Air Bud 15: Pawtisan Redistricting
In a well-known scene in the well-known (but not very good) 1997 movie Air Bud , the protagonist golden retriever is permitted to play in a league game alongside his human teammates because the rule book contains no rule forbidding dogs from playing. The logic is absurd, of course. There is likewise almost certainly no rule forbidding agents of a team from surreptitiously spiking the opponents' water bottles with sedatives that sap their energy, but that doesn't mean that such tactics are permitted. Despite the silliness of its premise, Air Bud led to four sequels and a remarkable nine spinoffs: seven "Air Buddies" movies featuring the original Air Bud's puppies; and two Christmas-themed "Santa Paws" movies. Remarkably, a fifteenth Air Bud movie is slated to be released next year . But perhaps that film should be considered the sixteenth in the franchise, because there is an Air Bud drama currently playing out in Missouri--just not on film. It is the l...