Random Movie #10: Air Buddies

And so it came to pass that, through random happenstance and Becky's willful inclusion of it in the bucket, we have seen one of Becky's "puppy movies:" the 2006 direct-to-dvd family comedy Air Buddies.  She was so insistently hung-ho for this movie that I couldn't even bribe her to remove it (I threatened to add Olympus Has Fallen, I offered to remove Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus).  It was inevitably going to happen, especially since she added NINE of them (Air Buddies, Treasure Buddies, Super Buddies, Santa Buddies, Spooky Buddies, Snow Buddies, Space Buddies, The Search for Santa Paws, Santa Paws 2: The Santa Pups), but that doesn't make it any easier to deal with.

After retiring from Basketball, Football, Soccer, Baseball and Volleyball, the famed Golden Retriever Air Bud settles down with the dog across the street and has a litter of pups.  But when the burden of raising Rosebud Budderball, Buddha, MudBud and B-Dawg becomes too much for the Framm family to bear, they are forced to break up the litter.  Not wanting to go to puppy foster care, they decide to run away from home.  A villainous group of exotic animal dealers, however, sees this as a $500,000 payday.

So... yeah.  This happened.

If you have any love for your children, you will give them a far better childhood than this sad Air Bud spin-off franchise has to offer.  You can identify the villain by his eye-patch and mangled German accent, so there's not really much more to say about it.  I give it a 2.5, even lower than Grave Encounters 2!  This puts it squarely in line with Bio-Dome, Dude, Where's My Car? and The Stupids.  Becky, who very obviously enjoyed this far more than I did, gave it a 5.