Space Buddies

Author: Your Dirty Uncle | Category: Review | Comments: 0 | Uploaded: 08/24/2009 12:08 am

Introduction
SPOILER ALERT: All the dogs end up safe at home.

Let us begin by announcing that there will be SPOILERS in this review. If you require a spoiler alert for Space Buddies, you’d likely need one before watching footage of the moon landing [We land safely! -- Editor.] or the Zapruder tapes [“Back, and to the left. Back, and to the left.” --O. Stone].

We wish thank our valued colleague, E.B. (“Enricola Braklotvowitz”), whose seminal review of Ms. Montana’s film we draw dark inspiration from more often than we admit. We also wish to thank Mr. QC himself, for choosing this wonderful title.

Summary
From our preliminary research,it appears that Space Buddies is but the latest film in a long tradition of Disney liveaction films to feature talking dogs. Armed with the information that the talking dog live action genre was still ripe with potential, we prepared to watch this film with the anticipation that accompanies high expectations.

We were not disappointed.

Disney chose to breeze through the character and story introductions, we suspect, because space-travel is very time consuming. The “space buddies” are either five cute elementary-aged schoolchildren or their five super-cute puppies. Like all great films, Space Buddies exhibits a nuanced and multi-layered quality, plausibly entertaining a wide range of interpretations.

The space buddies are:

  1. Sam, the leader and biggest astro-wannabe of the bunch. His dog is named Buddha for no apparent reason.


  2. Pete, a quiet boy who will almost certainly grow up to be a serial killer, has a dog named MudBud.


  3. Bartleby is what the Enlish would describe as a “tosser.” A less charitable person might ask why his mother hates him so; the boy wears a bow tie for God’s sake. His gassy canine sidekick is named Budderball.


  4. The only girl of the bunch, Allison, rages against the patriarchy by blogging on Feministing.com with her dog bell hooks. Oh, if it were only so; her dog is named Rosebud.


  5. Lastly, we have the “bad boy” of the group Billy. He's "bad" in the same way Al Roker is "bad." His dog is named B-Dawg and he will be the first retarded astro-dog to ever walk on the moon.

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