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	Film Title: Snow Buddies		Best for ages: All Ages

	Movie Website: Click Here	Year Released: 2008	Rated: G (US) G (CANADA)

SYNOPSIS
Disney does it again, bringing us yet another light hearted adventure film involving some loveable animals. In Snow Buddies, a litter of five golden retriever puppies meet together everyday in the park to play and talk with one another. Each puppy has their own personality. Buddha is into meditation, Mudbud is into being dirty, Rosebud is into being a girl, Budderball is the big jock type and B-Dawg has a hip-hop attitude. While meeting in the park,; Butterball spots an ice cream truck and goes running over to it. Trying to stop him the other puppies follow him and all of them get stuck in the truck. The all eat the ice cram and fall asleep in the truck. But this truck next delivery is to the airport where the ice cream cooler will be delivered to a small town in a Alaska via airdrop. The puppies find themselves lost in the snowy town, but as fate would have it they meet another puppy named Shasta. Shasta owner Adam really wants to race with his own god sledding team. The problem is that his father once lost his dogs in a race and his parents won't let him, replacing the sport with Hockey instead, which Adam is not very good at. Shasta along with the Snow Buddies plan to change that. With the help of the great sled dog Talon and a Bernie the Saint Bernard police dog. The puppies learn how to become one as a dog sledding team. Adam soon finds out that the puppies are living in his shed and that he now has a team. Behind his parents back Adam builds a sled and enters the annual sled racing tournament. However the evil, cheating Jean George who will do anything to stop the buddies from winning the race.
VIOLENCE/GRAPHIC CONTENT/language
There is very little violence in the film, and when I say little I mean almost none at all. Really there is a lot of cheating in the film by the main villain in which he sabotages his competitors sheds, and they either fall off their sleds or crash them into trees. There is no bad language or graphic content in the movie at all, however there are a few things that parents might want to be made aware of involving some of the characters in the film. One of the puppies B-Dawg has a hip hop slang talking attitude. It's all in good clean fun, but there is a scene in which his owner flashes the dog a kind of west coast gang sign. Most kids won't get it, and that's a good thing. But it's something that I felt needed to be pointed out. The films villain Jean George does make fun of the puppies and some of the human characters, but it's nothing too over the top. He uses words like "dumb dogs" and "stupid" but that's about it. Other than these minor things the movie is pretty much safe for kids of all ages to watch and enjoy.
OVERALL VIEWS
Snow Buddies is a great film for kids of all ages. My young daughter found it to be very funny and she was amazed by the talking puppies in the film. In a nut shell the movie has many positive aspects involved within it's plot. Those positives include things such as teamwork and never giving up. It also has a very strong positive message about following your dreams and never giving up on yourself. It's a movie that many parents I believe will see as one that can instill positive aspects of life within their own children and teach the many positive lessons of life. Snow Buddies is a very cute film and it has it's handful of heart warming laughs and is full of good clean fun. Many of the animals in the film are voiced by many famous actors such as Kris Kristofferson, Molly Shannon, Dylan Sprouse, James Belushi, and Whoopi Goldberg. It a great movie for the whole family to watch and it's a movie that I recommend for children of all ages. A great adventure film that the whole family is sure to love.
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