Rolie Polie Olie - The Great Defender of Fun

Rolie Polie Olie - The Great Defender of Fun

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• An All New Full-Length Movie! Get ready to blast off for out-of-this-world fun in Olie's all new first ever full-length movie! It's little sister Zowie's birthday and everybody's gearing up for the party. But there's a storm cloud overhead: space pirate Gloomius Maximus (voiced by James Woods) is out to plunder all the happiness out of the whole galaxy. Can Olie and his frie

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DVD Review: Sweet little show has gone Hollywood
Summary: 3 Stars

Adults may feel slightly disconcerted that the very qualities that make the show so suitable for toddlers-- the simple 3-D graphics (more geometric yet no less versatile than Toy Story), the child-sized cast of characters (the Polies live in a world of about 10 people, just like a child does), and the low-key, kid-manageable stories and conflicts-- have been blown up to Hollywood size in a story that's busier, noisier and just generally more dramatic than the TV series. Rolie Polie Olie has often been a refuge for my family from that kind of kid video. And then there's the truly bizarre fact (as several people have noted) that the studio dropped the animation's frame rate from a video 30 frames per second (like the TV series) to a film-like 24 fps-- a common enough trick for digital video independent films to make them look more like film, but something that will presumably be lost on most three year olds! Unfortunately, it means that this video doesn't quite have the seamless look of the TV series itself.

If you're (the parent of) an Olie fan, you will surely add this to your video collection, but if you don't know the show, you're probably better off checking out some of the actual episodes before seeing this bigger, louder, Hollywoodized version.

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