YMMV / Never Cry Wolf

• Awesome Music: The entire score by Mark Isham. It was his film debut, and what a debut it was.
• Funny Moments:
  • The mouse-eating scene. From the sound effects of Tyler scooping the cooked mice out of the gravy, to the oh-so-delicate piano music evoking a fancy restaurant, to Charles Martin Smith's priceless expressions, the entire scene is comedy gold.
  • When Tyler has finally had enough of the mice constantly running around his hut and his tent, he goes on a tear trying to get them out. George and Angie watch on, their expressions suggesting they're thinking, "Oh dear, what is our weird neighbor up to now?"
  • When the wolf shows up at Tyler's tent and urinates on a small crate, Tyler's narration is nicely droll: "I didn't take it personally." Tyler realizes that the wolf is trying to negotiate their territory, so Tyler responds in kind, by drinking a lot of tea, marking the territory, and seeing if the wolf will agree. In other words, they're having a pissing contest.
• Moment of Awesome:
  • When Tyler first tries to hike out on a frozen lake to hunt for wolves, he makes a bad step and falls through the ice. He sinks to the bottom, thirty feet down, and when he tries to swim up, the hole where he fell through has already frozen over. It should have been a death sentence... but this nerdy tenderfoot has the mental and physical capacity to swim down thirty feet, grab his shotgun, swim back up, and use the gun to break through the ice. It's notable that after this, Tyler is no longer afraid of his surroundings.
  • The caribou hunt sequence. To this day, it is a jaw-dropping action scene. Also, Charles Martin Smith gets credit here; there was no stunt double. That was Smith running buck naked the wrong way through a stampeding herd of caribou.
  • When the prop of his plane is stuck, Rosie climbs out of the cockpit with a wrench, makes the necessary adjustments, and restarts the engine - all in mid-air and on the verge of colliding with a mountain. Rosie's unfazed reaction implies that it's something that he has to do routinely.
• One-Scene Wonder: Rosie actually gets two scenes (his appearance at the end of the film is brief), but he's a very colorful and memorable character.

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