Hair Balls
August 28, 2000
Get ready, sports fans. MVP: Most Valuable Primate, about a hockey-playing chimp, and Air Bud: World Pup, chronicling a golden retriever's exploits on the soccer pitch, are slated to open this fall. Here are a few masterpieces in whose pawprints they follow.
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Movie
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Athletic animal
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The critics said...
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Air Bud (1997)
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Basketball-playing dog
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"I actually cared how the game turned out." ( Roger Ebert)
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Air Bud: Golden Receiver (1998)
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Football-playing dog
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"... too many people and not enough dog." ( San Francisco Examiner)
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The Cat From Outer Space (1978)
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Telekinetic kitty controls football with its mind
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"Enjoyable Disney fare." (Video Hound's Golden Movie Retriever)
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Ed (l996)
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Baseball-playing chimp
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"... one of the dopiest baseball pics ever (with or without a simian...)." ( USA Today)
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Gus (1976)
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Field-goal-kicking mule
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"Lots of slapstick comedy for the kids to enjoy..." (Video Movie Guide 2000)
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Soccer Dog: The Movie (1999)
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Take a wild guess
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"...made-for-tape smarmfest with an ugly and wayward pooch..." ( Contra Costa Times)
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Teen Wolf (1985)
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Basketball-playing wolf-boy
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"...a woof-woofer that hardly
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deserved an encore." ( The Washington Post)
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Teen Wolf Too (1987)
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Boxing wolf-boy
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Hero resembles "an escapee from a polyester petting zoo." ( The Washington Post)
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Get ready, sports fans. MVP: Most Valuable Primate, about a hockey-playing chimp, and Air Bud: World Pup, chronicling a golden retriever's exploits on the soccer pitch, are slated to open this fall. Here are a few masterpieces in whose pawprints they follow.
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