A group of kids realize they are trapped in a 1990s children’s show and must try to escape their seemingly malevolent capture, a giant anthropomorphic talking unicorn. Meanwhile, a suburban mom questions her sanity as she starts to believe she had a third child that everyone has forgotten.
The filmmakers did a great job, not only with recreating the look and tone of a late 90s show, but also with how well they’re able to flip back-and-forth between it feeling wholesome and too uncomfortable to be scary.
Keegan-Michael Key plays Buddy, and he also does a fun job, switching from funny to darkly comedic to very intimidating, almost like from Barney to Robert De Niro in Cape Fear.
I was very impressed with all of the child actors, who all had a great amount of range, going from broad and silly to too intensely scary in a second.
Cristin Milioti plays the suburban mom, and she’s very good at playing unhinged and paranoid but also very sympathetic and really loving at times.
It was nice seeing Topher Grace pop up in this; he plays Milioti’s husband, and he’s good at being funny and snarky, and I thought Grace brought a lot of empathy to the character.
Clint Howard has a small role in the film, and this is one of his weirdest roles I’ve ever seen… And for Clint Howard, that’s really saying something lol, but I have to give him props for committing to a role
I thought the climax felt a little rushed and sort of teased a sequel setting up a sequel, but I thought the very end had a fun Twilight Zone twist ending kind of feel that was simple but very effective.
Buddy is a very different but creative movie that has a lot of creative people working on it in front of and behind the camera that juggles a lot of different tones and a great cast who give strong performances. It's not perfect, but it’s still very good.
I give it four stars ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️, but before I warned, it does get pretty BUD-arre at points 😂
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