Wednesday: Woe Thyself Review

Everyone knows who The Addams Family are be from their various TV shows to there various movies or even the original comic strips amongst many other things. There is however one thing that cannot be denied and that is the fact that the Wednesday TV show helped to really make the characters popular again this time for a more modern audience and it something that did work as the show is currently filming it's third season and well I thought that i'd take a look back at one of the more out there episodes from the shows second season and so then join me as I review the episode that might as well be called "Freaky Friday Goth Girl Edition" with the episode in question being called simply just "Woe Thyself" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when Wednesday and Enid switch bodies after Enid interrupts a meeting that Wednesday is having the ghost of a dead professor with te duo having a few hours to put things right before they both die. 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. With the episodes plot for the most part being very much a filler plot with it really tying into the main plot towards the end the episode which to be frank isn't a bad thing as it does give us very much a calm before the storm episode. However tho this episode really could have been a bit more focused as plot wise the episode does seem to be all over the place as the episode has to juggle so many plots from the season which in this case does leave the main plot fighting for screen time and whilst yes this is very much a nothing plot that doesn't mean that it had to be left fighting for your attention as it should have been the main focus of the episode and not left feeling like an afterthought as when the episode does focus on the Wednesday and Enid plot that's when the episode gets to be more fun and that's exactly what an episode like this one needed to be it needed to be fun and yet for one reason or another the episode can't be that fun as when the episode does start to get more fun with its plot it cuts to another plot which is great for the seasons long story arc but it's not great for the episodes main plot with the plot of the episode also 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 one of this shows executive producers Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams and Steve Buscemi as Principal Barry Dort. Also starring in this episode is Emma Myers as Enid Sinclair , Hunter Doohan as Tyler Galpin , Joy Sunday as Bianca Barclay , Moosa Mostafa as Eugene Ottinger , Georgie Farmer as Ajax Petropolus , Isaac Ordonez as Pugsley Addams , Owen Painter as Slurp , Billie Piper as Isadora Capri , Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo as Sheriff Ritchie Santiago , Victor Dorobantu as Thing , Noah B. Taylor as Bruno Yuson , Evie Templeton as Agnes DeMille , Luis Guzmán as Gomez Addams , Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia Addams , Gwendoline Christie as Larissa Weems , Dame Joanna Lumley as Hester Frump , Christopher Lloyd as Professor Orloff , Frances O'Connor as Francoise Galpin , Star Wars star Joonas Suotamo as Lurch , Heather Matarazzo as Judi Stonehearst and Lady Gaga as Rosaline Rotwood.

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. The fact that we have good acting in this episode is something that really isn't all that surprising as this show does have good acting in all of it's episodes and the fact that it's managed to get an actual dame in Dame Joanna Lumley does speak to how good the acting is as she didn't have to do this show and yet she did it anyway with her turning in a good performance in this episode with the same thing being true for alot of this episodes actors as well as they all turn in a bunch of really good performances in this episode. With the best actor in the whole entire episode being Emma Myers as Enid Sinclair as both she and Jenna Ortega have a really tough job to do in this episode as they both have to play there regular characters but then they have to play each others characters whilst still making it apparent that it's there own characters and while Jenna does also pull this off quite easily Emma is clearly having the most fun with it as she makes the character of Wednesday still very much feel like Enid with her even doing an impression of the voice that Jenna uses for the character which was something that she didn't have to do and yet it's something that sells you on the fact that this is still Wednesday only no it's in Enid's body with her having alot of charm and charisma that really does shine through in this episode. With the acting that's in this episode really being helped by the fact that this episodes script is 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 CGI for this episode really is the legends and the really greats that are currently over at Folks VFX. 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. While the series isn't really known for it's high quality CGI as The Hyde in season one looks so bad here in this episode the effects do look decent with the makers of the episode hiding both The Hyde and Enid's wolf firm mostly in shadows which does do a good job of hiding the effects and making it look all the more better. Yet the episode gives Isaac a really long obviously fake tongue when he's licking the jar of Professor Orloff and while the effects used to bring Professor Orloff to live look really good the effect on the tongue looks a little bit to fake as while there is no way that they could have done practically there could have been a bit more time spend on it to make it look better and while yes The Hyde itself does still look pretty bad in this episode the fact that it is mostly hidden away in shadows does make it more of a better effect as it does show that the makers of this episode had learnt from there mistakes last season where they have the creature be seen in well lit areas which does make the effect itself look really bad but here by hiding it a bit more it does mean that they can get away with making it look a little bit bad which is something that can't be said for the long tongue effect with this being ashame as the effect of Professor Orloff does look really good and heck one could even say that it's the best effect of the season.

The best way to describe this episode is it's essentially The Addams Family version of Freaky Friday as both this episode and that film do share a very similar set up where two characters switch bodies and have to put things right before a certain time with them both learning something that they didn't know about the other in the process. In the case of this episode Enid learns that the reason why Wednesday has been shutting her out all season is due to the fact that she's foreseen Enid being killed and Wednesday is actively trying to stop that from that happening and Wednesday learns that Enid fears being an alpha due to the fact that she thinks it will make her be all alone again something which Wednesday vows to not let happen. While yes the thing that Wednesday learns is a very basic thing for the character to learn it is something that does work for the character as the character had been cold to Enid all season long at this point something Agnes did take delight in reminding Enid all about, heck this is something that does work for these kinds of episodes as it then gives the characters the chance to literally walk a mile in each others shows and while we the audience don't get to learn anything new about either character because of it the fact that the characters get to find out things that they might not have found out otherwise is something that does prove that this type of episode could work, however tho with that being said it is odd that a show featuring The Addams Family would do a body swap episode as quite literally none of the shows and movies had done anything like this before as it's something that doesn't really work in the world of The Addams Family and while it does kind of work here due to how they have it happen it is still an odd thing to see in anything that's related to The Addams Family.

This episode is the very definition of the calm before the storm episode as alot of this episode is very comedy focused and is very happy go lucky. While yes it does get more serious towards the end of the episode alot of the time it is just the characters trying to work out how to get out of this crazy situation and this is where the episode does shine as this show is usually very dark and vert bleak and while that is fitting for The Addams Family sometime you do want something that is a little bit more lighthearted whilst still getting all of the things that you'd come to expect from the show and this is something that this episode does do really well as we get both Wednesday and Enid getting into goofy situations whilst in each others bodies which is alot of fun to see as we get to see Wednesday as Enid breaking up with Enid's boyfriend because she knows that he's cheating on her but she can't do it in the way that Wednesday would she has to do it in the way that Enid would. The same thing is true with Enid as she has a few scenes with either Morticia or Morticia and the rest of The Addams Family with Enid being scared that she might be found out ad yet none of them suspect her for a second with Enid not being to able to tell anyone that she's not herself which in off itself does lead to some pretty funny moments during the dinner scene with Gomez punishing Pugsley by either putting him in an Iron Maiden or in the torture rack something which he happily accepts, this episode is filled to the brim with goofy moments like this and they oddly don't feel put of place in this kind of episode as this episode is meant to be a calm before the storm episode and therefor of course things are going to be alot more lighthearted and while given the fact that this episode six of an eight episode season and therefor the show should have been building more to the end of the season taking this little break away from the main plot of the season does work.

While this episode does mostly avoid the season long plot it does take the time to address this time as the episodes subplot. As we do get to see Tyler and his family go back to Willow Hill hospital so that Isaac can finish the experiment on his sister which we find out in Tyler's mother with those scenes being the only scenes in the entire episode where the season long plot gets addressed and that's great as we have had a few episodes in this season that put the season long plot as the main plot of the episode therefore it was great to see a more lighthearted plot take the main focus with it only tieing into the main plot of the season near the end of the episode when Agnes sneak off to Willow Hill with Tyler and his family with Wednesday and Enid having to come to her rescue and that's really it and that's all we needed to have for the main plot of the season. As it could have been pointless for the makers of this episode to include anything that would add to it this late in the game therefor having the season long plot take the backseat to a more goofy kind of plot is something that does work for the episode and while of course the episode would have worked just as well if the season long plot was the main focus as you could have had the bod swapping plot happen with any to character and it would would have worked out just the same having it happen with Enid and Wednesday does also make alot of sense but with this being said the episode would have been all the more better if the main plot with Tyler was the main focus point of the episode just due to where this episode falls in the seasons running order as if it was done much more earlier on in the season then having the more goofy plot take centre stage would have made sense but here at episode six of an eight episode season there did need to be more of a focus on the season long plot.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and nine minuets and sixteen seconds. Whilst this is pretty much the bogstandard running time for this show to have this episode really didn't need to be all that long as there was nothing in the episodes plot that demanded that it be this long as you very easily could have had this episode come in at well under one hour just by cutting out alot of the pointless stuff in the episode that add nothing to either the episodes main plot or the season long plot and yet the episode does throw so many things at you all of which are filler scenes that it makes you wonder why the makers of this episode gave this episode a longer running with the episode having more then enough there interms of plot to really cover that amount of running time in the first place. Yet with the episode having this long running time it still doesn't use it's running time all that wisely as the episode doesn't take the time to fully develop its plot and whilst this is still a really bad thing for this kind of episode tho the plot didn't really need to be all that well developed as all you needed to know was how Enid and Wednesday switched bodies in the first place and how long they have to switch back and that's really it and both of those things are thing that episode explains to us any way yet it is still more clear that the makers of this episode gave more thought and effort into the pointless filler scenes then they did in the episodes plot development. The same thing it could be argued is true for the episodes characters development as while both Wednesday and Enid do grow as characters as they both find out things that they other has been keeping a secret from them and they both learn from that none of the episodes other character do grow as characters and wile it could be could be argued that Tyler doesn't really need to grow as a character but given the fact that he is on of the main characters of the episodes side plot he or any member of his family should have started to grow as characters 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 show 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 this episode being alot more goofier with its setup then other episode it does make sense that there would be more of a focus on comedy then what there usually is as nine times out of ten this show focuses more on action and horror and while both of those are still present in the episode there is more of clearer lean towards comedy with alot of the main characters in the main plot of the episode getting a chance to be really funny be with Enid being really sarcastic as Wednesday or Wednesday herself being alot more fun and outgoing as Enid. With the best joke in the whole entire episode being the scene where Enid as Wednesday decides to get revenge for how Wednesday as written the character based in her in her book by dressing up in brightly coloured clothes and make up and going into the schools courtyard hugging and being friendly to every one whilst also dancing this was just a fun way to start of the episode as right away it lets you know that something is up with the character and yet they revisit the scene later on in the episode Enid then gets a reminder that Wednesday is quite literally allergic to color when she starts coming out in a rash which is just the cherry on top for that whole joke with the rest of the episodes jokes being just as good as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.  

Overall whilst there are more better plot focused episodes in this second season of the show just interms of having a plot that knows full well that it's goofy and having all of the main actors be in on it those really are things that do make this episode alot of fun to watch 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 an 8 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very episode that I used in this very post being the really great Google Images really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very episode with alot of them really being really better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on Google Images really are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Lego Star Wars: The Mandalorian Special SPOILER FILLED Review

Lego and Star Wars are things tat usually go together hand in hand with Lego telling stories that appeal more to kids and Star Wars being able to put together some cool sets that feel that they fit in with that world. Heck they've even produced some decent but not great specials together in recent years well now they've released another special and it might just be the most pointless one of the bunch and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FILLED review of the special that is quite literally just a retelling of the first three season of The Mandalorian with the special in question being called simply just "Lego Star Wars: The Mandalorian" enjoy.

The plot of this special is believing he is there to track down a bounty The Mandalorian and Grogu arrive on Tatooine where they find that there friends are throwing a surprise party just for them. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special 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 special was in all honesty OK at best. The specials plot for what it is isn't that bad but at the same time there are ither Lego Star Wars specials that do have better plots then this one with this specials plot feeling like it was meant to serve as a tie in for The Mandalorian And Grogu as the special is all about recapping key events from the show and really nothing more then that. The plot is outside of the recapped scenes is pretty thin at best with the special outside of what was described near the start of this review not really having a plot as while yes there are a few story scenes involving pirates they don't really come into play until near the end of the special which is far to little to late for that to happen with it feeling like that this special was made purely to sell kids on the idea of a mandalorian movie or any of The Mandalorian lego sets which is something that is also true for alot of the Lego sets but here it does feel like that it's getting in the way of the plot and while it is foolish to expect a good plot in a Lego Star Wars anything really you do however expect a plot that is at the vert least semi decent with the plot of this special not really being really rather entertaining and as well as not really being really rather engaging either in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this special is Gavin Hammon as The Mandalorian , Amy Sedaris as Peli Motto and Bill Burr as Migs Mayfeld. Also starring in this special is David Pasquesi as Majordomo , Katee Sackhoff as Bo-Katan Kryze , Emily Swallow as The Armorer , Giancarlo Esposito as Moff Gideon , Matthew Wood as Bib Fortuna , Jawas and The Kowakian Monkey-Lizard , Ming-Na Wen as Fennec Shand , Nick Nolte as Kuiil , Rosario Dawson as Ahsoka Tano , Taika Waititi as IG-11 and IG-12 , Temuera Morrison as Boba Fett , Timothy Olyphant as Cobb Vanth , André Sogliuzzo as Mythrol and Stormtroopers , Carl Lumbly as Greef Karga , David Acord as MA-13 , Eric Bauza as Luke Skywalker and EV-9D9 , Flula Borg as The Client , Marti Matulis as Vane , Paul Sun-Hyung Lee as Carson Teva , Shelby Young as Anzellans and Jawas , Steve Blum as Stormtroopers and Zeb Orrelios and Trevor Devall as A Dark Trooper , Dorian Shard and A Pit Droid.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special 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 special was in all honesty OK at best. This specials acting was quite frankly alot more better then what it really had any right to be as like alot of these Lego Star Wars specials none of the specials actors had to turn in a good performance as let's be honest no one is going to watch these specials and yet alot of them did with the like of Eric Bauza being un recognizable as Luke Skywalker as he sounds so much like Mark Hamill that you'd assume that they just got him in to play the role again with the same thing also being true for Gavin Hammon who sounds so much like Pedro Pascal that you'd assume that they just got him back to voice the character. With the best actor in this special being Gavin Hammon as The Mandalorian as he does sound so much like Pedro Pascal that it does make you wonder why they didn't just get him to voice the character with Gavin doing enough to the voice to make it sound unique to him without doing so much that it's clear that it's not a different actor playing the role and while other actors in this special do get alot more characters to play Gavin only has the one and he plays him so well with him making the character more child friendly which given the fact that this is a kids special is something that does work for this special and it is something that does come through in his performance. With the acting that's in this special no really being helped by the fact that this specials script is just so bad as it gives none of this specials actors anything 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 special.

Doing the animation for this special is the legenda and the greats that are currently over at Atomic Cartoons. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very special 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 special was in all honesty OK at best. The animation in this special was pretty decent but at the same time it did feel like a huge step down in quality when it comes to the animation that we would normally get in these lego specials as while granted the animation that we do normally get isn't the best you can still tell that there is alot of thought and effort put into it. Whereas here in this film whilst there is of course effort put into the animation it's lacking alot of thought with it being really choppy alot of the time as it lacks those extra few frames that alot of these Lego specials do have and this is something that does make the animation in this special feel more like an afterthought as there is nothing in this special from an animation stand point that makes the special stand out outside of the fact that all of the smoke and sand effects are rendered in a realistic looking 3D CGI which granted to does look good but at the same time it clashes with the fact that everything is meant to be Lego with all of the characters having these really stilted movements to them which in all fairness don't look that bad but but if they did have a few more frames of animation given to them then they could have made them look alot more smoother instead of making it look like there was a jump cut every few seconds.

SPOILERS START HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For some reason this special just recaps alot of the key moments or the mandalorian not only from The Mandalorian TV show but also from The Book Of Boba Fett. Which is just weird as one of the many things that that show got made of was for feeling like the next season of The Mandalorian as very little of the Boba Fett show focused on Boba Fett himself and yet now we have a special that once again hits home the point that he was never the main character if his own show which is just stupid and granted the whole point of this special was to get kids caught up all of The Mandalorians adventures prior to The Mandalorian And Grogu but that doesn't mean that you had to include scenes from the show that helped to ruin a character that alot of die hard Star Wars loved. Heck the only good thing that this special really does with it being basically a clip how is the fact that it doesn't feature Lego versions of the Jack Black and Lizzo cameo from The Mandalorian season 3 as nobody needs to be reminded of that even being a thing and very the very fact that this is a clip show special does make the special feel pointless as we could just watch the actual episodes and get the same expirence only now we'd have have the added benefit of having context added to the scenes that are shown in this special and heck watching the actual episodes might be better as then we get to see the characters as they were originally meant to be and while there is a plus side of this special in that it is something that was purely made with little kids in mind and therefor of course the characters and the stories don't need to be as smart as they once where here by dumbing down the characters and still having it be a clip show special there basically dumbing down both The Mandalorian and The Book Of Boba Fett when that is something that they really didn't have to do.

To be frank here this whole special feels like it was made in order to promote The Mandalorian And Grogu as there s no need for them to do a recap of any of the events in that show were it not for that fact. However even that doesn't really make that much sense as this special has only just came out and The Mandalorian And Grogu came out in May of this year which does make it a bit late to do a special that might have been used to promote a movie that ultimately bombed at the box office however tho there is also a chance that this special wasn't meant to be a tie for that movie which if that was the case then one has to wonder why they had the plot of this special being characters just telling and showing us things that we've known have happened to the characters in the first place there is always a chance that this was done to get more kids into watching the film and the shows which OK is a good idea but it is really worth putting forward all of this time and money into a special that will be forgotten about by tomorrow. There are sets for The Mandalorian therefor maybe like with the Lego Disney Princess and Lego Marvel specials maybe this one was done to help shift some of the Lego sets which OK is fair enough as alot of the shows in the eighties and nineties were also made with the idea of selling the toys but the but thing this special doesn't really do that as it doesn't make the sets look good and given the fact that alot of the Lego set sell for almost triple digits it does make you wonder just who this special was made for as while you do get adults who are still into Lego those that are still into it and have kids that are old enough to play with it are really small and no parent with kids is going to spend alot of money on a Lego set.

In something that was a surprising move is the fact that in a few of the flashbacks to scenes from season 1 and 2 of The Mandalorian it looks like we get a silent cameo from Cara Dune. Which given everything that Lucasfilm and Disney put Gina Carano through when they fired her is a shocking thing to see as while yes the character doesn't speak in her scenes with them even skipping over the episode where the two meet up for the first time it was still shocking to see what might be her character showing up and while there is a good chance that it's not her character the model that they use looks to much like her for it not to be her an while it would have been nice if it is her as her character did play a big role in the first few seasons of the show given just how petty that Disney is it wouldn't be surprising if they come out and say that its not her even tho it's clearly modelled after her. The specials villain Dorian Shard isn't that bad of a villain as he does serve his purpose of being a family friendly villain but the same time none of the clips that the show show us why he's after The Mandalorian in the first place as he tells us that he's after him because of the fact that The Mandalorian killed a member of his family but nothing in the special has shown us that that was the case when it really should have done as then it would have made feel like a more thought out villain instead of just being anther angry Star Wars villain and while the character does indeed get some good moments in the special with him always correcting people that say he's a plant creature with him always saying something that he's plant like but none of of those tell us who he is as a character and none of them give us a reason to want to boo him outside of the fact that he's the main villain of the special and that's it and that's not enough to give us a good villain.

Now then this special has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly forty five minuets and nine seconds. Which to be fair to this special is kind of the bogstanderd running time for alot of these Lego Star Wars specials however tho alot of the other special justify there running times buy having a better plots that demand the special be that long where as here as outside of all of the recapped scenes the special doesn't have enough plot to fully justify it being that long as you very easily could have cut this special down to thirty minuets and and not cut a single story scene in the special as the only thing that you'd have to cut down on is the pointless recap scenes and that's it with the this special not really having enough plot there to fully cover that amount of running time in the first place. With this special not even using it's running time all that wisely as the special really doesn't fully develop it's plot with the plot being about as bare bones as you can get with even the main villain of the special not even showing up until about twenty minuets into the special all because of the of the fact that the makers of this special put alot more thought and effort into giving the special alot of pointless flashback scenes then they did into giving it a well thought and well developed plot. This is something that dos also effect the characters character development as while The Mandalorian gets character development with him learning the exact same thing that he learnt in the first season of the show that bein to open up his heart and let people in and help it was handled so badly in this special ass nothing that they had shown in the specials story scenes had hinted that that was going to be the case in the place with none of the specials other characters getting kind of character development whatsoever with the makers of this special caring more about giving us pointless cameo characters they did about giving its characters some actual character development but I really will admit that this special really does have some really good pacing to it tho. 

So now then as this is a comedy that special really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy thats actually featured / presented to us in this very special well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy thats actually featured / presented to us in this very special was in all honesty not that bad. With the specials comedy being alot of the typical comedy that we do find in Lego specials in that they'll reply a scene from something and then have a joke play over what was once a serious moment and that is something that does work for this special as there is alot of fun to be had in the world of Star Wars and even more so with The Mandalorian as a whole. With specials best joke being at the end of the episode one of The Mandalorian recap as during the fight against all of the other bad guys in that episode IG-11 does try to blow himself up with them taking it one step further in this episode by having him get upset at everything that he's done with him threatening to blow himself up over the tiniest thing with a fight that lasted minuets in the first episode now lasting hours as The Mandalorian has to stop him from blowing himself up all of the time and that is a good joke as it's making fun of something that happend in the actual episode but is doing so in a way that does feel respectful not only to the characters but the show as a whole with the one thing that the makers could have done to make it better being if they showed The Mandalorian getting angry which granted is somethin that they wouldn't have been able to do given the fact that he wears a helmet all the time but it is something that would have made that joke all the more funnier with the rest of the episodes jokes being just as good as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

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Overall it really is hard to say if this special or The Mandalorian And Grogu is worst as while that film was painfully bad alot of the time this special is still pretty bad with the thing being that this special was of course made with little kids in mind and that is something that we all really need to take into account when watching it in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked abut all of the good an as well as all of the bad things that are in this very special in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very special really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very post well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very post from the official Star Wars fandom wiki page ,IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very special that I used in this very post being the really great Google Images really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very special with alot of them really being really better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on Google Images really are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Batman: Knightfall Part 1: Knightfall Film Review

Believe it or it's been TWO years since we last got an American direct to DVD DC animated movie with the last ones being released being Watchmen Chapters 1 and 2. Believe it or not its actually been longer then that since we last got an American direct to the DVD Batman movie as the last one of those came out THREE years ago and while we did get Aztec Batman that's a Spanish film not an American one and well now we have a new direct to DVD DC film and well you all just know that  had to check this film out the very chance that I got and so then join me as i review the film that is the first of a three part story with the film in question being called simply just "Batman Knightfall Part 1: Knightfall" enjoy.

The plot of this film is when Arkham Asylum is blown up and every criminal escapes Batman and Robin have to round up every one of them whilst also working out who blew it up and to what end. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt 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 really good. To be frank here whilst this films plot is indeed really good as the plot of the film is one that is really fun to watch and is one that could very easily please alot of people due to the fact that it does feel like a plot that would be done in Batman: The Animated Series. However tho it should be noted that the films plot is rather thin and while this is something that does make alot of sense as the film is telling one story across three films there should have been more of an effort into giving us a more tighter and a more focused plot as alot of the time it is hard to make out just what the main plot of this even meant to be alot of the time as while sure we have the basic premise of Batman and Robin trying to recapture all of these past villains and that is a good premise to have but that's not enough to carry the plot for a movie and while this film does have the excuse of there being two other parts to be released hopefully this year there should have been an effort to give alot of the films plot some focus and not spend alot of time on scenes that might add something to either parts 2 or 3 but add nothing to the plot of this film as a whole with the plot of this films also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is Inhumans star Anson Mount as Bruce Wayne / Batman and Spider-Man: Homecoming and Spider-Man: Brand New Day star Michael Mando as Bane. Also starring in this film is Orange Is The New Black star Pablo Schreiber as Jean-Paul Valley / Azrael ,  Jack Giffin as Tim Drake / Robin , Bruce Boxleitner as Commissioner Gordon , Late Night With The Devil star David Dastmalchian as Edward Nygma / The Riddler and James Bond Jr. star Simon Templeman as Alfred Pennyworth.

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. The fact that this films acting is as good as it is in the first place really isn't all that shocking due to the fact that the film does have alot of really good actors in it and granted all of these actors that well known with perhaps the most well know at the very least to main stream audiences being David Dastmalchian and that's really it but even so if you've seen these actors in anything then you'll know how good tat they can be and all of them really do bring it in this film. With the best actor in this film being Michael Mando as Bane as he does get more of a chance to show off just good he is at being evil more so then what he does in any of the Spider-Man films that he's in and he really does nail it as this character so much so that you actively look forward to seeing him on screen as as an actor he is just a force of nature as this character so much so that I really would be happy if he became the official voice actor for this character as he is just so good to watch in this film with him having this natural nact for being evil that really does shine through in his performance in this film. With the acting that's in this very film really being helped by the fact that this films script is just so good that all this films actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will com out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality f the acting that's in this very film.

Doing the animation for this film is the legend and the really greats that really are currently over at Studio Mir. 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. To be frank it was both shocking and at the same time not all that shocking to find out that we have some really good animation in this film as direct to DVD DC animated films do typically have some really good looking animation in them but it was still shocking as alot of the more recent films had animation that whilst it was still really good was also quite lackluster and to be frank uninspired. Yet here with this film you can tell that there was a lot of genuine thought and effort put into this films animation with the animation at times looking like the comic books brought to life only with there own unique touch with the thing that helps to make the animation in this film be as good as it is being the fact the characters d have these really cool looking designs to them with Batman looking like how he did in the nineties only now he's got a cape that at times has spikes that look like bats and while he does look a bit to muscular that was also true for the comic books as well with it being made clear as day that the makers of this film are taking inspiration for the comic books, with the thing that does let the films animation down being the fact that the characters do have a lot of shadows on them which is something that does always look off putting as it takes your eye away from where it should be that being the film as now your looking at something that's hideous to look at.

This film is based on the thirst part of the Knightfall arc with the entire arc being published between April 1993 and August 1994. With the arc itself being one of the more famous comic book arc that Batman has been in due to the fact that in part one of that arc we do see Batman getting his back broken by Bane something which we had never seen before then and might not have seen since then as that moment is so iconic that there is no way to do it again without drawing comparisons to how it was done in this comic book arc with it even forcing Batman to grow as a character as now he has to learn to trust someone else something which due to the fact that he had just lost Jason Todd he wasn't able to do due to the fact that he was scared of loosing not just another Robin but another friend. While it is hard to say if this film is a good representation of the first part of the Knightfall arc what can be said is that just by going off of a very qu9ick read from the books Wikipedia page it does seem as if this film is just covering up until the part where Batman does get his back broken as there are more things that does happen in the first book that isn't in this film which is quite fair enough as these films don't typically last all that long but if your going to be doing three films in the first place and have all three films adapt each of three parts of the arc then why not adapt all of it as you have more then enough room to do so and it's something that the die hard comic book fans would love to see as the whole point of doing films based on these comic books is to give us the same stories but done in animation. Granted alot of what happens in the rest of book 1 might not have work in a film format which is a fair case to make but then why not just find away around that and only adapt the parts from book 1 that would work in a film format.

This film does carry on the trend of them adapting the comic book as multi-part films which in all fairness is a really good way of giving the comics in a new format. However this film does end suffering thanks to that approach as for a long portion of the films running time there is nothing of interest happening as all we are seeing is Batman work himself into the ground as he spends two nights without sleep chasing every single criminal that escaped from Arkham which is fine for a scene or two as that gets across the state of mind that Batman is in right now but the film barely does anything with it and while the film doesn't really set up all that much for the other two films it doesn't also pay off anything that it sets up in this film either. This is kind of double edges sword when it comes to doing films in more then one part as of course you want to give your audience a reason to come back and watch part 2 but you also want to make part 1 feel as close to a complete film as it possibly could be and in some ways this film does that as you do get the iconic moment in this film that will force Batman to change as a character but due to the fact that we only see Batman acting out twice in the film and don't really get any hints of him loosing his edge at any other point in the film only when it's for other characters to call it out which does make the idea of Batman starting to loose it feel wasted as of course with the comic book they can and did do more of that by showing Batman getting weaker and weaker with every passing issue this is of course something that you really can't do with a film this is despite the fact that the idea of Batman going nights without rest without sleeping and without food and water is a good idea and it is a good way to show us that much like with GCPD in this film Batman is spreading himself far to thin and does need to take a step back.

This films main villain is of course Bane with the character looking like he just stepped right out of the comic books. Heck even how the character is presented in this film is so good as unlike in Batman & Robin this version of the character is always the smartest person in a room full of villains with him having this inner strength and desire to survive something that was tought to him by his mother and it is something that we see him use in the film as he refuses to let his captures from when he was a kid get the better of them and stays alive for years just to spite them and when he gets injected with the venom he lasts longer then anyone else that has taken it and with this ne found power he goes nuts killing everyone. The character is also quite smart as without first meeting either Bruce Wayne or Batman he deduces that the two of them are one in the same and because of that he is able to draw out Batman and his allies alot more easily with him letting Batman weaken himself for Bane which is such a smart move and it is something that does make this character be one of the more easier characters to adapt for a film or whatever as this is a character that you can use as this unstoppable force of nature and yet there's only been ne film live action film thus far that has gotten this part right about the character that being The Dark Knight Rises, with the villains plan in this film being to fix Gotham by removing all of the things that he deems to be wrong with it and given the fact that Batman doesn't kill anyone he's deemed as being one of the things that's wrong with Gotham as according to Bane he's allowed it to get into the state that it's in with this being plan that whilst yes it is a simple plan but it's also one thats affective due to how simple it is.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and eighteen minuets and thirty seven seconds. This was kind of running time that to be frank I wasn't expecting this film to have as alot of the direct to DVD DC animated films usually run for around about one hour and ten minuets and this film is almost ten minuets longer then that and it really didn't need to be as you very easily could have cut down ALOT of the pointless Bane origin story at the tart of the film to just it's bare essentials as we didn't need to see his mother giving birth to him and then showing her being put in jail as that's just pointless filler that would have been better of being left out of the film with the film having more then enough plot thee to really cover that amount of running time. The film really doesn't use it's running time all that wisely due to the fact that the film really doesn't take the time to fully develop what little plot that it ha this is something that this film really should have done or layed the groundworks for the other two films to do and yet this film does neither one and therefor should the other films develop the plot it would feel out of place as the groundwork hadn't been layed this is something that could easily have been done just by cutting down on the pointless flashback origin for Bane and using the time freed up from that to add things to the films plot with it being made clear as day that the makers of this film put alot more thought and effort into showing us Bane's full origin story then they did into giving the plot some actual plot development. The same thing is also kind of true for the films character development as while it is understandable as to why the characters in this film don't et any character development and they do lay the groundworks for Batman to get the same character development that he always gets it would have been really nice to see one of the smaller known characters get some character development in this film with the makers of this film instead putting more thought and effort into showing us alot villain cameos then they di into giving its characters some character development 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 there being alot of good looking action scenes in this film all of which are helped by the fact that the animation in this film does help to sell you on the action as the animation makes all of the kicks and punches land harder and it makes all of the action cool to watch with the film giving us alot of cool moments with really all of the heroes and villains in this film with them all getting a time to shine which was a nice touch. With the best action scene in the whole entire film being of course the fight between Batman and Bane at the end of the film as we get to see a weakened Batman who has several injuries at this point in the film struggle to even land a decent hit on Bane with Bane just beating the heck out of him and destroying huge parts of Wayne Manor with Bane even destroying a huge part of the Batcave and while that moment would have been better save for part 2 it was still effective in this film as it does lead to the most iconic moment in recent Batman history as Bane taunts a near death Batman and lifts him up into the back his back over his knee with that whole action serving to show us the audience just how strong that this version of Bane is and how easily he could and in this case does break Batman with the rest of the films action being just as good as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall whilst this film really is the first American direct to DVD DC animated film since Watchmen Chapters 1 and 2 this film does show that when it comes down to it DC really does still know how to make a really good animated direct to DVD film as while this film isn't as good as other solo Batman films it's also alot more better then what it really had any right to be 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 7 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in his very review from Amazon . Co . Uk , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very episode that I used in this very post being the really great Google Images really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very episode with alot of them really being really better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on Google Images really are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Top Cat: Hawaii Here We Come Review

Out of all of the shows that Hanna-Barbera have produced be it Scooby-Doo and all of it's various versions to something like like Wacky Races the studio did have alot of great classic cartoons that people still talk about to this very day. The thing however cannot be said for Top Cat as while the characters have started to see a resurgence in popularity be it due to the movies Top Cat: The Movie and Top Cat Begins or them being featured characters on the show Jellystone really not alot of people talk about the original Top Cat show and well i'd thought i'd do exactly that by reviewing the first episode to be produced and so then join me as I review the episode that despite it being the first episode produced it was the third to air with the episode in question being called simply just "Hawaii Here We Come" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when Benny wins a trip to Hawaii Top Cat and the rest of the gang decide to sneak on board the ship and go with him while Officer Dibble has to track down a thief before he flood Hawaii with his counterfeit money.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 really good. Plot wise this episodes plot is pretty standard Top Cat stuff with Top Cat scheming to get something all the while trying to avoid getting caught by Officer Dibble which to be fair is a format that down work. However the plot of the episode does become more interesting when you add in thief plot to the episode as that is something that does add stakes with the plot of the episode really picking up once all of the characters are on board the ship as up until that point the episodes plot had been pretty thin at best but once they all get on the ship the whole plot just comes alive, another issue in regards to the episodes plot is that despite being promised to be a featured main character in the episode the second the gang all get on the ship Benny seem to get forgotten about with him not even having any lines of dialog in that part of the episode this is despite the fact that it's Benny that gets the main plot of the episode started in the first place the episodes plot is one that does show alot of promise but its a case where something that could be considered the side plot is alot more interesting that the main plot despite the fact that the main plot opens itself up for more comedic moments with the plot of this episode really being really rather entertaining and ae well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is Arnold Stang as Top Cat , Allen Jenkins as Officer Dibble and Maurice Gosfield as Benny The Ball and A Passenger. Also starring in this episode is Marvin Kaplan as Choo Choo and A Passenger , Leo DeLyon as Spook and Brain , John Stephenson as Fancy-Fancy , The Sergeant , The Boat Captain , The Purser , Mac and Boss Of The Deck and Don Messick as The Boarding Representative , The Crook , A Policeman , A Passenger and A Sailor.

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. To be frank it was shocking to see good acting in this episode as usually for an animated sixties TV show you don't usually get good acting sometimes you but not always and thankfully this was one of the few times where you do get good acting with all of the episodes actors turning in performances that whilst they aren't going to be winning the any OSCARS is more then passable for the kind of show that this is. With the best actor in the whole entire episode being John Stephenson as the man plays SIX different characters in this episode and yet you can never tell that it's him doing the voices as he gives each of his characters a distinct voice which does help make them feel unique with John adding in enough of himself to all of the characters that he plays in the episode that you get a sense of he is just putting himself out there and giving us a glimpse as to who he is as a person with there being a reason that Hanna-Barbera would keep on bringing him back as he is just so good in this episode with is natural acting ability really shining through in this episode. With the acting that's in this very episode really being helped buy the fact that this episodes script is 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 naturedly 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 Hanna-Barbera Productions. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation 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 animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. For a TV show that was made in sixties by Hanna-Barbera as while there is still that air of cheapness to the episodes animation with there being alot of repeated backgrounds and very limited movements by the characters this is still something that does add to the charm of the episode rather then detract from it. As with this being the first episode that was produced it would have been very easy for the makers of this episode to really go all out with the animation but that wouldn't gave left much for the rest of the show and therefor they do have to think more smarter and that does result in an episode that does look cheap and while yes the characters do show signs of having fluid animation alot of the time we do get this rather stilted looking animation which yes is cheap to produce as you only have to animate certain frames of the character it still would have made the episodes animation look all the more better and it will give people more of a reason to watch episode 2 of the show as now they would be thinking that the animation is going to be this good every weak but to be fair not having the animation be this good does mean that the episode has to rely more on the writing and the characters to carry the episode as unlike alot of animated shows today it can't just fall back on the animation as the animation isn't that good whereas the writing and the characters are likable enough to trump the animation in this episode.

This episode does have the stereotypical thief character in this episode with him making fake money for some unknown reason. Whilst it would normally be seen as a bad thing for an episode or a movie not to give any personality to someone that is essentially it's main character here it is something that does make alot of sense as this show is meant to be aimed at little kids to at best families and that does mean that the villain is going to be as bare bones as it gets with him running around the boat trying to avoid Officer Dibble who followed him on to the boat when he dressed as an old lady as he just wanted to return the money that he gave him and that's it with the character not really having interesting about him which is something that does make sense given the fact that this is an animated show made in the sixties. However it still would gave helped the character out alot if we get some background on the character even if it's just his name as he is literally credited as just The Crook and that's it and heck if they did give him a name and more of a personality then he could have gone on to become more of a recurring villain in the show instead of just being in this one episode as the idea of someone using obviously fake money is a good idea as is having Top Cat and the gang be the ones to come up with the idea to stop him in the first place but due to the fact that the makers of this episode treated the character like an afterthought when compared to the rest of that plot it does mean that a good character does get wasted as it would be super fun to see this character having interactions with members of the gang with them all believing that he is a Granny before revealing that he's actually a villain.

For some odd reason alot of this episode does take place on this one boat which wouldn't be bad thing were it not for the fact that the boat isn't all that interesting. As there's nothing on the boat that makes it a visually interesting place to spend alot of the episode and yet the makers of this episode thought that it was a good idea idea to spend alot of the time on this boat with us not really getting to much of the boat outside of this one floor which the episode pretty much uses up a few minuets after all of the characters embark on the boat with alot of the other locations in the episode being more interesting as we of course have the gangs alleyway which is always a fun place to visit and we have a random shop which could have worked as a main location for the episode. Granted the boat might have looked this empty due to budgetary reasons as these Hanna-Barbera shows were always done quickly and cheaply and that does mean that alot of the backgrounds are going to look empty alot of the time hence why we never seen alot of people walking in the background and it would have to mean animating alot of things that aren't important to the episode in the grand scheme of things but if your going to make a boat the main location for that is essentially your first episode then why not go as all out as you can and make the boat look full not only with staff and holiday makers but also with various activities while these are small things they are also things that will make the boat look like a more interesting location rather then being the flat and boring location that it does end up being as there is clearly no thought put into making the boat look like a place we actively want to spend more time on especially as the episode does have other and more interesting locations.

Something that was rather annoying in this episode was the fact that they used the same running sound effect over and over again. Granted this sound effect is something that you do think of when you think of how cheap Hanna-Barbera are but when you have alot of characters running in the episode and your hearing the exact same sounds over and over again it looses all of it's charm and starts to become more of an annoyance then it is charming and while it's not a bad sound effect and it is something that does it job really well it's not really something that you want to be hearing every single time a character is running on screen and alot of the characters in this episode are running for a long period of time which means that we stuck hearing the same stock running sound effect for a long period of time. This is something that does hit home just how cheap Hanna-Barbera were as they did reuse alot of sounds effects in there shows ad movies which OK fair enough they had the right to do that but it does get to the point where your left thinking of other and better shows that you've heard it in with taking you out of this episode however to be fair even this episode that running effect is only used at the right time and it isn't used when the characters are running all of the time but it something that we didn't need to hear alot of the time as creating a new running effect for when the characters are running on something wooden would helped the episode alot more as the one that they do use sounds like the characters or running on carpet which is fine for something like Scooby-Doo as that could very easily be the case but for his episode where toy see the ship is made of wood and have no carpet it doesn't really work all that well.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty five minuets and thirty five seconds. This is pretty much the bogstandard running time for alot of animated shows from around this time period and to be frank this episode really doesn't need a long running as the show itself doesn't take the time to set up how the gang met and became friends and runs on being an episodic show which does mean that you can watch just a few episodes of the show and get a good idea as to how the rest of the show is going to go and it means that you can start this show with any episode you want and just jump around from random episode to random episode with the episode having more then enough plot to really cover that amount of running time. Yet this episode still doesn't use its running time all that wisely as the episode doesn't take the time to fully develop it's plot as while the episode does full explain the main plot with Benny and the gang as well as they could have done when it coms to its subplot with Dibble trying to catch The Crook that doesn't get developed at all with that plot not even getting introduced until the third act of the episode when a plot that is this important being something should be introduced alot more earlier but in all fairness Dibble isn't the main title character of the show Top cat is and therefor any plot with him in it is going to always be the amin plot of the episode with the makers of this episode caring more about reusing the same running effects that they did about giving the plot any kind of development. Whilst none of the characters also get any kind of character development in any of the shows episodes this isn't that big of a deal as the show was an episodic TV show and therefor of course none of the episodes characters are going to be getting any kind of character development as they have to rest the status quo by the end of the episode but in all fairness it would have been nice if we did get at least a hint of character development from either Dibble or Top Cat 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 that actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. While this episodes jokes are more cute then laugh out loud funny this is something that does work for the show as the show was made at a time where all of these jokes would have been seen as being laugh out loud funny and the makers of this episode did for obvious reason have to cater to the audience of the time and not the audience that they didn't know that they were going to have. With the best joke in the whole episode also being the most simplest joke that they had as when Benny gets on the ship without knowing that his friends are also going to sneak on board they al pack themselves into Benny's trunk with Benny only finding out when he's alone in what is quite possibly his room and he hears them banging on the trunk with them all being either rightside up or upside down for some strange reason this joke being a cute little joke that does tell you just how smart that Top Cat is a character as he thought up that entire scheme in a few seconds flat and pulled it off with it being a joke that granted won't get alot of laughs out of people but it is one that that will get a small chuckle or two out of people and that's the very thing that this joke really was always meant to do it was always meant to be this small cute joke that will get a chuckle out of people and it does exactly that with the rest of the episodes jokes being just as good as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall this was a really fun episode that does let you know just what kind of show that you are in for with the episode being ten times better then both of the theatrically released Top Cat movies as there is alot of thought and effort put into making this episode be as good as it was 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 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in his very review well then boys an girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Amazon. Co . Uk , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very episode that I used in this very post being the really great Google Images really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very episode with alot of them really being really better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on Google Images really are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.