MartinHafer 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.

ironhorse_iv Coming to a supermarket checkout stand or a one dollar store DVD bargain bin near you. This shameless movie by Vídeo Brinquedo also known as Toyland Video was so lousy that it made me, wish I haven't saw it. I must admit that I watch this movie due to morbid curiosity, wanting to know, how similar, this rip-off, was to the 2009's Pixar Animation Studio film, 'Up'. Surprising, despite the cover and title which so closely resembles the Pixar film, the movie identical more in many ways to 2009's DreamWorks's 'Monsters Vs Aliens' than 'Up' in the plot. Don't get me wrong, the movie directed by Everton Rodrigues, still has a house being travel by balloon power, but instead of the characters wanting to seek adventure in an exotic South America country; this film has the team lead by professor Dr. Crumb chasing after monsters around the world that escape from a different dimension. While, the plot doesn't make a lot of sense. At least, this movie isn't shamelessly copying the 'Up' plot, frame by frame. However, I do have to say, the rest of the film is done, so amateurishly. The awful animation, the bad voice acting, and others, make this film, very unwatchable. At least, other mockbuster companies like GoodTimes Entertainment & Asylum Production put some work, into their crappy films. I get the fact, this movie is a mockbuster; a film created with the intention of piggy-backing on the publicity of a major film with a similar title or theme, but this movie is way to laziness made. Taking old animation cells, from their Little & Big Monsters rip-off 2009's DreamWorks' 'Monsters vs. Aliens', the animation models are so recycle and stiff in motion, that they barely show any emotional range, nor smoothness. If that wasn't bad enough, the characters are just painfully dumb, and annoying. They're also a bit disturbing. A good example is the scene where a man gives young boy candy that puts him to sleep! Wow, that's really dark. However, I think the worst characters in the film, has to be the evil French guy with the awful French stereotype & the Chinese man with the offensive name "Ching Ling". I don't care if this movie was made for kids. That's still, not right. It doesn't help that the movie stars, a bunch of scientists that has no clue, what they're talking about. The movie isn't educational at all. Nor does it teach any strong moral message about ourselves. If anything, this movie is a time-waster, but even with that, this movie isn't that entertaining. The action scenes are short, brief and disappointing, that I doubt, it will keep a child's attention. The humor is also really flat, and unfunny. Even my niece found it boring, and she loves films like this. The animation is so ugly looking and cheap-looking that she spent more time, looking at the baby toilet, than watching this film. I can't see anyone watching this movie for more than two minutes without wanting to turn it off. This is the kind of movie you would show to your kids when you want to punish them for something. It's torture! Often made with a low budget, films like this, are usually released direct-to-video at the same time as the mainstream film reaches theaters or video outlets in over to intentionally deceive consumers into mistakenly purchasing the derivative, rather than the original movie, they tend to want to watch. Films like 'What's Up", were able to get away with scams like this, because Mockbuster producers have had no legal troubles with drafting off as a result of companies like Disney losing a case against GoodTimes Entertainment in the early 1990s. As long, as the source material is in the public domain, or have different artistic license from the film that they trying to mock; companies like this, are protected from copyrights laws. In the end, I really don't mind films, like this. As long, as the movie isn't a full blown piracy copy of the film, they trying to capitalize on. After all, its fair use laws like this that helps protected reviews like this, from being taken down. Overall: While, 'What's up?" Balloons to the Rescue' is family-approved movie, it's not really recommended from me, unless you're buying this movie as a gag gift. Even with that, there is better rip-off movies than this to watch. I hope, sooner than later, this balloon movie gets pop, because that what this movie really deserves.

BlossomTheLeader 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.

TheLittleSongbird 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