{"id":2248944,"date":"2026-01-24T22:54:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T22:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2248944"},"modified":"2026-01-24T22:54:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T22:54:13","slug":"buddy-review-keegan-michael-key-voices-an-orange-plush-unicorn-turned-homicidal-maniac-in-patchy-horror-comedy-co-starring-cristin-milioti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/buddy-review-keegan-michael-key-voices-an-orange-plush-unicorn-turned-homicidal-maniac-in-patchy-horror-comedy-co-starring-cristin-milioti\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Buddy\u2019 Review: Keegan-Michael Key Voices an Orange Plush Unicorn Turned Homicidal Maniac in Patchy Horror Comedy Co-Starring Cristin Milioti"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div role=\"presentation\">Director <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm1085757\/\">Casper Kelly<\/a> made his name with the 2014 viral horror short for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/company\/co0153115\/\">Adult Swim<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity\" href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt3534838\/\">Too Many Cooks<\/a>. The film is basically an 11-minute TV theme tune that layers needling repetition, perky vocals and inane lyrics with increasingly surreal elements to skewer vintage network staples \u2014 from chipper family sitcoms through cop shows, primetime soaps, cartoons, superhero action and cheesy sci-fi, until a slasher villain with a machete hijacks the proceedings just in time for the episode to begin. It\u2019s a neat conceit, a postmodern, genre-crashing parody that takes a wrecking ball to our nostalgia for television entertainment of the \u201870s, \u201880s and \u201890s, without overstaying its welcome.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s one of the key weaknesses of Kelly\u2019s sporadically amusing Buddy, a variation on a theme that stretches its sketch-comedy idea to feature length by upping the gore and the demented detours but doesn\u2019t go far enough to be as&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.imdb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director Casper Kelly made his name with the 2014 viral horror short for Adult Swim, Too Many Cooks. The film is basically an 11-minute TV theme tune that layers needling repetition, perky vocals and inane lyrics with increasingly surreal elements to skewer vintage network staples \u2014 from chipper family sitcoms through cop shows, primetime soaps, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2248945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[25538,31714,21751,22556,21993,22860,21912,21738,24141,22205,21913],"class_list":["post-2248944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-actresses","tag-celebrities","tag-directors","tag-films","tag-hollywood","tag-movies","tag-news","tag-stars","tag-television","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/\u2018Buddy-Review-Keegan-Michael-Key-Voices-an-Orange-Plush-Unicorn-Turned.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2248944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2248946,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2248944\/revisions\/2248946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2248945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2248944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2248944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2248944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}