It is easy to see why the animations of Dingo Pictures are relatively obscure, though those who have had the misfortune of seeing any of their output (which along with their equally low-budget computer animated counterpart Video Brinquedo have not once made anything worthwhile) cannot forget their awfulness. It is even easier to see why they are universally reviled.
Of a dubious output, 'Wabuu' to me is one of Dingo Pictures' worst. Primarily because it is one of the worst-voiced animations of theirs and it contains my most hated character of all their characters (in an output where finding one close to endearing or easy to engage with has been impossible). That it's unoriginal is the least of 'Wabuu's' problems, those two above problems and its cheapness and laziness are far less easy to forgive. As was said before, it is hard to know where to start when there are no redeeming qualities whatsoever, and even for a studio with next to nothing worthwhile 'King of the Animals' is just an abomination, an almost unheard of word for me to use these days but this deserves it.
The animation is some of the worst there is, so awful it's unacceptable even for low-budget animation. It has flat colours, very simplistic backgrounds and lack of detail and derivative, shoddy, unfinished recycled (some lifted directly out of previous Dingo Pictures efforts and have no relevance to the story whatsoever) and creepy character animation as well as a style that makes art of primary school children who draw and paint in half an hour or less seem more accomplished.
Music always sounds misplaced and never fitting with what's going on, not to mention that it has little breathing space even in scenes that are in dire need for it. The script is incredibly repetitive and juvenile, some of it making one question who the target audience was meant to be, that it will insult any adult is bad enough but even young children will feel dumber after hearing some of the dialogue here.
The story feels incredibly stretched and 'Wabuu' is not even that long at all. It also has incredibly plodding pacing, is very disjointed, goes nowhere a lot of the time and some of it is so aimless and jumpy it's incomprehensible, usually have no trouble following storytelling but had real trouble making sense of the story here.
Characters are excruciatingly irritating and a few irrelevant to the story. Not a likable or interesting character among them, most of them being nerve-gratingly annoying or too sugary that it makes the teeth hurt. Wabuu spends almost the entire time being a mean-spirited jerk to all the characters to distasteful and uncalled-for extremes, so much so that his very abruptly introduced and plot-device-like remorse when the behaviour has consequences is impossible to get behind and doesn't ring true at all.
Meanwhile, the sound effects are bizarre and randomly placed and the voice acting, especially for Wabuu and the narrator, is creepy-sounding, annoying and incomprehensible.
Summing up, epitomises everything that is awful about Dingo Pictures' output and one of their worst, thanks to particularly the amateur-hour voice acting and one of the most reprehensible lead (in general even) characters in animation. 1/10 Bethany Cox
