They open the movie by telling us this is the best movie and we will have a lot of fun. This was in fact a lie. I hesitate to even call this a movie; it's much more akin to a real long episode of a Disney Jr or Nick Jr show (it has elements of Peewee's Playhouse, Dora the Explorer, and a few obvious other influences). The costumes are awful and look very creepy (I'm not 100% sure if the mouths actually move when they are talking or if they just hang open and they get jostled when the character moved). There really isn't much plot and all the time and effort went into terrible "interactive" song and dance sections. I almost want to give them credit for putting in jokes for the adults, but none of them even approach funny, so it's a bit of a moot point (there is a vacuum named J. Edgar.... get it? He's a vacuum. J Edgar Hoover. Hoover is a vacuum brand.... Get it?). I don't think The Oogieloves was meant to be an actual movie to be fair; I can't imagine anyone thought this had any sort of wide appeal. This had to have been made for stay at home parents who can't afford to take their four year old to The Wiggles Live or Paw Patrol on Stage. It's a lot of sing along and call-and-response with little connective tissue in between (It even has cues for when to stand and when it's "okay to sit down"). Apparently this is loosely based on a two season show no one has heard of, and it makes sense because it definitely feels like they expect me to know all these people already. I don't know if I have ever seen a movie with such a small target audience. I watched the fucking Paw Patrol movie and it makes this look like super shit. Paw Patrol may be geared very strongly towards their preschool audience who watches them every morning (? I assume it's a morning kind of show), but it has attempts at a real story, characters, and drama. If you take any four episodes of any Nick Jr show from 1995-2005 and tape them together, you'd have a better product than The Oogieloves. This has literally no value beyond keeping a toddler occupied for an amount of time. It doesn't even work as a "good bad" movie beyond the sheer WTF of the first ten minutes. One of the top reviews here mentions that there is joking about watching this film and then there is actually watching this film. If you are old enough to be on this site, I promise you it's not worth it. The idea of watching the movie is a funny joke, but actually watching it is no laughing matter. Friends don't let friends watch The Oogieloves.
They open the movie by telling us this is the best movie and we will have a lot of fun. This was in fact a lie. I hesitate to even call this a movie; it's much more akin to a real long episode of a Disney Jr or Nick Jr show (it has elements of Peewee's Playhouse, Dora the Explorer, and a few obvious other influences). The costumes are awful and look very creepy (I'm not 100% sure if the mouths actually move when they are talking or if they just hang open and they get jostled when the character moved). There really isn't much plot and all the time and effort went into terrible "interactive" song and dance sections. I almost want to give them credit for putting in jokes for the adults, but none of them even approach funny, so it's a bit of a moot point (there is a vacuum named J. Edgar.... get it? He's a vacuum. J Edgar Hoover. Hoover is a vacuum brand.... Get it?). I don't think The Oogieloves was meant to be an actual movie to be fair; I can't imagine anyone thought this had any sort of wide appeal. This had to have been made for stay at home parents who can't afford to take their four year old to The Wiggles Live or Paw Patrol on Stage. It's a lot of sing along and call-and-response with little connective tissue in between (It even has cues for when to stand and when it's "okay to sit down"). Apparently this is loosely based on a two season show no one has heard of, and it makes sense because it definitely feels like they expect me to know all these people already. I don't know if I have ever seen a movie with such a small target audience. I watched the fucking Paw Patrol movie and it makes this look like super shit. Paw Patrol may be geared very strongly towards their preschool audience who watches them every morning (? I assume it's a morning kind of show), but it has attempts at a real story, characters, and drama. If you take any four episodes of any Nick Jr show from 1995-2005 and tape them together, you'd have a better product than The Oogieloves. This has literally no value beyond keeping a toddler occupied for an amount of time. It doesn't even work as a "good bad" movie beyond the sheer WTF of the first ten minutes. One of the top reviews here mentions that there is joking about watching this film and then there is actually watching this film. If you are old enough to be on this site, I promise you it's not worth it. The idea of watching the movie is a funny joke, but actually watching it is no laughing matter. Friends don't let friends watch The Oogieloves.
