Movie Info:Release Date: 14 August 1998 (USA)
Quality: DvdRip
Director: Richard Martin
Writers: Kevin DiCicco and Paul Tamasy.
Starring: Kevin Zegers, Cinthia Stevenson, Tim Conway,
Genre: Family, Sport, Comedy
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Review Oleh: Biday Roihan
Para penggermar film keluarga dan film-film disney pasti pernah nonton film yang satu ini. Bisanya memang sering diputar di stasiun TV swasta saat liburan sekolah atau momen-momen liburan keluarga lainya. Film ini memang cukup menyentuh. Sebuah kisah yang mengajarkan kepada kita dan anak-anak bagaimana mengasihi binatang.
Pada film ini Buddy si anjing ikut main Football bersama timnya Josh Framm (Kevin Zegers). Dan kisah serunyapun dimulai.
Film Disney tahun 2008 ini memang cukup sukses. dengan anggaran 'hanya' 4 juta dolar, film ini memperoleh pendapatan kotor 23.000.000 dolar amerika.
Selamat Nonton.
English Review
By Luke Bonanno
There were some obstacles. The real Buddy whose basketball antics had wowed audiences passed away in February 1998. His owner Kevin DiCicco, who had received credit for creating the character but not the percentage of profits he was promised, began prepping a lawsuit against Keystone. And yet, the cameras began rolling in the spring and Air Bud: Golden Receiver was still able to open in theaters in August, just one year after its predecessor's debut.
Air Bud's human protagonist, Josh Framm (Kevin Zegers of Transamerica and soon to be the Clyde to Hilary Duff's Bonnie), is now in the eighth grade. He still loves basketball, an interest he shares with Buddy, the stray golden retriever he adopted who became his teammate and an inspiration to his fictional town of Fernfield, Washington. But basketball was so 1997.
To avoid having to see his widowed mom (Cynthia Stevenson, replacing Wendy Makkena) cozying up with Buddy's new vet (Gregory Harrison), Josh joins the school football team alongside his pal Tom (Shayn Solberg).
From here, the film closely follows the original movie's plot. The Timberwolves are the laughingstock of the league and Josh overhears that the future of good-natured, always-eating Coach Fanelli (Robert Costanzo) depends on the team winning. Of course you know that Buddy, the dog that could shoot a basketball off his face, can also catch a football in his mouth and run with it. That's just the kind of thing the team needs and once Josh and his younger sister Andrea (Alyson MacLaren, the second of four actresses to hold the role) tailor a uniform to fit the canine, he's part of the team, no questions asked.
It is no spoiler to reveal that unstoppable Buddy's gridiron greatness helps turn the team around. But just as the State Finals game arrives out of nowhere, so too does conflict. Having walked in on his mom and her beau doing the unthinkable (proposing marriage), Josh runs away. Meanwhile, Buddy gets kidnapped by Russian circus performers Natalya ('80s "Saturday Night Live" comedienne Nora Dunn) and Popov (Perry Anzilotti), who see him as the main attraction they've been lacking. Forgive me for not mentioning this duo earlier; they're there peripherally from the start, providing broad physical comedy that dumbs down the film and makes Michael Jeter's performance as the original film's villainous clown look sophisticated.
The bumbling antagonists resurface again and again just when you're ready to declare Josh's dad replacement concerns and the football teamwork nearly adequate. The reused premise (athletic dog rights every wrong) is, once again, pretty stupid. But it's something you accept coming into the film
and the far-fetched fancy is far less egregious than what viewers have been subjected to in the hijinks of the popular recent "Buddies" spin-off movies about Buddy's speech-equipped puppies.
Grossing $10 million, Air Bud: Golden Receiver remained profitable, just not nearly as much as its forerunner. It would be the last theatrical release in the Disney/Keystone franchise, which would then live on in direct-to-video outings that tackled new sports through 2003. From 2006 on, the movies have turned to the next generation, ditching genuine sports for artificial talking to ridiculous financial success. That success is clearly the reason why Golden Receiver is revisited today. Its new Special Edition arrives a year after the original Air Bud's and in quite similar fashion.
P.S. Golden Receiver gives fairly prominent billing to a number of professional athletes of whom the film barely gives us glimpses. Among these are long-forgotten basketballers who spent the 1997-98 season playing for the then-new, since-relocated Vancouver Grizzlies: Blue Edwards, Lee Mayberry, Pete Chilcutt, George Lynch, Sam Mack, and Ivano Newbill. Hall of Fame NFL quarterback Warren Moon makes a strangely disjointed cameo in the closing moments along with his Seattle Superhawks wide receiver Joey Galloway. More meaningful to fans of showbiz: the championship game's commentators are played by Disney Legend Tim Conway and "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" co-host Dick Martin. Martin's son Richard, the second unit director on Air Bud, was promoted to director for this sequel, taking the reins from Charles Martin Smith.
