Boogie

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.

I never thought a movie about Boogie could be this good. It's so faithful to the comics, it even includes a couple of jokes from them - the best ones I ever read, actually. The drawing style is exactly as I'd have thought Boogie should look like in a movie - Boogie's voice is dry, sarcastic and funny. I'd think as a whole, it's a bit more violent than the comics ever were; nevertheless the whole package is perfectly executed.

It's a terrific tribute to Fontanarrosa's work. Highly recommended (if you ever liked Boogie in the first place - I suppose it's too violent for most people).

Mario Moreno co-wrote this movie in 2007 , that was released in South America in 2009 without giving him any writing credit or payment. It is about to make its way to the US. Mario's lawyer contacted the US- based distributor, and the production company in Argentina, but neither took any action to resolve the issue. The film screened in LA this week, and may be coming to a theater near you soon. Join this page to let these guys know you won't see it unless credit is given where credit is due!

Mario Moreno co-wrote in 2007 this movie, that was released in South America in 2009 without giving him any writing credit or payment. It is about to make its way to the US. Mario's lawyer contacted the US- based distributor, and the production company in Argentina, but neither took any action to resolve the issue. The film screened in LA this week, and may be coming to a theater near you soon. Join this page to let these guys know you won't see it unless credit is given where credit is due!

This is not a movie for anyone. It is mainly targeted to an audience that has read at least some of the thousands comics of "Boggie el aceitoso," Spanish for 'Oily Boogie.' Created by the late Argentine cartoonist Roberto Fontanarrosa, Boogie parodies the American stereotype of the macho, tough guy American hero.

Faithful to the aforementioned comics, which started being published in South America in 1974 and ended in 1995, Boogie is presented as a anti-hero who lives as a callous and merciless hit man in what appears to be New York City. Oily Boogie is thus a gun-for-hire and he couldn't care less about the target as long as the money being offered is good enough.

In this low budget yet highly original movie, Oily Boogie is the ultimate sociopath: a rude, uncouth, chauvinistic, misogynistic, warmongering alpha male. The script is very well done and it greatly helps to enhance all these negatives tendencies in Oily Boogie.

Jingoistic people should abstain to see this movie because, undoubtedly, they will find it offensive and grossly anti-American. Indeed, cartoonist Fontanarrosa was highly critical of the many wars the United States was involved in ---Vietnam in particular. Oily Boogie is an extreme version of the "Ugly American" seen by the eyes of anti-war cartoonist from Rosario, Argentina.

The movie is fast-paced, funny and somewhat unpredictable. Its violence is so extreme is laughable, and the main character, Oily Boogie, is so cynical it can make the audience laugh or just leave the theater...

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.