Scooby-Doo! And WWE Curse Of The Speed Demon Film Review

Crossovers are a thing that happen all the time in the world of pro wrestling sometimes there good and sometimes there bad heck just look at the lame "crossover" WWE did with Stranger Things from this past January. Yet not not alot of people remember the fact that they did two crossover films with another beloved franchise with it being the second film that i'm going to be talking to you all about today as this film doesn't get that much attention from both Scooby-Doo fans and WWE fans and so then join me as I review the film that really should have been a Wacky Races film with the film in question being called simply just "Scooby-Doo! And WWE Curse Of The Speed Demon" enjoy.

The plot of this film is when the WRESTLING company WWE starts doing extreme races with there stars it's up to Mystery Inc to stop this mystery demon and find out who they are while Shaggy and Scooby are drafted to help The Undertaker win the competition. 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 OK at best. There are things about the plot that don't make sense like why would a wrestling company want to get involved with racing as while yes WWE have put a car themed game in WWE: Crush Hour it was exactly that a game where as here it's a film and therefor there does need to be some reason given as to why they want to get involved with racing in the first place and yet the film doesn't give us any. Yet the films plot can at times be fun as it is fun seeing all of the wrestlers have cars that are uniquely tied to there wrestling characters but at the same time tho the film does nothing with it's plot making the plot seem more like an afterthought when it comes to racing so much so that you do forget what the main plot of the film is even meant to be alot of the time due to the fact that the film doesn't focus on it all that often and yet when it does that's when we see the few brief glimpses of just how much fun that this films plot really could have been with the plot of this film not really being really rather entertaining and as well as not really being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Starring in this film is Frank Welker as Scooby-Doo and Fred Jones and Matthew Lillard as Shaggy Rogers. Also starring in this film is Grey DeLisle as Daphne Blake , Kate Micucci as Velma Dinkley, Mark Calaway as The Undertaker , Paul Levesque as Triple H , Stephanie McMahon as Herself , Dustin Runnels as Goldust , Stephen Farrelly as Sheamus , Cody Runnels as Stardust , Virgil Runnels Jr. as Dusty Rhodes , Mike Mizanin as The Miz , Saraya Bevis as Paige , Edwin Coates as Diego , Mascarita Sagrada as El Torito , Orlando Nieves as Fernando , CJ Perry as Lana , Miroslav Petrov Barnyashev as Rusev . Sean Coulthard as Michael Cole , Kofi Sarkodie-Mensah as Kofi Kingston , Vince McMahon as Himself , Eric Bauza as Big Earl , Steve Blum as Inferno and Phil Morris as Walter Qualls.

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 OK at best. To be frank the acting in this film is alot more better then what it really had any right to be as due to the fact that alot of the actors in this films aren't trained actors it would have been very easy for the acting from them to be really bad and yet alot of them do turn in some really good performances granted there never going to win awards for acting but people like Saraya and Mark Calaway among a few more do turn in some really good performances with the rest of the acting from the WWE people being just flat out bad which is what you would expect from them in the first place. With the best actor in the whole entire film being Matthew Lillard as Shaggy Rogers as he does manage t get his character down perfectly with this being something that does make sense as he would have bee voicing the character for close to ten years when this film was being made and therefor he would of course know how best to perform the character with him and Frank Welker having some great chemistry together with there scenes together being some of the best acted scenes in the whole entire film with the acting thats 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 absolutely 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 film.

Doing the animation for this film is the legends and the greats that really are currently over at Digital eMation. 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 OK at best. This films animation much like it's acting and plot are at best lackluster as while there is indeed clear effort and thought put into this films animation with the film even mixing hand drawn 2D animation with 3D CGI really well but where the films animation take a huge step down interms of quality is quite literally in every single other aspects as the backgrounds just look flat and uninteresting and the films character animation whilst it's not that bad does still look really cheap. With that being the best word to describe this films animation as even tho Warner Bros had a huge company in WWE helping them produce this film the whole thing just looks like it was made cheaply with alot of the scenes not having that many people in them and when they do there in backgrounds that don't have that much detail in them both of which are things that do make the film appear to be more cheap to make then what it might have been. However to be fair tho when this film does ant t have some good looking animation like for example in Inferno's car the stinger used on the car does look really good and the designs for all of the characters including the WWE characters do look really good with the WWE stars looking as close to there real life counterparts as is humanly possible however the rest of the films animation is clearly a huge step down interms of quality when compared to the animation in Wrestlemania Mystery.

Look it's clear as day that Stephanie McMahon even in real life does have a huge ego as they even gave her a whopping sixty minuets all to herself at this years Hall Of Fame. Therefor making her one of the villains with the other person that is known for having a huge ego Triple H is something that does make sense as does the fact that there characters on TV at the time were also heels yet at the same time tho it doesn't really help the case that Stephanie McMahon herself is trying to build that she has no ego as if that was the case then she wouldn't have been one of the main villains in this film and while her and her husband being the villains is something that does indeed make sense from a character point of view when you take into account that she never allow herself or her to be arrested due to her last name then it does make you wonder why the makers of this film chose to have them be the villains of the film. Heck much like in the previous team up film Daphne even has a bond with one of the superstars in this case it's Stephanie McMahon herself which unlike the bond she had with John Cena in the previous film where it did somewhat tie into the main plot of the film here it has no impact on the film at all with it's sole purpose for being in the film being to stop the gang from actually trying to solve the mystery when something like this could have been used to explore Daphne's friendship with Velma something which they do hint at in this film but for one reason or another they don't go all the way with it with them only bringing it up near the end of the film when it doesn't feel earned and while it does make sense for Stephanie to try and befriend Daphne as they are close to being the same character it would have worked all the more better if the film went all the way with that idea and not just leave it feeling half baked and underdeveloped.

You can't have anything to do with Scooby-Doo and not have a mystery with the mystery element in this film not being the weakest the Scooby-Doo franchise has every had the Daphne & Velma film has that covered but its a very close second. As this film barely focuses on it's mystery at all due to the fact that we only get ONE scene in the whole entire film where the gang actively go out looking for clues with the rest of the film having the clues come in around them which isn't as fun to see and it does therefor mean that we the audience are never given the chance to work out who did it for ourselfs with the film having to spell out who did it and when it does that it makes no sense as the only clues that they find don't point to Triple H and Stephanie as they could point to quite literally anyone of the films characters as the only two clues that they find are brimstone from Inferno's explosions and talcum powder and that's it. If the film really wanted to make Triple H and Stephanie the bad guys of the film then there should have been more clues for the gang to find as while there is something to do with electronics found later on in the film that is also something that does come out of left field and yet if the makers of this film did put there time and effort into giving us a genuinely good mystery complete with showing the gang finding lots of clues like they did in Wrestlemania Mystery then it would have been more of a better film as the one thing that you want a Scooby-Doo piece of media to have is a good mystery yet thats something that this film just don't give us, with the thing that would have made it better and be some fun easter eggs for wrestling fans being if some of the clues were ties directly to Triple H's and Stephanie's past as on screen characters as then we the audience would have been able to work out just who the demon is in the first place.

To give this film some form of credit whilst it is a direct sequel to Wrestlemania Mystery you don't have to have seen that film to fully understand what's goin on in this film as apart from one or two references there's nothing that connects the two films. With the film even finding more of a balance between trying to appease the Scooby-Doo fand and the WWE as we do get plenty of action with the WWE stars heck you could even make the case that The Undertaker is the main character of the film as it's him that Inferno attacks first and it's him that does try to fight Inferno at several points in the film with the pair even having a third act fight fight whilst the rest of Mystery Inc are just trying to survive the race. That is something that could be seen as being both a bad thing and a good thing it's a good thing in that it's giving the WWE fans more of a reason to stick around and watch the film but at the same time it's a bad thing as it's Scooby-Doo that's the title character and not The Undertaker therefor wouldn't have made more sense for the Mystery Inc gang to team up with The Undertaker during the fight with The Undertaker using his muscle to keep Inferno distracted while the Mystery Inc gang use there brains to build a trap as that way both sets of fans would go home happy with the film instead of choosing one over the other and while it is cool seeing The Undertaker do both The Last Ride and the Tombstone in this film it would have worked just as fine if we saw him team up with Scooby-Doo and it's something that would have worked as we did see Scooby-Doo team up with several wrestlers in the last team up film to take on that films villain so why not do it again and have both sets of fans go home happy, however having The Undertake be the one to deliver the final blow is also something that does work well for his character in this film.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and twenty minuets and thirty two seconds. Which again to be fair to this film is pretty much the exact same bogstandard running time for alot if not all of these direct to DVD Scooby-Doo movies and therefor this film having the running time is something that des make sense and with this film having a very thinly drawn out plot it doesn't need to have that long of a running time in the first place even tho it could have benefitted from it was while the film does indeed have more then enough plot there to cover that amount of running time. As the film doesn't really use it's running all that wisely due to the fact that it doesn't take the time to fully develop its plot when it had more then  enough screen time to do exactly that heck alot of the direct to DVD Scooby-Doo movies that have similar running times to this film do it and yet this film just doesn't as it's alot more focused on giving the WWE wrestlers alot of action scenes instead of giving time to develop both it's plot and mystery both of which are things that would have made the film be alot more better as if the film did devote more time to its mystery then it could have given the film some reply value and it the film devoted some time to its plot then it would made the film alot more stronger. This is also something that does effect the films character development as well as none of the characters get any kind of character development which is fine for the Scooby-Do characters as they have countless films and TV shows to get there character development but for these versions of the WWE stars they should have gotten something in the way of character development and yet all of them are the exact same people coming out of the film then they are coming into the film but I really will admit that this film 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 t actually talk about the actual comedy thats actually featured / presented to us in this very film 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 film was in all honesty OK at best. The film does have some decent jokes with alot of the stuff that Scooby and Shaggy get up to both prior and during the race being a good example but at the same time tho alot more of the film comedy is just weak like for example El Torito rides Scooby like a bull while saying Scooby's name which yes is a cute moment but it's not as funny as the film seems to think it is and the film has a recurring jokes with both Goldust and Stardust disappear at will just annoy Sheamus which is a good idea for a joke but the film does nothing funny with it. Look to be frank it would be hard to say just what the best joke of the film is but at a stretch the best joke of the film is during the third act final race when Inferno lands on a tricked out Mystery Machine to avoid The Undertaker but instead of cowering and doing nothing both Scooby hits the button that controls the windscreen wipers with then hitting Inferno in the face which is a cute little joke and it is something that they would do yet even that joke feels weak with the film not even taking full advantage of the fact that it's guest characters are all these fairly well known wrestlers as they could have got some humor out of playing this whole racing contest as if it was a wrestling storyline complete with both face and heel turns but they don't heck they don't even play it safe with it's jokes they just do nothing with not only the films best joke but none of the rest of the films jokes as the rest of the films jokes are just as bad in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall this is a film that would have been more at home with being a Wacky Races film then being a Scooby-Doo film as that would then explain why the WWE are having it's wrestlers race cars with this film being something that would have made for an entertaining Wacky Races film but makes for a dull Scooby-Doo film in my freaking 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 mean that this very film 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 review well then boys and girls and and well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Amazon . Co . Uk and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very film 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 film 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.

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time 2006 Film Review

There are some films that just capture you right away like films like Your Name and Ghost In The Shell for example and then there are films that despite there best efforts are just forgettable films. Such is the point of the film that i'm going to be reviewing for you all today as despite the film having a great use of time travel it is a bland film that offers nothing new and so then join me as I review the film that is technically a sequel to the book that it's based off of with the film in question being called simply just "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time" enjoy.

The plot of this film is when student Makoto Konno suddenly gains the ability to leap backwards through time she is at first pleased with this idea but she soon realises that with this power does come with great responsibility. 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 OK at best. With this films plot trying to tell a good story and be this all important film but in doing that it does forget to tell a good story as alot of the time this films plot does feel very much like the original Saved By The Bell with it being far more interested in the characters love lives then it is in anything else and while this fine for the films more dramatic moments as that's when it would make sense to do that here in this film tho they do it all the time. Yet un saying this tho the films plot does have one interesting aspect to it that being it's time travel element which whilst it is as well developed as it was ever going to be in a film like this it is also something that does feel like it got alot less attention from the makers of this film with it feeling like that the makers of this film were alot more interested in the characters relationships then they were anything else as the idea of time travel is one that does feel underbaked in this film this is despite the fact that the film does show both the upsides and downsides to it with both of them effecting the plot of the film in both major and small ways which is something that they didn't have to do and yet they went and they did it anyway with the plot of this film 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 Emily Hirst as Makoto Konno , Andrew Francis as Chiaki Mamiya and Alex Zahara as Kōsuke Tsuda. Also starring in this film is Kristie Marsden as Yuri Hayakawa , Natalie Walters as Kaho Fujitani , Shannon Chan-Kent as Miyuki Konno , My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic star Cathy Weseluck as The Old Lady , David Hurwitz as Sojiro Takase and Saffron Henderson as Kazuko Yoshiyama.

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 average at best. The fact that this films acting is as average as it is is of no fault of the films actors as they are some really good actors and have been good here in other things but whoever was doing the voice directing for this film didn't cast the right people in the right parts as all of this films actors do feel horribly miscast in the film with this resulting in the films despite them doing there best in the film just can't go that extra mile to be as good as we all know that they can be. With the films best actor being Emily Hirst as she does get alot of the films more dramatic moments and she does pull them really well with it being clear that she did have a really bright future as an actor as she is that good in the film with her being able to make you laugh and then make you cry all in the same scene which is something that is hard for alot of good actors to do and yet it is something that she does pull off with relative ease and yet she doesn't go to far over the top with her character as Makoto Konno very easily could have been seen as being a really annoying character in the films second act and yet Emily does always find a way to keep the character not only grounded but also likable which is something that is key in making the films third act work. 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 come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise to 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 Madhouse. 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. While yes the films animation isn't as good as that in Summer Wars for example it was still really nice to look at with all of the films backgrounds having so much detail and love put into them that the could be seen as being life like with the thing that does let this films animation down is that even tho the film does mainly use hand drawn 2D animation the film really doesn't have any standout scenes that show off it's animation which granted is a small nitpick at best but at the same time tho it would have shown of just how great that this films animation could have been. With the thing that really did standout by a huge mile in this viewing of the film being just how simple that the films character designs are with all of the films characters not having alot of detail put into things like there faces are clothes for example with this being something that does make it feel like that anyone could draw these characters and that is something that does work for this film as it does show that the makers of this film had a certain style when it came to the design of the characters with it being made clear that they wanted to have characters that the everyday person could draw freely in there spare time and that is something that does work with the films characters designs oddly enough coming of a being all the more memorable because of it.

The rules of time travel in this film are kind of hard to explain as while it does appear as if they are taking The Time Machine and Back To The Future approach where the place you land in time is the exact same place where you departed which is simple and easy to follow. The film would then have Motoko start appearing in different places even tho she had time travelled in other areas with this being something that does make it look like that the makers of this film are trying to have it both ways when it comes to there rules regarding time travel when really what they should have done is stuck to the approach used in both Back To The Future and The Time Machine as Motoko is only able to travel backwards in time she is not able to travel backwards in both time and space with this being something that the film does point out. Yet due to them not really establishing what there rules are in regards to time travel outside of how many times she can travel back in time it does also allow the makers of this film alot more freedom to do whatever they want to in this regard and it's something that would work, however by doing so it does mean that the film can loose all dramatic tension to it as Motoko could and sometimes even does appear out of nowhere to fix the situation which is great for a laugh but at the same time if the makers of this film aren't willing to take there own very limited rules of time travel seriously then why should we the audience do the exact same thing and heck we barely get to understand just how she is able to time travel in the first place as it has something to do with her running and jumping from a high place so maybe it's the fact that she almost dies that triggers it every time but that just makes it far to complicated when having something that's more simple and easy to follow would have worked just as better.

This film despite it borrowing the title of the book is actually a sequel to the 1965 book of the same name. With the main protagonist of the book Kazuko Yoshiyama being the aunt of Motoko this is something that is a good idea as it does mean that now we the audience won't be able to tell just what happens next due to the fact that he film is mostly telling a new story with new and original characters thus keeping us on our toes altho at the same time one does have to wonder why they named it after the book if there not going to be following the premise of the book as while you could argue that that was done for marketing reasons which would make sense you could also argue that that would trick the fans of the book into thinking that there going to be seeing a straight forward adaptation of the book when that is further from  the case. This is a case where you don't need to have read the book to understand the film as outside of the the name this film has nothing to do with the book whatsoever as while there plots are vaguely similar there's nothing that makes this film be a true representation of the book with this being something that could be seen as being a good thing as it does now mean that the makers of this film are now free to tell whatever story that they choose to tell and not be bound by what happens to the characters in the book and while yes it would have been nice to have seen a more book accurate version of the story there's no way that they could have made the fact that in the book Kazuko Yoshiyama is able to time travel because of lavender scented flowers work well for the film as for a film you do want something that's more cinematic and that's what we get in this film with Motoko being able to time travel after finding a mysterious device in the school's science lab.

This film is a romance comedy drama film with the film giving us some sweet comedy moments between Motoko , Chiaki and Kōsuke. Alot of which doo work as we do get to see just how close as friends that these three really are with them practically spending every single day together and when there not with each ither they miss each other with us getting alot of good jokes out of the times when Motoko is typically late for class which yes is an anime trope but it is one that does work and it does allow us to see that both she and Kōsuke have more of a brother and sister type of bond where as Motoko and Chiaki have more of best friends type of bond. Yet even so the film doesn't really focus that much on its comedy outside of a few scenes all throughout the film with the best example being these girls that follow Kōsuke around just because one of them ha a crush on him and the other two are trying to work out if there perfect for each other or not which is a good set up for a joke and to be fair the film does do the best that it can with that idea but there's no pay off to that joke with it being obvious that the makers of this film did put alot more thought into the films romance that they did the comedy aspect of the film as that is where the film does get to shine a little bit better but in saying that tho that's also where the film begins to feel like a teen drama as it's all things that we've seen done before in other shows and movies with the only difference being that one of the characters can time travel and thats it which is a good thing to have in the film but at the at same time outside of quite literally two scenes the film doesn't have the time travel element interact with the romance of the film in any meaningful way, however to be fair the film does give us some genuinely sweet romantic moments with it being clear as day that the people that do get into a relationship do genuinely love each other.

Now then this film has / had an exact gran total running time of exactly one hour and thirty eight minuets and fifty seven seconds. Which to be fair is pretty much the exact same time that you would expect an anime film regardless of its genre to have in the first place with the film really needing that amount of running time in order to tell it's story as there is no way that you could tell this story in anything under that as you do have so much things to set up and you do still need tell a good story and to that in anything under this amount of running time would risk doing alot of harm to the film plot with the film having the right amount of plot to really cover that amount of running time in the first place. Yet even so this film really does use its running time all that wisely as this film doesn't take the time to fully develop its plot something which granted was always going to be hard to do but at the same time it wouldn't have been impossible as all they would have to have to have done is cut out alot of the pointless teen drama stuff in the middle on the film as alot of it doesn't add anything to the plot of the film is purely there just for filler like for example we don't need several scenes with Kōsuke and Kaho talking with each other with Kaho either failing to tell him or getting to shy to tell hm how she feels about him as just the once would have done that but the film devotes a goo chink of its second act to just those two talking and it's not needed in the film as that is time that would have been better spent of developing the films plot. Thus is something that does somewhat effect the films character development as well as while the films main two characters of Motoko and Chiaki do get some character development which is something that dies make sense as they are the films main characters none of the fims other characters get any kind of character development whatso ever but I really will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a drama that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual drama 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 drama that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. With the thing that des make this films drama work as well as it does being the fact that whilst it does very much feel like the kind of drama you'd see on a bad teen drama show it is also very character driven with all of the films going through something that is unique to them and to there character and while all of it does go back to the fact that Motoko has the power to time travel alot of it does come to the characters as people. With the best but of drama in the whole film being when Kaho and Kōsuke take Motoko's bike not realising that the breaks on it don't work and when Motoko realises what's happened and where there going she runs to this steep hill hoping to catch them before they get into a nasty accident and yet when she thinks that there not there she uses her last time travel skill to avoid an awkward call with Chiaki only to then spot the duo riding past her and into the danger that she was trying to get them to avoid with her not able to not only catch up to them and stop them by hand but also able to time travel any more and while there is someone who does the save the day it doesn't change the fact that everything including them being saved and quite literally everything that happens after that works so well and it works because of the fact ta the film has given the chance to get to know these characters with the rest of the films drama being just as good in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall whilst Summer Wats is easily the better film between the two of them this film still does have alot of things going for it like its animation and its drama both of which do work really well in this film and while yes they were both done better in Summer Wars the bottom line is this film walked so that that film could run in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i;='ve talked about all of the good and as well a all of the bad things tat 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 hat 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 film 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 film 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.

Worzel Gummidge "Worzel's Birthday" Review

As the old saying goes all great things must come to an end with this being especially true when it comes to our favorite movies and TV shows. With the episode that i'm going to be talking to you all today officially marking the end of the British Worzel Gummidge series as while the series would get another two series years later those series were filmed in New Zealand and only have two actors from the British series back as there characters and so then join me as I review the episode that sees Worzel celebrating his bestest birthday with the episode in question being called simply just "Worzel's Birthday" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is on the day of Worzel's bestest birthday which is the birthday for his head he goes missing after Aunt Sally refuses to come to his party therefor it's up to John and Sue to not only find him but throw a part of there own for him. 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. With the thing that makes the episodes plot be as good as it is being the fact that it is delightfully simple and while that is something that might be seen as being a bad thing by today's standards by the standards of the olden days it is something that does work really well as this show was afterall made or the whole family to sit down and enjoy and a apart of that does entail having these more simple and easy to follow plots which is something that this episode does have in spades. While yes it would have helped the episode out quite a bit if the episode did have a more stronger plot as even for this show the plot does feel a bit to simple by making the plot more complex it would take away from the more carming and easy going nature of the show as this is a show that people can sit down and just relax to and to be fair this episodes plot does give you exactly that and while it would have been better if the plot did feel more like the final episode of a TV show as the makers of the show would have known that the station they were airing on was closing down and therefor would have had the time to give the show a more proper finale this episodes plot does give you all of the greatest hits from a show with the plot itself being a really fun plot with the episodes plot 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 Jon Pertwee as Worzel Gummidge , Jeremy Austin as John Peters and Charlotte Coleman ax Sue Peters. Also starring in this episode is Norman Bird as Mr. Braithwaite , Mike Berry as Mr. Peters , Michael Ripper as Mr. Shepherd , Sarah Thomas as Miss Maple , Una Stubbs as Aunt Sally , Laurence Harrington as The Landlord , Geoffrey Bayldon as The Crowman , Wally Thomas as An Elderly Gentleman and Frank Marlborough as Saggy Tatersack.

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 all of the episodes actors being just as good as they are in the rest of the show which is something by this point in the shows run was to be completely expected due to the fact that all of this episodes shows even the more weaker episodes did always have some really good acting in them with this being down to two things the first of which being the fact that they got a feature film director in James Hill to direct the series and the second of which is the fact that they surrounded the kid actors with these more established character actors and comedy legends. With the best actor in this whole entire episode being Una Stubbs as Aunt Sally as while she is always deliciously evil as the character here it feels like that she takes it not quite one step above what she normally would do as the character but up enough to the point where you both laugh at her antics and yet at the same time boo her due to how badly that she's treating Worzel himself with Una being the right person to play this version of the character as anyone else would either play her to far evil to be likable or to likable to be evil and yet Una even in this episode does manage to find the perfect sweet spot that a character like Aunt Sally should always have with the acting that's in this very 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. 

If there is one word to describe this episode it would be magical as that's exactly what this episode is in every single sense of the word. This is also something that could be said for alot of the episodes in this show but here for whatever reason it feels more true as we do get a scene where both John and Sue find out when Worzel's bestest birthday is when they come to his pole one day and find it surrounded by flowers with the whole thing just being filled to the brim with both magic and whimsy and while yes that is only scene it is one scene that does make the whole episode feel magical as it does give us some insight into how this world work from the point of view of a scarecrow. This is was something that other episodes of both this show and it's sequel show didn't do and yet it is something that they did in the more recent adaptation of the books and while that more recent version over did it here in this episode it was done in the right way as it is something that the episode doesn't spend that much time on with the episode really only giving it two scenes with the first one being set up and the other being the pay off but that's all it needed as the show is at it's best when it does focus on the characters and not the magic that is quite clearly in this world and yet even with that in mind, it is something that does also work in this episode due the fact that it is part of the episodes main plot and isn't just a quick throwaway scene like it very easily could have been with the scene in question being so beautifully shot that you'd be mistaken for thinking that it's a scene from feature length film due to the fact that everything about that scene from the writing to the directing does scream feature length film.

While this version of Aunt Sally is always really cruel to everyone who isn't her here it feels like that she's even more cruel and selfish then usual. Which is something that is fairly common place for the final episodes of this show as that's where they just let Aunt Sally be as cruel as she can be and while she doesn't make Worzel cry and break his heart like she has done in the past as here she not only refuses to go to his party when she thinks that it'll just be the two of them there when she finds out that John and Sue are buying Worzel this really big cake for there party she then follows them back to the barn and even tries to eat the cake herself when she thinks that Worzel is running late. Yet when the kids go looking for Worzel and take Aunt Sally with them the first thing she does is run away back to the barn and do exactly that as she eats his while birthday cake herself which even for her is a bit low as she knew full well that Worzel was excited about the idea of having a party and yet she goes and ruins it for him, this is something that is also fairly in character for her with her being the kind of character that always wants to be the centre of attention and can't handle it when someone else has more attention then her therefor it does make sense that she would try and ruin Worzel's birthday party for him weather or not she wanted to ruin his birthday is something that is up for debate as while she did know that his birthday was coming up and the kids to tell her plenty of times that it's for his birthday she doesn't seem like the kind of character that would go out of their way to ruin someone else's birthday, due to the fact that she might not even know what a birthday is to begin with and yet the saddest thing about this is the fact that even tho Worzel catches her after eating his cake deep down down he does still love her and would do anything for her.

As was stated earlier on in this review this episode doesn't feel like a finale episode even tho the makers of the show knew full well that the TV station that the were airing on was closing down. The reason for this being the fact that Southern which was the station that aired and made this show had lost it's broadcasting rights and was forced to close down yet even so this episode does feel loke a typical episode of the show with there being nothing about this episode that makes it feel special or like a finale episode this is something that could be because of the fact that the episode was written to be apart of the third series but was held off until this series with the only major difference being the fact that Mrs. Braithwaite was in the original version of the episode and yet alot of her lines where given to Mr. Peters with the character not even appearing in this final series at all. This is something that would explain why the series felt like a typical episode of the show but something that could help with that is the fact that maybe Jon Pertwee was hoping to sell the show to another network which would have been a very easy thing to do as the show was a massive hit yet for one reason or another it took them several years to get Worzel Gummidge Down Under made with even the final episode of that show not feeling like a finale episode but back to this episode there could be any number of reasons as to why this episode feels more like a typical episode of the show and not like a finale episode and they all would be completely valid and while the episode isn't harmed by this at all with the added benefit of hindsight it would have made the episode be alot more better if the episode was treated loke a proper finale due to the fact that this is the last time that we see all of the characters apart from Worzel and Aunt Sally as those are the only two characters that get brought over for Worzel Gummidge Down Under.

This episode does give us all of the greatest hits for Worzel as not only do we have a really big cake but we also have alot of the side characters coming back for a few scenes ad we also have Worzel getting some lessons from The Crowman and the episode even ends with big dance number with alot of the main characters. These are all things that do help to make this episode feel like a series final episode but not the show's final episode as alot of those characters would also appear in the other final episodes of the show and not just this one and while it is helped by the fact that we do have both Sarah Thomas and Frank Marlborough back as different characters it would have meant more if they were reprising there original characters of Dafthead and Enid respectively. Where this episode does shine the best is when we do get to see them play the greatest hits if you will as that's when we get to be reminded of just how this special that this show not only was but still is to a degree as we do get to the characters be there lovable but also goofy and charming selves which is something that they always where when this show was at it's best and while it is possible that they would have to ended the show after the fifth series as you can tell that the kids are growing up and are no longer ten years old the fact that we managed to get an episode with them and the side characters as well we do get to say goodbye to them on our own terms and not have it be something that was forced upon us is something that does work with this episode. This show was never one for saying goodbye to it's characters and the few times that they did it was mostly played for laughs and therefor to expect them to do the same here wouldn't be wise and it is something that would get in the way of them reminding us of why this show not only was but to a much more lesser extent still is loved by people young and old to this very day.

Now then this episode really has / had an exact grand total running time of really exactly twenty six minuets. With this being the bogstandard running time for the other episodes as well and to be fair t this episode this episode again much like the rest of the show really doesn't need to be that long as it is telling a simple story and it does do it really efficiently with alot of the episodes scenes being about advancing the plot of the episode, with the episode even having the right amount of plot there to cover that amount of running time in the first place as it does feel like that there isn't a single scene wasted in this episode due to the fact that alot of the scenes in this episodes are either cute comedy moments with the characters or are moments that remind you of why we loved these characters so much in the first place. Heck this episode even does use its running time very wisely as the plot of the episode is as well developed as its ever going to be due to the fact that the episode does have all of its scenes be about advancing its plot forward and it does take the time to add things to it's plot be it Aunt Sally first refusing to go to and then demanding that she come to Worzels birthday or the fact that we get to both John and Sue organizing a surprise party for Worzel they are all things that do play apart in the episodes plot in major ways. Even the episodes characters do feel as well developed as they are even going to be for a kids TV show as while they don't get any of that development in this episode you could make the argument that that's the point as both John and Sue are kids and therefor there not going to be that well developed anyway and Worzel is just a big kid at heart and is very forgetful yet we do find out more not only about him but about scarecrow kind as a whole which is something that the makers of this episode really didn't have to do but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho. 

So now then as this a comedy that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented t 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 there being alot of painfully moments in this episode all of which do feel true to who these characters are as a people as while it would be hard to say that this episodes jokes are character driven due to the fact that there s a fair amount of slapstick jokes as well when this episode does tell a joke that feels true to whom these characters are that is when we do get some really good jokes in this episode. Yet none of those types of jokes are the best jokes in the episode as the best joke of the whole entire being when Aunt Sally eats Worzels entire cake as she acts like she's drunk which is something that little kids won't understand but it is something that once you notice it you can't unsee it and yet at the same time it is something that does work as of course Aunt Sally would have an entire cake to herself with the fact that she acts drunk being something that does make this cruel moment seem funny as it does give us a chance to see a side to her character that we've never been given the chance o see before now, this episode doesn't force Aunt Sally into it like alot of the other series four episodes did as here she is there to be the episodes main villain and to get some laughs out of us the audience and she does both of those things beautifully with Una Stubbs even acting like she's drunk as skunk on cake which is just a good idea in its own right and it is something that does tell you just how clever the writing on this show really was as yes there jokes in this episode that little kids will find funny but then there are jokes that you will get on two different levels as when your kid you'll see them for that you think they are and it'll be funny and then again as an adult when you see them as they truly are and it's still funny with the rest of the episodes jokes being just as funny in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Overall whilst this version of Worzel Gummidge would continue on in Worzel Gummidge Down Under it was sad to this classic British series come to an end as it is something that does make you think of similar times in the UK with the episode on the whole being one of the more better episodes of this final series but is still a fairly weaker episode when compared to the shows other episodes 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.

Now then as for where I personally got all o the images that I personally used in his 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 Amazon . Co . Uk 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.

Thunderbirds 1965 TV Series "City Of Fire" Review

If you grew up in either the sixties or the nineties in the UK then odds are you would have watched Thunderbirds growing up as a kid. As the show quite literally had everything a kid would want to see in a TV show and then some and well as it's been a long time since an episode of the show was covered I thought that i'd check out another episode of the show and so then join me as I review the episode that might might be a little bit more dated then usual with the episode in question being called simply just "City Of Fire" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when a family of three find themselves trapped in the ground level of a tower block that's on fire it's up to International Rescue to find them before its 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 really good. This episode plot whilst it's not the best one that this series had it is easily one that is very movie like which is something that does work in this episodes favor as we have the drama and rising tension of if the family will make it out alive and we have the building tension of if Scott and Virgil will be OK as they have to use a gas that had previously knocked them to get the family out with this being something that in a lesser plot for a lesser show wouldn't have worked and yet due to the fact that this episode and this show does have alot of really good plots they are things that do work. With this films plot feeling more cinematic because of it heck one could argue that it's more cinematic then any of the Thunderbirds movies as this is a plot that very easily could have worked as the plot for a Thunderbirds and heck the idea of housing an entire city in one building is one that would be revisited in the Judge Dredd books and in the 2012 film Dredd and while this episode doesn't do alot with that idea as we don't get to see what any of the higher levels look like it is still a really cool idea in the first place with the plot of this 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 this shows co-creator Sylvia Anderson as Blanche Carter and Tommy Carter and Ray Barrett as John Tracy and Joe Carter. Also starring in this episode is Peter Dyneley as Jeff Tracy and The Fire Chief , Christine Finn as Tin-Tin Kyrano and The Woman Driver , David Graham as Brains , The Tower Control Assistant and The Woman Driver's Husband , David Holliday as Virgil Tracy , Shane Rimmer as Scott Tracy and Matt Zimmerman as Alan Tracy , The Tower Controller and The WTV Reporter.

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 this episode does gave some really good acting in it is something that's not really all that surprising as by this point in the show they are fourteen episodes in with this one being the fifteenth therefor it does make sense that the acting in this episode would be really good as the acting in any show does get alot more better the further into a series that you get and while yes there some dodgy performances in this episode like for example Sylvia Anderson as good as she is in this episode doesn't make for a convincing sounding boy. With the best actor in this episode oddly enough also being Sylvia Anderson as while she is mainly known for playing Lady Penelope in this show it is therefor refreshing to see that she can do other characters with the same amount of grace and charm that she brings to Lady Penelope and while yes she can't play boy characters as it just sounds like the character is being played by a woman which is very distracting it doesn't change the fact that when she does do a good performance in this episode is something that does stand out and while other actors even in this episode have more roles then her in this episode she manages to prove that she is more then just a one trick pony 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.

Whilst this episode doesn't really hit home the family aspect all that much it was still quite refreshing to see a family be the ones that need rescuing this time around. This is something that does add a new dynamic to rescue as now not only do the team have more people to rescue but also in the case of this episode the mother an father have to stop there son from freaking out with them constantly trying to calm him down and reassure themselves that everything will be OK this despite the fact that deep down they know that the odds of them being rescued at all let alone in time are pretty slim at best and yet it is something that hey have to do because if they don't it will mean that there song will freak out and thus take up more oxygen in the process. While it would have been nice if the episode did take the time to fully set up the family dynamic before the action takes place as the family in question does come across as being the stereotypical family who are just perfect in everyway possible when it would have worked out all the more better if the makers of this episode added things to the family like for example maybe the father and son don't get along that much or maybe the mother is a ditzy character or perhaps even the son is a known troublemaker and lier as that would have been something that makes them interesting characters and while there's nothing wrong with having them be the stereotypical happy family as that is something that was doubt enforced upon the makers of the episode it does also mean that the family unit as a whole just isn't that fun to see and heck it could be argued that there scenes are some of the more boring scenes in the episode as you know right away how there going to go which does make them pretty boring to watch.

There is kind of a running joke in this episode that does make the episode seem to be more dated then what the show already is as the running joke is that women make bad drivers and that's it. With even the accident that causes the skyscraper to get caught on fire being caused by a woman driver with this running joke being something that wasn't really needed due to the fact that whilst it might have been relevant back in the sixties which is fair enough as that's when the episode was made it is something that does make the episode come across as being even more dated then what the show already is but in all fairness the makers of this episode weren't to know how that joke would age therefor they are kind of forgiven. However they had alot of women working on the show some of which worked in a lot of important departments for the show and yet it just seems like they were taking a cheap shot at them with things being made worse when you take into account that the joke isn't even that funny in the first place and whilst yes fair enough it very well might have been funny back then but that doesn't stop the joke from aging poorly as these days there are alot more women drivers on the roads then there are male drivers and while it is hard to say who gets into more accidents men or women what can be said is that alot of women aren't bad drivers and while this episode does mainly play up this aspect for laughs with the woman even having a husband that just blindly agrees with her which is something that does make it more tolerable it is also a joke that if this episode was being made today would be cut out before the episode was even filmed not only due to how it makes women drivers look but also because of the fact that it's just not that funny of a joke in the first place.

Whilst there are some bad things in this episode this is an episode where there are alot more good things in it then there are bad. Like for example the whole idea of having one city inside of this giant skyscraper is a really cool idea and seeing how the city is controlled from somewhere near by does help to sell you on this idea with the only down side to this idea being the fact that as was mentioned we don't get to see any of the higher levels before the fire starts with alot of the action taking place in the same grey corridors of the lower levels which is something tat was more then likely done to keep the costs down but it would been more effective if we got to see what some of the higher levels of this building looked like instead of just being told about them. Another good thing is the fact that we get to see Scott and Virgil working together which is something that we don't technically get to see in this show as while yes they are always working with each other as Scott is always the first arrive and tells Virgil what the issue is very rarely do they actively partake in teaming up to do the rescue with it mostly being Virgil and maybe another member of the team like for example Brains that take a more active role in the rescue itself and yet here it's Scott and Virgil which is something that does work in the episodes favor as the two of them do bounce off of each other really well with the two of them willing to do whatever it takes to get the job even if it costs them there ow lifes and while the two of them don't for obvious reason have any banter with each other you do still get the feeling that with Scott being the older of the two brothers that Virgil might act like the littler brother and tell a joke even if it's just t ease the tension.

The episode does try to add in some tension as the brothers do have to use this new gas that Brains has invented that will allow them to cut through doors and other metallic objects at a much more quicker rate only for that same gas to knock them clean out cold. Yet the episode does nothing with this idea as while they do bring it u alot of the time with Scott even saying that it's the only way that they can get to the family in time we don't really see that many scenes with them after they get knocked out where they showcase there concerns to either there father or to Brains himself something which they would have had every right to do. This is something that is kind of understandable as this is a kids show afterall and kids even back then wouldn't find that kind of thing to be all that interesting but if your going to have be a key part of the episode and be a key plot point then it is something that should have been discussed a little bit more and fair enough there would have been no way to di that and have all of the scenes with the family and have the rescue as well as that would have made the episode be a confusing mess but given just how vital that the gas is it is something that should have been brought up more as to be honest the idea that they could get knocked out mid-rescue is a fantastic way of creating tension and to be fair to the episode they do make the most of it even by having alot of the same things that happened prior to them getting knocked out happen here and while they of course don't get knocked out it is still a good way of creating tension as they very well could have gotten knocked out. Yet the episode has to give us this over the top reason as t why they didn't get knocked out which is so confusing even an adult couldn't make sense of it.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly fifty minuets and fifty six seconds. Which to be fair to this episode is pretty much the bogstandard running time for this show with this kind of running time even helping to make the episode feel more like a movie due to the fact that it's close to having a feature length running time and yet at the same time you don't even notice that it's almost one hour long as we the audience are just so engrossed by everything that is going on in the episode with the episode itself even having the right amount of plot to cover that amount of running time. The episode is even helped by the fact that it does use it's running time as wisely as it could have done in both respects as given the fact that the episode does have so much to fit in in the first place its plot is about as well developed as it could have been as while yes this is a simple plot that isn't what you come to this show for you come to see the daring rescues with the plots being nothing more then an excuse for characters to get trapped and be rescued and to be fair to the episode it does make the most out of a thin plot by giving us lots of tension and while yes if they did cut out or even redid the terrible jokes about women not making for good drivers that would allow them to have more screen time be devoted to its plot but at the same time the episode would also loose about of its charm as well. Even the episodes characters much like its plot do come of as being as well developed as there were ever going to be as while the sows main characters would have course have the other episodes and films to get there bits of character development nobody is walking into this show expecting the guest characters to be that well developed with the just being there to service the plot and that's really it and to be fair they do do a solid job of doing exactly that but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good 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. This something that could be said for alot of this shows action as they all do take full advantage of the fact that all of the characters are puppets by having them do things like for example grabbing an object or in the case of this episode kicking down a door both of which re things that are a puppet wouldn't be able to do and yet because of the fact that they have them do it in this episode it does help to sell you on the action at hand when it would have been very easy for them to have alot of the action in not only this episode but the show as a whole take place off screen. With the best action scene being the start of the fire as we get to see a car drive recklessly into the skyscrapers parking are and then flip over a few cars before then smashing into a car and bursting into flames which might not seem like much but when you take into account that this show uses puppets that small stunt now seem alot more more bigger as now we have to work out just how they did it in the first place with that being something that does make that stunt be all the more impressive then what it really had any right to be and with it being a key plot point for the episode it is also an important scene to have as without that scene we literally have no episode to speak and with it being as good as it was it something that des make you wonder just what the makers of this show could really do if they had more of a budget to work with with the rest of the episodes action being just as good as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall this episode whilst it is still a really good episode in its own right is also one that doesn't take as full advantage of its own idea due t the fact that it would have been more better if the family was somewhere o the higher grounds as that would have added more tension to the episode but this is still a really good episode albeit one that really could have been alot more better 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 te 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 Amazon . Co . Uk 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.