So ... the Care Bears live in the clouds - in more ways than one, as we shall soon discover.

As their latest adventure - titled Oopsy Does It! - begins, five of them are building an amusement park called WooHoo World, but Oopsy, an accident-prone bear, keeps devastating the park with minor stumbles that quickly evolve into Rube Goldberg-style waves of destruction. I've seen carnivals set up in shopping mall parking lots - staffed by nose-pierced 17-year-olds who smell like Otto's jacket - that seem more structurally sound than this outfit. The ferris wheel actually rolls off its base twice during the 71-minute adventure.

Anyway, the other four bears - Cheer, Share, Funshine, and Grumpy - who can work magic with their "belly badges" (a cloud, a sun, a rainbow, etc.), send the badgeless Oopsy (who draws pictures on his own belly with a dry-erase marker to illustrate his mood; the artistic quality's more Yoji than Garver, but at least it's not permanent) off to perform menial, non-hazardous tasks. Eventually, he meets up with Wingnut, the robotic pet of a thoroughly hard-hearted bear named Grizzle who lives high above the amusement park on a floating, stalactite-festooned rock that looks like the home of the Hawkmen in Flash Gordon, had Brian Blessed and his flock really let the place go to pot. There, outfitted in a giant suit of armor, Grizzle is putting the final touches on - what a coincidence! - a thrill ride, called the Caretaker, that steals belly badges from its riders and (in theory) transfers their power to Grizzle, so he can rule Carebearistan I mean, Care-a-Lot. But the contraption won't work until he first collects three badges from the Six Flags contractors working below, so he persuades Oopsy to grab his friends' pelts and bring them back to the floating rock. Oo-wa-ha-ha!

Oopsy, suspecting nothing amiss, goes along with this plan. Later, Cheer shows up at Grizzle's lair and gleefully test-rides the Caretaker, and gets tossed, suddenly badgeless, into a cell with Oopsy for her trouble. Still later, all the other Care Bears unwittingly trade their badges for a ride, too, despite the heavy odor of "something not quite right" in the air. The problem is, these Prozac-addled ursines are so blinded by all the pastel colors - really, the animation is headache-inducing after a while - and so preoccupied with being (as Grizzle puts it) "always helpful, always singing, always happy, always caring," that they just don't recognize actual evil in the

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