The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure



The Oogieloves in the Big Balloon Adventure (also referred to as simply The Oogieloves) is a 2012 American interactive educational children's musical adventure comedy film by Kenn Viselmann, based loosely on the 2004 children's television series My Bedbugs by Alex Greene and Carol Sweeney. It features the voice talents of Malerie Grady, Stephanie Renz and Misty Miller as the three Oogieloves and also has a parade of guest stars including Toni Braxton, Cloris Leachman, Christopher Lloyd, Chazz Palminteri, Cary Elwes, Jaime Pressly, and Kylie O'Brien.

Marketed as an "interactive film," The Oogieloves encourages the viewers to sing and dance along. The film was theatrically released on August 29, 2012 by Kenn Viselman Presents and Freestyle Releasing. The film was released on DVD on February 5, 2013. It was a box-office bomb, and also didn't do much good on video either.

Development
Kenn Viselmann was inspired to produce the film after witnessing a Madea film. No, really. Unable to afford a Teletubbies adaptation, one of the properties he had brought to the US, he bought assets from an obscure series called My Bedbugs to fill in the gap.

Synopsis
The film opens with an introduction that explains the interactive nature of the film and introduces the Oogieloves, Goobie, Zoozie, and Toofie.The Oogieloves awake to prepare a surprise birthday party for their living pillow Schluufy, with the aid of magical window Windy Window, vacuum cleaner J. Edgar and fish Ruffy. However, J. Edgar accidentally releases the five magical balloons they bought for the party, so the Oogieloves set out to retrieve them, taking Ruffy with them (but not J. Edgar despite him being responsible for this).

The first balloon is found at the treehouse home of Dotty Rounder (Cloris Leachman) who is obsessed with circles and polka dots, and her granddaughter Jubilee (Kylie Dakota), who is obsessed with squares. The second is found at the milkshake cafe of Milky Marvin (Chazz Palminteri), who is holding a milkshake contest to win the second balloon in which the Oogieloves and their pet fish participate. The third balloon is found in possession of Rosalie Rosebud (Toni Braxton), a pop singer who denies her allergy to roses. The fourth balloon is by the truck of Bobby Wobbly (Cary Elwes), a cowboy with an unusual walk. The last balloon is found on top of a windmill, where the Oogieloves retrieve it with the help of Lola and Lero Sombrero (Jaime Pressly and Christopher Lloyd), who ride a giant flying sombrero.

Just before they reach home with all the balloons, the Oogieloves accidentally release them again but blow kisses to persuade them to return (why didn't they do that to begin with?). They then hold the surprise party for Schluufy, who did not awake until just before their return.

Cast

 * Malerie Grady as the voice of Toofie
 * Alex Greene as Toofie (in-suit performer)
 * Stephanie Renz as the voice of Zoozie
 * Carol Sweeney as Zoozie (in-suit performer)
 * Misty Miller as the voice of Goobie
 * Eric Dunman as Goobie (in-suit performer)
 * Toni Braxton as Rosalie Rosebud
 * Cloris Leachman as Dottie Rounder
 * Christopher Lloyd as Lero Sombrero
 * Chazz Palminteri as Milky Marvin
 * Cary Elwes as Bobby Wobbly
 * Jaime Pressly as Lola Sombrero
 * Maya Stange as Windy Window
 * Nick Drago as J. Edgar
 * Alecia Jai Fears as Rochelle Rosebud
 * Kylie Dakota as Jubilee Rounder
 * Taras Los as Schluufy the Pillow
 * Randy Carfagno as Ruffy
 * Guistina Chirco as Marna

Release
The film was released on August 29, 2012. On its opening weekend, the film became the biggest box office bomb of all time for films released in at least 2,000 theaters. To alleviate the problem, the amount of screens showing the film were lessened, and it would be shown in early mornings ("kind of like The Rocky Horror Picture Show, but in the morning instead of midnight," explained Viselman).

The film was issued on Amazon Prime on February 5, 2013, with the DVD issued exclusively at Walmart the same day by Lionsgate Home Entertainment. On July 16, the DVD began selling at other retailers.