Hello there race fans i'm here to do something i swore to myself i would never ever do and that's judge a show just based of the first episode but as you can see by the name of the show i'm going to be talking about most of you will be thinking the exact same question "They Rebooted Wacky Races?" and now i'm going to tell you my thoughts on it.
Now before i get into the episode proper i have to say that there are only three images from the show on Google and even then two of them are pretty much the exact same image so i've got to use images from the classic show to help sell my point.
Like the original show this new show seems not to have a story which i'm fine with but at least with the show they gave us lots of characters to keep us interested this episode only features a small handful of racers and even tho most of them are classic characters they don't bother to make them interesting.
Now you may have noticed that i mentioned the fact that the cast for this episode is mostly classic characters well that's because they introduce two new characters there's Bella voiced by Tom Kenny and there's a sports announcer who's basically the announcer from the original show only stupid and Bella is ok but to me she seems like a replacement for The Professor and nothing more.
I've mentioned that Spongebob is in the show but there's also Billy West who i think is playing Mutley but i can't tell you who else in this show because there's no cast list to be found anywhere even Wikipedia has the wrong cast list up right now and there's no IMDB page up yet for this show. I do however like the voice of Penny they kept her a southern girl which was good and they toned down her voice which i liked.
Yes ladies and gentlemen your eyes do not deceive you that above image is what Dastardly and Mutley look like in the new show out of all the characters to get a bad redesign why did it have to be those two there two of the most iconic characters from the original show and they look terrible i won't get into the animation but let's just say the animators should be ashamed.
Overall Cartoon Network should let Disney handle Reboots and they should stick to original shows but at least they kept the original theme song and there's no racing at all in this pilot even tho it right there in the name of the show and at least the episode lengths are the same as the race lengths in the original show.