Alicia I love this movie so much

Glucedee It's hard to see any effort in the film. There's no comedy to speak of, no real drama and, worst of all.

BelSports This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Bumpy Chip It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

zsofikam 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.

aech-02177 I don't know where to begin with this movie. I just don't. As a critic, I try to watch every movie I come across. As a critic, I don't discriminate films based on the target age demographic. As a critic, I only discriminate between good and bad movies. As a critic, I have seen the best and the worst in film. And what I have seen is the one the worst. The Oogieloves. I complain about movies like this all the time, and I get the same answer from almost everyone, "It's just for kids." No. That is not a legitimate excuse. I hear it all the time and I dismiss it every time. Just because something is for kids doesn't mean you shouldn't try to make it good. Let me point out the first problem with this movie. The Oogieloves are annoying as hell. They never shut up. They are always talking and jumping around. Loud and random is not funny. Second, the plot is just plain stupid. The Oogieloves go all over a sea of unfunny jokes and pointless celebrity cameos just to find a bunch of balloons that their idiot friend lost. The director of the movie was nominated for an Oscar for best documentary. Life is stupid. And finally, the movie is just awful. Simple as that. This movie is so bad that I found myself screaming at my TV, but not to help the Oogieloves. I was screaming for help. Why was this movie made? Why did Matthew Diamond direct this? Why does this movie have so many talented stars embarrassing themselves in front their fans? Why is this movie rated 6.5 on IMDb? Why? When I saw the poster for this, I thought it was some stupid, brainless CGI-animated kids film. Turns out to be a stupid, brainless live-action kids film with a bunch of people in radioactive Cabbage Patch Kids costumes with a Dora-type fourth wall break, which is somehow even worse than what I pictured. If I had kids, I wouldn't show this movie to them. If I was teaching film, I wouldn't even show this to a bunch of college kids to study what is wrong with kids entertainment. Just avoid this movie at all costs. There are better kids movies out there.

christophersvanefalk 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.

itsjustaaro_1 Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure is a thought-provoking psychological thriller about the dangers of too much unprotected sex, illegal drug smuggling and why it's best you wear a safety belt when driving around with Bruce Willis at 130 miles per hour in interstellar space. This is probably one of the finest forms of cinema since Run Lola Run; I took my youngest child over to see it and we bonded over the film's witty dialogue and perky chemistry among the actors and actresses.I must, must compliment the director about the principal photography in Venice Italy. Awe inspiring work. Not since the works of Stanley Kubrick had I seen such interwoven clever storytelling, so compelling, that I was awestruck by the twist ending. Distorted and trick camera angles really make the characters come alive as they try to keep up in this fast-paced world; surely that's something we can relate to. After we finished seeing the film my seven year old son told me this will be the film that makes him want to become a director.I later told my wife and she was visibly unimpressed, and said that I clearly had seen a different film. I don't believe her. The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure is by far the best film to have ever been produced, and I will certainly cast my vote in all categories at the film festival next year. Highly recommended, be sure to catch the soon to be bestseller Criterion DVD when it comes out in a few months. You won't be disappointed.