Air Bud: Seventh Inning Fetch

With Josh off to college, Bud, the sporty dog, will be in Andrea's care and rock like the star of a baseball team. But such success can arouse the envy of many, and, in the middle of the championship, their puppies are kidnapped. Josh is off to his first year of college and Buddy has stayed behind with Josh's little sister Andrea and the rest of the family. Andrea, attempting to fit in with her Jr. High classmates, she decides to join the baseball team and along the way discovers that Buddy is a talented baseball player.

Now focused on Andrea, not very good at sports, arts and the like, and missing her brother who leaves for college, but didn't save much, I'm glad the franchise is ending, hehehe, looking forward to the end, cute, but more the same in all of them, predictable cuteness, with cute little dramas, just...

First off, it's about a dog that plays baseball. If this were set in the future, with maybe some ogres and robot men having a war against a giant Abraham Lincoln wearing a diaper, it would have been entertaining. In its current state, I hardly see how this could entertain its target audience, anybody younger than 6 years old. I watched it with my girlfriend's dad when we were both hungover and our headaches got worse!! This was atrocious, and the actors should be ashamed for having stooped so low as to dignify this movie's creation and release. THE DOG HITS A HOMERUN WITH A BASEBALL BAT IT HOLDS IN ITS MOUTH. ENOUGH SAID.

I think it would have been better if they made 3 more movies before this one, that way the 7th Air Bud movie would have had the word seven in it.

I give it 4 stars because it's only the 4th movie not the seven and that feels false advertising.

My one line summary is actually a quote from a 'Family Affair' web site, but it does reflect what made the biggest impression on me. Though Caitlin didn't show the talent she demonstrated, along with Tim Curry, in her TV series, she made Angela adorable and someone to care about. This, to me, was really a movie about a girl's adjustment to junior high, not a movie about a baseball-playing dog. The plot about the dog and his offspring--who a professor wanted to kidnap in order to create a 'superdog'--seemed secondary. Though the kidnap plot did add some excitement.

It was a funny and touching movie and good clean family fun. Well, not quite clean. Baseball players do get their uniforms dirty. Then there was that incident in Home Ec class. And let's not forget the hogs!

I would have never guessed. This movie might not be as bad as #3, but it's certainly getting there. Though the acting might be a little better in this movie...really, who wants to see another Air Bud? The magical thought that all of Air Bud's puppies can also play sports is just laughable. Although baseball is a great sport, it's a little strange (and totally fake) that a dog can really hold a metal baseball bat and not break all its teeth hitting the ball. Well, that's pretty much all I have to say...hmmm...I'll give it a 4 out of 10.