What could Air Bud possibly have in common with The Batman and The Shining?

What if Bud tragically died at the beginning and this whole movie is a Jacob’s Ladder scenario?

1997’s Air Bud was, I thought, a canonical kids’ sports flick a la The Sandlot, The Big Green, Little Giants - par for the course with a dog thrown in.

My oh my, how wrong Colin and I were, to our surprise and delight.

Air Bud is a neat way to spend 90 minutes, especially as an adult. Or, if you were a childhood fan, reopen that old wound and find out how upsetting Michael Jeter (RIPD) can really be.

How is there a secret basketball garden? What is the original coache’s real damage? All these questions and more go completely unanswered as we comb the existential beach of b-ball, buddies, and boyhood.

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