The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure (2012)

As Good As It Gets

Blistering performances.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

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.

This movie has no redeeming qualities even worth discussing. I think the metacritic has it at 32/100 yet a number of reviews here gave it a 10/10! A 10? Does this movie look like it's a 10? Does this really seem like it's as good as classic kid's movie Toy Story? There are so many obvious fake reviews that I am offended by it. I just can't let this stand. Screw every person at the production company that participated in faking reviews. 34 of the positive reviews are 8 or higher. The clearly Fake Reviews also have similar wording. Keywords are also used like 'Plot Summary' and 'Character Description' Who the hell titles their reviews that way? And oddly, 2 reviews start with a number like 89. Or 28. Not numbers like a score but numbers as in a list. That is…unusual. The 30 of the 34 reviewers have only 1 review (for Oogieloves), no avatar, no poll responses, no ratings and no lists and no other activity since joining nearly 3 years ago. ALL 30 joined IMDb at the same time, June 2013 except two a few months later. And they all have plain simple user names with random number at the end. I Have encountered only ONE clearly LEGIT positive Review and the 3 remaining positive reviews are pretty clearly fake but if they are they are at least different from the other reviews.

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.

If you came to IMDb and wondered why this abortion of a movie (the biggest box office bomb in history, by the way) has such a high rating, well, wonder no more.The company has either enlisted their own employees, or the services of a review/like-bombing company, to drench this entry in positive reviews. The 10-star reviews are almost unanimously written by newly created accounts with obviously generated names (Mary869 or whatever), which have not reviewed anything else, ever. Yes, I have not done so either - it should say something when people sign up to IMDb just to point something so blatant as this out.So, not only has the company completely failed to make anything even approximating a bad movie - they are also unethically trying to manipulate ratings to make it seem like anything else but the complete catastrophe that it is.