This week, your Labor Day holiday viewing kicks off with Tom Hardy in cardigans in John Hillcoat's Lawless for the grown-ups and the PG-13 horror flick The Possession for everyone else. Well, almost everyone else; if you have eyeballs and live in the targeted marketing range of self-professed Teletubbies PR whiz Kenn Viselman, another new offering is jockeying for the disposable ticket monies of the kid-toting demographic out there. Its name is Oogieloves. And it's coming for you.
The Oogieloves In The Big Balloon Adventure is, like The Teletubbies, colorful G-rated children's programming built around giant humanoid creatures, this time full-bodied puppet-kids Goobie, Zoozie and Toofie. (Unfortunately the stoner entertainment potential seems much, much lower here.) There's no good reason for you to know what the Oogieloves are, though if you're like me the billboards and posters around town have a lingering, disturbing effect.
My immediate reaction to turning the corner to come face to face with one of these Oogieloves posters:
WHAT ARE THESE GIANT FABRIC CANDY-COLORED CHILDREN-PUPPETS WITH NO NOSES? WHY DO THEY STARE AT ME FROM BEHIND THOSE BALLOONS LIKE PUPPET PEEPING TOMS?? DEAR GOD THEY'RE GOING TO EAT ME, AREN'T THEY???
And side note: Guys, just stop trying to make "Oogust" happen.
Oogieloves aims to set itself apart from the competition by offering children and parents an interactive moviegoing experience: Here, the young viewer is encouraged to dance and sing with the screen characters as a gaggle of semi-recognizable celebrities (Toni Braxton, Cloris Leachman, Chazz Palminteri, Cary Elwes, Jaime Pressly) turn in cameos to keep the grown-ups from falling asleep/banging their heads against the seat, at least on some basic level of C-list celebrity spotting.
I'm not a parent, so I don't have much of an idea of how excruciating it…
Source: http://www.celebrities.com/celebrities-gossip/so-wtf-is-an-oogieloves-anyway/
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