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There is a movie called Space Buddies about a group of dogs who go into space, and this is that movie’s trailer, you guys (via Paul Scheer):
Yeeesssssssss, dog! I don’t really want to see this because as a 62-year-old man, straight-to-DVD Disney movies that capitalize on the popular Air Bud franchise no longer appeal to me. Sorry to be so weird about this. But this still looks really good. I am not joking. First of all, Space Buddies is probably the best movie title I have heard in a long time. I’m confident that if The Right Stuff had been named Space Buddies it wouldn’t have been robbed of the Best Picture Oscar in 1983, unless of course Terms of Endearment had been called Space Terms of Endearment, in which case the result probably would have been the same. Second of all, you cannot stay mad at puppy astronauts for long, even puppy astronauts who say “for shizzle, dog.” You can’t! Because they’re puppy astronauts! On a mission to EASE INTERNATIONAL TENSIONS, dog! Also, Amy Sedaris is somehow involved?
Pre-order it now, dog! Just kidding, dog! I could and will do this all day, dog!
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This is Spuds McKenzie’s “Wreslter”! You go dog!
Well, apparently this is the least necessary film on blu ray…
Best movie of 2009. I’m calling it now.
This movie looks unrealistic.
I’m sure Lindsay will see it with you, though.
I will defend Beverly Hills Chihauhua to the grave. That was the most enjoyable movie I’ve seen all year. Watch it! Or read reviews! Not videogum reviews, people-who-actually-saw-it reviews! It was great. It was kind of like, 50% a terrible movie, then also 50% AWARE that it was a terrible movie. The thing is, it’s not even a comedy at all. It’s a SERIOUS DRAMA starring small dogs. There are no jokes that fall flat, rather, it’s all just dramatic scenes spoken by poorly CGI’d dogs whose body language miss-matches the terrible plot. It’s amazing. BUT ALSO, it becomes growingly apparent that someone in the production process was aware of this badness and trying to sneak an intentional B movie thing by the higher ups. Whatever, it was amazing.
ALSO? It would be terrible if the dogs actually WERE computer generated, as they were in the ‘teaser’. But they’re not! The teaser has a bigger budget than the whole movie. The movie is like real dogs who are dog-saying one thing and people-saying another. It’s like LOLcats: The Movie.
a russian taking the first step on the moon? what is this treasonous revisionist history??
Also: Hover Dogs
The thing that confuses me most about this is that “The Buddies are back in an all new-movie.” Will I be missing out on key plot points if I haven’t seen the previous installments in the “…Buddies” series? Also, didn’t they make this movie last year, but it was called “Space Chimps”? Also, how many dog/dawg puns can they fit into one trailer? My head is reeling…
It’s rare that you see a movie that makes Plan 9 From Outer Space look like a big-budget movie. In fact, the narrator from the aforementioned Plan 9 now looks scarily prescient in his claim that: “future events such as these will happen to you… in the future!” With context, I have to believe that he was referring to terrible, low-budget space movies being made and not the contents of Plan 9′s “plot.”
this movie is outrageously far-fetched. are we to believe that PUPPIES can pilot a SPACESHIP through SPACE and LAND IT ON THE MOON? Ridiculous.
now, if they were fully grown dogs, like, say, Marmaduke, then the plot would at least be feasible. Marmaduke is old enough, that I, as a viewer, would think in the back of my head “oh, okay, he’s not a puppy, he’s been around for a while, he’s probably had time to at least get some pilot training in. he’s probably logged hundreds of hours in the sky and is completely qualified to be an astronaut.”
but the “buddies” completely suck the realism right out of this story.
Why don’t you marry it? Srsly, get a room.
Who wants to bet that this is better than both The Reader and Benjamin Button? (We already know it’s better than Revolutionary Road just because, well, it’s _not_ Revolutionary Road.)