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Josh was dead to begin with. There was no doubt whatever about that. Oh wait, he was just boarding the bus to college. Everyone from previous movies is on the bus with him, because Fernfield graduates don't have options. Except Brita and Molly who are totally gone. I assume they went to some fancy private school leaving Josh and Co to raise the puppies (who they distributed around the city) This devastated the Buddy family financially. They were forced to move to a less auspicious house and to trade in the "classic older guy attractive" stepfather in for Al Borland. And they had a baby of their own. IT'S KEVIN!! He doesn't do anything in this movie but boy am I glad to see him in preparation for the next movie.

Andrea lives in a dirty clothes hamper. Did she have something going with Josh and that's why she's so sad that she buries herself in his dirty undies? Gross. Are they steps or fulls? Still though. She remembers to say goodbye. So, Buddy runs in front of the bus to college knowing that when his bones crunch beneath the tires it will stop. But it stops sooner than that. They say goodbye and Josh leaves forever.

Now Andrea's the star! She needs to figure out a sport to play for the spring for some reason but is TOTALLY incompetent despite once being a decent soccer player coached by a real fake British person! She ends up on the co-ed baseball team because Tammy is a rockstar on the field. She's the best shortstop I've ever seen, that's why they make her catcher.

Andrea rides the pinepony (as usual despite the team only having exactly enough players). Why is Andrea so bad? Because they never once practice. She sits on the bench for three games while Tammy makes headlines (literal headlines with full color pictures every single game). They never have a practice. Tammy gets hurt so Andrea has to play (The downside of cutting your team numbers so close). Tammy is "just bruised" and out for six weeks. What a wimp. Andrea and Tammy fight about it until a dramatic confrontation between them at Tammy's front door. Well, it would be dramatic except in the background the entire time is Tammy's toddler sibling who is FASCINATED with something going on below their belt and is hardcore busy with that. I can't believe we live in a world where they didn't think they needed to reshoot that scene. Did they? Was that the best take they got? Horrifying.

So Andrea sucks. She loses three straight games for the team (headlines blame her!). Until she spends 20 minutes practicing with Buddy. (Though don't be fooled because they reuse the same shot of Buddy 40 times). It takes 15 attempts to catch fly balls and a dozen practice at-bats before she becomes a decent player. It's outrageous that her coach never considered "practice" as a method of improving skills. Buddy also realizes that he can catch balls flying at 100 mph with his teeth and swing a bat by hilariously turning his head. It's incredible. It's the least appropriate sport for Buddy and he's clearly not capable of it, but that doesn't stop them!

In the meantime the baddies (Chef Paul Prudhomme) want to kidnap the puppies to test their genetics to see why they're so good at sports. It's actually a pretty noble endeavor and if they weren't operating out of a streamline trailer then the puppies would probably just donate some blood to discover that. Maybe they still would have if they ever considered asking. It's so needless in the end really. They drive a crappy car because they're poor. The crappy car ends up a plot point because it drives slow enough two girls can ride their bikes after it. After they kidnap the puppies the impotent sheriff of the town calls people by the wrong names, threatens to shoot random innocent people, and posts posters. In short, he's worthless. Rocky Raccoon would have been a better sheriff. If he wasn't a baddie that is.

In the meantime, with Andrea kickin' butt the Timberwolves are going to the championship! (That losing streak as usual doesn't keep them out). I sure hope something doesn't occur so that Buddy is late to the game. (There is still nothing in the rulebook that says a dog can't play baseball. Though who can imagine that a DOG would ever play a game that 100% requires hands?). He is late. They save the kidnapped puppies through a mix of both breaking and entering. The dogs run away because they're dogs and dogs have that ability.

Andrea, Tammy, and Buddy are late and nobody cares. Their families are at the game looking back and forth across the field but never standing up or looking or anything. Everyone in town is at the game, all of the puppies' owners (all childless adults) seem obsessed with Middle School intramural baseball. It's kind of terrifying. What are they even doing there? Maybe that's the only way to soothe their sadness about losing their dogs/employees (one dog pumps gas). The coach barely even cares. They're playing a man down on the field and the umpire (mailman) is not on their side (despite being obsessed with buddy).

Josh comes back after taking a taxi from college. I don't know where he goes to school, but I do know that since it isn't in Fernfield proper that taxi ride probably cost over $60. Andrea would have preferred the money. He only makes it for the last inning though. That's right, the only person later to the game than Buddy was Josh. Buddy arrives and wins the game.

Later he plays in the final game in the World Series. Or the whole game. For the Angels, a team completely unable to win without external help.

Here we have yet another entry in the neverending "Air Bud" series and it's just boring and serves no purpose. This time Air Bud (or I guess Buddy) takes on baseball. The weirdest thing is that the plot of him playing it doesn't even appear until halfway through the movie. In a film that's relatively short, that can be a problem. There are these two henchman who want to capture Buddy and his offspring because they've found some sports gene in his body that makes people good at sports. This is a stupid plot point and it goes nowhere. They acknowledge that they're just henchmen.

There must be some higher up and we never find out who that is. None of this has any reason to exist and it's the exact same as all the other movies. The film even ends with Buddy going to the World Series. Again, how did he get that far in his career? It's the same ending as the last one. Although this one had no farting in it, I'm still going to say it's worse then the third because it has no reason to exist and advances nothing. *1/2

This movie qualifies as one of the worst movies I have ever seen. It is so bad that it is funny at times, such as a dog being able to hit a fast ball holding a metal bat with his teeth. Or a dog being able to field a ground ball with out opposable thumbs, something is wrong here. And to top the whole thing off, the dog gets drafted to a major league team at the end. Please, at all costs, avoid this movie. Take all of the copies from the Blockbuster and hide them under the shelves.

To all of you Air Buddies haters, this is where the series got weird not Space Buddies. It still has the heartwarming feel of Air Bud and Golden Receiver but it's also really weird. I mean, Josh going to college is fine but Air Bud playing Baseball? I get Basketball, Football, Soccer, and Volleyball but you have to hold a bat to play baseball. However, that's not the weird part. The weird part is that Air Bud's grown pups have been kidnapped by a raccoon and some gangsters. I mean, what the heck?! As for my enjoyment, I liked it better than World Pup but it's not as good as Air Bud or Golden Receiver. I'd say it's on par with Air Buddies. (which I did like)

In this fourth installment, Buddy goes for the baseball. And this time around Josh's little sister Andrea is Buddy's sports companion and friend. Don't get me wrong I loved Josh is the first three movies, but it is nice to have a change of main character and this time around it is a girl.

Josh Framm has left his home for college, his little sister Andrea and his best friend Golden Retriever Buddy are not taking it to well, Josh makes Buddy promise to take care of Andrea and to watch over her. Which Buddy does just like a good friend should do. Andrea also starts Junior High and her first day turns out to be a disaster, eventually, she and one of her friends tries out for the school baseball team, her friend makes it, but Andrea is put on the team because her friend wants her on the team. Meanwhile a evil scientist and his assistant and a Robber Raccoon plan to steal Buddy's now grown up puppies for an evil experiment.

Yes, it sounds cheesy. But it is very enjoyable and you have to use your imagination. The story had good morals such as friendship, never giving up and trying your best. The reason I give this fourth installment a 9 is because the sports announcer the one who was just a little goofy and overenthusiastic, went overboard, he was just a little to weird for my view and the dance he does at the end when the team wins, was laughable and hilarious, but a little bit creepy. I don't know if that was part of the script or something the actor put in.

But other then the way to overenthusiastic announcer, the movie was great and I loved it my wife did too.

9/10 for Air Bud: Seventh Inning Fetch