Ooga Booga (2013)

I went into this with my roommate, expecting a hilarious adventure of racism that we could laugh at and make light social commentary of. What we got instead, was perhaps the worst film we've ever seen. Not only does it try to combat racism by being incredibly racist, it also skims over rape, sexism, and a number of other topics. Every white character in the film is a racist, save for one of the cops whose wife is an African American, and a white hooker whose sole purpose is to show her tits on screen. The first 15 minutes surround a character who isn't in the film again - and is mentioned once in the ending. He isn't a villain. He is the star of a supposedly famous kids "TV Show" called Hambo. The character Hambo doesn't go by any other name, seemingly having adapted the character as his own persona for some reason. His only friend is the main character - a young African American who used to watch Hambo as a kid - and he is incredibly racist towards him. I don't know how either of them met. I don't know how they've stayed friends. None of it makes any sense. Also, the main character is a doctor. This is used only for sympathy. He doesn't use any medical skills at all throughout the film. He also, as Ooga Booga, kills multiple innocent people solely because they are racist. I can't describe the plot to anyone. It doesn't make sense. A majority of the film follows a plot point that doesn't connect or matter very much to the main point. Ooga Booga and his story are in the film for around 35 minutes of the 1 hour 50 minute long film. A majority of the scenes make no sense. There is no reason for them.The rape that was glossed over - the female lead didn't react to it after it happened. She went home, got in the shower, at which point Ooga Booga the puppet jerked off to her in the shower. Ooga Booga doesn't act like Devin, the kind young physician. Ooga Booga is a different person altogether. To put it simply: This film isn't worth watching. It provides few laughs - and even most of those are drowned out by how angry you will be for it's intense racism.

I was really looking forward to this movie. I usually love the 'so bad its good' type movie like The Room, and ThanksKilling, but this movie was kinda terrible. The preview to this movie is really misleading into making you think it'll be good for a few laughs, but please don't waste your time. The first 20 minutes are almost pointless about some drunk actor named Hambo, then we finally get to Devin's story. Devin is a young African American man who's about to go to Med School and has a beautiful girlfriend, but it's all taken away when he's at the wrong place at the wrong time. Of course, the police officers gun him down because of his race (Ferguson) and his soul is somehow transferred into a doll named Ooga Booga. (For some reason, he can't talk. He can just make bwahaha voices, like he's trying to be scary) Ooga and his girlfriend track down everyone involved in his death and gets revenge. I would not recommend OOGA BOOGA!!!

The long awaited Ooga Booga spin-off has finally arrived, and it is pretty much everything a B film junkie could ask for. Killer cameos, a respectable body-count,and enough satirical racism to make Quentin Taratino blush. That being said, the film is obviously low-budget, so to all of you Roger Eberts out there, please, be gentle, take it for what it is, and just remember that it might be trash, but its blatant trash, and of course, all in good fun. Stacey Keach is great as the heaviest of cracker villains as he commands an army of neo-Nazis as he unknowingly faces off against a devilishly un-p.c. Tribal doll named Ooga Booga. Armed with a spear and possessed by a revenge hungry African American who was unjustly murdered in cold blood, this doll goes on safari, hunting down every last racist who had a hand in his death. Can you say camp heaven?

Saw a trailer for this online, and it looked like one of those must see "so bad, it's good" type B-Movies. Turns out it is the single worst film I ever watched in my life, and the producers should be ashamed of themselves for failing this badly to make something watchable. It played like a middle of the road porn movie, only with most of the sexy parts cut out. The scenes dragged, as though there was no script (or the actors struggled to remember their lines), the death scenes were tame to say the least, and the laughs few and far between, the Shower scene the only real out loud moment. The weird Hambo thing at the beginning was promising, maybe if they ran with that as the killer it could have worked. Avoid if you value your time!