Hello there any and all Cartoon Network fans back in 2017 a new pilot found it's way online and that pilot did get some people interested and well now the full series has come out which I will go into more detail about later btw and the show in question is Summer Camp Island so lets get it started.
The premise for the show is best friends Oscar and Hedgehog go to a summer camp only to find out that the came home to all things paranormal. I don't know if I made it clear in my summery of the shows main plot but this series is episodic so you can watch from any episode and pick up everything you need to know and I think that having an actual story for this show would have worked better since it could have allowed the characters to explore more of the island and it's lore.
Starring in this show are Elliott Smith as Oscar , Oona Laurence as Hedgehog , creator Julia Pott as Susie and Charlyne Yi as Alice. Of course there not the only cast members but since the cast list for this show is so freaking huge it made sense just to name a few actors and I have to say that overall the voice acting for the show is very the actors playing the leads have great chemistry and both can be funny and Julia does get alot of the best lines.
Like I said the actors mentioned are not the only actors but I had to split this up because oh my god they get some truly great actors to play supporting actors the show has the likes of Melanie Lynskey (Rose from Two and A Half Men) plays the sun with an Australian accent , Cedric the Entertainer plays the moon that's just freaking awesome , Alfred Molina plays Oscars dad and the ghost under Hedgehogs bed and finally Frodo Baggins himself plays a teenage yeti. Dude they brought in Frodo Baggins that to me is just pure awesome i'm not going to spoil how many episodes he's in but that makes it even more awesome.
Now i'm not 100% sure on this but the show was either animated in house by Cartoon Network Studios or it was done by Warner Bros Animation but either way the animation in the show I thought was pretty good altho my main issue from the pilot still remain which if you didn't know was the fact that the characters look a little creepy but tho since I got used to the designs it didn't bug me as much but tho they still have huge pupils for some strange reason.
I know that alot of people are going to find this hard to believe heck I myself did when I found this out but with this show Cartoon Network now has to shows that are created by women (all you need to do is looks at the above image to see what the other is) and I hope that more women creators get a chance to tell there stories be it on Cartoon Network or any other network and if they do get a chance I hope that they make a truly great show.
Speaking of Cartoon Network they did something which I thought was really interesting with this show because they aired not one or two new episodes but twenty episodes I really cannot think of any show where they did that and i'm trying to think if that's a good or bad thing since it could be seen as both but it now has me wondering how many episodes of this series are made and why they chose to air this many episodes in one sitting.
I really don't plan on finding a character that I really enjoy in every series I review but tho for me Susie pretty much owns this show she is so freaking funny most of the times when this show had me laughing it was because of her if this show gets canned then I can see Julia making it big either as a voice actor or in comedy and i'm not just saying that because she's a fellow Brit that is something I generally do believe.
Now I like a few people i've seen talking about this show was expecting it to be like Adventure Time which would make sense since Julia did work on that show however where others were put off by the fact it's not an Adventure Time type of show I was more intrigued since it then had me wondering what type of show I was going to be getting and the show that we have pretty much has it's own unique identity so much so that i cannot think of other shows to compare it to.
Overall this is a strange show but strange in a good way and yes there are some influences from The Peanuts that I noticed but not enough to make it into the actual review part of this post and the show is really funny so it gets a 7 out of 10.