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DokBrowne [ 0.0 ]
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There are only 2 quasi-likable things about movie -- Buddy the dog and Bill Cobbs (who plays the benevolent school janitor-turned-coach), because both seem innocent and not as full of sarcasm, meanness, or exhausted intolerance that the rest of the grating cast is. Buddy and Cobbs, alone among everyone else in the movie, seem to be having a good time...the rest of the cast bury themselves in horribly idiotic dialogue, annoying behavior, and the worst of the worst cliches. In fact, cliches are so abundant in this short 97 minutes that screenwriters Paul Tamasy and aaron Mendelsohn and director Charles Martin Smith (yes, he of "American Graffiti" and "Never Cry Wolf") deserve mention for having spent so much time researching how to be unoriginal. This movie should be seen twice just to see how many of the 100-or-so tired situations, lines, physical stunts, and plot devices you missed the first time (just a quick flashback -- embarassing mom, evil coach, bully player and his bully dad who switch sides and face off with our junior hero in the final game, the final game itself, the outcome of final game, the falling-on-a-huge-cake sight gag, the climactic court case, the outcome of climactic court case -- cliche-within-a-cliche there, because the judge's decision (which is so predictable it may cause heart burn) is determined by the hopelessly aggravating convention of having the custody-torn subject choose who it wants to live with by running to that person (which doesn't make sense here because Buddy stalls a long time, and even considers going to dastardly former owner Snively, despite hating him and obviously loving that jerk kid); everything else that isn't a direct cliche is cringingly implausible anyway -- after Buddy bounces a ball on his nose for the first time (of several increasingly boring dozen) with the dumbass hero, they immediately start playing an energetic game as if they were best pals, etc. Oh yeah, and the young hero certifies what a son of a bitch he is when he goes through the mid-film conflict cliche of having to set Buddy free in tears, resorting to anger to get Buddy to go for his own good. What ruins this trite-by-definition scene is that the movie makes this scene very very sad, and they actually succeed at something this time, making me feel sincerely bad for Buddy, except for the presence of that stupid little freak, who tries to makes us feel bad for HIM by crying; uuggghh...
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RiderOfRohan [ 6.0 ]
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I definitely did not like this movie. I mean c'mon a dog owned by an outrageous clown who knows how to play basketball, what next rugby. I give this plot a kick in the dariair, or however you spell it. I preffered just about every other movie.
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| Weighted Rating | : 4.4 |
| No. Ratings | : 7 | |
| No. Reviews | : 5 | |
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