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| Santa Buddies | |
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 The UK cover of the DVD | |
| Directed by | Robert Vince |
| Produced by | Robert Vince Anna McRoberts |
| Starring | Zachary Gordon Josh Flitter Tom Bosley George Wendt Quinn Lord Christopher Lloyd Danny Woodburn Tim Conway Liliana Mumy Ty Panitz Field Cate Skyler Gisondo Richard Kind Kaitlyn Maher |
| Music by | Brahm Wenger |
| Distributed by | Walt Disney Pictures |
| Release dates |  November 2, 2009 November 24, 2009 |
| Running time | 89 minutes |
| Countries | Template:FilmUS Template:FilmUK |
| Language | English |
Santa Buddies: The Legend of Santa Paws and simply titled Santa Buddies as shown in the movie's opening credits is a 2009 direct to video in the Buddies series, and the fourth installment of the Buddies film series. It was released on November 24, 2009.
Plot
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; 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 (Josh Flitter) 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 Budderball and the other Buddies (Field Cate, Liliana Mumy, 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. 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 meditation statue gets turned into a snowman as Puppy Paws explains that the snowman is "what citizens of the North Pole meditate in front of".
Therefore, due to the incidents, the Buddies want Puppy Paws to leave. But, they learn that Puppy Paws isn't hurting them as they are hurting themselves and decide to treat him with compassion. Suddenly, Puppy Paws gets dognapped by a dog catcher named Mr. Stan Cruge (Christopher Lloyd) and takes him to the pound. 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. 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. 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. The reindeer are not able to fly, and Puppy Paws and the Buddies volunteer to save Christmas with their uncanny abilities (it is revealed the Buddies remembered what Shasta taught them). A changed Mr. 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. After their last delivery, Santa Claus and Santa Paws arrive in Fernfield and Santa makes the Buddies (including Budderball) on top of the nice list, Puppy Paws becomes part of Santa's family, and the Buddies say farewell.
Mr. Cruge gets invited to dinner with Tiny's new family and the movie ends with the entire town, led by Cruge, singing "Silent Night" in front of Fernfield's Christmas Tree.
Cast
- George Wendt as Santa Claus
- Quinn Lord as Sam
- Christopher Lloyd as Stan Cruge
- Danny Woodburn as Eli
Voice cast
- Zachary Gordon as Puppy Paws
- Tom Bosley as Santa Paws
- Tim Conway as Sniffer
- Josh Flitter as Budderball
- Liliana Mumy as Rosebud
- Ty Panitz as Mudbud
- Field Cate as Buddha
- Skyler Gisondo as B-Dawg
- Richard Kind as Eddy
- Kaitlyn Maher as Tiny
- Chris Coppolla as Comet
Sequel
Another in this series of films, The Search for Santa Paws with Kaitlyn Maher as the orphan Quinn was released on November 23, 2010. Several user reviews are posted on Amazon.
Trivia
- Just like in Space Buddies, Buddy, Molly, and the Framms do not make an appearance.
- This marks the first Buddies film to show the talking animals and the humans speaking to each to other.
- Sniffer, who has appeared in the first Buddies film and returns in this film, has been voiced by Tim Conway replacing the late Don Knotts. Conway and Knotts had both appeared in the Disney film The Apple Dumpling Gang and its sequel.
- At first, fans of the Buddies franchise believed that Christopher Lloyd's character Mr. Cruge was a reference to Ebenezer Scrooge from Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol; this was based on a mistaken belief that his name was spelled as "Crooge."
- This is the second Buddies film involving Christmas; the first was Snow Buddies.
- The children who own the Buddies appear younger in this film than in the previous Buddies films due to being played by different actors.
- Originally, Dominic Scott Kay was expected to reprise his role as Buddha; the role was recast with Field Cate after scheduling conflicts came up with another of Kay's jobs.
- Henry Hodges was the voice of Mudbud in the movies Snow Buddies and Space Buddies. He did not reprise his role and was replaced by Ty Panitz.
References
- Santa Buddies website
- The Search for Santa Paws imdb webpage
- The Search for Santa Paws at disneydvd plot summary; trailer
- Amazon.com
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