Very un-appealing to say the least. Not nessecarily turned off by the animation but it seems a bit mean spirited.

Its so disappointing to see 3d and 2d animation together without consideration to blend them. Seeing a flat 2d characters, especially with the level of after-effects like simplicity here, next to scenes of cars and helicopters with a much higher level of shading never looks right. I just can’t believe in a world without a cohesive design style. Racism, sexism and violence aside, I feel like the style choice is what’s most wrong about this film.
Other then that. This is a pretty odd film. I wonder what their target audience is, other then adult.

Yea this movie looks all over the place! i cant decide if i think it’ll be entertaining or a waste of time. i’m leaning towards the latter, though i like it’s rather cute stylization mixed with its gratuitous nature. it’s hard to tell from the trailer whether the story will be any good, in fact i can’t tell what the story might be about, except the part where the man on the phone says “you didn’t have to kill gary.” but it seems like they only included that in the trailer as a gag. i think the only good part of the trailer is the end when he asks if he missed anybody to kill, and the guy thanks him for shooting him.

The trailer plays well, but more as a parody of a gritty cartoon than a promise of a whole feature. What might have worked well in a graphic novel is merely perverse when set in motion. Translating from one medium to a more literal one (words to images, drawings to animation, or even animation to live action) is always a dicy proposition — and ironically, too much fidelity to the original is often a mistake.

I found myself thinking of an early Asterix cartoon, a point-by-point recreation of one of the books (Asterix in Britain). Every gag and key image was there, and they clearly could have gotten a killer trailer out of it, but it was deadly dull as a complete film.

this is frank millers worst nightmare come true.

this is a horrible take on SIN CITY.

>oVi

I thought I´d chime in here, seeing as how I worked on this movie. It’s in no way meant to be taken seriously: the Boogie character was created by the great, late Roberto Fontanarrosa (a well-loved, very famous cartoonist down here) as an extreme parody of American action movie anti-heroes… so yes, the whole point is that he´s a horrible human being (racist, sexist, extremely violent, etc). Also, to whoever said it´s a Brock Samson wannabe, the character was created in the 70´s…so..no.
I don´t think the flick is perfect by any means, but I know for a fact everybody who worked on it put a huge amount of effort on it and, as far as Argentine animated movies go, this one at least took some interesting visual and thematic risks (most movies produced here are cheap, cutesy, kiddie crap) So, again, I don´t think it´s a classic or anything, but hey, I´m still kinda proud of it. Just my 2 cents.

I’m with Leo. Racist? And “Brock Samson wanna-be?” Yes, because Brock Samson is that original of a character, a brilliant, timeless creation, a yardstick of ingenuity. How about we all expand our knowledge a bit beyond American late-night fare, and not throw around terms like “racist” simply to attack something that isn’t to our tastes?

Hi
Well, in most of the comments I’ve read so far (except Leo’s) there’s a lack of information.
The main character, Boogie, appeared as a comic strip on many southamerican newspaper. Its author was an important cartoonist from Argentina, and he used acid and black humor, and its strips were full of political critics. Boogie is a hitman, a gun for hire, so he’s violent, sexist, chauvinist, and all the bad things you want to add. It’s a political critic to all the american intervenion on 3rd world countriess (like Panama’s invasion, Nicaraguas war with the contras, etc etc) and a parody of all american action heroes (like Dirty Harry). It’s not politically correct (fortunately, in southamerica we are no too much into it, and we can still laugh about our culture and social situation). And I hope in the movie he will not end turning into a good guy (like that crap movie of Judge Dredd). Btw, if you are familiar with Judge Dredd, maybe you can understand more Boogie. It’s not to be taken seriously, its not an apology for violence… its mostly fun, asides that sadly sometimes real people are that way. I’m not too found on the animation, cause the comicstrip was really well drawn.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boogie,_the_oily

racist? misogynist? unappealing? funny how when other cultures do it, it’s offensive, but when it’s good ol’ seth mcfarlane, it’s ‘ironic’.

We like the animation actually and don’t find the content too offensive, only because it seems obvious that it’s meant to poke fun at almost everything.

Funny moments:
Superhero steps in doo, doo or whatever that was.

Guy gets killed and thanks him.

You didn’t have to kill Gary. Who’s Gary?

It’s probably not fair to compare this to Sin City. That seemed much darker and way more real.

We’ll give this a chance.

Oh I don’t know…

It looks on every level to be a parody to me, and the graphic violence really doesn’t bother me at all. Of course, I enjoy and respect what Bakshi did along these lines in the ’70s (Coonskin being one of my favorites) as well as what other independents have also attempted along these lines.

I’d love to see it, but doubt it will make any kind of impact here in the USA.

Still, it’s encouraging to see anyone in this industry try to up the ante, so I wish it well.

I don’t like it.

It made me enthusiastic. I laughed.

Feels like 70s Bakshi to me.

Wish it was dubbed. Readin’ takes my attention away from the splatter. Just don’t use Patrick Warburton for Boogie. He’s all wore out.

may not be the best piece of flash classical and 3d.
But its something.
I personally hated the style with shading and glares and red and blacks ,since the strip is got nice pastel tones and no shading almost.

and Yeah guys, do your research before saying Fontanarrosa copied Brock Samson.
besides…how many tough american guys have you NOT seen sporting a Curly blonde Mullet!

Wow. Just..wow. Now that’s old-school racism right there folks

Saw this at Annecy film festival this year. A pretty good and funny parody (I cannot understand how people don’t see the parody and think that it’s a racist or sexist cartoon ! People were laughing in the theater and I can guarantee you that they were not racists !)… A bit self-indulgent and boring near the end, though.

It is a shame that a creation of the late Roberto Fontanarrosa, and probably himself, will be known more internationally through this thing.
I’m from Argentina, I know this character, that was borne as a Dirty Harry parody (hence his name Oily Boogie), and yes he is a sexist racist bastard. It was used by his creator as a device to point out these ideas on our society and, through humour, prevent us from them. The movie does not represent this. It was made as a Sin Citiesque attempt to get people in the movie theatres, and was stripped of any social comment and emphasised only violence. As many film adaptations do today, it destroyed the character.
It is another sad example of the mentality of most of the animation industry here, where a movie is seen only a s a way to make some money no matter what.

Look, if you draw the black characters as sambo caricatures, I’m going to see it as racist. The intent of the artists or filmmakers is immaterial. In the same way that I cannot see a swastika without thinking of the holocaust or look at the confederate flag without thinking of American slavery. Intellectually I can perhaps – PERHAPS – believe that the intent may not have been racist, but emotionally I simply cannot understand why anyone would draw a black character in sambo style unless they were being intentionally racist.

Chris, they don’t view it as so offensively racist in the same way you probably don’t view Speedy Gonzales or Bumblebee man as being offensively racist.

Nobody makes violent/sexist/racist movies anymore. But everybody makes PARODIES of such movies, which show their moral and aesthetic superiority by displaying industrial quantities of violence/sexism/racism. They cater to sensitive male film scholars who laugh at decapitations.

It’s easy to tell these artistic parodies from mere slime:
– “We’re mocking the genre conventions.”
– “Anyone who thinks this is a glorification of violence/sexism/racism simply hasn’t seen the whole movie.”
– “It’s based on a respected work of art.” (and we replaced the dull parts with parodies of explosions and softcore porn)
– “We’re not afraid to be politically incorrect.”

I figure the last really trashy movie was made sometime in the 1970s. Since then, everything that looked like trash was actually an insightful parody of that one flick.

I beg to differ with Dagan and those saying the puppet animation used in this is a detriment. If SNL’s TV Funhouse and South Park has taught us anything, there’s something about more limited animation that really lends itself to satire. When something is so damn presentational instead of fluid and realistic, all that’s left is the comedy and the commentary. This movie will live and die by its parodying style, and the animation holds up well enough to simply support it.

This is no other thing that a movie- comic book that intends to criticize the extreme violence, racism, sexism and so on with a black humor touch. The comic book was made in the early seventy’s, so any seem of the character to brock samson, or any other character is mere concidence, the guys from adult swim might even took inspiration from boogie. This is an “american cliche action movie”, but through the eyes of a latin- american vision. The movie have some cultural references of movies such as sin city, hassard dukes, apocalyps now, and others.