Boogie (The Oily One)

Animation, crime

Icon Home Entertainment

R4

Available on DVD, Blu-Ray 3D.

English overdub

Argentina

When you talk about animated films, Argentina is not a country that comes to mind. Yet this film is better than any U.S. production in terms of its violence, political incorrectness and general wrongness. You will love it.

Boogie, the titular anti-hero, is a thug for hire. During the film he slaughters his way through large numbers of people to reach his goal. He is quite impartial – innocent bystanders, women, policemen, antismoking protesters, news reporters and criminals all fall before him. He is completely amoral. He has a low opinion of women, regarding them simply as sex objects to be used (or denigrated if they don’t meet his standards):

“Every woman wants a man - to give her orders, to set limits”.

He admits he is a little prejudiced:

“I belong to the largest racist community. The one that hates the poor”.

Boogie is given a contract by criminal gang leader Calabria to track down and kill a girl who will testify against him in a court case. Calabria’s henchman thinks Boogie is getting a bit old and slow, so he also commissions a new killer, Blackburn, to take out both the witness and Boogie. The new killer will take a lower price than Boogie, so the evil henchman can pocket the difference.

From here it is a race to get the witness to the court, alive or dead, while being hunted by Blackburn. Boogie may be softening up a bit – he has fallen in love with her – well, at least he hasn’t killed her yet.

This is definitely not a cartoon show for the kiddies. To a mature adult, though, it is a lot of fun. The action, killing and burning of newsmen never seems to stop.

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