Parents' Guide to

Santa Buddies

By Sierra Filucci, Common Sense Media Reviewer

age 5+

Popular puppy series adds a cheery holiday message.

Movie G 2009 88 minutes
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age 8+

Based on 15 parent reviews

age 10+

Terrible Quality and Offensive

* Terribly stereotyped characters * "B Dawg" voiced by a white guy using terribly stereotypical phrases * Racist jokes about India and Italy * Awful CGI * Lame story * Terrible dialogue * Inaccurate depiction of the "True meaning of Christmas" Would not recommend this ever. There are no redeeming qualities to this movie.
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Is It Any Good?

Our review:
Parents say (15):
Kids say (13):

Few people will argue that this story is predictable, formulaic, and lacking in any nuance; but hey, it's got puppies. To determine if the Buddies franchise is "good" depends partly on one's opinion of talking animals in movies. Some might find this a disturbingly unnatural quality in a movie that does little to make the characters feel relatable. Others might find a collection of fluffy, cute puppies irresistible and the fact that they speak even more appealing.

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