What's Up: Balloon to the Rescue! (2009)

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Video Brinquedo has a lousy reputation....a reputation they apparently worked hard to create. Over the years, they have essentially piggybacked off the success of popular CGI films by producing their own version with similar titles but with god-awful production values. While it might sound like I am exaggerating, Pixar was making better films back in the mid-1980s when they produced their first film, "André and Wally B."! In fact, I cannot recall EVER seeing computer animated films this bad ever. The character faces are expressionless, they move in a blocky and unnatural manner and, overall, they're just incredibly ugly. I would truly be ashamed to be associated with films like those of Video Brinquedo."What's Up" was billed as another "UP!"--with posters featuring a house being floated with a giant balloon. However, the story really isn't that similar. Instead, it's about a couple annoying scientists who have created a machine to make things float and they want to use it to float their lab to other planets. Along for the ride are two annoying kids. There also is a monster and some other stuff...but, frankly, by the time it came to them in the film I was bored beyond belief and ready to end my suffering.Overall, a film that wouldn't even interest a toddler let alone anyone else. Cheaply made, dull and god-awful.

This "movie" is horrendous.Don't waste your goddamn time.

Not quite bad as Spider's web: A pig's tale but still on the same level as Ratatoing. It's not in English since there's only a British one for this, You can find the English one but it WILL be harder to find than the others, I knew this movie will suck like every time Video Brinquedo produces a new movie unlike Pixar and this is a VERY poor man's version of Pixar's UP. This makes a bad move look like if it's a masterpiece, If you are a person who has bad taste in movies and cartoons, Then this is for you! It needs to be a wake up call if people began to like this crappy rip off and not the original ones. Just look the animation, It's lazily done! Can someone tell me that Pixar is going to sue these evil bastards called "Video Brinquedo"!? I mention that again it doesn't have a profile here on TV.com and If it does get one, I will rate it a 1 like all their 44 minute films. The plot line, It's EVEN WORSE than you expected!The lip sync is ABSOLUTELY off, Don't even watch even if you are curious.

And actually that What's Up: Balloon to the Rescue rips-off Up, one of Pixar's best films, is the least of its problems. How amateurishly made it is in all areas is really painful to watch, lack of originality in a film is not always a problem but it depends on how everything else is done. What's Up: Balloon to the Rescue is not just unoriginal but every component making it up screams of a less-than-amateur job. What's Up: Balloon to the Rescue is not quite as bad as Ratatoing and The Little Panda Fighter, that doesn't mean anything though because it is one of Video Brinquedo's(the Asylum of animated movie studios and even worse, The Asylum does have the odd tolerable film whereas Video Brinquedo's entire resume consists of movies that are to be seen once and immediately erased from the memory) worst. The animation is every bit as hideous as those of Ratatoing and The Little Panda Fighter, instead of detail and fluidity every background is static and choppy, the colours manage to be flat and garish and even worse are the robotic and really quite creepy character designs. Nobody is expecting Disney, Pixar or Studio Ghibli quality here, they want to see effort which wasn't seen all that much with What's Up: Balloon to the Rescue. The soundtrack is forgettable at best and flatly recorded and, like with Ratatoing and The Little Panda Fighter, What's Up: Balloon to the Rescue is written terribly. The humour is unfunny and is more juvenile and at times crass rather than smart and witty. The story, if we side-step the unoriginality, has absolutely no heart or charm to it. It is also a very overly predictable story with some of the laziest exposition of possibly any movie, animated or otherwise, and manages also to be too thin for the almost 50 minute length. Even worse it also didn't even know how or when to end. The characters, there are shades of the Up characters in their character designs but very-badly-designed-clones-looking instead are annoying and not likable in the slightest, and you are looking for good voice work, look elsewhere. If you've seen any of Video Brinquedo's any other outings you'll know how poor the vocal talent is, it's of the didn't-even-try quality with dialogue delivery lacking in any kind of expressions and the voices themselves often grate. Overall, if you want to be uplifted see Up itself, because What's Up: Balloon to the Rescue won't give you that feeling, deflation and annoyance will be more like it. 1/10 Bethany Cox