The Juror/Balto/White Squall/Nico Icon/French Twist

Gene Siskel - Host: I saw "Balto" about six weeks ago, and I haven't thought about it since, which is most unlike me for a good children's film.

Roger Ebert - Host: Well, I liked it, Gene. It's not in the category...

Gene Siskel - Host: Oh, no at all.

Roger Ebert - Host: ...Of the great animated films. Sure, the animation isn't at the Disney level.

Gene Siskel - Host: It ISN'T!

Roger Ebert - Host: But the story was interesting, the fact that they have to go and get this medicine, and he's got the evil dog you didn't even mention who's trying to set things up to blackmail him and make him look like the bad dog, when really, he's the hero...

Gene Siskel - Host: If...

Roger Ebert - Host: ...And the local kids who are involved in the whole story...

Gene Siskel - Host: Roger.

Roger Ebert - Host: ...And all of that stuff involving the ice and the snow and the cave they get caught in, kids will enjoy this movie!

Gene Siskel - Host: No, I don't know that to be true. If, IF it had been straight line on the adventure of it, and if it had been done in a different kind of drawing style, it could've been a rousing...

Roger Ebert - Host: There's nothing wrong with the drawing style!

Gene Siskel - Host: Oh excuse- you even said it yourself a few seconds ago! You said it's sketchy, it isn't at the level...

Roger Ebert - Host: No no no no, YOU said it's sketchy, I said it wasn't at the level of the Disney stuff.

Gene Siskel - Host: It isn't fully drawn.

Roger Ebert - Host: But it's, it's perfectly adequate to tell this story in an entertaining way.

Gene Siskel - Host: Boy, THERE'S a recommendation: "Adequate".

Roger Ebert - Host: No, Gene, just listen to me for a second.

Gene Siskel - Host: I have.

Roger Ebert - Host: This is a nice little children's adventure movie about a brave dog, and I liked it. Okay?

Gene Siskel - Host: When you have kids of your own, you won't send them to see "nice, little" ones, you'll want QUALITY.