Three reasons I liked The OOGIELOVES.

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I had no idea who they were before yesterday.

First, HAPPY LABOR DAY to my America readers.

I had no plan to post (and in a sense Im not as this post doesnt quite fit my typical blog musings.) as I have a JAM PACKED day ahead: FREE YOGA, hanging out friends & family-time.

After our experience OOGIELOVE’ing yesterday, however, I felt compelled to share.

You know, just in case you find yourself TODAY in the situation I was yesterday:

100 degrees outside, finished with all your outdoor (early morning) play ideas, done with all your indoor play ideas, having seen every other kids movie currently in theaters & desperate curious about a brief, air-conditioned break from motherhood where you could sit on your bottom for 88 minutes.

 

It was due to the above I CAVED late afternoon, grabbed my magic visa gift card (story for later), snatched up Ren Man & the Tornado and brought all of us to the OOGIELOVES (fingerquote) movie (unFQ).

At first our little trio was excited.

 

There were only 3 other people in the theater so we could spread out & had our pick of seats.

What’s not to love? (later the male member of the other trio began to snore. loudly. that slightly diminished our love)

And then the movie began.

And in 3 minutes I decided it was the worst movie (kid or adult) I’d ever seen.

Until it continued and continued and continued. seriously. 88 minutes can feel like a lifetime and it dawned upon me the OOGIELOVES. KINDA. ROCKED.

Here’s why.

  • It was unapologetically the worst movie ever made*. It has a fantastic cast. It still was unapologetic in its horriblenessment. The characters sang bad songs and made up awkward rhymes all with smiling “but we got your money didnt we? you came and brought the kids didnt you?” faces. OOGIELOVES didn’t pretend to be anything other than what it was. It didnt pretend there was a plot, character building or any redeeming message. It was unapologetically itself. I love that in people. Apparently I like it in movies, too.
  • It was a PLAYout…and that was freakin awesome. Whether you see movies you dont adore with kids, friends, spouses or partners—-we’ve all sat through films we arent into. We’ve sat, grown bored and, if youre me, shortened your hamstrings/tightened yer piriformis in the process. NOT DURING THE OOGIELOVES MOVIE. The film was interspersed with songs where the viewers were encouraged to get out of their seats and DANCE. I danced. The Tornado danced. Ren Man? Not so much. (yep. he’s sleeping.)

 

  • The OOGIELOVES movie didn’t try to sexualize my child. This was a very powerful realization for me as I watched the Tornado dance & shimmied along with her. Sure, the movie was mild moronic—but it was harmless moronitude. It was kid humor. It was silliness. And you know what? At 6 she still laughed, enjoyed and DANCED THROUGH all 88 minutes of it. Hollywood would have us believe our girls want the romance and implied sex they are serving to our kids. The Tornado is in no way sheltered (remember this?) & yet she loved this movie in all its childish silliness. It was a fantastic reminder to me she is still a child.

 

As evidenced by the picture above, Ren Man initially didnt agree with my take on the movie.

He liked the fact he got a 60 minute nap out of the deal, but didnt find too much redeeming about the “film” beyond that.

Until afterward as we walked and talked.

In the end we both agreed the movie wasnt great, but as parents to a 6 year old we’d love to *stay* a child for as long as she can we still give it a thumbs up.**

 

 

 

 

*This post may or may not have been started on my iPhone’s wordpress app as the final thrilling moments of the movie unfurled.

**I asked the Tornado if she gave it a thumbs up, down or middle. She responded by dancing with her thumbs. Kind of like Elaine. I think that means she liked it.

 

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Comments

  1. Fact: if Justin turns on a good movie, I fall asleep immediately. when he puts on something like “Contraband” I’m up until 3am yelling and laughing at the screen. It’s a bizarre quirk of mine. On our way to the airport last week, I saw a bus wrapped in your movie’s advertisement and was instantly intrigued. Now I KNOW I have to see it. You’re hysterical. BALTIMORE IN THREE WEEKS!!!!!

  4. LOL
    I had thought about bringing the twins yesterday, but the movie looks horrible.

    LOVE YOUR REIVW.

  6. Sleeping Ren Man is too funny. I can relate – I’ve fallen asleep at movies also. Too bad you didn’t take the Tornado to see Hit and Run like the *stellar* parents near us yesterday…I cringed when I heard their 6-ish child laugh at the condom joke. But seriously, go see THAT movie – just, you know, not with the kid. 😉

  7. OMG OOGIELOVES!!! They have a movie out?! I’m going to have to get my childish butt to the theater and watch that 🙂 It’s so nice to see a family go out together. The movie may have been bad but at least you had fun 🙂

  8. Huh.

    I saw it and hated it and my girls loved it too.

    Next time I will get off my popcorned butt and dance. 🙂

  10. Did you write this for me? The boys want to see this movie and I had been a no.
    I will go with my running shoes on.

  11. I echo the people who said you are a better mom than they are. I couldn’t sit through this one no matter how much my boys might want to see it.

  14. So glad you had fun! I took my oldest to see ParaNorman this weekend. The movie was ok but the one on one time with her was priceless!

  15. When my daugther was little and we got tired of the female stereotypes in older Disney movies and the scary scenes in new ones (we had to leave at the opening scene of Aladdin), I gained a new appreciation for the mindless drivel of My Little Pony …. Next time take RenMan to Starbucks before the movie starts so he doesn’t miss out!

  16. I’ve decided the fact that I’ve never heard of the Ooogieloves movie (or them at all) isn’t a bad thing.

    The worst movie I ever sat through with my niece was some Tigger Movie back in the late 90s early 2000s.

    Deb

  17. I LOVE THE ATTITUDE! 🙂 Love that you made what was best out of it & that Tornado loved & danced & you danced & RenMan got some much needed sleep – what’s not to love! 🙂

  18. Sounds really terrible! Love the positive swing though! Glad your daughter had fun! And good on your husband for going, even if he slept. No way mine would!

  21. Ok, bad movies are a sick pleasure of mine (I may or may not have admitted and professed my love for the shitshow that is “Junior” starring the terminator and the Lorax) but furries (adults that like costuming themselves as animals) freak me out almost as much as clowns and marionettes.

    You are mom of the year.

  22. LOVE that you started your movie review before the movie even ended!
    And your Canadian friends are celebrating today too; but we call it LABOUR day, ’cause we ‘labor with U’!
    Enjoy!

  25. I don’t think we will see this 🙂 but interesting take on a movie which could have been a stick in the eye LOL

  26. We embrace childish silly around here. My boys (7 & 9) think it toddlerish, but I find myself pondering whether they’d get up and dance/be silly or be worried about the other movie-goers ‘seeing’ them…

  28. Huh. If The Titanic had encouraged dancing, I might have enjoyed it more. Or if, like certain people of the male persuasion, I’d been able to fall asleep–now that would have been a nice long nap!

  29. You are one good mom to even attempt this in the first place. It is rare to find anything something for kids that isn’t filled with adult humor and messages. I think Hollywood thinks parents are too self involved to do anything just for the kids so they make everything for an adult and put a cartoon face on it.

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