Cartoon fans there are alot of shows out there that divide people and while I can see why people would hate the show i'm about to review I honestly really enjoy it so here is my review of Our Cartoon President let's get it on.
The premise of the show is that the White House opens it's doors for an 'all access' look at a typical day in Donald Trump's world examining quintessentially Trumpian details of the presidency and his most important relationships. It's a world in which no one is safe from close family and confidants to key political figures of both parties and members of the media.Yes this show has no real story to tell and is episodic but I think for this show it really does work since not every show needs a story sometimes all you need is the set up and you can watch it the rest play out.
Starring in this show we have Jeff Bergman as Donald Trump , Cody Lindquist as Melania Trump , Emily Lynne as Ivanka Trump, Eric Trump, Karen Pence, and Nancy Pelosi and Gabriel Gundacker as Donald Trump Jr., Stephen Miller, and Brian Kilmeade. The acting is kinda what you'd expect from unknown actors and i'll admit it's not the best and I do wish they had got Alec Bladwin to play the president but Jeff Bergman is the only good actor in the show and he does a fairly solid job playing the part.
Now this show does feature politics there's really no getting around it when you make a show about the current American president you have to throw in some politics but there not always at the forefront of every story infact in the most recent episode there wasn't any politics involved but when the show does dive in to them it's mostly for comedic effect.
While doing research for this review I found that two companies worked on this show and I have no idea which one did the animation those companies are Licht Media Solutions and Spartina Productions but either way the animation in this show for me goes between decent to downright ugly which is a shame because this was made using flash animation and for some reason the show likes to use the same CGI shots for multiple episodes and sometimes the lip movements are off by a few seconds.
I've said a lot of bad things about this show but I do have to mention one of the few highlights and that's the president himself he is an entertaining character in this show there are also a few other funny characters such as his son Eric who's most likely the best character on the show and Ted Cruz who never fails to get a smile out of me but that said the rest of the characters are really just there and are very forgettable.
When I last talked about this show I said that they don't demonize the president and I do still stick by that because they of the fact that they present him as this lovable idiot and I think that's the right approach if you want to make a show that can appeal to pretty much everyone and while they havn't really succeeded in doing that it was a good idea.
I do see why people do hate this show and most of it is for the reasons i've already listed but for me this show is junk food basically yeah your not going to get much out of it but while your eating your loving every minuet and if you personally don't like the show that's fine that's just how I see it.
Oh boy how do I describe the humor in this show for one thing it's very hit and miss alot of the time a joke won't land but there are a few times where I found myself smiling and most of those times it was because of something Eric said or something Ted Cruz did and I think that the makers of this show should have made it a satire like That's My Bush was a satire of that president but they chose not to do that and so the comedy falls victim because of it.
Overall i'm not sure if I should recommend this show or not but i will say that if this review got you interested in watching the show then i'm sure you can find somewhere that has all the episodes heck Showtime who airs the show like it so much they've ordered an additional seven episodes which will air this summer and bring the series total number of episodes up from 10 to 17 so this show gets a 5 out of 10 from me.