I’m kind of surprised by the reviews for this. I didn’t hate Buddy, and there’s a lot about the concept and production design that I liked, but I thought the pacing was really bad.
What’s strange is that it’s only about 95 minutes long, but it felt much, much longer to me.
The opening establishes the children’s-show parody pretty quickly, but then the movie keeps returning to variations on essentially the same joke. I kept waiting for it to move on.
Then once it does start expanding the world, the pacing becomes even more uneven. ISome sections drag while other developments happen surprisingly quickly. I’m not convinced there’s enough here to sustain a feature.
There are individual scenes and ideas I really liked, but for a movie this short, I was shocked by how often I found myself checking the time.
Anyone else feel this way?