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Santa Buddies

The UK cover of the DVD

Directed by Robert Vince
Produced by Robert Vince Anna McRoberts
George Wendt Quinn Lord Christopher
Lloyd Danny Woodburn Tom Bosley Tim
Conway Josh Flitter Liliana Mumy Ty
Starring
Panitz Field Cate Skyler Gisondo
Zachary Gordon Richard Kind Kaitlyn
Maher
Music by Brahm Wenger
Distributed by Walt Disney Pictures
November 2, 2009 (UK)
Release date(s)
November 24, 2009 (USA)
Running time 88 minutes
United States
Country
United Kingdom
Language English
Preceded by Space Buddies
Santa Buddies: The Legend of Santa Paws (previously titled Santa Buddies: The
Search for Santa Paws and simply titled Santa Buddies as shown in the movie's opening
credits) is a 2009 film, and the fourth installment of the Air Buddies film series. It was
released on November 24, 2009.

Contents
[hide]
 1 Plot
 2 Cast
 3 Voice Cast
 4 Trivia
 5 References

 6 External links

[edit] 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 and 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 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 pup.

The film then moves forward to The Buddies (Field Cate, Liliana Mumy, Josh Flitter,
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 of 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 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 medidation statue gets turned into a snowman as
Puppy Paws explains that the snowman is "what citizens of the North Pole medidate 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 compassionate. 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 becoming 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. 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 one 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 as
celebrating the holidays.

[edit] Cast
George Wendt as Santa Claus Quinn Lord as Sam Christopher Lloyd as Stan Cruge
Danny Woodburn as Eli

[edit] Voice Cast

Tom Bosley as Santa Paws Tim Conway as Sniffer Josh Flitter as Butterball Liliana
Mumy as Rosebud Ty Panitz as Mudbud Field Cate as Buddha Skyler Gisondo as B-
Dawg Zachary Gordon as Puppy Paws Richard Kind as Eddy Kaitlyn Maher as Tiny
[edit] Trivia
 Just like in Space Buddies, Buddy, Molly, and the Framm family make no
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 dead Don Knotts.
 At first, fans of the Air 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 Air Buddies film involving Christmas; the first was Snow
Buddies.
 The children who own the Buddies appear younger in this film than in the
previous Air Buddies films due to being played by different actors.
 Originally, Dominic Scott Kay was expected to reprise his role as Buddha, as he
was planning to sign on, but, he had a tough decision between that and another
commitment, he changed his mind, and Field Cate was re-cast.