Simply A Masterpiece

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

In this fourth installment, Buddy goes for the baseball. And this time around Josh's little sister Andrea is Buddy's sports companion and friend. Don't get me wrong I loved Josh is the first three movies, but it is nice to have a change of main character and this time around it is a girl. Josh Framm has left his home for college, his little sister Andrea and his best friend Golden Retriever Buddy are not taking it to well, Josh makes Buddy promise to take care of Andrea and to watch over her. Which Buddy does just like a good friend should do. Andrea also starts Junior High and her first day turns out to be a disaster, eventually, she and one of her friends tries out for the school baseball team, her friend makes it, but Andrea is put on the team because her friend wants her on the team. Meanwhile a evil scientist and his assistant and a Robber Raccoon plan to steal Buddy's now grown up puppies for an evil experiment. Yes, it sounds cheesy. But it is very enjoyable and you have to use your imagination. The story had good morals such as friendship, never giving up and trying your best. The reason I give this fourth installment a 9 is because the sports announcer the one who was just a little goofy and overenthusiastic, went overboard, he was just a little to weird for my view and the dance he does at the end when the team wins, was laughable and hilarious, but a little bit creepy. I don't know if that was part of the script or something the actor put in. But other then the way to overenthusiastic announcer, the movie was great and I loved it my wife did too. 9/10 for Air Bud: Seventh Inning Fetch

Here we have yet another entry in the neverending "Air Bud" series and it's just boring and serves no purpose. This time Air Bud (or I guess Buddy) takes on baseball. The weirdest thing is that the plot of him playing it doesn't even appear until halfway through the movie. In a film that's relatively short, that can be a problem. There are these two henchman who want to capture Buddy and his offspring because they've found some sports gene in his body that makes people good at sports. This is a stupid plot point and it goes nowhere. They acknowledge that they're just henchmen.There must be some higher up and we never find out who that is. None of this has any reason to exist and it's the exact same as all the other movies. The film even ends with Buddy going to the World Series. Again, how did he get that far in his career? It's the same ending as the last one. Although this one had no farting in it, I'm still going to say it's worse then the third because it has no reason to exist and advances nothing. *1/2

These movies are great for little kids, but I think that they should've stopped after the first one because the ORIGINAL Air Bud passed away of cancer in the leg after the first movie came out. I am surprised that they actually had a sequel, let alone a 3rd one. I like the dog, but c'mon. They're showing things that are impossible. Kids watch these movies. What does this teach them? I know somebody who was like 7 when the movie came out. He threw a basketball on the top of his dog's head and it hurt his dog. In honor of the REAL Air Bud, they should've stopped after making the first one.

Air Bud 4 is the latest in the series about the sports-playing dog, Buddy. This time around, though, it's a little bit different. Instead of teaming up with his regular pal, Josh Framm (played by Kevin Zegers), Buddy teams up with Josh's younger sister, Andrea (played by Caitlin Wachs).Of all the Air Bud movies, I enjoyed this movie's plot the most. It focuses on Andrea and her many "problems": starting junior high school, her brother going away to college, her parents ignoring her in favor of the new baby, and her (at first) pathetic attempts at playing baseball. Unfortunately, Buddy is not as involved in the sports scenes as he was in the first three movies. He really doesn't even play until the near-end of the movie. This makes the pace of the movie a little slow at times. (It's also hard to accept that a dog can be a great baseball hitter.) Of course, being Disney, the movie is predictable and gives off warm fuzzies (which is not a bad thing). The subplot of the scientists is never really explored, which is a good thing; it would have ruined the movie. This is not a movie to rush out and rent/buy (unless you have a wife who loves Golden Retrievers, like mine), but it's a good film to watch when you have some time to spare. I recommend it for anyone who likes this series.