What could Air Bud possibly have in common with The Batman and The Shining?
What if Bud tragically died at the beginning and this whole movie is a Jacob’s Ladder scenario?
1997’s Air Bud was, I thought, a canonical kids’ sports flick a la The Sandlot, The Big Green, Little Giants - par for the course with a dog thrown in.
My oh my, how wrong Colin and I were, to our surprise and delight.
Air Bud is a neat way to spend 90 minutes, especially as an adult. Or, if you were a childhood fan, reopen that old wound and find out how upsetting Michael Jeter (RIPD) can really be.
How is there a secret basketball garden? What is the original coache’s real damage? All these questions and more go completely unanswered as we comb the existential beach of b-ball, buddies, and boyhood.
