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But here we have something totally different, and if you have a sufficiently twisted sense of humour, very, very funny. Boogie 3D is available on Blu-ray only in Blu-ray 3D format, although it plays in 2D as well. Never heard of it? Neither had I. It is an animated movie released in 2009 based on a long-running Argentinean comic. The title character is known in Spanish as 'Boogie, el aceitoso', which means 'Boogie, the Oily'. The hero lives only for the pleasure of killing, which he does with a reasonable panache and a dry sense of humour.
Think Sin City, but grittier and with no moral redemption whatsoever. This movie is rated R for its 'High impact animated violence', but I suspect was rated R for its extreme political incorrectness.
The animation is 2D, with naively drawn, black outlined characters over rich, textured backgrounds. From time to time there is a little posterisation, but generally it is smooth and beautifully rendered.
The 3D is primarily in the form of layered 2D elements, but for all its simplicity it looks excellent, adding a level of richness to the 2D version. At a couple of points there was a slightly weird look where characters appeared to be floating free of the floor upon which they were supposed to be standing. That was largely due to the application of 3D layering to essentially 2D animation. This meant that the whole of a person had to be in one plane, from head to foot. If the floor was to appear behind the person's head, as it should, then it would also appear behind his feet.
Most of the time this problem was avoided by simply having the frame cropped in such a way as the protagonists' feet were generally not visible.
The audio is underpinned by a driving hard rock sound track, with clear dialogue and lots of subwoofer activity. The movie has been dubbed in English by what seem to be native Spanish speakers. The accents are subtle, but the enunciation is careful and measured, rather than natural. Sometimes the pronunciation is fun - putrid comes out as 'putt-rid'. A quotation from Apocalypse Now is changed to something only vaguely similar through the double translation from English to Spanish to English.
All that just adds to the charm.
(Australian rating); Region free
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