Boogie

The writing in this movie is terrible. It's like it was written by a demented 12 year old. The only thing worse is the voice acting. The title character (Boogie the Oily One) is a psychopath who is also a gun for hire set in a world that couldn't possibly exist. It's like setting a movie in Los Santos from Grand Theft Auto 5. The story? You're not watching this for the story so let's skip it. Every scene is just a new setting for Boogie to deal out excessive (and I do mean excessive) violence to, well, everybody. The problem is Boogie has no redeeming qualities and since no one is else is likable so you don't care about anyone, and when you don't care you don't become invested and you get bored. The animation style is passable but nothing memorable. I'm sure there's a niche market with low enough standards that would enjoy this, for everyone else: skip it.

First and foremost, the question is why did they think that this was acceptable.

The only redeeming factor on this film is the original designs and jokes from Fontanarrosa. The match with the CGI content is poorly done and more often than not unnecessary, the story is weak and the design of new characters doesn't look nearly as good as the original ones.

The final product is a string of classic Boogie stories glued together with unnecessary cgi sequences and laid on top of different backgrounds and animation styles that look made by 10 different companies with no style in common. Add some fart jokes and goofy characters to pad the time of the movie. The voice acting was bland, but not as bad as the visual part.

Turning a cynical character as Boogie into a hero in a quest for justice misses the point of the original material absolutely.

The film is fine for what it is but I saw the English dub of the film which is not well made and feels like it used something like google translate from the time. The strange grammar weird word choices are constant and distracting. The film is otherwise interesting but not especially entertaining.

Boogie (2009) is an Argentinean animated film that I recently watched on Tubi. The storyline follows a vigilante for hire that destroys criminals, crushes copious women and doesn't care about making friends.

This movie is directed by Gustavo Cova (Rouge Amergo) and contains the voices of Pablo Echarri (The One), Jesús Ochoa (Quantum of Solace), Nancy Dupláa (Wild Tales) and Susana Zabaleta (All of Them).

The animation for this is excellent and very fun. The action scenes contain fantastic gore and the flying body parts are entertaining. The storyline is straightforward but works perfectly for the content. Boogie is a smuck and I was hoping something bad would happen to him the entire movie. As the story unfolds I adored the ending.

Overall this is definitely a worthwhile watch. I would score this a 6.5-7/10 and strongly recommend it.

The man known as Boogie in this animated film designed to shock seems pretty proud that he is practically every–ist known to man; racist, misogynist, sexist etc.

As a mercenary Boogie was a highly trained emotionless killer for hire, criss-crossing the globe looking for random foreign people to fill with holes.

Then he ran out of wars.

As an assassin he was equally lethal and cold blooded, only the pay per head was more lucrative. Boogie never turned down a job regardless of the danger, he therefore became the man they called when the job couldn't be done.

As a lover Boogie is similarly distant and only available to deal on his terms. For some reason this never bothered the lengthy queue of willing women.

Boogie is his own man, an uncomplicated beast with no man or woman as his master, living life – and taking the lives of others – the way he wants to, cops, bad guys, women, kids and dogs, none are spared his violent whims.

As a film though, Boogie is pretty ordinary, especially when you swiftly realise that the extreme violence and reprehensible nature of the lead character are supposed to be the entertainment.

Boogie is quite short at well under 90 minutes, the action ramping up when the formerly irrepressible Boogie discovers that a newer model of assassin is on the scene, better trained, younger, faster, better equipped and *GASP* cheaper than he. As an F.U. you the system Boogie thwarts the new assassin's job and decides to protect the intended target, a young waitress with secrets that could bring the kingpin of the local much feared crime syndicate down.

Many films are decried because of the over the top nature of the violence, without it this film would have no noticeable features whatsoever, but after you see Boogie the kid get shot and the cat get fricasseed the quite literal 'cartoonish' novelty very quickly wears off.

The promoters of this DVD have cleverly marketed it to viewers looking for the latest in 'extreme whatever' by proudly describing the film as "Sexist, violent and sadistic", for some reason that gets the punters curious – including me – but it doesn't entertain them for long.

Final Rating – 4.5 / 10. I'm sure this DVD will end up in many an 18-21 year old's collection, where it will gather dust for a few years before being turfed, with the owner wondering just what he thought he saw in the first place.