Vídeo Brinquedo

Vídeo Brinquedo

The king of animated mockbusters

Formerly:	VBF Produções (1986-1989) Spot Films (1989-2007)
Type:	Mockbusters
Founded:	1986
Defunct:	2012
Founder:	Fernando Francielli Ale McHaddo
Headquarters:	São Paulo, Brazil
Key people:	Maurício Milani Michele Gabriel
Parent:	Rexmore Widea
Notable works:	The Little Cars in the Great Race Ratatoing The Little Panda Fighter What's Up: Balloon to the Rescue
Website:	http://www.videobrinquedo.com.br/

Vídeo Brinquedo (known as Toy Video or Toyland Video in Portuguese) was a Brazilian animation studio located in São Paulo that produced low-budget, poorly made, direct-to-video animated films widely viewed as mockbusters of comparable films from Walt Disney Pictures, Pixar, DreamWorks Animation, 20th Century Fox, Blue Sky Studios and Hasbro Entertainment. Effectively, it is the animation counterpart of The Asylum. The company was founded in 1994 to distribute children's animation with the intention of distribution in its home market of Brazil, as well as to other global markets. In 2010, the company stopped animating movies.

Filmography

The Little Cars in the Great Race (rip-off of Cars)
Ratatoing (rip-off of Ratatouille)
Little Bee (rip-off of Bee Movie)
The Little Panda Fighter (rip-off of Kung Fu Panda)
Tiny Robots (rip-off of WALL-E^GMW)
Little Princess School (rip-off of various Disney Princesses)
Gladiformers (rip-off of Transformers^GMW)
Gladiformers 2 (rip-off of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen)
Little & Big Monsters (rip-off of either Monsters vs. Aliens^GMW or The Incredibles^GMW)
What's Up: Balloon to the Rescue (rip-off of Up^GMW)
The Frog Prince (rip-off of The The Princess and the Frog^GMW)
Alice in Wonderland (rip-off of either the 1951 Disney classic or the 2010 live-action remake)

Why Their Films Suck

Terrible CGI animation, even by mid-to-late 2000s standards.
Horrible graphics that look like something from low-budget movies or shows from the 90s.
All of them (except for Brazilian Football Passion) are obvious mockbusters/rip-offs of other well-known animated movies.
Horrible Portuguese voice acting.
Godawful plots and storytelling which rip off numerous better films.
Unfunny and weak humor.
Generic-looking title cards in most films.
Terrible writing that just doesn't capture the charm of the ripped-off movies.
Lots of padding.
Dreadful soundtracks.
Cringeworthy dialogue.
As mentioned before, there is usually a lot of filler in their movies and it is usually painful to get through. For example, in Ratatoing, the first 10 minutes or so is just repetitive comments and feedback on the food at the restaurant.

Their Only Redeeming Quality

The voice acting in their English dubs are actually pretty good (except for Ratatoing). Using many of the same voice actors from 4Kids Entertainment.

Trivia

They used to distribute DVDs for TV shows like Sonic X, The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3, Kirby: Right Back at Ya! and The Little Lulu Show in Brazil.

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Nihirichan

16 months ago

Score 10

I heard they've went bankrupt in 2012.