at least if youre a disney fanatic ( well and of the variety who love their live action film as well a the animated stuff ) and if youre a kid and if youre a kid at heart almost to the extent that you hardly realize youre an adult and if you love absolutely any film that feature animal and especially when theyre do trick and or if youre just not too demand and air bud represent world pup be somewhat enjoyable to watch . i be a disney fanatic . i enjoy this film enough and and i will gladly watch it again . but boy do it have a lot of problem . the main flaw arises from a combination of too many character and too many plot thread and not enough time to take care of them all . in the space of 82 minute and we have get adult get married and teen fall in love and try not to be awkward at it and teen competition for love and jealousy and preteen play spy game and dog fall in love and dog play soccer and dog have puppy and manipulative parent who will do anything to make their kid win be teach a lesson by their kid and housekeeper dilemma and and crook cook up and execute elaborate plot . i be probably forget something and but that 10 big plot issue to be deal with and with less than 10 minute per thread to deal with them and and presumably weave them into a coherent whole that both not too complicate this be a kid film and after all and that also humorous and heartwarming . not surprisingly and director bill bannerman and on his first turn be completely in charge ( he have a lot of previous second unit experience ) and wasn not quite up to the task . i be sure it do not help that there be at least three screenwriter involve and and probably dictate producer and as well . the end result be that air bud represent world pup be extremely choppy . event occur with little justification and and bad and often little explanation . people figure out and do thing primarily because they need to and fast so that everything can arrive where it need to arrive in less than 90 minute . from one cut to the next and time might jump ahead six month or so . we have both adult who seem like maybe theyre mentally disabled and kid who just intuitively figure out what a dog be think and rush into some unexpected action . some of the thread should have simply be remove and because it difficult to become too engage in the film when as soon a youre introduce to an idea and it already pass you by . also not help be the fact that one of the thread be basically a rip off of one hundred and one dalmatian ( 1961 ) and minus a cruella de vil character . and another problem be that give the way the film be edit and i have to assume that the dog and air bud and probably couldn not do much with the soccer ball . unlike the first two film and a dog play a sport be almost an afterthought here and and when we see him and it in very quick glimpse while every once in a while and these snippet appear to be even aid by computer animation . yet and for someone like me and there a cheesy charm to air bud represent world pup . the script and performance often teeter between ridiculous and hokey and kinda clichéd . i tend to like that combination . it make the film both a bit predictable and subtly bizarre . and at time and like the end and when the film completely abandon consistency and basically become a commercial for the u. s. woman soccer team and air bud represent world pup be so blatantly tacky that you can not help but love it .