kids go out to rescue mother/father/uncle/grandpa and get into lots of life threatening situations with cute animal in toe, but everything is a just fine and dandy in the end'.

Was good to see Dirk Benedict who played Jake Barnes in Alaska, in something as I loved him in The A Team all those years ago. Thora Birch plays the part of Jessie Barnes his daughter and does the kind of acting job that we have come to expect from her. excellent. Vincent Kartheiser plays Sean Barnes the typical anx ridden/angry teenager who comes good and to the aid of his father.

If you like visually beautiful movies and don't need them to be intellectual masterpieces, then watch Alaska

I think it is safe to say that this film will appeal far more to a young child as opposed to an adult but if you're in a good mood and feel like sitting down and not taxing your brain, then this is the film for you.

Dirk Benedict of The A-Team plays the father of two young children who go out to rescue him after his plane crashes in the icy wilderness of Alaska. As is inevitable, they encounter the usual adventures kids have when wandering alone in the wild.

Charlton Heston is the token bad guy who is out to poach a cuddly little polar bear. Polar bears are the last animal you would expect to be so cuddly and if you cuddled one in real life, you probably wouldn't get up again but it's hard not to find the bear adorable.

All in all, a great film with the lovely Alaskan scenery and a cuddly polar bear. Check it out.

If it were only for the splendid and breathtaking scenery i would still recommend this movie. However this film also delivers on the emotional level and follows a journey of transformation as beautiful as the visual aspects.

A single father apts for a change after losing his wife by moving to Alaska with his two children to become a bush pilot. His son is resentful at best, ungrateful, and unappreciative of the vast and stunning riches Alaska has to offer. When their father's plane goes down and rescue efforts fail, they begin a spiritual journey that will forever change their lives. The son, Shawn, played by Vincent Karthieser, soon comes to terms with the death of his mother, the love for his father, and the respect and appreciation for Alaska. Thora Birch, an actress with a promising future, provides the level-headed and sensible approach to the journey in contrast to her brother's cockiness and arrogance which provides for great chemistry between the two.

Along with the natural beauty and landscapes just about every other aspect associated with Alaska is present from: poaching, bushpilots, kayaking, rustic cabins, rock climbing,, moutaineering, camping, and the northern lights along with Cubby, a baby polar bear who tags along and even provides for some tear jerking moments and light hearted humor.

Overall this is a great movie for the entire family or for one with a fascination with the wonders and beauty of the last frontier. It truly evokes a sense of appreciation delivered in a manner without the concept of strong language, violence, and nudity, the three marketing schemes of the industry. It is a fantastic adventure, with great camera angles, stunning visuals and a powerful message. Very well done IMHO.

Ever wonder what it's like to travel through Alaska? If you're curious, now you can experience the magnitude of the scenery that is Alaska by watching this film. The movie Alaska, is a family adventure film that involves two children, Jesse and Sean Barnes on the hunt to find their lost father. How did he get lost? As a pilot, the kids' father, Jake Barnes (Dirk Benedict) flies straight into a storm and crash lands into a mountain where he struggles to survive as his children look to find him.

It's amazing because even when the story is not revolving around the adventurous children, the scenery everywhere is so beautiful. This is one of the strong points of this film. Another key part to this movie is a polar bear cub that runs into the Barnes kids and ends up trying to help locate their dad. This bear cub always reminds me of the polar bears from those coke commercials. Besides of what I think it could belong to, he is very cuddly looking. I'm also curious to how director Fraser Heston was able to get this animal to cooperate. I'm sure it's not easy to tame a wild animal. This cub must have been pre-trained some how.

To make things even more interesting, poachers are on the move as well. Yes, there are other things on the hunt than the Barnes kids. So what are these guys looking for? If you're thinking the polar bear cub, you're absolutely right! So there are two conflicts here, Jesse and Sean have to find their father AND protect the bear cub from the dangerous poachers. The plot thickens!

Many times while watching this movie I was on the edge of my seat because there were many moments of tension. These kinds of situations are brought up when many of the characters are involved with heights. Because a lot of Alaska is made of mountains, many of the scenes in this movie include climbing up steep hills and sailing across cold running rivers. Some scenes can be really gripping due to the slightest movement a character makes on screen. It is that suspenseful.

Alaska is a wholesome adventure for both young and old. It's tale of courage and persistence is what keeps the audience watching from the scenic backgrounds to the most intense moments of conflict.

If you put A-team's Face, A future b-movie sex icon, and Ben-hur's. Ben-hur together, what do you have? the one and only Alaska.

6 months before, Jake barne's family had a great life in Chicago, until the fateful day that his wife died. then, he and his remaining family, Sean and Jessie Barnes, moved to Alaska to start a new life. while Sean is reluctant to the idea, the family moves anyways, and Sean immediately wants to return to the windy city.

so, Jake takes advantage of his pilot's license and becomes a bush pilot, while Jessie and Sean do whatever they feel like. So Jessie goes kayaking, dating a local native boy, and spends her time doing things a person in Alaska might do, while Sean spends his time playing street fighter: The movie arcade game at the local store. this is pretty much where the movie begins.

This movie, in my opinion, was very good. aside from a family that loved each other, it sported some awesome camera views and great scenery. unlike Grizzly mountain, which had next to no good acting or anything, except for scenery, this movie had decent acting. some parts were as cheesy as a pizza, but it was at least entertaining.

Unfortunately, i don't recall this movie being promoted as a classic or anything like that. which is disappointing because this movie is worthy of that, unlike some of the trash we're all fed these days that gets too much promotion.

and just like the cover says, it all leads up to a real cliffhanger. while other cliffhangers might make you laugh (Ultraviolet ring any bells?) this one will have you on the edge of your seat.

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.

This was my favorite excursion in Alaska. My pilot was fabulous and really knowledgable about the area.

Whether someone is looking for a simple trim or a complete hair transformation, Shear Magic is the go-to salon in Ketchican. With its highly skilled stylists, exceptional customer service, and inviting atmosphere, Shear Magic is truly a gem in the heart of Alaska..

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1. John - 1 star - I had a terrible experience at Shear Magic Ketchikan. The stylist did not listen to my requests and gave me a completely different haircut than what I asked for. She also seemed disinterested and rushed throughout the appointment. The salon itself was not well-maintained and the tools used looked outdated. I would not recommend this place to anyone looking for a quality haircut.

2. Sarah - 2 stars - I was disappointed with the service at Shear Magic Ketchikan. The stylist was not friendly and did not make me feel comfortable. She seemed more interested in gossiping with her colleagues than giving me the attention I deserved. The haircut itself was average at best, and I felt like I could have gotten a much better result elsewhere. Overall, I was not satisfied with my experience and would not return to this salon.

3. Michael - 1 star - My visit to Shear Magic Ketchikan was a complete waste of time and money. The stylist clearly did not have the skills or knowledge to handle my hair type. She struggled to handle the texture and ended up damaging my hair in the process. The salon was also quite dirty and unkempt. I left feeling frustrated and regretful of my decision to try this place. I will definitely not be going back.

4. Emily - 2 stars - I had high hopes for Shear Magic Ketchikan, but unfortunately, it fell short of my expectations. The stylist I had seemed inexperienced and unsure of what she was doing. I had to repeatedly ask her to fix mistakes she made during the haircut. The overall atmosphere of the salon was also lacking, with outdated decor and a lack of cleanliness. I left feeling underwhelmed and will be looking for a new salon in the future.

5. David - 1 star - Shear Magic Ketchikan was a disaster. The stylist cut my hair much shorter than I wanted and gave no attention to detail. It was clear she was rushing through the appointment and didn't care about the end result. The salon itself was also unclean and disorganized. I will never set foot in this place again.

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