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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).

BLOOD BLOOD BLOOD, So much crimes and they are so cool, this is an Argentinian movie, it is really great, is a perfect comedy with a lot of black humor. It is an animation movie with bizarre crimes and so much blood, Boggie is a hired murderer, he is hired to make all type of crimes and he uses all types of methods to achieve what he wants. For the ones who always look for famous actors i will say that you won't find anyone in this movie except you are Argentine. The movie is based on one of the comics that made Roberto "El Negro" Fontanarrosa (Argentinian writer, for me one of the best writing comics, the comic is also named "Boggie, El Aceitoso", i give it a 7 but it can also be an 8, I hope you like it, greetings. maxi0305

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 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.

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...

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.

The artwork is good with beautiful moody colouring/tones etc (that's why I gave it a 1 star score) but the film is just way too pointlessly over violent! I did not enjoy it at all (and I very, very rarely find myself saying that about an animated film because I love animation films)!

One of the reviewers noted that this is a parody of the stereotype, macho, tough guy American hero; hmm? I think that it is more likely it is based upon the years of the tyrannical Argentinian military junta, its brutal police and the covert scum that was in control of the country; back in the early days of the creator Roberto Fontanarrosas' earlier life!

Born: Roberto Alfredo Fontanarrosa, November 26, 1944, Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina and died: July 19, 2007, Rosario, Argentina. He was also known as El Negro ("The Black One", "Black man") which perfectly suits this dark, violent and morose story. By the time he died the military junta government had been deposed but also, by that time the mind of the then generation and their offspring millennial brats had become numb to all the violence and brutal daily life existence around the world (caused by too many reasons to go into on these pages!).

As some of you know I do not suggest that people do, or not, see a particular film, because its up to them what they see and like/dislike, but I would say to people that they don't go to see this film play anywhere and don't buy the DVD. I say this because it appeared that the films writer, Mario Moreno who co-wrote the movie in 2007, was never paid for his work. Even when his lawyers contacted the American company (who was given distributor rights) to inform them about it, neither company took any action to resolve the issue; ignoring him and giving him nothing!

It would appear to be that film makers around the world are as disloyal and corrupt as elsewhere in the film industry. They wail and cry about piracy and shout for retribution owed to them but they choose to ignore the film company's piracy of this release and the retribution owed to its writer from way back in 2007.

Let everyone know not to support this film unless credit and debit is due!

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.

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!

The main character here is animated ... yes pun intended. And he hates everyone and everything. In a way that can be called inclusive ... if you don't take the movie seriously and are not easily offended that is. Also throw any sense of good and evil out of the window - well most of it.

Because the movie really goes there and beyond. Be it elderly, young, animals or anything else - the movie will not touch or treat anyone ... differently. They all will get violence thrown at them. Political correctness? You won't find any here .. so if that doesn't sound good to you or something that will make you even angry (triggered) ... you probably shouldn't watch it. The animation is decent enough - and there is no stopping the mayhem for 80 odd minutes.

This film is a cartoon that no self-respecting parent would let their kids near or they'll need therapy for life. I started watching this with a strange kind of wonder, because right from the beginning it was unlike anything I had ever seen. The unrelenting violence, the gore, the blood, the racism, misogyny (women are like Kleenex after you use them you throw them away) the dig at Disney, were all so very over the top that after a while I realized that shock value was all it had going for it. Even shock value after a while becomes boring. They had to get their soccer (football) in too. It was a strange social commentary on what the producers apparently think the roles of men and women should be, men macho, women sub-servient creatures to be used and cast aside, got it. Also the makers apparently feel the police in Argentina are all crooked and pretty powerless when it comes to criminals. They threw in a couple of digs. The movie has shades of Sin City (although oddly enough they apparently draw the line at nudity) Scarface, Dirty Harry and Tarantino all thrown in and cranked up to 11. The only redeeming factor I could say is that they took extra care animating the automobiles (must be a thing in Argentina) because they looked good. All in all I think it's a movie made for guys who feel powerless in their lives who will walk away with a sense of what life would be like with no rules and being totally irresistible to women. For everyone else it just becomes kind of boring.

Not only is Boogie a highly entertaining animated film, it manages to be gloriously un-PC and never gives in. A lot of Bakshi influence with a dash of Sin City and some wonderfully over the top violence and gore that will make some scream and run and others scream and jump for joy. A must watch.

We are facing a film that is based on a comic by Fontanarrosa, it has Noir elements like those of Frank Miller in Sin City and similar (Perhaps with touches like those of Stan Lee), it really is a must-see film if you like police comics and especially B-class cinema, however I must clarify that the dubbing, the music, the setting, the shots, the drawing, and facsimiles are really very well done, especially taking into account that the budget was very low.

I think that as a (positive) criticism that I would make, is the fact that it does not last longer, this film could have lasted 30-40 minutes more and it would have been great, I think that is the only thing that you will regret after having seen it.