Video Brinquedo is a wildcat Brazililan film studio that makes atrociously low budget rip-offs of Pixar and Dreamworks movies. At least, I think it’s Brazilian. The credits (no one bothered to translate them, of course) seem to be in Portuguese, and some of the films are set in Rio de Janeiro. Yet the animation would have appeared dated in 1991. Brazil can do better than this. Hell, any country in the Portuguese-speaking world could do better than this.
At its best, the dialogue in a Video Brinquedo film is awkward and surreal. Mice sit in a restaurant, order food, and chat amiably. There are no jokes. The scene is ten minutes long.
At its worst, the dialogue is completely incoherent. I’d chalk this up to Video Brinquedo outsourcing the translation of its masterpieces to google translate. Not that it really matters: the plots, if you could even call them that, meander aimlessly toward frustrating conclusions not even the world’s finest prose could save. It takes a certain type of person to endure a masterpiece like Ratatoing, Video Brinquedo’s answer to Ratatouille.
Since the films are hosted on youtube, they are broken into 5 or 6 parts. That’s really too bad, since you should see these masterpieces in their full uncut glory. If you have 50 spare minutes, a surplus of braincells and a good case of beer (or anything to ease the pain), then sit back, relax and enjoy.
Ratatoing
What’s UP Balloon to the Rescue
Gladiformers (With Russian Dubbing)
The Little Bee
The Little Panda Fighter
The Little Cars in the Great Race
The Little Cars 2 in Rodopolis Adventures