Big Kids movie night
Air Bud: Spikes Back
The story
Air Bud: Spikes Back (also known as Air Bud 5) is a 2003 sports comedy film directed by Mike Southon. It is the fifth and final film in the original Air Bud series. The film series itself was followed by a spin-off series: the Air Buddies franchise. It was the only Air Bud film not to include Kevin Zegers as Josh Framm. It was released on June 24, 2003 by Buena Vista Home Entertainment.
Plot
Buddy finds that he also has the uncanny ability to play volleyball. Throughout this experience, he and a talking parrot stop some crooks, Doug and Gordon. Andrea Framm attempts to earn money to fly out to California to visit Tammy Slayton after her family must move there. Also, Andrea reveals that her older brother, Josh Framm, has decided to play football at college for the summer instead of returning home to Fernfield for summer vacation.
Cast
Katija Pevec as Andrea Framm, Buddy's owner
Tyler Boissonnault as Connor, Andrea's love interest
Edie McClurg as Gram Gram, Andrea's maternal grandmother and Polly's owner
Patrick Cranshaw as Sheriff Bob
Cynthia Stevenson as Jackie Framm-Sullivan, Andrea's widowed mother
Jake D. Smith as Noah Sullivan, Andrea's younger maternal half-brother
Gabrielle Reece as Herself
Robert Tinkler as Doug, Gordon's partner
Malcolm Scott as Gordon, Doug's partner
Alf Humphreys as Dr. Patrick Sullivan, Andrea's stepfather
Chantal Strand as Tammy Slayton, Andrea's best friend
C. Ernst Harth as Phil
Ellen Kennedy as Wilma Slayton, Tammy's mother
Nancy Robertson as Principal Pickle
Doug Funk as Mailman Phil
Brian Dobson as the voice of Polly the Parrot
Release
Air Bud: Spikes Back was released directly to DVD on June 24, 2003, by Buena Vista Home Entertainment. It was reissued by Disney on June 16, 2008 in a double-pack alongside Air Bud: Seventh Inning Fetch.
Mill Creek Entertainment reissued the film on January 14, 2020, on a 2-disc box set, also containing other Air Bud films owned by Air Bud Entertainment.
All five Air Bud films, including Spikes Back, arrived on Disney+ on October 1, 2023.