This is a follow up post to report that Snow Buddies was just every bit as good as the trailer would lead one to believe.  Oh yes!  I’ve seen it like four times now, thanks largely to my dear friend Acute Viral Rhinopharyngitis, aka the common cold, which has infected my kids and left us largely housebound over the weekend, looking for ways to keep the three-year-old occupied so the five-month-old can sleep in relative peace.  Snow Buddies was pretty much on repeat play, and can it get any better?  I submit that it cannot!

I won’t go into a detailed review, except to say that I applaud the way these kinds of kids movies are teaching our children in a simplified manner.  For instance, Snow Buddies relied heavily on one-dimensional characterization for pretty much everybody in the film.  The producers of the movie gave each character some notable trait, behavior, or style, which defined the basic nature of that person.   I imagine that as a child, this approach would have made it so much easier for me to recognize the character archetypes and to take from that a simpler world view, a lens through which I could shape my developing interactions with the people around me, who I could more easily define and understand because movies like this taught me how to stereotype.  Cheers to you, Snow Buddies maker people!

There was Jean Jorge the Third (aka, as Atticusser pointed out, “My fazher waz a bakher too!”), the mean French dogsled racer, who wore raccoon furs and cheated shamelessly.

There was a Chinese dogsled racer, who was the token Asian, I think.

There was a Finnish dogsled racer, a pretty blond woman, whose only line was, “Stay avay from Jean Jorge, he vould do anysing to vin.”

There was a Russian dogsled racer, who said things like “Da, comrade,” and gave enthusiastic thumbs-ups.

There was Deputy Dan, the bumbling deputy sheriff who was looking for the lost puppies.

And of course there were the five puppies themselves.  I won’t give away this part, because this could be a fun game.  See if you can guess in the comments the personalities of the five starring puppies.  I’ll tell you this: they were each distinctive and very recognizable, and they were matched perfectly with the personalities of the kids who owned them, of course.  So guess away.  If you were writing this movie about five talking, adventurous, troublemaking, good-hearted puppies, what personalities would you give them?

And don’t worry, at our house we’re anxiously awaiting the arrival of the next adventure: Santa Buddies!

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