Movie Review: Santa Buddies

Santa Buddies 

Starring: George Wendt, Christopher Lloyd, Danny Woodburn, Quinn Lord, Ryan Grantham, Andrew Astor, Sophia Ludwig, Gig Morton, Craig Anton, Michael Teigen with voice cast: Zachary Gordon, Tom Bosley, Tim Conway, Josh Flitter, Liliana Mumy, Ty Panitz, Field Cate, Skyler Gisondo, Richard Kind, Kaitlyn Maher, Chris Coppola 

Director:  Robert Vince 

Walt Disney Home Entertainment, Keystone Entertainment, Key Pix Productions, Santa Buddies Productions, USA, Canada 2009. 

Christmas icicle is melting and magic is disappearing because the kids are getting selfish. Santa Claus (George Wendt) and Santa Paws are worried. Puppy Paws must soon show the next generation the importance of Christmas spirit. However Puppy Paws is more interested in flying with Santa's sleigh. He is also a prankster. His father Santa Paws is disappointed. Puppy Paws wants to be just an ordinary dog. 

Santa Claus and Santa Paws

Puppy Paws

Meanwhile in Fernfield the Buddies B-Dawg, MudBud, Rosebud, Budderball and Buddha aren't feeling the Christmas Spirit. Deputy Sniffer tells that there is more in Christmas than just getting presents, giving and helping is more important. Dog catcher Stan Cruge (Christopher Lloyd) catches some stray dogs. After seeing Budderball on the Naughty list, Santa Paws decides it would be nice to meet some normal puppies. 

Deputy Sniffer and the Buddies

B-Dawg

Dog catcher Stan Cruge

Santa's head elf Eli (Danny Woodburn) goes to get the mail from children. Santa Paws hides in the mail van and travels to Fernfield. Meanwhile Santa's workshop suffers from various types of malfunction. Puppy Paws meets the Buddies and messes things up. Eventually he gets captured by Stan Cruge. The Buddies must learn the meaning of Christmas spirit and rescue Santa Paws and restore Christmas magic. 

Tiny the dog

Eli supervising Christmas operations

This is a quite formulaic movie that is good for kids. Nice Christmas story but with quite little to offer for grownups. Except for cute doggies. And the rapper dog was fun too. 

Rating: Average