Review of What's Up: Balloon to the Rescue!

Coming to a supermarket checkout stand or a one dollar store DVD bargain bin near you. This shameless movie by Vídeo Brinquedo also known as Toyland Video was so lousy that it made me, wish I haven't saw it. I must admit that I watch this movie due to morbid curiosity, wanting to know, how similar, this rip-off, was to the 2009's Pixar Animation Studio film, 'Up'. Surprising, despite the cover and title which so closely resembles the Pixar film, the movie identical more in many ways to 2009's DreamWorks's 'Monsters Vs Aliens' than 'Up' in the plot. Don't get me wrong, the movie directed by Everton Rodrigues, still has a house being travel by balloon power, but instead of the characters wanting to seek adventure in an exotic South America country; this film has the team lead by professor Dr. Crumb chasing after monsters around the world that escape from a different dimension. While, the plot doesn't make a lot of sense. At least, this movie isn't shamelessly copying the 'Up' plot, frame by frame. However, I do have to say, the rest of the film is done, so amateurishly. The awful animation, the bad voice acting, and others, make this film, very unwatchable. At least, other mockbuster companies like GoodTimes Entertainment & Asylum Production put some work, into their crappy films. I get the fact, this movie is a mockbuster; a film created with the intention of piggy-backing on the publicity of a major film with a similar title or theme, but this movie is way to laziness made. Taking old animation cells, from their Little & Big Monsters rip-off 2009's DreamWorks' 'Monsters vs. Aliens', the animation models are so recycle and stiff in motion, that they barely show any emotional range, nor smoothness. If that wasn't bad enough, the characters are just painfully dumb, and annoying. They're also a bit disturbing. A good example is the scene where a man gives young boy candy that puts him to sleep! Wow, that's really dark. However, I think the worst characters in the film, has to be the evil French guy with the awful French stereotype & the Chinese man with the offensive name "Ching Ling". I don't care if this movie was made for kids. That's still, not right. It doesn't help that the movie stars, a bunch of scientists that has no clue, what they're talking about. The movie isn't educational at all. Nor does it teach any strong moral message about ourselves. If anything, this movie is a time-waster, but even with that, this movie isn't that entertaining. The action scenes are short, brief and disappointing, that I doubt, it will keep a child's attention. The humor is also really flat, and unfunny. Even my niece found it boring, and she loves films like this. The animation is so ugly looking and cheap-looking that she spent more time, looking at the baby toilet, than watching this film. I can't see anyone watching this movie for more than two minutes without wanting to turn it off. This is the kind of movie you would show to your kids when you want to punish them for something. It's torture! Often made with a low budget, films like this, are usually released direct-to-video at the same time as the mainstream film reaches theaters or video outlets in over to intentionally deceive consumers into mistakenly purchasing the derivative, rather than the original movie, they tend to want to watch. Films like 'What's Up", were able to get away with scams like this, because Mockbuster producers have had no legal troubles with drafting off as a result of companies like Disney losing a case against GoodTimes Entertainment in the early 1990s. As long, as the source material is in the public domain, or have different artistic license from the film that they trying to mock; companies like this, are protected from copyrights laws. In the end, I really don't mind films, like this. As long, as the movie isn't a full blown piracy copy of the film, they trying to capitalize on. After all, its fair use laws like this that helps protected reviews like this, from being taken down. Overall: While, 'What's up?" Balloons to the Rescue' is family-approved movie, it's not really recommended from me, unless you're buying this movie as a gag gift. Even with that, there is better rip-off movies than this to watch. I hope, sooner than later, this balloon movie gets pop, because that what this movie really deserves.