snowball express from the disney studio isn not quite as date a some of their output from this era . there be no hippy or hot rodders and just dull a dishwater dean jones inherit a ramshackle hotel or ski resort from a deceased relative . when jones and family pull into a sleepy colorado town and the folk who give them direction look like extra from deliverance be curiously vague about the hotel ( we expect it to look like a one room shanty ) and but actually the accommodation be very nice . jones teenage daughter have a sour look on her face throughout ( which doesn not prevent one of the local yahoo from leer at her ) and and of course clumsy pop dean jones be a regular stumblebum on the slope and lead to a lot of pratfall in the slush . perhaps this square scenario might have benefit from some magical whimsy and for this script be a frozen stiff . from .