The original Air Buddies starts with narration expositing the backstory and stereotype- I mean, personality of each of the dogs. They have one thing in common and that's that they get in trouble a lot. From there this shared trait of mischief separates them from their owners and they spend the movie struggling to get back to them. The opening keeps focus on the dogs and their actions but also includes humans, establishing them as actual characters as they deal with the rebellious puppies causing trouble.
Snow Buddies opens up with a dog harrassing some cats. Thre's cheesy dialogue between them and then the dog goes to meet up with the other dogs. After more cheesy dialogue, they start playing a game, but one of them sees an ice cream truck and jumps on, the rest of the dogs following his example. The truck somehow takes them all the way to Alaska for the snow gimmick and they spend the rest of the movie trying to get back home from there.
...Aaand the rest just go off the rails while recycling the "buddies are separated form owners and have to get back" formula with a gimmick. The rest of the movies I watched (Space Buddies, Santa Buddies, Treasure Buddies, and there's one more on Netflix but I didn't bother because there's only so much of these things that I can stomach) they all start with this week's guest star giving exposition and setting up the plot that will inevitably take the dogs from their owners. "
See that? My dogs are way cuter than Disney's. Anyway, in conclusion, I'm gonna keep my opening more like the first two and just set up the characters and plot without sending my dogs to space or the north pole or anything like that. Just have dogs going out and having to get back home. I'll have the storyboard up soon.
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