Ooga Booga (2013)

I don't have all the words right now but this film is a work of art.

Good movie but grossly overrated

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

I was really looking forward to this movie. I usually love the 'so bad its good' type movie like The Room, and ThanksKilling, but this movie was kinda terrible. The preview to this movie is really misleading into making you think it'll be good for a few laughs, but please don't waste your time. The first 20 minutes are almost pointless about some drunk actor named Hambo, then we finally get to Devin's story. Devin is a young African American man who's about to go to Med School and has a beautiful girlfriend, but it's all taken away when he's at the wrong place at the wrong time. Of course, the police officers gun him down because of his race (Ferguson) and his soul is somehow transferred into a doll named Ooga Booga. (For some reason, he can't talk. He can just make bwahaha voices, like he's trying to be scary) Ooga and his girlfriend track down everyone involved in his death and gets revenge. I would not recommend OOGA BOOGA!!!

The long awaited Ooga Booga spin-off has finally arrived, and it is pretty much everything a B film junkie could ask for. Killer cameos, a respectable body-count,and enough satirical racism to make Quentin Taratino blush. That being said, the film is obviously low-budget, so to all of you Roger Eberts out there, please, be gentle, take it for what it is, and just remember that it might be trash, but its blatant trash, and of course, all in good fun. Stacey Keach is great as the heaviest of cracker villains as he commands an army of neo-Nazis as he unknowingly faces off against a devilishly un-p.c. Tribal doll named Ooga Booga. Armed with a spear and possessed by a revenge hungry African American who was unjustly murdered in cold blood, this doll goes on safari, hunting down every last racist who had a hand in his death. Can you say camp heaven?

Ooga Booga is a little doll with a spear who kills bad, racist white guys. It starts off with a kids TV show where a drunken clown named Hambo is backstage drinking while a young woman in daisy dukes and tied shirt cheers the little monsters on. They chant "Hambo" "Hambo" until we see the man sitting in a chair boozing it up and getting off while reading a Playboy magazine. When he finally appears on stage, he insults the tykes while almost molesting his nubile co-host. Unfortunately, it is the only funny moment in this film. A young black medical student is Hambo's best friend, and he is given the Ooga Booga doll as a gift. The doll comes to life when the med student is killed by a redneck cop. The victims beautiful girlfriend, Donna, teams up with the doll to seek revenge on the bad guys. The strangest part is when Karen Black pops up in a trailer playing a recluse who lives for her TV shows. Stacy Keach is cast as a corrupt judge, also dislikes black people. Ciarra Carter, as Donna, has what may be the most bizarre shower scene in the history of cinema, as the horny devil doll watches her washing up while he performs a solo sex act. Instead of this, look for "Trilogy of Terror" from 1975, where Karen Black also shared the screen with a small, violent doll.

There is nobody better at bringing the fun of horror and puppets together than Charles Band and Full Moon Horror. With greats like the Puppet Master and Demonic Toys series he they have cornered the market for this genre. Band's latest isn't so much of a puppet, but still could easily live in that same universe with Ooga Booga, but does it deliver the same fun as the films of this genre or will it be the one that should have been left in the jungle? Ooga Booga follows an innocent African American boy who is brutally murdered by dirty cops, but his soul is magically transferred into an action figure named Ooga Booga. With on his tribal spear and old girlfriend to help he takes to the streets and trailer parks to find the men that ended his once bright future. There is no doubt Band is great at what he does. He somehow takes these silly little characters and turns them into something that should never work. Of course these films are ridiculous, but they still work great. While Ooga Booga doesn't deliver as much of the gore or horror as some of the previous films of its kind it still delivers the fun and cheese nature fans have come to love. The obvious real star is Ooga Booga himself and is made that much greater watching him deliver his tribal yell and glowing red eyes before making his kill that is so brilliantly ridiculous that it works on every level. The film also sports a couple of greats in Stacey Keach and Karen Black who chew up the screen and look like they are having a great time.There is no doubt that the Full Moon films have a pretty specific audience and those are the same people that will love this movie. Those outsiders that somehow do not grasp the fun that these films deliver will not only get it, but most likely stay away anyway. Let's hope this is not the last time we get to see Ooga Booga, but maybe we can get some fun team ups alongside Gingerdead Man or Puppet Master.