The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure
The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure
G | 29 August 2012 (USA)
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It's Schluufy's birthday, and the Oogieloves (Goobie, Zoozie and Toofie), along with their friends J. Edgar, Windy Window and Ruffy, are organizing a party. (Shh! It's a secret.) Everything is going along just perfectly until J. Edgar trips and loses the last five magical balloons in all of Lovelyloveville--OH NO! The Oogiloves set out to find the magical balloons in time to save their friend's party. Along the way, they meet some very interesting characters indeed, including Dotty Rounder (Cloris Leachman), Bobby Wobbly (Carey Elwes), Milky Marvin (Chazz Palminteri), Rosalie Rosebud (Toni Braxton) and Lola and Lero Sombero (Christopher Lloyd and Jaime Pressly). Can these new friends help them recover the magical balloons and get back to the cottage in time to celebrate Schluufy's surprise birthday?

Reviews
Karry

Best movie of this year hands down!

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Evengyny

Thanks for the memories!

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Fluentiama

Perfect cast and a good story

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Arianna Moses

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

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supermincereftked

This movie really is a shining example of what makes a good kids movie. Wished people liked at as much as I did because I shed many tears my sister (who is 3 by the way) did not enjoy this and threw a massive tantrum saying how boring it was however I and my 23 year old brother shed many manly tears I loved goofie toofie and the other one and don't wanna watch it again cause it was quite lol :)

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jacoboneill

If they don't have to try, why on earth should I try?Brief notes:The sets look and feel like an enlarged preschool playpen. It didn't look the least bit natural, engaging, or inviting.The sing-a-long sections really didn't work for me. The film was so robotic that no energy could have possibly been transferred to it's audience.The script is the most lifeless, "I am a functioning product" of 2012.The costumes are so stiff and stilted that I felt bad for the actors for the entire length of the filmThe shot linger for uncomfortable amount of time. This isn't a one time thing either, this is like every sceneThis movie is bad. This movie is awful. This movie is atrocious. This movie is stupid. This movie is insulting. This movie is damaging to my psyche. This movie is lazy as sin. This movie is a sin. This movie is other synonyms for bad such as the ones I'm about to mention. This movie is defective. This movie is horrendous. This movie is undesirable. This movie is putrid. This movie is decayed? This movie is depraved of anything resembling quality.Christopher Lloyd is boring in this movie. Frankly, I'm impressed.This movie is worthless. This movie is naughty, naughty, naughty. This movie is a disaster. This movie is trash. This movie is garbage. This movie is rubbish. This movie is nothing. This movie is a sniveling piece of annoying dangling snot that when you try to rub it off, it just sticks to the side of your face. This movie is ugly. This movie is condescending. This movie is demeaning. This movie is MADE BY PEOPLE WHO HAVE CREATED SEPARATE ACCOUNTS TO INCREASE THE RATINGS. AT ONE POINT, THIS FILM WAS WELL OVER AN 8 BECAUSE OF IT. THINK ABOUT THAT. This movie is annoying. This movie is tedious. This movie is a little grating after a while, to be frank. This movie is a stinky piggy. This movie is terrifying. This movie is lame. This movie is unpleasant. This movie is repulsive. This movie is revolting. This movie is inspiring.If these people can make a feature length, wide release film, then maybe one day I can to.This movie is insane. This movie is inane. This movie is incapable to function. This movie is boring. This movie is abhorrent. This movie is disgusting. This movie is despicable. This movie is disposable. This movie is irritating. This movie is ludicrous. This movie is insufferable. This movie is pretentious by the sheer fact that it thinks it is allowed to exist. This movie is a stain. This movie is pathetic. This movie is death. This movie is a scam.Overall, I wouldn't recommend it. If you are in need of a family film for movie night, here are some suggestions for better options:Mad Max: Beyond ThunderdomeAnything else.

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ericfborges

This movie was delayed for four years because someone on the cast wanted to patent the prompting for the children to dance (Something not even Dora The Explorer sank to) with actors in what looks to be rejects for Teletubbies given hair and clothes. This movie was so bland that I think the entire audience slept through half the movie.The basic plot is that someone is having a party, but all of five balloons (talking balloons, mind you) have flown away. Seems like an alright plot for a kid's movie, but no. They somehow managed to screw up a basic plot, and I'll tell you how; The formula consists of the main "Characters" going to someplace with a celebrity cameo, they sing two """"songs"""", and they get a balloon, and this happens five times in totalThe special effects are at best achieved with the balloons talking, which is okay, but the greenscreen is just atrocious: I could literally make a better greenscreen effect in my roomThey actually set a record for lowest gross for a movie playing in 2,000+ theaters, which is really saying something for an innocent movie like this; Overall, I'd give this movie a -10/10 if I could, and I suggest that if you bought this, then you throw it in the nearest trash disposal unit or fire to properly dispose of it.

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shnick1985

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...

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