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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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August 28, 2000

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Movie

Athletic animal

The critics said...

Air Bud (1997)

Basketball-playing dog

"I actually cared how the game turned out." ( Roger Ebert)

Air Bud: Golden Receiver (1998)

Football-playing dog

"... too many people and not enough dog." ( San Francisco Examiner)

The Cat From Outer Space (1978)

Telekinetic kitty controls football with its mind

"Enjoyable Disney fare." (Video Hound's Golden Movie Retriever)

Ed (l996)

Baseball-playing chimp

"... one of the dopiest baseball pics ever (with or without a simian...)." ( USA Today)

Gus (1976)

Field-goal-kicking mule

"Lots of slapstick comedy for the kids to enjoy..." (Video Movie Guide 2000)

Soccer Dog: The Movie (1999)

Take a wild guess

"...made-for-tape smarmfest with an ugly and wayward pooch..." ( Contra Costa Times)

Teen Wolf (1985)

Basketball-playing wolf-boy

"...a woof-woofer that hardly

deserved an encore." ( The Washington Post)

Teen Wolf Too (1987)

Boxing wolf-boy

Hero resembles "an escapee from a polyester petting zoo." ( The Washington Post)

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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