# Who here has seen at least 3 of the 14 (yes, 14) Air Bud movies? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 22, 2017, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-seen-at-least-3-of-the-14-yes-14-air-bud-movies/791861 "2017-07-22T02:51:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2017, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-seen-at-least-3-of-the-14-yes-14-air-bud-movies/791861/1 "2017-07-22T02:51:58Z")
If so, help us out in the [5 word movie review](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=714895) game thread! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2017, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-seen-at-least-3-of-the-14-yes-14-air-bud-movies/791861/2 "2017-07-22T04:35:07Z")
I’ve seen all but fourteen of them. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2017, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-seen-at-least-3-of-the-14-yes-14-air-bud-movies/791861/3 "2017-07-22T05:34:35Z")
Out of curiosity, is there continuity between the movies? Is it ostensibly the same dog throughout the series? If you offer a dog actor 1% of the gross, does he expect 7%? ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2017, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-seen-at-least-3-of-the-14-yes-14-air-bud-movies/791861/4 "2017-07-22T06:16:22Z")
I believe most of them are the “Buddies” movies, about puppies rather than the original dog. Unless those are unconnected and further sidequels. I have seen a grand total of none of them. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2017, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-seen-at-least-3-of-the-14-yes-14-air-bud-movies/791861/5 "2017-07-22T20:19:48Z")
Well, like I said in the game thread, they keep making them so SOMEbody is watching these things. ---
**Author:** ![Trancephalic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trancephalic/32/380_2.png) [@Trancephalic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trancephalic)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2017, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-seen-at-least-3-of-the-14-yes-14-air-bud-movies/791861/6 "2017-07-22T21:09:56Z")
There’s no rule that dogs can’t post on an internet forum ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-seen-at-least-3-of-the-14-yes-14-air-bud-movies/791861/7 "2017-07-23T01:19:39Z")
I’m not sure I can help, but I’m sure I saw at least two with the main dog on Disney Channel (basketball and volleyball), and I own Santa Buddies. (It was cheap, and I wanted cheesy Christmas movies.) First group would just be “No rule dog’s can play” and the latter would be “Santa’s dog’s son saves Christmas.” ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-seen-at-least-3-of-the-14-yes-14-air-bud-movies/791861/8 "2017-07-23T05:49:42Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > Well, like I said in the game thread, they keep making them so SOMEbody is watching these things. On the internet, nobody knows you watch dog movies. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-seen-at-least-3-of-the-14-yes-14-air-bud-movies/791861/9 "2017-07-23T05:50:23Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > I’m not sure I can help, but I’m sure I saw at least two with the main dog on Disney Channel (basketball and volleyball), and I own Santa Buddies. (It was cheap, and I wanted cheesy Christmas movies.) > > First group would just be “No rule dog’s can play” and the latter would be “Santa’s dog’s son saves Christmas.” Gimme a brief synopsis of the plot, or how it made you feel, even if over 5 words. I’ll try and distill it down to 5 for you if you don’t want to play the game. I \*could \* Just look it up on wiki or imdb, but We’d prefer the words/thoughts of someone who has seen them, even if it’s from a mostly stranger on the internet. Instead of a complete stranger, anyway… Of course I don’t blame you if you’d rather not think about those particular movies ever again. I can’t imagine they were…my type of movie. ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2017, 9:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-seen-at-least-3-of-the-14-yes-14-air-bud-movies/791861/10 "2017-07-23T09:16:10Z")
There are 24 Air Bud movies. [http://www.airbud.com/films/](http://www.airbud.com/films/) My son has seen several. He went through a phase and they were all on Netflix or something. ---
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2017, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-seen-at-least-3-of-the-14-yes-14-air-bud-movies/791861/11 "2017-07-25T05:01:42Z")
At some point, you know they’re going to be making _Air Buddies: I Know, I Know, But Curling Is The Only Sport We Hadn’t Gotten Around To Yet_. And, somehow, it will sell just fine. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2017, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-seen-at-least-3-of-the-14-yes-14-air-bud-movies/791861/12 "2017-07-25T05:26:36Z")
> [@snfaulkner](#): > > Gimme a brief synopsis of the plot, or how it made you feel, even if over 5 words. I’ll try and distill it down to 5 for you if you don’t want to play the game. I \*could \* Just look it up on wiki or imdb, but We’d prefer the words/thoughts of someone who has seen them, even if it’s from a mostly stranger on the internet. Instead of a complete stranger, anyway… > > Of course I don’t blame you if you’d rather not think about those particular movies ever again. I can’t imagine they were…my type of movie. You misunderstand. Maybe I was unclear. I gave my five word plot summaries. “No Rule Dog’s Can’t Play” covers all the main _Air Bud_ movies. And then “Santa’s dog’s son saves Christmas” is the plot of _Santa Buddies_. (Though, admittedly, it was Santa’s dog’s son’s fault in the first place that Christmas needed saving.) What I am unsure about is how I can play now that I’ve given away what movies I’m referencing. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2017, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-seen-at-least-3-of-the-14-yes-14-air-bud-movies/791861/13 "2017-07-25T12:02:56Z")
I haven’t seen any of them. However, we actually own most of the **Land Before Time** movies – at least the ones until MiliCal got to old to care about them. But there are only 14 of those. > **[Amazon.com: Land Before Time: The Complete Collection : Don Bluth, Roy Allen...](https://www.amazon.com/Land-Before-Time-Complete-Collection/dp/B00EDQCIGG)** > > Amazon.com: Land Before Time: The Complete Collection : Don Bluth, Roy Allen Smith, Charles Grosvenor: Movies & TV > **[The Land Before Time](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Land_Before_Time_(franchise))** > > The Land Before Time is an American animated film series and media franchise created by Judy Freudberg and Tony Geiss, distributed by Universal Pictures and centered on dinosaurs. The series began in 1988 with the eponymous The Land Before Time, directed and produced by Don Bluth and executive produced by George Lucas and Steven Spielberg. It was followed by 13 direct-to-video musical sequels, a TV series, video games, soundtracks, and related merchandising. Neither the sequels nor the series inv... ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2017, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-seen-at-least-3-of-the-14-yes-14-air-bud-movies/791861/14 "2017-07-25T15:35:22Z")
> [@tnetennba](#): > > There are 24 Air Bud movies. > > [http://www.airbud.com/films/](http://www.airbud.com/films/) > > My son has seen several. He went through a phase and they were all on Netflix or something. Actually if you look at the individual frranchise lists, there are 5 Air Bud Movies, 9 Air Buddies movies, 4 MVP movies (starring a chimp), 2 Pup Star movies, and 4 classified as “other”. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2017, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-seen-at-least-3-of-the-14-yes-14-air-bud-movies/791861/15 "2017-07-25T15:45:19Z")
I have never even heard of these. Was I sleeping under a rock? No, seriously, how well known is this franchise? ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2017, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-seen-at-least-3-of-the-14-yes-14-air-bud-movies/791861/16 "2017-07-25T20:58:03Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > I have never even heard of these. Was I sleeping under a rock? No, seriously, how well known is this franchise? I would say it’s very well known, yet seldom seen unless you have a child. The point of the movie is “dog (usually a golden retreiver) does human sport” and they’ve covered most of them. I want to say the reason it’s even called “Air Bud” is because the first movie was about basketball. ---
**Author:** ![snfaulkner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snfaulkner/32/433_2.png) [@snfaulkner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snfaulkner)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2017, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-seen-at-least-3-of-the-14-yes-14-air-bud-movies/791861/17 "2017-07-25T21:27:12Z")
> [@BigT](#): > > You misunderstand. Maybe I was unclear. I gave my five word plot summaries. “No Rule Dog’s Can’t Play” covers all the main _Air Bud_ movies. And then “Santa’s dog’s son saves Christmas” is the plot of _Santa Buddies_. (Though, admittedly, it was Santa’s dog’s son’s fault in the first place that Christmas needed saving.) > > What I am unsure about is how I can play now that I’ve given away what movies I’m referencing. Oh! duh! :smack: Oh well. We’ve already moved past the Air Bud hangup in the game. I encourage everyone to come play with us! ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2017, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-seen-at-least-3-of-the-14-yes-14-air-bud-movies/791861/18 "2017-07-25T22:10:41Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > I would say it’s very well known, yet seldom seen unless you have a child. > > The point of the movie is “dog (usually a golden retreiver) does human sport” and they’ve covered most of them. I want to say the reason it’s even called “Air Bud” is because the first movie was about basketball. Hmm. I have kids 3 and 1, but apparently they haven’t been exposed to it yet. I know Paw Patrol and Chuggington and Maisy Mouse, but we haven’t gotten to Air Bud yet, apparently. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2017, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-seen-at-least-3-of-the-14-yes-14-air-bud-movies/791861/19 "2017-07-25T22:30:15Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > I have never even heard of these. Was I sleeping under a rock? No, seriously, how well known is this franchise? Air Bud had a theatrical release 20 years ago. It made a decent profit. The sequel was a failure. All the others were straight to DVD. The were also shown on the Disney Channel from time to time. If you didn’t have kids of the right age there was no reason for you to know about them. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2017, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-seen-at-least-3-of-the-14-yes-14-air-bud-movies/791861/20 "2017-07-25T22:33:36Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Hmm. I have kids 3 and 1, but apparently they haven’t been exposed to it yet. I know Paw Patrol and Chuggington and Maisy Mouse, but we haven’t gotten to Air Bud yet, apparently. Yeah your kids are too young. 5-10 is probably about right. There is no reason for them to be exposed to the franchise unless they run it on Disney. The first one was loosely based on a true story about a dog that could shoot baskets. It got worse and worse. The Buddies talked. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-here-has-seen-at-least-3-of-the-14-yes-14-air-bud-movies/791861.md?page=2)