Batman: Mystery Of The Batwoman Film Review

When people think of animated Batman films there's always one film that people seem to forget about as it is seen as being the weakest one. Yet it's that very film that i'm going to be talking to you all about today as this is a film that I genuinely haven't seen before now and I wanted to check out and so then join me as I review the film that was the last film to be set in the DCAU until 2017's Batman And Harley Quinn with the film in question being called simply just "Batman: Mystery Of The Batwoman" enjoy.

The plot of this film is when a new hero arrives on the scene dressed like a bat Batman tries to work out who she is all the while trying to stop the latest scheme from The Penguin. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt that about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad as this is still a decent plot that would have made for a decent episode of the show and yet that's also the problem as this films plot doesn't make for a good Batman film plot as it just feels like an extended episode of Batman: The Animated Series and that's really it where as if you look at films like Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm and Batman & Mr. Freeze Sub Zero they all had plots that made them feel like movies and that could only work in movies where as this films plot could easily have been the plot to a two part episode of the show with this not really being helped by the fact that the films plot s weak at best as the film does pick up and drop it's plot alot of the time so much so that it does get hard to work out just what it is that this films plot is even meant to be in the first place and yet even so when this films plot does get something right it really does get it right like for example the romance between Bruce and Kathleen was really sweet and the idea of Batman having to figure just who this new person is is a good idea but the film does nothing with either idea to make them work as well as they perhaps could have done with the plot of this film being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is Kevin Conroy as Bruce Wayne / Batman , Kyra Sedgwick as Batwoman and Héctor Elizondo as Bane. Also starring in this film is Kimberly Brooks as Kathleen "Kathy" Duquesne , Kelly Ripa as Dr. Roxanne "Rocky" Ballantine , Elisa Gabrielli as Detective Sonia Alcana , David Ogden Stiers as Penguin , Kevin Michael Richardson as Carlton Duquesne , John Vernon as Rupert Thorne , Efrem Zimbalist Jr. as Alfred Pennyworth , Eli Marienthal as Tim Drake / Robin , Tara Strong as Barbara Gordon , Bob Hastings as Commissioner James Gordon , Robert Costanzo as Detective Harvey Bullock and Tim Dang as Kevin.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. With the actors that you expect a good performance from like for example Kevin Conroy giving us exactly that and while there acting isn't enough to save the film it is something that does show you that the makers of this film really did try there best to give us a good Batman film with the films guest actors more then holding there own when it comes to acting opposite the series main actors with the best actor in this film being of course Kevin Conroy as the man just simply IS Batman so much so that he's not playing a role at this point he's just being himself as he had been playing this character for close to decade at this point in time and while yes actors like Kevin Michael Richardson and David Ogden Stiers are still really good in this film with David Ogden Stiers making for a shockingly really good Penguin they just can't top what Kevin Conroy does with the character as he really is just that good as this character in any piece of Batman media with the acting that's in this very film not really being helped by the fact that this films script is just so bad as it gives none of this films actors absolutely nothing to work with interms of what it is that there actual characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does harm the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film.

Doing the animation for this film is the legends and the greats that really are currently over at DR Movie. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good with the films animation being alot more better then that it really had any right to be as while the animation isn't as good as the animation from the show was you can still tell that there was some form of effort put into making this films animation look really good with all of the films characters having some really fluid movements to them and while the film does indeed borrow the character designs from The New Batman Adventures the film makes everything alot more brighter and alot more colorful which is the only real issue with the film from an animation standpoint as a Batman film should look dark and it should look gritty as that's the world that these characters live in this was something that Batman: The Animated Series understood and yet here in this film despite it being set in the same world as that show it feels completely different due to the fact that things are now made to be brighter when it would have worked so much more better if things were kept darker as that's what people want to see a Batman movie but to be fair tho this films animation really does come alive during it's action scenes and heck it could even be argued that the films animation helped to make the action be all the more better then what they already are due to the fact that we get some nice fluid animation during those scenes.

Believe it not this film was actually the last feature film to be set in the confides of the DCAU until 2017's Batman And Harley Quinn film. As while alot of this films actors did reprise there roles in other Batman related films and TV shows they were classed as being apart of the DCAU and that to me at least is astounding due to the fact that the DCAU had alot of really good shows all of which could have had there own movies and while yes we did get film length episodes from certain shows shows like Superman and both of the Justice League shows never got movies of their own and yet both shows were extremely popular and could have gotten a movie or two of there own but for one reason or another people at either Warner Bros or at DC decided to instead just give Batman feature length films which is still great as that character does have alot of room to tell good stories but at the same time when you look at the wider DCAU there was more potential there to tell these stories that perhaps could have been told within a single twenty two minuet episode all of which would have been really cool to see like imagine how good an animated Superman movie based on Superman: The Animated Series would have been if it had the animation quality of Batman: Mask Of The Phantasm or how good a Justice League movie would have been if it had a one hour and thirty minuet running time to tell this truly epic story that could only be told in a film just because Batman: The Animated Series was the most popular DCAU show doesn't mean that there wasn't other shows that could have worked really well if they had there own feature length film.

Lets talk about the villains of the film as it could be argued that the film has to many villains as you have Bane , Penguin and Rupert Thorne all as the films main villains. Yet then you also have Kathleen "Kathy" Duquesne , Dr. Roxanne "Rocky" Ballantine , Detective Sonia Alcana and Kathy's father Carlton Duquesne as all four of those characters act like villains at some point in the film and that is just far to many villains to have in a film that isn't even one hour and thirty minuets long and while yes you could argue that Kathy , Rocky and Sonia aren't true villains as there meant to be Batwoman and therefor doing good there are times where they do act like there meant to be villains and while Carlton is just trying to look after his daughter he's also a gangster that is in league with The Penguin whereas this film is one that would have worked just by having Bane and Penguin as villains as together they are more then strong enough to be the main villains of a direct to DVD animated movie with even Penguins plan of just trying to sell these weapons just so he can make money not really being something that you'd expect to be the main villain plot for a movie as there you do expect the villains to go bigger with there plans so why not have Penguins plan still be selling weapons to make money but then reveal that he's putting tat money towards a bigger scheme like taking over the world as that is the kind of plan that you'd expect to see in a movie where as here his plan feels like the plan he would come up with in an episode of the show as it's just that small scale of a plan with this no doubt being done because of the fact that the film has to many characters who you could argue are villains in he film when having fewer villains would have worked all the more better.

This film does of course have a mystery aspect that being who is Batwoman and well to be frank this films mystery isn't that good. As the film does outright tell you who all three of them are the second that Bruce starts to suspect them whereas it would have been more effective if we didn't know who they were again look at Mask Of The Phantasm we don't see who the Phantasm is out side of the costume heck we don't even know if there male or female we just know that there evil and Batman has to work out who they are with the flashback scenes being the only pieces of clues that we get to the fact that this new character is someone that Bruce Wayne might know where as here it felt like they were trying to do everything that that film did only more poorly as here we get told who Batwoman and we don't get any clues as to she might be so that us the audience can work it out for ourselves both of which are things that do make this films mystery be all the more weaker then what it already is in the first place this wouldn't be a bad thing of course were it not for the fact that the film is literally called Mystery Of The Batwoman and yet it does feel like that so little effort was put into the films mystery when that is the first thing that should have been given alot of love and attention with the thing that could have helped this films mystery being if only got to see Batwoman very briefly and have the characters are her act so unlike her as they have to fool not only us the audience but also Batman the worlds greatest detective as well and when you have the characters straight up introduce things that Batwoman herself uses it makes Batman all the more dumb for not working out something that us the audience have already worked out or ourselves.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and fourteen minuets and forty nine seconds. Which is pretty much the bog standard running time for these DCAU Batman movies to have but in saying this tho given just how many villains that this film has it is something that could have been with being at the very least one hour and thirty minuets with this film having just about the right amount of plot there to cover that amount of running time in the first place but tho this film really doesn't use it's running time all that wisely as the film doesn't take the time that it really should have done to fully develop it's plot with the film instead being alot more focused on giving us a forced romance between Bruce and Kathy then it in giving us a well thought out plot with there romance being very poorly handled due to the fact that the two characters don't compliment each other at all with the film no even taking the time to fully develop its characters either which is something that does make sense for characters like Batman for example where you could make the argument that they get there character development in the both the show and in the other movies but for the newly introduced characters they are characters that could have used the character development and yet because of the fact that the film is more focused on giving us a very poorly done mystery none of them can get it and infact we know just about the films new characters coming out of the film then we did coming into the film as that's just how poorly done that this films character development really is but I really will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is an action film that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. With the action in this film being the best aspect of the film as you can tell right away that the makers of this film really did know how to craft some wonderful action scenes with the films animation really coming alive during any of this films action something which does make this film action seem to be all the ore better then what it already is in the first place with the best action scene in the whole entire film being the films third act fight on the boat as we get to all three women as Batwoman team up to help Batman take down both Bane and Penguin after Kathy herself is kidnapped by Bane something which does lead to a truly awsome fight that gives you all of the things that you'd want to see in a Batman fight scene as we get lots of explosions which do look good in the film and it will always be cool tom see other heroes teaming up with each other something which the entire third act of this films is built around and heck Batman does even get into a pretty impressive fight with Bane something which does make sense as realistically Bane is the only villain character that could beat Batman so having him and Bane go toe to toe with each other is something that does add an extra layer of tension to the scene as Batman could die with the film having alot of other really good action scenes in it as well all of which prove that there is a good film in here it's just bogged down by a badly done plot in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Overall its not that hard to see why alot people not only don't like but have also forgotten about this film as this film is easily the weakest of the Batman DCAU films with it being made clear as day that the makers of the film really had no idea what to do for the film and so they just threw stuff at the wall to see what sticks and because of that we ended up with a really average films because of it in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 5 out of 10 from me.

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Spongebob Squarepants: Help Wanted , Reef Blower and Tea At The Treedome Review

There are some shows that are for lack of a better word iconic as there've been with us now for so long that everybody knows what they are with a good example of this being The Simpsons. Another such example is oddly enough Spongebob Squarepants as even if you've not seen a single episode of the show you are still aware of the character be it due to the show or one of the characters SEVERAL movies and well I thought that now would be the right time to go back and look at the very first episode of the show and so then join me as I review the episode that introduced the world to a yellow sponge and his square pants with the episodes segments being called simply just "Help Wanted" , "Reef Blower" and "Tea At The Treedome" enjoy.

The plot of "Help Wanted" is Spongebob finally has the chance to work as a fry cook at his favorite restaurant but when several fish come in at once demanding service it's up to the young cook to prove his worth in "Reef Blower" Spongebob causes mayhem when a reef blows near his house and he has to clean it up and finally in "Tea At The Treedome" Spongebob and Patrick meet a land squirrel called Sandy and when they go round to her house they discover that she does things a little bit differently to them. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good with "Tea At The Treedome" having the best plot of the episodes three segments just due to the fact that "Help Wanted" had to do alot of the heavy lifting as it had so much to set up for the rest of the show and "Tea At The Treedome" was therefor more free to just go and do it's own thing which is something that it did really well how much like with "Reef Blower" the plots for these segments weren't the strongest that they could have ben with this being something that does make alot of sense as this is a show that only has segments that last a few minuets and nothing more then that therefor none of this episodes can be that strong in the first place and this is great as it does mean that all of the episodes segments can be more focused on giving us good jokes without having to worry about the plot of the episode making sense with the plot of this episode being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is Tom Kenny as SpongeBob SquarePants , The Narrator , A Sub Driver , Gary and some Anchovies . Also starring in this episode is Rodger Bumpass as Squidward Tentacles , John Wick: Chapter 4 , Green Lantern 2011 and A Nightmare On Elm Street 2010 star  Clancy Brown as Mr. Krabs , Jennifers Body star Bill Fagerbakke as Patrick Star and some Anchovies and Carolyn Lawrence as Sandy Cheeks.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With this being something that was quite surprising as you usually don't expect the first episode of a TV show to have good acting in it and while yes this shows acting would of course get alot more better over the years the fact that this episode and these three segments all had some really strong acting in it from all of the episode actors is still something that was truly shocking to behold with it just going to show you that these bunch of actors are a really good group of actors as they knock out of the park with there characters right away with all of these characters being really well cast and while this is kind of obvious now looking back n this episode but it is really hard to picture anyone else playing these characters with it really being hard to say just who the best actor in this episode really is as by all rights anyone of this episodes actors could make that claim and it would be totally justified but if push did indeed come to shove then i'd have to say that the best actor in the episode is Tom Kenny just due to the fact that he voices more characters in this episode and each one of them sound distinctly different from one another with the acting that's in this episode really being helped by the fact that the scripts for this episode are just so good that all this episodes actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode.

Doing the animation for this episode is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Rough Draft Korea. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good as really all three segments of this episode have some really high quality animation in them even taking into account that not only was this episode made in 1997 before being aired in 1999 but also the fact that this is a TV show and therefor it would have been understandable if the makers of this episode did indeed cut corners to make the episode for alot more cheaper and yet you can tell right away that the people who worked on this episode from an animation point of view put al of there love an attention into all three segments as all three segments look really good with all of the episodes characters having these really nice and fluid movements to them that help to make the animation in this episode feel more alive then what it really should have done if there's one grips to be had with the films animation it's that they don't go zany enough with it as this is a show that does allow you to have those more zany character movements and yet for some odd reason the makers of this episode don't go that route which has the add on effect of making the show feel alot less fun to watch in the process and yet if they did have some zany animation then it would have made scenes like the big anchovy scene with Squidward and Mr. Krabs be all the more funnier then what it already is in the first place but credit where it's due this episode still does look really good even all of these years later.

In what could be seen as being a surprising move this episode does have it's middle segment "Reef Blower" be pretty much a silent cartoon. With this being something that does work really well as it does harken back to those early days of Hollywood where there would be no lines of dialog and all of the action came from the characters body language and that is present in that segment with that segment being all the more better for it as not only is it the shortest of the three segments its also one that doesn't really need any kind of dialog to put across just what the story of the segment is meant to be in the first place and infact the only piece of sound that we hear in that whole segment is just the musical score for the segment and that's really it and that is something that does work really well for this segment with it also making you wonder why there aren't more Spongebob segments like this as it's segments like this that do force the animators to step up their game as usually you could have a voice actor express what it is that there meant to be feeling but now that you don't have that to rely on it all has to come across in the animation and while that doesn't exactly work alot of the time the times that it does work is where that segment really does shine it's brightest with the even the idea of the segment just being Spongebob wanting to remove this one reef from the front of house being such a simple one as it allows the characters to go as crazy as they need to and be as cartoony as they need to and while this might have been shortest segment the idea of making it a silent cartoon is weird enough for this show that it could have worked as a full twenty two minuet episode of the show due to the fact that the idea itself is more then strong enough to support it in it's own right.

Like alot of debut episodes the first segment of this episode did have alot of heavy lifting to do as it had to set up four of the main characters, get across what there personalities are like and set up the relationships for the show moving forward. Which is something that would have been seen as doing far to much for a short segment and yet to be frank it was something that did work but it didn't work as well as it perhaps could have done as while Patrick is formally introduced in that segment the segment doesn't give him alot of screen time with him only appearing at the start and at the end of the segment and that's it which is fine as the segment did have more important things to do but at the same time tho given just how beloved he is as a character in his own right it was weird to see that they fully didn't set up just who Patrick is and what his relationship to Spongebob is in that or even the final segment for that matter with this being something that they very easily could have done just by having one of the characters say to the other that there friends and that's it as it could have been said when Patrick is trying to give Spongebob a pep talk and while nothing is lost from not fully setting him up as a character in this opening segment as it could be argued that the segment was made before the creators of the show even had any real idea just what there relationship was meant to be like it is still something that is weird to see them not set up as first episodes by right of passage have to set up alot of things and one of those things is character relationships heck Spongebobs relationship with both Squidward and Mr. Krabs is set up in that segment and there not even meant to be his best friend but his best friend doesn't get his character fully set up at all.

Whilst the Spongebob movies especially the first one are known for having really dark and dramatic moments in them, This is something that was actually set up in the third segment of this episode "Tea At The Treedome" where Spongebob starts t slowly die and dry out after not having water for a long time with both him and Patrick pretty much dieing for a small portion of that episode which for a kids show is pretty dark and even tho that scene is played for laughs it is something that does let you know right away that this is a show that's not afraid to go to those dark places albeit in a more kid friendly way with the thing that makes it more dark being the fact that we see Spongebob suffer and grasp for air all throughout the segment with this being something that alot of kids shows even today dare not do and yet here it is in the first episode of an iconic series and while yes alot of it is played for laughs as we the audiences know full well that Spongebob can't breathe without water its the fact that we see him and later Patrick grasp for air and then dry out that makes it a really dark moment and while the show really doesn't go to those dark places all that often the fact that they still did it in the movies does show you that the makers of this episode really did  know what they were doing with the only thing that could have made it better if we got to see both Spongebob and Patrick running around the Treedome looking for any bit of water as that is something that would have made that really dramatic scene all the more funny and heck you could have had them run into Sandy alot of the time but without her knowing it and just to hit home how much they've learnt from being in the Treedome Spongebob should have said to Sandy that they needed water on screen and not have it happen off screen.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty three minuets and forty nine seconds. Which is pretty much the bogstandard running time for this episode to have with all three of the episodes segments ranging from six to eight minuets with the second segment being around about two minuets and forty eight seconds with all three segments having the right amount of plot there to cover there respective running times and yet in saying this tho both "Help Wanted" and "Tea At The Treedome" don't use there running times all that wisely as they don't use there respective running times to fully develop there plots which in the case for the first segment does make sense as they have to set up alot of things for the show moving forward and yet it's also the case in the third segment with it feeling like that things are just happening for the sake of happening rather then because of the fact that they make sense in context of there plots with this slightly being true for the episodes character development as well as both of those segments don't really put there characters in situations that help to fully develop them as characters but it could be said that those segments don't fully develop there characters because of the fact that they get there character development in all of the other episodes and movies however the character still need to be have that development started which is something that both the first and final segment don't do however it is understandable that the second segment doesn't fully develop it's plot and characters as that segment isn't even three minuets long but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a comedy that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With the episode on the whole having some really funny jokes in it all of which work really well because of how well done that the episodes characters are with all of the episodes jokes feeling there very character driven and heck it's even in the episodes jokes where the episodes animation on the whole gets to really come alive and make them as funny as they could possibly be due to the fact that we get some really funny facial expressions which help to sell us the audience on the joke with the best joke in the whole episode being in "Help Wanted" when Spongebob goes to lift weights and we see that his weights are two teddy bears which he struggles to lift which is a dumb joke and an easy joke to make but that's exactly why it's so good and why it's so funny in the first place as it is the obvious joke with all three segments having some really good jokes in it as well and heck even "Reef Blower" could be argued is one big joke due to the fact it's just Spongebob trying t get rid of one reef and that's really it but it's that simple joke that works all the more better because of the fact that you could see a character like Spongebob actually struggle to life up to kids toys with the sound effect being made when the toys hit the floor again being the icing on the cake and heck really of this episodes jokes are some really good and funny jokes as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall if this first episode was anything to go by then it was easy to see why Spongebob Squarepants become as big as it was and still is as this first episode had three really good segments in it and while yes some where better then others the episode on the whole was really good in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 7.5 out of 10 from me.

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Doctor Who: Lux Review

 Doctor Who has always been a show that has tried out new and fresh ideas and while some of those ideas haven't always landed. The ones that do tend to stick with us such is the case with the episode that i'm going to be talking to you all about today as while the season that this episode is apart of isn't the strongest season of the show out there this episode is one of the more better episodes due to the fact that has an original idea for a villain and so then join me as I review the episode that tries to make cartoons scary with the episode in question being called simply just "Lux" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when fifteen people all go missing in a theater in 1950's Miami it's up to The Doctor and Belinda to work what happened to them before it's far to late. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. As while the episode is rather light on plot with it being hard to work out just what the main plot of the episode is meant to be alot of the time when the episode does focus on it's plot that's when the episodes plot gets to be more fun as this is a rather out there and weird plot and yet it also feels oddly at home in this new season of Doctor Who but at the same time tho this episodes plot and they that it's structed does feel oddly reminiscent of the previous seasons episode "The Devil's Chord" with there being alot of scenes in that episode that are just straight up copied in this episode even down to the episode using a character from the same group which is a character from the pantheon of gods which is something that does make this episode feel like a carbon copy of that episode but in all fairness to this episode tho it's plot is one that could be seen as being rather fun as well as they do take the time to loving poke fun of how cartoons where seen back in those days which was nice to see but at the same time that is screen time that is taken away from giving us more plot relevant information with the plot of this episode also being rally rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Starring in this episode is Ncuti Gatwa as The Doctor , Varada Sethu as Belinda Chandra and Linus Roache as Reginald Pye. Also starring in this episode is Cassius Hackforth as Tommy Lee , Millie O'Connell as the voice of Sunshine Sally , Lewis Cornay as Logan Cheever , Lucy Thackeray as Renée Lowenstein , Jane Hancock as Helen Pye , William Meredith as A Policeman , Samir Arrian as Hassan Chowdry , Bronté Barbé as Lizzie Abel , Steph Lacey as Robyn Gossage , Alan Cumming as the voice of Mr Ring-A-Ding and Anita Dobson as Mrs Flood.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With the series main regulars turning in some really good performances which is to be expected from them at this point in time and even Varada Sethu who only really joined the show in the previous episode despite her playing a different character on the show in the last series still does do a really good job and is really likable in this episode with her Ncuti having some wonderful chemistry together which is not all that surprising as Ncuti can have chemistry with a blank of wood with the only thing that lets the pair of them down acting wise being the fact that when they are turned into cartoons there acting is a little it wooden and stale with the best actor in this episode being Alan Cumming as he can be both hilarious and terrifying as this films creepy cartoon villain Mr Ring-A-Ding with his performance reflecting the villains more cartoonish nature with it being as over the top as it needed to be for certain scenes but then when his acting needs to be more serious he becomes more terrifying with this coming through in his final performance as the character as even tho it's only a voice over role Alan still does give it his best and because of that Mr Ring-A-Ding himself really does become all the more memorable as a villain because of it with the acting that's in this very episode not really being helped by the fact that the script for this episode is just so bad as it gives none of the episodes actors absolutely nothing to work with interms of what it is that there actual characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that rally does harm the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode.

Doing the CGI for this episode is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Real SFX and BBC Wales Graphics. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good with it being obvious that the team doing the CGI for this episode had alot of fun with the shots that they had to do as the very idea of having cartoon come to life and try and take over the world is something that does allow itself to have some really fun looking expressions which is something that the makers of this episode do take full advantage with Mr-Rig-A-Ding really being the only big CGI effect in the episode outside of a few shots on the outside where they replace Wales with 1950's Miami and yet you can tell that even tho this episode was basically made on the cheap as there's only one main location all throughout the episode the effects budget for the episode was really high as when Mr-Ring-A-Ding does go fully 3D he looks really creepy with the fact that they had a cutout version of him on set is something that really does help out in the long as while he was never going to really look like he was actually there on the day due to the fact that he's a cartoon character it is something that does help with matching the characters eye lines with the only effect that does let the episode being the fact that you can tell right away that they didn't actually film in Miami which is something that was always going to be the case but the effect does look rather cheap which is something that does make alot of sense as they put more time and effort into making the episodes villain look as good as they possibly could have done.

This episode was pretty divisive when it first came out due to the fact that it has The Doctor and Belinda quite literally break the fourth wall and talk to fans of Doctor Who. Which to be fair isn't a bad scene in it's own right as the three fans are purely there for comedic effect and that's it but at the same time tho the show has never openly admitted that it's just a show and that's really it before now so it will of course be really jarring to see happen in this episode as it does fell like that the makers of this show are making fun of the fans rather then making us laugh with them and heck they even have one of the fans say the hashtag #RIPDoctorWho at one point which was something that alot of fans were using when talking about the show when if they wanted to have this scene be this weird and funny scene they could have found a way to do it without breaking the fourth wall and without having jokes in there that feel like there taking aim at Doctor Who fans in general as they could have had the three fans be these weird , quirky but lovable characters that you want to get to know more about and that you want to see more off and yet they don't do that this is despite the fact that here scene is actually a key plot point in the episode as one of the fans called Lizzy straight gives The Doctor the idea of how to beat Mr-Ring-A-Ding in the first place which is something that does come into play just a few short scenes later and while them essentially sacrificing themselves is a great way to up the threat level for the episode it also amounts to nothing as they come back for lame joke during the episodes mid credits scene which makes there sacrifice pointless in the grand scheme of things.

The villain in this episode oddly enough doesn't really have an end goal in mind as for a large of the episode he's just after any kind of light that he can get from the theater and that's really it. With him really only getting a real plan when he finds out that The Doctor is a time lord with him then deciding that he wants as much light as he possibly can do which to be fair is a fairly solid plan to have and yet at the same time for an episode that did have alot of promise to it its also a really weak plan as well as this is a character that gives you permission to go as out there and as weird as you want to with your main villain plan and yet the makers of this episode don't do that rather they instead play it safe and go with a really boring plan that doesn't allow for your main villain to actually do all that much in the episode which fair enough is something that does work for the villain as this is a character that doesn't really know all that much about the outside world outside of what he's learned from watching movies which re at best lies when it would have worked just as well if Mr-Ring-A-Ding had a more out there and weird plan like maybe he wants to use his powers of light to take over the world and make the whole world be a cinema so that the whole human race can feel as trapped as he's felt for the months that he's been stuck in the theater but in saying this tho having is plan just be light and having him be defeated by the very thing that he wants the most is oddly poetic as it's basically boils down to the old saying of be careful what you wish for because you just might get it and in this case Mr-Ring-A-Ding was defeated by the very thing that he wanted light.

To be fair it was really fun seeing both The Doctor and Belinda turned into cartoons with them having these really stilted movements to them which makes them like the old Hanna-Barbera cartoons. With the thing that lets this small piece of the episode down being just that it was only a really small part of the episode and yet the BBC put this scene in alot of the trailers and teasers for this season which did give of the impression that it was going to be a lot more longer then what it ended up being in the first place but to be fair the makers of this episode do use that one scene to get across the fact that both The Doctor and Belinda are scared abut the things that are going on with The Doctor being scared that he will never be able to get her home due to the fact that something might have happened to Earth and Belinda being scared by the fact that she might miss the people that she loves the most and yet even so something that they never address this season while they can't land exactly on May 24th they never state why they can't land one day before and just stay there for twenty four hours but going back to the cartoon whilst it was fun seeing those characters as cartoon characters the whole segment did feel like it was making fun of cartoons and how classic cartoon characters don't have much in the way of dimension when it would have been more beneficial of that part of the episode didn't do that and instead chose to just be a fun segment as we have The Doctor and Belinda in a cartoon so much more fun would it be to have those characters act all cartoony and yet they don't do that infact they barely move at all which is something that does make the scene as a whole alot less fun to watch as we're not getting the chance to see just what the makers of this episode could do with the characters as fully done cartoon characters.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly forty four minuets and three seconds. Which is pretty much the bogstandard running time for this show and to be fair the episode does have the perfect amount of plot there to really cover that amount of running time in the first place and yet un saying this tho this episode really doesn't use it's running time all that wisely as the episode doesn't take the time to fully develop it's plot in the first place with the episode being more focused on letting us know that this episodes villain is a cartoon character then it is in giving us a reason to care about the characters and to care about the plot of this episode with it feeling like that the plot of the episode was being treated as an afterthought as the plot of this episode doesn't get alot of focus and plot development with the same thing also being true for all of the episodes characters which is fine for The Doctor as you could argue that he has well over sixty plus years to get his character development and yet for characters like Belinda who we are still getting to know and Mr-Ring-A-Ding those are characters that really did need to get some sort of character development as that would have given us the audience a reason to care for these characters and to want to see them make it out of the episode alive and yet the episode doesn't really give us any of that when it had more then running time in order to give the characters some character development and still the story as well as it does in the final episode and yet for one reason or another the makers of this episode thought that it was best not to give any of the characters the character development that they really all needed to get but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really goo pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is an action show that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty i in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. While the episode really only has the one action scene near the end of the episode this is something that does make alot of scene as there's no way that you could have a good looking action scene with a cartoon character taking on two live action characters and with the episode putting more of a focus on comedy then action it does make sense that this episode would have just the one action and yet at the same time tho having more then one action scene in the episode even if it's brief one would have gone a long way into showing us the audience why Mr-Ring-A-Ding is a threat to The Doctor with the episodes best action scene of course being it's only action scene where we get to see the episodes main villain essentially suck the life force out of The Doctor in order to build himself a real body all the while Belinda is is busy running around grabbing all of the film stuck so that she can light it on fire something which would kill of the episodes main villain and while it's not her that delivers the blow as that honor goes to the projectionist Reginal Pye it's the fact that it gets done in the first place with it somehow blowing a huge hole in the building so that sun light can come thus allowing to Mr-Ring-A-Ding to essentially drown in the light with that action scene being a really tense scene just due to the fact that it's The Doctor himself who almost dies with it also being a really fu scene to watch in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall whilst this might not be the best episode of this season of Doctor Who it's also not the worst one either with this episode actually trying to do something new by giving us a cartoon villain that helps to make the episode as good as it is and while the writing by Russell T. Davies isn't that good as it feels like he was just copying what he really did in "The Devil's Chord" something like "The War Between The Land And The Sea" does prove that h wants to he can still write good Doctor Who it's just that this episode isn't the best episode that he's written in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad thigs that are in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very episode really does earn itself a gran old score of exactly a 6 out of 10 from me.

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WWE Raw January 5th 2026 Review

There's no doubt that the biggest show on Netflix was Stranger Things and given that Netflix also airs WWE Raw it would make sense that one day the two would sort of crossover with each other. Well that's exactly what has just happened on the latest episode of Raw with this being something that to there credit the WWE really did go over board promoting as they were pushing this episode for weeks on social media and well the episode has now aired and since I still love pro wrestling you all just knew that I had to check this episode the very first chance that I got and so then join me as I review the show that sees things get stranger with the show in question being called simply just "Raw" enjoy.

For once this episode really doesn't have much of a plot with the episode instead feeling like a free PLE and not an episode of a weekly TV show. Now then interms of what I thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad as even tho this show doesn't really have a plot as the whole idea behind this episode is to basically be a glorified PLE which is something that could have been seen as being a bad thing yet it is something that does oddly work in this episodes favor as the whole push behind this episode isn't the stories going into it altho that is a big part of it rather it's the fact that the episode is one big crossover of sorts with Stranger Things and that's really it and to be fair that's not really something that does require a lot of plot especially when your storylines can last months which is something that WWE do with it being made clear that this episode is also there to get more fans into watching pro wrestling and having a lot of plots be further developed in this episode could be something that might put them off watching next week as it doesn't matter if you get those new fans to watch this week what happens is if they come back and watch next weeks episode and if this episode did have a plot or carried on or advanced several plots it is something that they wouldn't be able to do and while it would have been nice if this episode did have a plot as that's something that the die hard wrestling fans would love it's also something that wouldn't really work in what is just a glorified PLE and nothing more then that in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

The set for this show is as expected just the regular set for this show with the thing that sets it apart this week being he fact that there's alot of things tied into Stranger Things planed not only where the stage is but all over the place as well. With it seeming like the WWE wanted to let you know that this episode was tieing in with Stranger Things as they have branding for that show all over the place with the coolest part of that branding being at the top of the stage where they have what is quite possibly the entrance to the Upside Down where the wrestlers make there way to ringside which was a nice little touch but at the same tie tho given that this is meant to be a special episode of the show it would have been nice if they went over board and used some of that Netflix money to give us a more unique looking set as the one that they give us in this episode is nothing more then the regular set and that's it and while that would be fine if this was just an average episode of the show the fact is this isn't just an average episode of the show as this is one that both WWE and Netflix have been promoting all of the time and therefor it should have been treated as something special and part of that does mean giving the show a unique looking set as that would help to make the show feel more special even if it's something as simple as making the main LED screen slightly bigger it's something that would have gone a long way into making this episode feel more special and yet all they do is slap the Stranger Things logo on the LED screen and have some props from that show spread all around the stage which does look nice but it's not enough to make this episode feel all the more special then what they've been making it out to be on social media.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual set that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual set that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. With this episodes set just being the set that they use for the show and really nothing more then that it is still a set that looks really good butt it's hard to say that this set is one of the best Raw sets of all time as this show did have some really good looking sets in the 2000's but for modern WWE this set does look really good but again as was just mentioned it would have helped this episode out quite a lot if they did come up with an original set as they have the money to make one and heck if they wanted to save money they could have made so that the set could then be used for special episodes or things like Saturday Nights Main Event or something like that and yet all they did was just use the typical main series set which oddly enough does make this episode feel alot less special as they do the bare minimum to make it look different when in this episode they should have gone all out in making it look as good as they possibly could have done as as right now the set feels like the set that they would use for a Christmas episode of the show where they do the bare minimum but there it makes sense as alot of there staff aren't there at that time to make the set as good as it could have been where as here they working with a full staff and yet they didn't create a unique set and don't get me wrong this set does make the show stand out from all of the other episodes of this show but given that they really did push this episode for weeks before it even aired it would have been better if they went over board with making a new and unique looking set for this episode.

To be fair even tho this episode really hits you over the head with the Stranger Things iconography they do also do alot of really cool things with it as well. With the episode quite literally turning things upside down at the start of the episode which was a really cool thing and then you add in the fact that they have unique transitions which feature characters from Stranger Things which do look really good and it is something that does show that the WWE was putting alot of care into this episode which is something make alot of sense as this episode is the first episode of Raw in the new year with the crossover aspect of this show being done more subtly then what it really could have been as if this was under the Vince McMahon era you just know that he would have done something crazy and over the top just to really make it obvious that this is a tie in episode of the show and yet as this show is under the Triple H era it's done alot more subtly with all of the cool things that we got from this tie in being nothing more then things that are on video and nothing more then that heck none of the cast and crew from the show even make an appearance in the episode which granted does make this tie in pointless as they could have had the cast take part i some backstage segments and maybe do some segments in the ring as well and yet the WWE didn't do any of that with all the things that they do do being these really cool little things that you don't get to see on the average episode of Raw with the only down thing being the fact that they play the Stranger Things theme song alot of the time which is bit of over kill especially when you only need to play it the once and that's really it.

When this tie in was first announced and first being promoted I and i'm sure many others immediately wished that this episode was alot more better then the Army Of The Dead tie in that the WWE did at Wrestlemania Backlash 2021. As on that PLE they straight up had two wrestlers compete in a match while surrounded by zombies and then had a further two zombies get eaten by those zombies where as here the tie in aspect was done in much more subtle with the focus being more on the wrestling side of things then in the tie in side of things which is a great to do something like as that is something that the wrestling fans will love this however doesn't make this tie in that good as outside of the set and graphics there's nothing to say that this is a tie in with Stranger Things which is were having things like the cast and crew appear on the show would have helped things out as it would been a really subtle thing to do and it wouldn't take away from the wrestling aspect of the show either and yet for one reason or another the makers of this episode instead chose not to that which again makes it pointless for this episode to be a tie in episode and while it's easily better then the Army Of The Dead tie in was that's not really saying all that much as it would have been fun to see some wrestlers interacting with the cast of the Stranger Things heck they could have had R-Truth confuse the actors from the show with there characters and treat them as there characters which sis something that would been true to his character and it would have been really fun to see in this episode but in all fairness not having the cast and crew of the show appear in this episode does also work for this episode as it keeps the focus on what it should have been that being the wrestling.

This episode is pretty much here just to provide Netflix with some synergy between two of it's shows and that's really it/ Which is fine but at the same time you have to wonder why the WWE why not have it be with something like Wednesday or one of there animated shows as there really isn't much crossover interms of fan support between both of the shows whereas alot of people that would love Stranger Things would also love something like Wednesday as those two shows are very similar in style and tone whereas having it be with WWE a brand that changes it's tone with every segment and has nothing to do with horror it makes no sense for them to team up for this episode but as this episode could serve as a great way for Stranger Things fans to see what the WWE is all about then you really can't go wrong as this episode does give you some good stuff but at the same tm this isn't the company at there best either with this episode just straight up dropping nearly all of the Stranger Things heavy talk after the first few segments and then they only mention the show by name once or twice and that's really it but to this episodes credit for a show like Stranger Things it really would be hard to do a proper tie in that appease fans of both shows and would get people from either show to watch the other with the makers of this show doing the best with what they had to work with and to be fair they do make the most of it even tho alot of the stuff that they give us would have been better served if it was on a PLE and not just a regular episode of the show and if this episode does get some fans of Stranger Things to watch Raw then great as they can very easily watch alot of the past episodes on Netflix and hopefully that will then make them fans of this show.

There was one thing that was really annoying to watch that being the fact that alot of the time the show does cut to black. With this happening very early on in the episode where it happens seemingly every few minuets which is just pointless as there doing it just for no reason whatsoever now if this show was still airing on regular TV and not on Netflix you could then make the case that this is were the show was cutting to a commercial break but it doesn't air on TV anymore it airs on Netflix which makes those fades to black pointless and annoying with the other thing that was kind of annoying was that for a wrestling show there was very little wrestling on the show itself as there was only four matches on the entire show and while that is close to the norm for the Triple H era as he has put more of focus on quality rather then quantity you still need to have alot more wrestling happen on your wrestling show and yet here the episode was filled up more with interviews and backstage segments then it was in actual wrestling which would be fine if this was a PLE as by then all of the build up for that event would have been and the event it self would just be the pay off to alot of the stories being told but here it's just another episode of the show and yet it's being treated like it was a PLE which is great for match quality but we still want to see more wrestling matches happen on this show heck there's alot of wrestlers who could have done something literally anything on this show that weren't featured as the makers of the episode were alot more focused on letting us know that this is a special crossover episode with Stranger Things then they were in giving us a good episode in it's own right.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running tome of exactly two hours and twenty seven minuets and twenty four seconds. Which is pretty much the bogstandard running time for this show to have and while this show doesn't really have a plot to cover that amount of running time in the first place alot of the shows matches are really well paced with none of the shows matches lasting longer then what they really need to with the only match going near the thirty minuet mark being the shows main event and that's really it as alot of the shows matches are all under twenty minuets long which is a perfect amount of time for them to last which again makes you wonder why there wasn't one more match added to this card with the episodes running time actually being shorter then some of the shows other episodes where they usually run alot more closer to three hours in length and yet this episode really doesn't feel all that long with this being due to the fact that the episode does have a good balance of match time and interview time which is something that very easily could have skewed more in favor of either one which would have thrown of the episodes pacing as the episode does need to balance the amount of times that they mention Stranger Things , the amount of matches that they have and the some of the shows interviews and backstage segments as well as the one the in the ring segment with this being something that the show does really well with even the shows Stranger Things aspect being alot more fun then what it really could have been as well as that is something that very easily could have been seen as being to campy and on for to long and yet here those aspects of the show run for just the right amount of time but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a wrestling show that really does mean that I gave to actually talk about the actual wrestling that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual wrestling that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With this episode having some really good wrestling in it be it from the opening women's tag team title match between The Kabuki Warriors and Rhea Ripley and Iyo Sky or even the match between a returning Liv Morgan and Lyra Valkyria bottom line there is a lot of really good matches to be found in this episode altho given that only one match features the men and the rest of the women it does make this episode feel like a version of WWE Evolution and not an episode of Raw with the best wrestling match on the whole show being the amin even match between CM Punk and Bron Breakker as even the the ending was overbooked with there being far to many things happening just ti set up the end of the match the match it self was really well done with there being some really good looking moves done by both people with the match itself being very hard hitting with part of makes this match so good being the fact that the match had the time that it really needed to be this fun and crazy match and while the opening tag match also had that it's ending really did feel a bit rushed with it feeling like that they were just rushing to get to the end this match really was just hard hitting action that alot of wrestling fans might like in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Overall interms of tie ins go this one is easily better then Wrestlemania Backlash 2021 was as this episode whilst it didn't take the tie in aspect as far it really could have done it took it just far enough for the episode to be enjoyable but this is an episode that won't be remembered and will be forgotten about by the larger wrestling fan base by at best next month as it's just that forgettable of an episode in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that means that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 6.5 out of 10 from me.

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