

Cruge brings Tiny over to the child who has been asking for a puppy as a Christmas present and Tiny herself says her goodbye to the Buddies and Puppy Paws. The reindeer are not able to fly, and Puppy Paws and the Buddies volunteer to save Christmas ( it is revealed the Buddies remembered what Shasta taught them).
#Santa buddies free
Eddy becomes free from the pound and changes Cruge.With help fom an elf named Eli (Danny Woodburn), Christmas spirit returns, the Christmas Icicle stops melting, and the North Pole is back in business, with Puppy Paws and the Buddies making it to the North Pole. With Tiny and Eddy still in the pound, the elf dog speaks to Cruge that he knows the dog catcher always wanted a puppy for Christmas, but his mother was allergic to dogs and never got one, which made Cruge hate Christmas and become a dog catcher. There, Puppy Paws meets a puppy named Tiny (Kaitlyn Maher) who is wishing for a Christmas miracle and sings a song about miracles, which teaches Puppy Paws himself about the true meaning of Christmas.The Buddies, along with an elf dog named Eddy ( Richard Kind), have come to the rescue. Stan Cruge ( Christopher Lloyd) and takes him to the pound. Suddenly, Puppy Paws gets dognapped by a dog catcher named Mr. But, they learn that Puppy Paws isn't hurting them as they are hurting themselves and decide to treat him with compassion.

#Santa buddies crack
However, Sniffer (Tim Conway) replies that Christmas is about giving and a holiday they must learn to respect.The Christmas Icicle makes a big crack and shuts off the power at the North Pole and makes the reindeer weak and powerless (earlier before he left the North Pole, Puppy Paws stares at the icicle stating "I wish Christmas would just disappear" causing it to crack).Puppy Paws makes it to Fernfield to find Budderball in his home and Budderball himself introduces Puppy Paws to his brothers and sister and the North Pole puppy causes trouble to each of the Buddies: Budderball gets framed for eating the gingerbread cookies as he tries to get back on the nice list, B-Dawg gets beaten by Puppy Paws at dancing who even breaks a vase, Mudbud teaches Puppy Paws to roll in the dirt, and unaware not to shake dirt out of his fur in the living room, he makes holiday shapes of the dirt spots causing Mudbud to wear a cover-up coat for the rest of the day, Rosebud gets an extreme Christmas makeover, and Buddha's medidation statue gets turned into a snowman as Puppy Paws explains that the snowman is "what citizens of the North Pole medidate in front of".Therefore, due to the incidents, the Buddies want Puppy Paws to leave.
#Santa buddies how to
The movie begins at the North Pole with Santa Claus (George Wendt) and his dog Santa Paws (Tom Bosley) taking a look at the magical Christmas Icicle, which is melting because of nobody believing in Christmas anymore and if it continues to melt, Christmas will be gone forever.Puppy Paws (Zachary Gordon) is the fun-loving son of Santa Paws who gets tired of the North Pole and finds Budderball on Santa's naughty list for eating the Thanksgiving turkey and figures he's just the dog to show him how to be an ordinary puppy.The film then moves forward to The Buddies (Field Cate, Liliana Mumy, Josh Flitter, Skyler Gisondo, Ty Panitz) in Fernfield, who also don't have any Christmas spirit, believe that their father is Santa Paws and that the naughty list is a way to scare them to behave. If you see this on the shelf, keep walking, playa.Santa Buddies: The Legend of Santa Paws (previously titled Santa Buddies: The Search for Santa Paws and simply titled Santa Buddies as shown in the movie's opening credits) is a 2009 film, and the fourth installment of the Air Buddies film series. I think the only attraction for the kids is talking dogs no matter what is going on. But I don't like the characters nor the story.įinally, the story and dog personality seems to have jumped around too much for my kids (3 and 6) to appreciate what was really going on. COME ON! Do they really need to inject that into a movie that is undoubtedly going to be watched mostly by kids 6 and under? It's hard enough helping kids keep hold of their magical imaginations with all of the media they are exposed to already a Disney G movie should not be making it more difficult.Īre the kids going to be scarred for life? No.

In this particular movie they plant the seed of "Santa's not real, it's just Dad in a red suit" in the first scene with the puppies.

You'd think Disney could find writers with more imagination and depth than that. Using stereotypical personalities for each of the dogs is the ultimate in laziness and one dimensionality of character. I'm not a fan of any of these dog "Buddies" movies.
