A Masterpiece!

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

After reading reviews of The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure, I wanted to see if it were as bad as I had heard. I was trying to keep an open mind but the negative reviews were absolutely right. It makes Boohbah look good tame in comparison. Now, if you're thinking "don't be so hard on it, it's for little children"; toddlers are not stupid. While shows targeted at them can be annoying at times, preschoolers can recognize when they're in real danger and this movie is a danger to the psyche. The plot is paper-thin, the colours are so bright they're almost nauseating, and the costumes are right in the uncanny valley. Our story concerns Goobie, Zoozie, and Toofie, who are essentially just ripoffs of the Teletubbies (they even have a vacuum sidekick). Anyway, the Oogieloves are planning a birthday party for their friend Schluffy, who just happens to be a pillow, but accidentally lose the balloons (our more accurately the vacuum loses the balloons). So essentially, the entire plot consists just of the Oogieloves going from place to place to find the balloons and along the way meet guest stars such as Chloris Leachman, Cary Elwes, and Christopher Lloyd (all of whom probably only agreed to be in it for the money). Overall, just skip this one, it's just not worth it (besides, the DVD is impossible to find). Instead, show the preschooler in your life something like Little Bear, Little Bill, Kipper, Bob The Builder, Dragon Tales, Peppa Pig, to name but a few.

How the hell did does movie have a 6.4? This movie is just awful and frankly isn't even a movie! Anyone who gave this more than a 1 has been brainwashed by THE OOGIELOVES! And why is the dude from A Bronx Tale in it? For a full review click this linkn > https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=t1j4GRlz-FQ&index=31&list=PLxOKy-G3phBomkGrPJuQwUawQmS_1ysNN

This movie tries too hard to appeal to kids using a lot of clichés and stereotypes from many children's show, to the point that it seems a parody. This is the greatest flaw of the film and the reason of many of the other problems.Another problem is the conflict of the "Big Balloon Adventure". It may be OK to maintain a short chapter, but is too weak to maintain a feature film. The problem is made more obvious with all the filler scenes and repetition. Therefore, the storytelling is terrible. The first minutes of the film feel like an eternity, the pattern quickly gets predictable and when you think there is going to be a good scene, there isn't. The film also keeps treating as linear a mission that isn't.The characters do not fare any better, being barely more than bland stereotypes. In the case of the "puppets", the unappealing designs do not help. The three Oogieloves are too bland to be sympathetic or engaging, the Vacuum is annoying, the fish feels like a load (it is inappropriate for an adventure, the pillow is unlikable, Windy Window feels bland, the animals are useless and only serve as filler, and the human characters feel embarrassing being only utilized for humiliating roles, all them failing to be entertaining. Even if they tried their best on the film, the script ridicules them too much to let them give a decent performance. Talking about the script, it is utterly shallow. It keeps treating children as stupid and has little educational value, which is things that their audience has already learned or could learn easily in other sources. The running gags feel forced and fail to cause any laughter. The Special Effects look mediocre, but tolerable; while the jumps of the Oogieloves feel too fake.About the music, all the songs were cheesy, superficial, generic and lazy, keeping the underrating of children. Many of them were badly sung, maybe with the exception of Rosalie and Lola. And they did more harm than good to the film, due to their irrelevance.To finish, I recommend this film as involuntary comedy, rather than a product for kids.

For some reason, the last time I've walked through Times Square in New York City still sticks out in my mind. Surprisingly, it wasn't from all of the flashy advertisements of Coca Cola, McDonalds, the stage show Wicked, or the Hard Rock Cafe. Instead, it was the giant advertisement pasted over Toys R Us, which advertised that a movie called "The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure" would be releasing in theaters on "Oogust" 29th. Being curious as to why something that resembled Teletubbies was being created in the year 2012, I couldn't help but look the movie up, only to find that several people who were involved with Teletubbies created the movie. Knowing the infamy shows like Teletubbies and Barney have, I kept checking on the movie until it got released, not being surprised that it was panned by critics, but ultimately being surprised at it becoming one of the worst box office bombs of all time. At that point, I began to realize that the Times Square advertisement was the only ad I ever saw for the movie, with no other ads in sight during frequent two hour drives and train rides I had to make and while visiting websites on the internet. Even when the movie was added to watch instantly on Netflix, I noticed that it quickly disappeared from Netflix's recommended movies, requiring you to search the movie's name in order to find it. Finally, the question as to how a movie could fade into obscurity so quickly got the better of me, and I sat down to watch the movie on Netflix. After it ended, my main reaction was this; "Thank god this movie bombed".First of all, the movie's main selling point is the fact that it's an "interactive" movie, in which the audience is encouraged to sing, dance, and talk alongside the characters in the movie. I find it kind of funny at how the movie treats this gimmick as an original idea, when in fact it was being done by many educational shows (both good and bad) including but not limited to Sesame Street, Blue's Clue's, Dora the Explorer, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Barney & Friends, and even Teletubbies. Not even the argument of this being the first interactive movie holds water, because movies like The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland also encouraged audiences to interact with the characters on screen.But enough ranting about that, let's move on to why I hated this movie. The premise of the movie is that the Oogieloves, three "things" that look like a cross between a Cabbage Patch Kid and a Teletubby, want to celebrate their pillow's birthday with five magical balloons. But when their talking Vacuum Cleaner J. Edgar (get the reference?) ends up losing the balloons, the Oogieloves and their talking fish embark on a quest to reobtain the balloons in time for the pillow's birthday party, encountering stereotypical characters played by celebrity guest stars along the way. It's a simple setup, and admittedly most movies with a simple setup could work. However, this is not one of the movies.Perhaps the biggest problem with the movie is that it contains a lot of unnecessary filler, no doubt to increase the run time of something that feels like it should've been a 40 minute TV special (and giving how cheap the movie's special effects are, I wouldn't be surprised if this is what the movie started production as). I could go into how most of the song sequences come almost out of nowhere and serve no purpose to the plot, but giving how simple the setup is, I suppose there's nothing else they could've done but waste the time of those who watch this. It doesn't help that the most of the songs themselves are aggravating to listen to (the only decent sounding one coming from Toni Braxton, which is kind of ironic since it's the only song in the movie that doesn't seem to encourage singing and dancing), and the movie even feels the need to throw in as many random sound effects as it can, believing it's entire audience to have ADD or something.But the worst problem with the movie, is that not only does it talk down to it's child audience, but it leaves an incredibly bad influence on them as well. I say it's a good thing that this movie bombed because had it succeeded, it's likely we would've seen more kids allowing their pants to drop in the general public, it's likely we would've had kids getting hurt by trying to create a trampoline out of a sheet and suitcases, it's likely kids would've of went around trying to make handicapped people walk because all it apparently takes is "a little encouragement", and it's likely that kids would've been more trusting of strangers who invite them into the back of their truck, among many other surprisingly damaging and offensive influences that the young children this movie is targeted towards could pull from it. Suddenly, it seems like "It's just a kid's movie" isn't a really good argument to use when trying to defend this movie.Is there anything positive I could say about this movie? Well, I did like the fish's character, but that's because I could relate to him, in that he wanted no part in the songs and the other shenanigans performed by the Oogieloves throughout this movie. Well, I'll give it this, at least there was a character for me to root for...