Unikitty Premier Episode? Review

Well then guys when The Lego Movie came out i quickly became a fan and when The Lego Batman Movie came out i was even more of a fan and now Cartoon Network has made a TV series out of the character Unikitty and i'm going to let you all know right now my thoughts will be based on the premier episode alone so here we go.

The plot of this episode finds Unikitty , her brother Puppycorn , Hawkodile and Dr. Fox who are all friends getting trapped in a game and they have to complete the game in order to escape. That little character introduction i gave you is way more then what the episode gave us which makes me wonder if this was intended to air later in the series run but in terms of story it actually reminded me of the Jumanji cartoon.

This episode and the series stars Tara Strong who's replacing Alison Brie from The Lego Movie , Grey Griffin , Roger Craig Smith and the girl who's everywhere right now Kate Micucci. In all honesty the voice acting isn't that bad in this episode altho i think that Tara Strong modeled her voice after the voice of Pinkie Pie just because there are scenes where she sounds so much like Pinkie Pie. I can't really judge the acting until i've seen a handful of episodes but based of this episode and who's acting in it i'm going to say the acting will be the best thing in the show.

I'll admit that the jump from CGI to what i think is Flash animation is quite jarring at first but for me personally it took me maybe three maybe even four minuets to move past that but i have to say the animation in this episode only was just ok it's not anything to write home about but at the same time it's not as bad as say Teen Titans Go!. You can tell the animators and the show makers are trying to put out the best show they can.

However one of the things that i didn't like about this episode was the fact i laughed maybe two or three times which for this character isn't that good if anything the jokes they were trying to do felt like jokes that a five year old would find funny like for example a character falls over twice in slow motion and that's the joke to me that's not funny that's just showing that you can use slow motion and that's it.

The other thing that i hated about this episode was the fact that it goes against the continuity of The Lego Movie there's no mention of Unikitty being a master builder nore do they even reference that fact. In The Lego movie she doesn't mention having a brother or friends and yet here they both are in this episode.

Overall this episode was just ok and if i were to just base my opinions just of this episode and this episode alone i'd say that this show needs alot of work but you all know me i'm willing to give anything a chance and with that in mind i;m giving this episode a 5 out of 10.

  

Micheal Jackson's Halloween Review

Cartoon fans i'm here today to bring you a review of something i never knew was a thing until i went online this morning and yeah it's pretty bad so here is my review of Micheal Jackson's Halloween enjoy.

What is the plot of this CBS special i here well Vincent (Lucas Till) and Victoria (Kiersey Clemons) meet "accidentally" on Halloween night and find themselves along with Ichabod the dog at a mysterious hotel located at 777 Jackson Street called This Place Hotel. Once inside Vincent and Victoria are sent on an unexpected magical adventure of personal discovery culminating in a spectacular dance finale featuring an animated Michael Jackson.Yes this is really the plot of this special even reading it of IMDB and it still makes no sense the movie doesn't explain why Micheal is even there he just shows up the whole plot makes no sense at all.

The special features the voice talents of Micheal Jackson , Brad Garrett , Lucas Till , Kiersey Clemons , Lucy Liu , Jim Parsons , Alan Cumming and Diedrich Bader. The cast in this film do the best they can with what they have and that's truly the best thing i can say about the cast which is a shame because alot of these actors we all know can turn in a good performance.

For some reason this special thinks that because it's animated Bubbles the chimp can now talk i have nothing to say on the subject i just wanted to let you all know that Micheal's beloved chimp in real life can now talk thanks to this special make of it what you will.

I will give the film this however the animation for a TV special is pretty good i can't imagine the budget was that big to begin with so given the budget they had i'm shocked that the animation wasn't awful i was expecting it to be almost as bad as a certain Sony Pictures movie which came out this year which i shall never ever speak the name of.

All is not that good tho in the animation field tho since there are times where the main characters just look like plastic dolls and the same goes for Micheal himself which is a real shame because his name is in the title but i do have to say that Lucy Liu's character looks hot as hell.

I would very much like to comment on the music except all of the music was Micheal Jackson songs and not all of them make sense for some reason they use Smooth Criminal in the opening for no reason what so ever and for some reason reason the finale features our heroes dancing and singing to Thriller again for no reason what so ever.

Overall i'd say that if you really like Micheal Jackson then chances are you've already seen this special but for me this special gets a 5 out of 10.

Cartoon History: Looney Tunes

Cartoon fans there are so few cartoons that manage to transcend not only generations but ages and well one of those productions is the subject of this cartoon history and that is Looney Tunes.

The history of the Looney Tunes as also the history of Merrie Melodies the idea for Merrie Melodies comes from Looney Tunes producer Leon Schlesinger who had already made a Looney Tunes cartoon that was based on music and since that cartoon became hit Leon thought he would try to sell the series to Warner Bros. with his hook being the music featured would be from other Warner Bros. movies thus the cartoons would serve as advertisements Warner Bros. recordings and sheet music and the studio agreed and the new series was dubbed Merrie Melodies.

What people will be asking them selfs right now is "what separated a Looney Tunes short from a Merrie Melodies short?" well all of the Merrie Melodies were produced in color from day one since the studio saw those shorts as more profitable  while the Looney Tunes shorts were until 1942 produced in Black and White.

The first Looney Tunes star isn't Bugs , Daffy , Elmer or Porky it was a now defunct character called Bosko who was created by then Looney Tunes producers Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising with Leon Schlesinger acting as a producer but there relationship with Leon didn't last long as all three men had a falling out over the budget which ended with Harman and Ising leaving Warner Bros. and taking there only star with them but Leon soon found his next star.

His next star was a character called Buddy a character who was described by Bob Clampett as "Bosko In White Face" and just going of the picture above i can see why he would say that and the character had a troubled beginning with Warner Bros.who refused to accept his first two cartoons and even brought in Friz Freleng to re-edit and condense the cartoons into one short the character remained in the Looney Tunes gang until 1935 and has only made one modern appearance which was on an episode of Animaniacs.

Now you would think that the next star would be Porky well you'd be half right as the next star did infact star in a few cartoons with Porky his name was Beans The Cat but like the other two stars his fame didn't last long infact he only lasted one year until the new Looney Tunes star arrived and this time it's someone we all know.

Porky Pig and Beans The Cat actually debuted in the same cartoon I Haven't Got A Hat but as Beans popularity began to go away it turned out more people were liking Porky so Leon and i assume many directors helped make Porky the star of the Looney Tunes and out of all the other characters mentioned his popularity is still strong to this very day.

It's safe to say that Looney Tunes wouldn't be as popular as it is today with out great directors and one of the first truly great directors was Tex Avery and the first Looney Tunes short he made was a cartoon called Gold Diggers of '49 which was released in 1935 and had Porky Pig in a supporting role to Beans but this is one of many cartoons that helped make Porky Pig a star.

Jumping to the  year 1937 which saw the release of Porky's Duck Hunt and as well as having our favorite stuttering Pig the cartoon is historic in another vain because it also featured the debut of Daffy Duck and it's also the first time that Mel Blanc voiced Porky with his original voice actor Joe Dougherty was fired for not being able to control his stutter.

The Daffy seen in this cartoon is far removed from the Daffy we know and love in this short his way more Looney and over the top and in terms of design he's also a lot smaller gut for awhile this would be the version of Daffy that would grace cinema screens.

In 1940 we saw the debut of two more Looney Tunes members Elmer Fudd and that rebbit we all know and love Bugs Bunny with Elmer debuting in the Chuck Jones cartoon Elmer's Candid Camera

and Bugs debuting in the Tex Avery cartoon A Wild Hare both of which featured Elmer but what's interesting is that Bugs isn't called Bugs in A Wild Hare he wouldn't get his name until his next cartoon Elmer's Pet Rabbit which was directed by Chuck Jones.

Bugs wasn't at first part of the Looney Tunes series he was originally part of Merrie Melodies and it wasn't until 1944's Buckaroo Bugs that he officially joined the Looney crew and since then he's become the most popular cartoon character of all time.

During the 40's we had the debut of many of the Looney Tunes cast including Tweety , Sylvester , Yosemite Sam , Pepé Le Pew , Foghorn Leghorn , Marvin the Martian , Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner , Granny , Speedy Gonzales , Witch Hazel with the Tasmanian Devil debuting in 1954 and all of these characters were part of what now is called the golden age which was in the 60's and was when the characters were at there best.

Looking to give the characters more exposure out side of the cinema new producers David H. DePatie and Friz Freleng brought the characters to the small screen with The Bugs Bunny Show a show which would broadcast all of the shorts with some edits made and the show was so popular that it lasted for nearly forty years meaning that this show has lasted longer then The Simpsons.

The characters havn't just been featured in animated shorts or movies tho with there being eleven Looney Tunes movies and that's not Including Bugs Bunny Superstar or Who Framed Roger Rabbit even tho the first five movies were compilation films featuring the Looney Tunes shorts and they all had new animation done for them the first one being i think the best movie that being The Bugs Bunny / Road Runner Movie.

The Bugs Bunny Show tho isn't the only time that the characters have appeared on the small screen tho with the characters also starring in The Porky Pig Show , The Road Runner Show , Taz-mania , The Sylvester & Tweety Mysteries , Baby Looney Tunes , Duck Dodgers , Loonatics Unleashed , The Looney Tunes Show , Wabbit and the cartoon special Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue and they even helped inspire the next generation of Looney Tunes with Tiny Toon Adventures and The Plucky Duck Show.

The Looney Tunes is a brand that's been around since the late 20's and it's still going strong regardless of what you think of the recent TV series you'll always get interested when you hear there's a new Looney Tunes show or movie is in production.

  

  

Dorothy And The Wizard Of Oz Review

Cartoon fans as you may have guessed by now i love to talk about shows that others aren't talking about and that's the very case with this review because today i will be reviewing Dorothy And The Wizard Of Oz.

The general plot of the show follows Dorothy , The Tin-man and the rest of the crew now including Queen Ozma as they go on various adventures around Oz usually trying to defeat the Wicked Witch's evil spoiled niece Wilhelmina. I would like to say that this show is more based on the 1939 film that it is the actual book and i kinda don't like that since it then creates problems since they don't explain why Dorothy is back in Oz or why she's now looking like an eight year old.

The voice cast includes Kari Wahlgren as both Dorothy ans Ozma , Jess Harnell as Lion , J. P. Karliak as Tin-Man , Bill Fagerbakke as Scarecrow , Jessica DiCicco as Wilhelmina and  Laraine Newman as Wicked Witch. The voice cast for me are shockingly good and i say that because i wasn't expecting the acting to be that good when i first heard of this show the few actors that really stand out to me are Kari Wahlgren who provides two very distinct voices to her characters and Jess Harnell who sounds so much like the actor from the original film.

Now before i mention the animation i have to say that this firmly a kids show and i mean it's a show for very little kids so the animation isn't that good you can tell there's love for the original movie but there's no passion for this show coming through if anything it feels like a rush job and that's not a good thing.

Now i briefly mentioned this at the start but for some reason they made Dorothy eight years old they don't really mention her age in the show but all you have to do is look at her design and you can work out her age and the same goes for Wilhelmina and Ozma but i do have to say that the character designs aren't that bad for the most part they look like the original actors except for as i mentioned Dorothy and i like the look of new character Wilhelmina even tho she basically looks like an eight year old goth girl.

This is a kids show (i think i've mentioned that) so the jokes are about what you'd expect from a show aimed at little kids but that doesn't mean there's not the odd funny line or two i'm not kidding i laughed a few times during a few episodes but not all of the jokes landed for me personally and thank god i've not seen a fart joke in this series altho i have to say that they made Ozma a bit two dumb for my liking.

Now if your a fan of the original movie then you might like the shows opening theme which i believe to be a version of  "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" but i could be mistaken with that tho but i do think that composer Sunna Wehrmeijer does do an ok job with the music.

Overall i'd say that if you have very young kids or you have a young niece or nephew then there's no harm in showing them this cartoon and the show has been picked up for a second season for me tho the show is a 5.5 out of 10 and if you want to watch it it's on the Boomerang app.  

My Top 5 "Best" Tom and Jerry Crossover Movie Ideas

Hello cartoon fans since the Tom and Jerry franchise has decided it now wants to best mates with every other franchise out there i thought i'd tell you what my top 5 "best" ideas for a future crossover moive and incase you cannot tell this is post just for pure fun and is not to be taken seriously and there are a few ground rules the first being it has to be with a property owned by Warner Bros.or in the case of the first entry have a partnership with Warner Bros. and the second being more obvious it has to be something that hasn't been released yet so here we go.

5) Tom and Jerry: WWE

Now like most of these entries i won't have any plot details but i think that given the recent trend of having WWE superstars team up with classic cartoon characters it's only a matter of time before they team up with Tom and Jerry.

4) Tom and Jerry: The Jetsons

Out of all the entries that i've thought of this one could be the most plausible since we know that dogs exist in the The Jetsons world so it makes sense that both cats and mice would also exist as well and i'm not going to lie when i came up with this list this was one of the ones i wanted to see the most.

3 Tom and Jerry: Wacky Races

Now i know that they already a Tom and Jerry racing themed movie with 2005's Tom and Jerry: The Fast and the Furry but i think pairing them with the Wacky Races gang would just be a bizarre thing to watch but also bad in a funny kind of way.

Tom and Jerry: The Flintstones

Honestly this is only here because i want to see Tom and Jerry interact with The Flintstones cast just that alone should make for at least an entertaining movie.

1) Tom and Jerry: Looney Tunes

This is the other one i actually want to see the most just because of the comedic possibilities i wouldn't care what the plot of the movie is just show Tom and Jerry interacting with the Looney Tunes cast some funny ways and i'll be freaking happy.

Star Wars Rebels: Heroes of Mandalore Review

Star wars fans the time is nearly here the end of Star Wars Rebels begins with this two part episode so here is my review of Heroes Of Mandalore.

This two part episode basically has two plots the first plot involves the rebels teaming up with Clan Wren to help save Sabine's family while part two Sabine learns that the Empire is using a weapon she made that can kill Mandalorians. I have to admit the story for part one reminded me alot of early Star Wars Rebels where it was just the crew barely getting out alive and that's what happens in part one and in part two the story reminded me alot of the Supergirl season 1 finale for some reason altho i would have liked it if both parts had one plot instead of two.

The episodes star series cast members Taylor Gray , Vanessa Marshall , Freddie Prinze Jr. and Tiya Sircar and together they are joined by Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa , Lars Mikkelsen and returning from The Clone Wars Katee Sackhoff. The series cast as you'd expect by now do a good job voicing there characters but for me personally it's the guest cast that don't do that good a job for some reason the acting from most of the guest cast just felt wooden which is a shame because they are good actors.

Now i wasn't going to mention the animation because i didn't really see the point in talking about the animation on a series that's four years into it's run that was until the end of part 2 where the animation went from being standerd TV animation to being great TV animation i can't really say why because of spoilers but wow did the animation team really go nuts in those final scenes.

 The show has always had great looking backdrops but for me the backgrounds at least in part 1 just didn't do anything for me they weren't bad but at the same time they didn't fill me with that sense of wonder or excitement.

I would like to know what budget Kevin Kiner has for this series because the music near the end of the two-parter was really freaking good it blew me away with how good the track was and i prey to god that this level of music stays for the rest of this final season.

Overall since this will be the last season of Star Wars Rebels i hope that they just go nuts and based of this two part premier it looks like that's what they'll be doing and i will not be giving this one a rating.

My Thoughts On #SupergirlBlackout

This is a post that i honestly didn't want to make but since this hashtag thing has made me angry for not one but now two weeks in a row i thought i'd give you my thoughts on #Supergirlblackout.

Now i can guess that right now your thinking "i havn't heard of this hashtag i wonder what it's about" well let me tell you this whole hashtag started because actress Floriana Lima is no longer going to a series regular instead she's going to be a recurring character since the actress wants to pursue other opportunities which is fair enough however that hasn't stopped people from trying to get the actress to come back for more episodes.

I'm a proud Doctor Who fan and as fan of that show i can tell you the change that the people behind this stupid hashtag are going through is understandable that however doesn't make it right because by refusing to watch the show they are in turn hurting the show and increasing it's chances of cancellation which means that Maggie wouldn't be able to come back even if she wanted to.

This is something that's made me angry a few times now just due to the fact that the people who started this hashtag are now proving themselves not to be fans of the show and not only that they are missing some good television now if they want to protest that's fine tweet the creators of the show but do it with at least some knowledge go and actually find out why the person is leaving the actress herself has even said that her contract for the show was just for one season.

Now if you created this hashtag i'm now going to a take some time and talk to you if an actress wants to leave a show to make other things are to pursue other things then that's there choice and by boycotting the show or by telling the creators the only way you'll call this whole thing of is if they bring back said actress then it makes you and your "cause"seem selfish it's ok to love an actress but when you boycott a show there proud of then you don't come off looking good.

I apologize for this rant but it's something that i felt i had to get of my chest and i hope that this post helps change some of your minds anyway be sure to check out Supergirl it's worth it.

     

Cartoon History: The Flintstones

Cartoon fans The Flintstones has been around since before most of us were even born it's a show that alot of us have grown up and without it a certain other show which i'll get into later wouldn't even exist but no one has really took a look at this series and how it came to be that is until now and if this post is successful i might turn this into a series.

 As we all know the show was made by Hanna-Barbera but what you don't know is that the duo started toying with the idea for The Flintstones after production had finished on both The Huckleberry Hound Show and The Quick Draw McGraw Show while those shows were indeed popular with Huckleberry spawning it's own spin-off The Yogi Bear Show the two wanted to creat a show that both kids and adults could watch and what better way to do that then making a situation comedy.

As for the characters they weren't originally the characters we all know and love because Hanna and Babers first toyed with using Hillbillies as the main characters but then for that idea got scrapped the hillbilly theme stuck because in a few episodes of the show there are hillbilly characters. Believe or not hillbillies weren't the only ones considered as they also considered using Romans , Pilgrims and Indians but they eventually chose the stone age because according to Barbera "you could take anything that was current, and convert it to stone-age" but the show would go through many more changes before becoming the hit we all and know lot today.

We all know The Flintstones but it could have been called The Flagstones and instead of Fred , Wilma , Pebbles , Dino , Barney , Betty , Hobby and Bam-Bam we would have gotten Fred, Wilma, and their son, Fred, Jr.as the main family but still would have kept Barney and Betty in the pilot you can see a different design for Betty as well as a different voice actress with her voice being done by June Foray Barney and Fred's voices were done by Daws Butler with only Jean Vander Pyl playing Wilma in both the pilot and the TV show.

In the early seasons of the show the show had animator Kenneth Muse who worked on all the Tom & Jerry shorts and had been with the company since the late 50's i really have no other things to say about him but i thought it was interesting that one of the Tom & Jerry guys worked on this show and i wonder if he was ever proud of his work on the show.

This is something you might already know but according to some the show is inspired by The Honeymooners with Fred being the Jackie Gleason character and Barney being his friend but this something that even the creators of the show can't agree on with Hanna saying "At that time, The Honeymooners was the most popular show on the air, and for my bill, it was the funniest show on the air. The characters, I thought, were terrific. Now, that influenced greatly what we did with The Flintstones ... The Honeymooners was there, and we used that as a kind of basis for the concept." but these comments were disavowed by Barbera who said "I don't remember mentioning The Honeymooners when I sold the show. But if people want to compare The Flintstones to The Honeymooners, then great. It's a total compliment. The Honeymooners was one of the greatest shows ever written.". So it's divisive even for the creators of the show altho i personally think there's a degree of truth to both claims i'll leave the rest up to you all to decide if the show was inspired by The Honeymooners or not.

Stepping back to when it was known as The Flagstones not much else is known about the show but before they decided to drop Fred Jr. they had already changed the name to The Flintstones and there was already some merchandise being made up so you can easily find out what the character would have looked up by going onto google images.

If you think pitching a show is easy it isn't and even now we see The Flintstones as a legendary show back then it was hard to pitch the show to anyone with Joe Barbera flying to New York with two half hour storyboards and he was pitching the show five times a day every day for about a week with no one willing to pick up the show that was until the final day when he pitched the show to ABC and after fifteen minuets bought the show.

Now we all know about The Flagstones but another name was briefly considered The Gladstones i can see why they ditched that name quick it just doesn't roll of the tongue as well as The Flintstones and i doubt The Gladstones could get as many celebrity cameos as The Flintstones could this show became so huge they were beating celebrity's of with a stick as they were all trying to get on the show.

Unlike most shows which take a while to build up an audience when The Flintstones debuted on September 30 1960 it was a hit right away now i don't know what the reviews for the show were but i recon they weren't that good as people wouldn't have known what to think here's an animated show that's made for adults and kids so i can see the reviews at first being bad.

This show when it was first being made was aimed to the more mature audience which was seen in the comedy writing and i think the plots of the show since no kids show would have a plot about avoiding your wife so you can go bowling and what i found interesting is that the show had two writers who wrote for Looney Tunes those being Warren Foster and Michael Maltese.

What helped make the show more unique was the fact that it would often have season long plot lines with the most famous being the conception and birth of Pebbles that is something that hadn't been done in cartoons before and it's something that is kinda being done now with South Park but still The Flintstones was the first one to do it.

Now we all know the classic theme song to The Flintstones but that wasn't used until season 3 episode 3 until then the show used a song called "Rise and Shine" and was an upbeat song even the intro was different the intro for those first two seasons followed Fred on his way home and picking up a dress before heading home to watch TV.

The Flintstones is one of those shows that will always by around there will always be someone watching it for the first time and hopefully they will inspired and go on to create a cartoon like The Flintstones but not everything from The Flintstones especially the two live action movies and the recent WWE direct to DVD movie but one creator who not only created a show like The Flintstones but also surpassed it in terms of how long it's been on the air is Matt Groening who created a little show you might have heard of.