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| IMDB Rating: | 3.9 out of 10 (304 votes) |
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- One Small Step For Dog. One Giant Leap For Dogkind.
Visitor Reviews
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Missed It;s Bark posted on 31 August 2009
This was the worst buddies movie. It was a complete waste of my money. As an owner of all the bud and buddies movies it makes me wonder what they were thinking?
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Space Buddies - the whole Buddies franchise, well it's fun, and it has worn out it's welcome in some ways. A thirteen year old says, yep it was an OK movie (he did laugh a number of times), but it wasn't really that good. Here's dad's take, the earlier versions were better, a bit more engaging, a bit funnier.
There's a lot less dog moving mouth and talking scenes in this one. The CG on the moon, well it's really downright bad. It actually looks like a person with a Macintosh and a couple of hours could have done much better. A ferret talks the dogs back to earth. Nothing about the film is real or believeable, but it's entertainment, so a person can suspend reality for a while.
Daumer from Coach days is the head dunderhead owner of Vision rocket company. And there's a Robert Downey Jr. wanna be that is the villan. The other characters were filler Disney characters. The kids were, as usual chez Disney, cute and smarter than the adults.
It's a pleasant, decently fun movie to watch for an hour and 20 minutes. There's no real rewatch value. Definately PG, and appropriate for just about everyone. There's a moment when the Russian space ship burns up, and it looks like the Cosmonaut (Diedrich Bader from The Drew Carey Show) will burn with it. However, he gets in an escape pod and is launched away. He also drinks some clear liquid and gets very happy. But it's also possible that was water and he was happy because of the music played and his dancing. By the way, Bader is not exactly terribly believeable as a Russian. His accent comes and goes frequently.
All in all, a pleasant movie to watch on a Saturday evening in March where huge snowflakes are unseasonally falling. Kids will enjoy this. Parents will not be annoyed by it. And everyone will get a laugh or two here and there all in a good healthy manner.
The DVD has a bloopers reel as bonus feature. -
Space Buddies is a wonderful family movie. My children love all the "dog" movies,and we do have them all.This one, by far, has been their favorite. They are already watching for the next one. The antics that the dogs go through are so cute and make you laugh over and over again. The language is good, which is a must,and makes for a wonderful family event.You will love it!
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Children's fare has changed from what I enjoyed as a kid. For me, animated talking turtles slinging one liners and nun chucks sufficed; if you believe Disney's Space Buddies, today's tikes require a more advanced form of talking animal. Apparently, the bar has been raised. If you consider Labradors with CGI enhanced mouths as raising the bar.
A quintet of "talking" Labradors find themselves launched into space after the field trip of their child owners becomes more participatory than originally planned. Rosebud the lone female, B-Dawg the obnoxious gangsta' talkin' puppy, Buddha the sublimely at peace leader dog, Butterball the thickheaded and diabetes-bound dog and Mudbud, the compulsive mud rolling puppy form the quintet which quickly becomes a sextet after lodging with the abandoned USSR space station after an in flight malfunction where the meet the resident mutt, Spudnik. Get it? Witty, I know. After a catastrophic departure from the space station the dog pack finds their way to the moon and finally back to Earth - but not without oodles of pulse-pounding excitement.
What truly bewilders me about Space Buddies is the dialogue. The target audience, assuming talking dogs have a target audience, can't be older than 7 or 8 - and yet the dialogue seems slanted towards really immature, albeit stupid, high-schoolers. The language used seems just slightly out of the grasp of your typical child. The entire time I listened to B-Dawg - who I'd put down in a second if given the option - the more I came to resent the 10 one-liners a minute structure of the Space Buddies script. The funny thing about all of this is that the target audience of 7 or 8 isn't really watching Space Buddies for the dialogue. Ironic considering the animators went through such lengths to animate their mouths, but the child who will draw any delight from Space Buddies will be of the age where the only thing necessary to keep their attention is the presence of 6 puppies (and a ferret...voiced by Amy Sedaris of all people) romping around on the screen.
Really, any and all dialogue is extraneous beyond the mere presence of puppies in space suits. I mean really, what more could your 7 year-old ask for?
Of the human actors in Space Buddies, of which there are about 10 who stay on screen, there are only 3 worth mentioning for keeping Space Buddies entertaining. First we have Kevin Weisman who plays the semi-villainous Dr. Finkel who, for some unknown reason, wants the Vision Space Expedition to go wrong. Why? We don't really know, but it doesn't matter. Kevin Weisman is an interesting enough actor that we tolerate pretty much whatever he does on screen without question. Then we have Diedrich Bader (whom you'll remember from the Drew Carey Show) who plays the lonely and slightly puppy-crazed cosmonaut aboard the ill-fated space station. While his one-liners are just as bad as any delivered by the gangster puppy, his entire presence in the movie seems tinged with an air of self-deprecation that makes Bader so much fun. He knows he's in a kiddie flick about talking dogs - but he doesn't care. Good for him. Finally we have the combo of Lochlyn Munro and Ali Hillis who as a command center team come together to pretty much form an entire character. These two, of all the cast, seemed to be having the most fun (not counting Bader).
As far as kiddie fare goes Space Buddies is a mixed bag. As previously noted its content makes it hard to determine its exact demographic. There's a definite age where the novelty of dogs with computer enhanced mouths just doesn't cut it but at the same time there's a minimum age where the one-liners and quips of the entire cast begin to appeal. It's as if to elongate, as much as possible, the appeal of Space Buddies they took a specifically 4-6 year old gimmick and bolstered it with dialogue to make it more appealing to an age group maybe 3 or 4 years older than that.
Blu-Ray Extra Features:
Bloopers:
Okay, now I know what you're thinking - anything more than physical mistakes made by the puppies aren't really bloopers but rather planned little comedic bits to pad the Extra Features reel. And you're right - but if we accepted bloopers from Toy Story and other animated Disney movies we've created precedence which says that we're willing to laugh at fake bloopers. With that precedent in mind, Disney gave us the reel of Space Buddies bloopers which are additional takes on a few scenes wherein the puppies' lack of or boon of enthusiasm is manipulated to comedic effect.
Backstage Disney:
Disneypedia: The Buddies Guide to Space Travel:
The voices of the puppies take us on a behind the scenes tour of Space Buddies to explain some of the science behind space travel and the special effects used in creating the movie. While actually interesting in the parts where they discuss the history of space travel, a good thing for kids to learn, it does mean you'll have to listen to more B-Dawg spouting lingo overly infused with pop-culture references.
Buddy Facts
This might be the best way to watch Space Buddies. Playing the normal movie, Buddy Facts will pipe in every now and then with little pop-up video style notes about the actors, space facts, etc. Definitely the better way to watch the movie - especially if the adults are going to sit through it with the chitlins.
Games & Activities: Buddy Finder
Like Budy Facts, Buddy Finder offers an alternative way to enjoy the Space Buddies movie by turning the viewing experience into a game of iSpy. With a list of 100 things to spot during the movie, Buddy Finder requires the viewer to press the remote whenever they spot one of the listed items in the movie. Again, for the adult watching the movie with their child this will help keep the interest.
"Dancing in the Moonlight" Music Video by Alyson Stoner
No one creates their own celebrities like Disney does. Pimping Alyson Stoner (who I'd never heard of before) and her rendition of "Dancing in the Moonlight" along with clips of the movie, Disney has found the perfect mechanism for creating brand awareness in your kids at an early age. The music video is harmless fun with surprisingly innocent dancing (compared to the norm of today).
As I've said Space Buddies crosses interesting territory by employing the adolescent-aimed talking puppy gimmick alongside dialogue that would typically be aimed at an older crowd. In this way it's hard for me to tell you exactly how well your 9 or 10 year old will respond - and for all I know there are a few tweenagers who'd bite for this material - I don't know. But for all intents and purposes it's mediocre children's fare. You could do better with 90% of Disney's classic library - but if they have a hankering for talking puppies...well that's a hard niche to fill.
I think it's a universally accepted principle that the world feels bad for animals forced to wear costumes. But maybe, just maybe, some gangster-talkin' puppies deserve such treatment. -
The kids liked this film. Garden variety animal movie, predictable plot.
Negatives:
1) The blu-ray quality was horrible in scenes that were dark. Very grainy picture quality.
2) As an adult, this movie was basically unwatchable.
The kids loved it, which I would expect is the only criteria anyone who is buying this movie would care about. Save your money and buy the non-blu-ray version. Kids who would enjoy this movie wouldn't care about the "blu-ray" quality. -
This was way better than I thought it would be from the tentative reviews. It's just as good as most recent live action Disney movies, and better than some. It's also got just as good casting, just as good sets, voice acting, props, and, taking into account that it's for kids, story line.
The humans have names like Pi, Slats, and Astro; the dogs have names like Buddha, Rosebud, and MudBuddy. The Russian pitbull is named Spudnik (clever, clever!). Pi, the head spacecraft designer, stutters. Besides the five golden retriever puppies and the pit bull, the other hero is Pi's ferret pal, Gravity. Not your basic space show.
Watching the antics of these cute puppies will have your kids (or you) hitting pause on the remote (or is that paws?). The spaceship design is a cross between the shuttle and the SR 71, the most future forward looking plane ever designed. I can't wait for the ride at Disneyland. Will the kennels now have an astronaut theme?
The extras include a video of Alyson Stoner singing a classic rock, tune, "Dancing in the Moonlight", insterspersed with puppy clips from the film; The Buddies' Guide to Space Travel, with footage of astronauts from John Glenn to Buz Aldrin, narrated by the Buddies; coming attraction trailers; and the best, the Buddy Bloopers. These are funny outtakes with the dogs commenting on their faux pas (fore paws?) and the director yelling "cut".
The original price was through the roof, but Amazon brings this out of this world family comedy down to earth. Rated G for Grrrrrreat. -
Version: U.S.A / BVHE-Walt Disney / Region A
Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
MPEG-4 AVC BD-50 / AACS / High Profile 4.1
Running time: 1:24:01
Feature size: 19,70 GB
Disc size: 28,15 GB
Total bit rate: 31.28 Mbps
Average video bit rate: 25.80 Mbps
DTS-HD Master Audio English 3778 kbps 5.1 / 48 kHz / 3778 kbps / 24-bit (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48 kHz / 1509 kbps / 24-bit)
Subtitles: English SDH
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Okay, this is clearly a childrens movie, and I'm sure the 50th time I have to watch it, my head will explode. But my kids (4 and 2) loved it enough to actually sit down and be quiet for about 80 minutes. Underlying messages of teamwork and "never leave a man behind." Ignore the preposterous premise and use the time to do something exciting like wash the dishes or fold laundry.
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Oh come on! Who can't resist cute little puppies in cute little space suits? posted on 31 August 2009
Over the last year or so, we've seen chimps, houseflies and robots in space, so why not the Buddies? Another in a series of modestly produced family comedies starring cute adorable puppies, Space Buddies pretty much delivers on its title.
First we meet all the cute puppies and their owners (the puppies' voices are furnished by skilled young actors, including Liliana Mumy, daughter of Lost in Space legend Bill Mumy. How do they find themselves near rockets? They stowaway on a school field trip. How do they get those precious little doggie space suits? A special spacesuit-making device that just happens to require no dexterity for its operation. And how do they manage to blast off? That would be telling.
The human story angles rest upon the shoulders of Bill Fagerbakke, playing with as much conviction as he can muster a aeronautic scientist -- a switch from his roles on Coach or Spongebob Squarepants. For plot reasons, he keeps a pet ferret in his shirt pocket (I don't want to spoil the ending, but it has something to do with Amy Sedaris).
Diedrich Bader, who specializes in spaced-out eccentrics and, like Fagerbakke, has a fine career in voice acting (he even narrates Disney CD read-alongs) plays a deluded Russian cosmonaut who just happens to be accompanied by a cute Russian puppy voiced by Jason Earles, whose fearless physical comedy is a highlight of Hannah Montana.
According to a recent Bonnie Hunt Show, there's a pet shelter in Los Angeles that makes prospective owners agree never to dress their dogs if they adopt them. Maybe they can manage to resist the urge by watching the little Space Buddies' tails wag in the space costumes in this film. And stay tuned, Santa Buddies is coming soon! Arf! -
Space Buddies is an adorable movie. Of course it is aim towards younger kids but I am an adult and I enjoyed it. It's a great family movie. If you like the air bud/air buddies movies then I think you'll like this one as well.
Short Summary: The buddies follow their owners on a school field trip to the space station where they are going to launch a space shuttle on the moon. The buddies are curious to see the space shuttle up close so they decide to go on the shuttle. All of a sudden the shuttle launches and they are launched into space. Now the buddies have to try to get back home while they still can and they get help from their new friend Sputnik. Buy/rent this movie to see if the buddies and their new friend Sputnik can make it home to their owners.
Will the buddies be the first puppies to walk on the moon??
Don't forget to check out Space Buddies. I don't think you will be dissapointed. Space Buddies is well worth the $13 I paid for it. -
Well, they won't be winning any prestigious film honors, but the "Buddy" movies are great for young kids. The storylines are easy to follow and focus on family and teamwork. You can safely let them watch without worrying that something is going to scar them for life.
Although I prefer different fare for myself, the little ones in my life will dig these cute, talking puppies. -
An unlikely story of 5 dogs who stow aboard a space shuttle, take a trip to a space station to pick up a Russian dog, land on the moon, then pilot the ship safely back to earth and their loving masters. It's what you would expect in a movie like this: action enough for older kids, comedy and cheese enough for younger ones. Clean fun.
The highest praise I can give it is that my children loved it and I wasn't bored (the first time.) Recommended for children of all ages.