Animation fans everytime Netflix releases a new show we all know there's a 50% chance that it'll suck bad so when they announced that they were making a show based of Harvey Comics characters most of the world met this news with a huge "meh" well the show is out and i'm here to bring you a review of it so here is my review of Harvey Street Kids.
The basic set up of the show is Audrey, Lotta, and Dot three best friends who will do anything to make sure that Harvey Street is best block to never grow up on. As you can tell this show pretty much has no plot outside of the basic set up and i'm not quite sure if that works for this show or on the one hand not having a plot allows the characters to get into a lot of wacky situations but on the one hand not having a plot doesn't make the show standout.
Starring in the show are Lauren Lapkus as Lotta , Stephanie Lemelin as Audrey , Kelly McCreary as Dot , Atticus Shaffer as Melvin and Grey Griffin as Lucretia , Frufru and The Harvey Street Bow. I'll admit the acting in the show was a lot better then what I was expecting it to be I was expecting everyone just to give the bare minimum but no every one gives it 100% and for a Netflix animated show that's a rare thing to say.
As mentioned this series is based of Harvey Comics but it's more based of Little Audrey , Little Dot and Little Lotta and I have to say that I think it's great that companies like Dreamworks and Netflix are giving more attention to more little known comic books instead of just sticking with either Marvel or DC (yes I know DC don't have a Netflix show but the point is those are the two comic companies that get the most attention) and I hope that this continues because there are a lot of great comic book characters out there who can easily have their own show.
As with honestly alot of Netflix's animated content this show is animated by DreamWorks Animation Television and the animation is really freaking good like alot better then what I personally thought it would be it's not on the same level as say Ducktales 2017 but it's far better then any CN reboot ever made.
Now I know alot of people are going to see the first picture and mention this so called "cal arts art style" whatever that freaking means there's no such thing as "cal arts style"you know how I know that because all of the people who work for Disney and PIXAR went there and guess what they don't have characters who look the same it's not unnatural for people to be inspired by someone so it's there for possible that the people working on this show were inspired by someone who went there and that's it.
Each episode of this show is split up into two eleven minuet cartoons and in total this first season has thirteen episodes which means there are a total of twenty six segments that's a lot of content to Get through heck for the sake of this review I only watched around four episodes and i'll admit that did become a struggle kind of near the end not because it's a bad show but because I could think of what the story was.
The jokes in this show for me are very hit and miss there's a lot of jokes that just flat out didn't work and alot of those jokes involve the kids using either tablets or social media to me those kind of jokes just aren't funny but tho the good jokes far outweigh the bad ones as I did find myself laughing alot more then I expected to.
Overall the best word I can use to describe this show is cute and if that's something you like then this is the show for you but on the other hand if you want a show that has a plot then stay away from this show for me this show I just about average so it gets a 6 out of 10.