101 Dalmatian Street Review

Disney fans this is a big week for the company with there latest live action remake being released but let us not forget about there animation division. Since for a few weeks now in the UK there has been a new series airing and it's due to make it's way across all Disney Channels during this year and well I thought that instead of waiting until we got to around episode ten or eleven i'd review it now and so here is my review of 101 Dalmatian Street.

The premise of this show is a bunch of puppies with the help of there older brother and sister have adventures around Camden town. As you might have guessed by how summarised the show it's very episodic so you don't really need to watch all the way from episode one you can just watch from whatever episode you want and you'll get the general concept behind the show and I honestly think that having this show be episodic really does work in it's favour.

Starring in the show is Josh Brener as Dylan , Michaela Dietz as Dolly , Rhashan Stone as Doug , Ella Kenion as Delilah , Nefeli Karakosta as Dizzy , Florrie Wilkinson as Dee Dee , Bert Davis as Diesel , Lauren Donzis as Destiny and Déjà Vu , Abigail Zoe Lewis as Dallas , Jack Binstead as Delgado , Maxwell Apple as D.J. , Akiya Henry as Da Vinci and Margot Powell as Dorothy. In my opinion the acting from the main cast is passable at best and that's honestly what I was expecting since this franchise isn't as big as it used to be and all of the actors are honestly trying there best.

For a kids show this show has quite the impressive guest cast list with the likes of Paloma Faith , Miriam Margolyes , Stephen Mangan and Rufus Jones all supplying voices for the show. I honestly want to know how this show got an impressive guest cast list because you hear of 101 Dalmatians and you don't think of a great cast list and yet somehow this show has it and it's honestly great to hear these actors in this show.

For once the animation for this show isn't done by any Disney company but is instead done by Passion Pictures with Disney pretty much licensing out the property to them. I thought that the animation for the show wasn't that bad it's the kind of animation that you'd expect to see in a British animated kids show but at the same time I wished that it could have been better because this does have the Disney name on it and with that you expect a certain level of quality when it comes to the animation.

Now I don't expect any one who's in America to have even heard of this show since it's not started airing there and I don't think it's even being promoted there yet. It will be airing over there on the Disney Channel by the end of the year and that to me is kind of an odd thing because it's already started airing over here in the UK and other European countries and I don't get why that's the case at all.

This is something that I can't help but all of the images so far have been from the first episode and that's because there the only images that Google has for the series. That honestly does mean that there might not be images from as many episodes in this review but i'll do my best to make it work. What I don't really like about the series is that none of the characters from the original film appear which to me is a bad thing because there the characters that people will know of when they think of this franchise.

As I said before this show is set years after the events of the film but even so nothing that happend in the film is even mentioned in this show. That is something that is both a good thing and a bad thing since there will be alot of kids who didn't grow up with the original film but it's a bad thing because this is meant to be set in the same world and so you'd think that someone would have mentioned what happens in the first film even if it's just done in passing but nope.

This show is a comedy and that means that we have to talk about the jokes that are in the show and in all honesty since this is a show aimed for little kids the jokes do work for the most part. Most of the jokes are things that little kids would find funny but in this show it works because the characters are so charming that I can honestly look past it but that being said I would have preferred it if there was some jokes for the family and not just for little kids.

Overall im not going to say that this is a show that you need to watch but it's a good time waster of a show. There's nothing harmful for little kids so you could show it to any little kid and they'll enjoy but that said there are some issues with the show and so it gets a 5.5 out of 10 from me.

  

Justice League vs. the Fatal Five Review

So then DC fans this is a bit odd the company has released a new animated feature film on the weekend and well since i've made it a statement to review every new DC animated movie when it comes out it looking like i'm reviewing this on the weekend. I know that's a strange way to start of a review but it's also a strange thing that the company did and it's something I will be addressing later in the review as well so here is my review of Justice League vs. the Fatal Five.

The plot of the movie is a group known as the fatal five is hell bent on destroying earth and the only thing that can stop them is the Justice League a boy from the future known as Star Boy and new Green Lantern Jessica Cruz. For me this plot felt like your average superhero movie plot with the only new thing really added was the inclusion of both Jessica and the Legion Of Superheros apart from that there was nothing to really set it apart from all of the other superhero movies.

There's a few names that will make fans of the classic DC Animated Universe very happy and they are George Newbern as Clark Kent / Superman , Susan Eisenberg as Wonder Woman and of of course the legend that is Kevin Conroy as Bruce Wayne / Batman and starring with them in this movie is Elyes Gabel as Thomas Kallor / Star Boy , Diane (not related to Eddie) Guerrero as Jessica Cruz / Green Lantern , Peter Jessop as Tharok , Tom Kenny as Bloodsport , Matthew Yang King as The Persuader , Sumalee Montano as Emerald Empress , Philip Anthony-Rodriguez as Mano , Daniela Bobadilla as Miss Martian , Kevin Michael Richardson as Mr. Terrific , Noel Fisher as Brainiac 5 and Tara Strong as Saturn Girl.

That right there is one hell of a voice cast and I have to say that it's actually better then the voice cast assembled for Batman: Hush. As for what I thought about the acting those who play the returning characters are pure awesome and it's great to hear the voices of Wonder Woman , Superman and Batman again in something JL related as for the other actors they do a good job but they can't compare to these DC legends.

The animation was done by DR Movie who also worked on the original Justice League animated series. I have to say that even tho DC animated films have kind of been getting a slating in terms of the quality of animation and I personally think that the animation in this film is honestly really good it's not great by means but it's alot better then the animation seen in the Justice League TV show and that's a huge plus in my opinion.

As i've been more than hinting at all throughout this review this film is set in the DCAU and unlike Batman and Harley Quinn where you could never really tell if that was in the DCAU or not this one you can tell right away. You can tell that it's in that world because of the design of the characters they all look like there animated TV counterparts and I have to say that it's good to see these designs again there so iconic that I think whenever you think of these characters these are the designs that you think of.

Now I actually have a bit of a confession / funny story to tell you guys so ok in the past week or so i've been getting ready for the release of this movie because I thought it was odd that DC was releasing an animated direct to DVD movie on a Saturday and in the past few days i've gone from knowing it was Justice League that was coming out today to thinking that it was Batman vs. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles that was coming out this weekend and that Justice League vs The Fatal Five or as I typed in on google Batman Vs The fatal Five was coming out on the exact same day I don't know how this happend but it did and feel free to laugh.

Back to the movie in my opinion the plot of this movie feels like an extended two part episode stitched together. There was nothing about this movie that screamed feature length movie to me at all if anything it felt like a story that could have been told in two episodes of either Justice League or Justice League Unlimited and for a movie based on a show that's not what you want you need a story that can only be told in a film and this doesn't have it in my opinion.

If your going into this and not expecting there to be any nods to the rest of the DCAU then you'd be wrong because there are a few hints to the wider universe. Like for example there's a cool cameo from a classic Batman villain and they use the design from Batman: The Animated Series which I loved and actually in that scene there's a few more cameos from other classic Batman villains again using there animated series designs i'm not going to say what i think the best easter egg is tho because it's something that you need to see.

I'm sure that i'm not the only one that's starting to think this but it feels like there starting push Jessica Cruz down our throats a little bit. Please note that this isn't me hating on the character in fact I really love her but she's appearing in alot of media outside of comic books and I think that they should hold up on putting her in things at least until she's got a bit more of a comic history behind her since she's a new character she doesn't have that much history behind her that the rest of the characters have.

Since this is an action movie we have to talk about the action that's seen in the movie and in this regard the movies kind of fails. I say kind of because while the action can indeed be cool to see at times there are also times where the action seems boring at least in my opinion and I have no idea why that's the case but when the action's good it can be really fun to see and indeed alot of the action involving Jessica is fun to see.

I just want to take a minuet to talk about the new Warner Bros Animation logo animation for those of you who don't know when The Lego Movie 2 came out the company debuted a new logo for that part of Warner Bros and while the animation for that logo does indeed look good all it is after all is Daffy Duck being crazy before being manhandled by Porky Pig. It doesn't really work when it's being played infront of a serious superhero movie that kind of logo animation really only works for wacky comedies.

Overall this isn't that bad of a movie but for something set in the iconic DCAU it feels like a let down but in my opinion it's still a really good movie and it's easily better the remake of Dumbo and so it gets a 7 out of 10 from me and incase your wondering yes this is an image from the upcoming Batman: Hush movie.

Red Sonja: The Ballad Of The Red Goddess Review

Comic book fans you'll know doubt know that i'm a bit of a comic book fans i'm not going to say that i'm a die hard fan but if something has her name on it i'll be interested. So imagine my intrigue when I found out that there was a new graphic novel released about the character and i'm going to be freaking blunt it's a really good read and so here is my review of Red Sonja: The Ballad Of The Red Goddess.

To put it simply the plot of this book is pretty much the exact same plot as that of I Spit On Your Grave (don't watch that movie by the way) in that a woman gets "attacked" and she ends up getting revenge only tho here the girl is Red Sonja and she swears to kill all of the men who have wronged her. If your on certain apps you'll know why I put the word attacked in brackets because it goes back to my review of I Spit On Your Grave and I have to say that the plot really does work for this character.

I know it looks like i'm being lazy just by using the second page of this graphic novel and you'd be right. This novel was published by Dynamite who have killing it with there Sonja output and it's the same here this book is so freaking good i;m not going to say that it's a must read since it's an origin story and just by that you know how the story is going to end but how the book gets us there that for me is the interesting part.

Now this is book was actually first published in Spain some time ago but this is the first time that it's been published in English. I'm honestly all for English speaking characters getting stories published outside of English speaking countries since characters can speak to anyone no matter what the language is and given how good this book is i'm glad that it's finally made it's way to English speaking countries.

They don't really name that many characters in this book in fact only two characters are named and of course one of those is the titular Red Sonja with the other one being Morrigan. To me that's really odd since in any book regardless if it's a graphic novel or not there's alot more characters named and so to only have two of them named in this book does seem odd and I know that it's a strange thing to talk about but one of the unnamed characters is also the villain and so you'd have thought they would have gave the villain a name.

The writer for the book is Roy Thomas who's mostly written stuff for Marvel with things like the 1968 Captain Marvel series to name but one of the many things he's written for. If you think he's worked with high profile Marvel characters you'd be right because he's written for The Hulk , Captain America and Iron Man. That said tho for me his writing seemed very lack luster which is a shame because he's also written for Red Sonja back in the seventies when the character was at Marvel.

In my opinion Red Sonja is a great example of a strong female character since she's not only able to kick anyone's a*s but she's also a flawed character. For some reason people think that strong female characters need to be physically strong but that's not the case at all the only thing they need to be is a good character and that's what Sonja is she's a good character she can kick your a*s and yet she can still fall in love. 

In terms of who did the artwork it was Esteban Maroto who's a mostly unknown Spanish artist and i'd say he's highest profile character was the 1993 Zatanna series. Which is a shame because the guy does have some talent but his work here seemed to be very minimalistic because as you can see by the above picture apart from the colour red it's all black and white and it's an interesting style choice and I think that it works for this book.

While this book is basically an origin story for Sonja it tells that part of the story in what i think is an interesting way. It's not due to what we see play out on the page but rather the language they use which to me read like it was very Shakespearean and that was interesting to me because all of the other RS books that i've read it's like there speaking medevil english i'm not sure if anyone else has thought of that but it was something that I noticed while reading this book.

Now I never talk about the designs when I review a comic book and well i'm going to change that right now because I liked the design that they went with for Sonja. She still looks alot like the character so you know that it's her but she looks like a version of the character from the eighties with the big hair and that to me was an interesting way to go with her at least design wise since I cannot think of a time where the character has had big hair so to me it just screams eighties.

I will say that unlike I Spit On Your Grave which shows the "attack" on the girl in alot of detail (i'm not kidding the whole thing goes on for thirty minuets) this book goes over it in about a page which freaking honestly suits me because the "attack" scene in I Spit On Your Grave is so disturbing so anything that has that kind of scene for alot less then what I Spit On Your Grave does gets a huge thumbs up in my opinion.

I will say that it honestly seems right the kind of attack i'm talking about helps make Sonja the vengeful hero that we know her to be. I;m sorry that I keep bringing this up but unlike I Spit On Your Grave there's little doubt in anyone's mind that Sonja is the hero and they don't try and flip convention by having the main hero be a killer which was what they did with I Spit On Your Grave. 

Here Sonja was already pretty handy with a sword prior to the attack so we know that she can kick some a*s even tho she's still learning. Now I wouldn't go as far to say that that's any gore in this book inf act the most gore you see comes in the word bubbles when they describe what she's going to do with the sword however it's still not for the faint hearted since there is the "attack" scene and yes I will explain what I mean by that at the end of the review so it will all make sense then.

There's a ton of action in this book and when I say a ton I really do mean it since like 90% of the book is all action. I have to admit i'm not quite sure how I feel about that since it does leave very little room for story and in my eyes that matters more then having a great looking action scene but tho the action seen in here is honestly pretty cool and it does lead to some cool looking images most of which you can see in this review.

Overall this is a really cool book with some interesting art choices but due to how many action scenes there are that does leave very little room for the story and so the book gets an 8 out of 10 for me. Now as I promised the reason why I out attack in brackets is because what really happens is a word that i'm not comfortable with but if you really want to know it's ape with an R infront of it. 

   

Johnny Bravo Review

Cartoon fans we're taking a trip back to the nineties for this review and this was a show that alot of us myself included grew up with. I will say that after watching a bunch of episodes of this show i've come to the conclusion that this show wouldn't be made today and i'll go into the reasons why later and let us prey that none of us use the pick up tactics used in this show and so here we go with me review of the one and only the legend that is Johnny Bravo.

The premise of this show is Johnny Bravo is a simple man who just wants to get a girlfriend and the show follows his exploits as he tries to get a date with a girl. Yeah there really isn't a plot to the show outside of that premise and with a premise as strong as that you don't really need a plot. At the same time tho I would have been good if there was a small plot running through some of the episodes but at the same time if that was the case then this show wouldn't be the same.

Starring in the show was Jeff Bennett as Johnny Bravo , Brenda Vaccaro as Momma , Mae Whitman as Little Suzy , Tom Kenny as Carl and Larry Drake as Pops. In all honesty the acting isn't that bad at least for a nineties show Jeff really does kill it is the title character and in my opinion all of the characters are perfectly cast. I only wish that the actors were given alot more to work with but sadly there not.

Now every famous person had to get there start somewhere and well this show was the start for a pair of animation legends and they are Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane and Butch Hartman. It's honestly really weird to see where these two legends got there start but at the same time you can really see that they had a lot of talent and you can see that even back then they had a lot of potential.

Now i'll admit that I couldn't find who did the animation for this show but knowing that Hanna-Barbera worked on the show then chances are it was them. I could however be wrong so don't hold me to it in terms of what I thought about the animation tho it's honestly really good at least in terms of early Cartoon Network and for once there's no repeating backgrounds and the animation isn't cheap which is new for Hanna-Barbera.

Now I said at the start of the review that this show wouldn't be made today and to be honest all of that is due to the fact that Johnny can act a little bit sexist towards the females. I'll admit it's not much sexism it's only a little bit here and there but when you see it it makes you see the show in a whole new light and I have to admit when I saw the sexism present in the show it really shocked me because I never saw it as a kid.

This amazed me as a little kid but I loved the Johnny Bravo / Scooby-Doo crossover episode to me what made that episode standout was the fact that they poked alot of fun of the Scooby-Doo formula and even some of the rumours surrounding the characters. That to me made the episode so much funnier just due to all of the in jokes plus it hopes that it was a really good episode in it's own right as well as a good crossover episode.

This show started airing in 1997 and it lasted until 2004 but even with that long air time there was only four seasons of the show aired and that's because the show was put on hiatus and with no warning was picked up for a second season in 1999. It didn't stop there tho as the creator of the show Van Partible left production after the second season and for the rest of the show's run the production was overseen by Kirk Tingblad who retooled pretty much everything about the show from it's humour to it's tone and characters.

I'm not going to name what network this show aired on just because the show was so well known and still is well known that pretty much everyone knows which network this show was broadcast on. I will say that for airing on this network they got away with alot of stuff some of which i've already mentioned but on the lighter side of things they also included cameo's from really obscure HB characters like Speed Buggy shows up at one point for no reason.

One of the things that I think that this show became known for was it's use of slapstick humour and if you don't like that kind of humour then don't even bother watching this show because it's like the only joke in this show. That's not always a bad thing but it would have been nice if they mixed it up every once in a while but no they stuck to the same type of humour for alot of the episodes and if i'm being honest that made me crave some other kind of joke.

Overall this is a classic CN series and it's not hard to see why it has great humour for the first few episodes and it gets away with a lot more stuff then today's shows do/. That said however it's not a great show by any means and so it gets a 7.5 out of 10 from me.

Constantine: City of Demons Review

Constantine fans when this series first debuted I did a review just based of the first six episodes and i've now come the the realisation that that wasn't a good thing to do. So i've taken down that review and i'm going to re-review this product only now i'm watching the whole story so I can fully judge it better and hopefully turn out a much better review so here we go with me review of Constantine: City of Demons.

The plot of this show / movie is John Constantine and his mate Chas travel to LA in a battle to save the soul of Chas's daughter. I'll admit that I don't really know this character at all so I can't say if this story fits with the character or not but I can say that as a story it's really well told altho this does kind of feel like a TV show which will make sense later on in the review and that's an issue with every CW Seed DC animated shows.

Of course reprising his role from both his solo show and from the Arrowverse is Matt Ryan as John Constantine he is joined by Damian O'Hare as Chas Chandler , Laura Bailey as Asa the Healer / Nightmare Nurse and Trish , Emily O'Brien as Renee Chandler , Rachel Kimsey as Angela , Robin Atkin Downes as Butler and Jim Meskimen as Beroul. This is a first for me because every actor i've listed is also pretty much every actor that appears in this show / movie so I didn't pick certain actors I just listed everyone.

As for what I thought about the acting in this show / movie it's honestly not as bad as it could have been since the acting in this thing could have been really bad. Of course Matt Ryan is great as John he pretty much owns the role of this character much like how Kevin Conroy owns the role of Batman in animation. The rest of the cast I feel do a good job and since a few of them are really good voice actors that's not a surprise but they all fail when compared to Matt.

The animation for this show / movie was done by Digital eMation and I can't really find what else they've worked on outside of Young Justice: Outsiders and Johnny Test. I can say that the animation in this show / movie was honestly really good and of a higher quality then any web series that i've seen. There is a downside tho and that is that the animation doesn't do a good job of helping the the tone and mood that the show / film is going for.

Now as you may have noticed that several times in this review i've been calling this thing a show / movie and well that's because while this thing did in fact start airing as a show on The CW Seed about a year after it's fifth episode a film version was released that had the back episodes edited in to finish the story. Why CW chose to do this not once but three times is beyond me because if you recall they released three shows each lasting around two seasons and then they would release them as a movie with new animation and that to me makes no sense why didn't they just release all of the episodes instead of releasing a few and then making us wait a year to see the rest.

In all honesty the only show that did this right was Vixen since that show aired both of it's seasons before releasing the movie version and both of those stories at least told two whole separate stories. The other two tho didn't and that got really frustrating because you'd just be getting into a show and they would end it on a huge cliffhanger and that meant we had to wait around a year sometimes a little bit longer to find out what happens next.

Now on the show's Wikipedia page they have this listed as a spin off of the Justice League Dark film all because it's Matt Ryan playing Constantine. If that's the case then the live action show and every show in the Arrowverse is a spin off this show because in my opinion this show isn't a spin off since it's set in the world of the CW DC shows and not in the world of the current DC Animated Movies and that makes all the difference.

Like both Vixen and Freedom Fighters there's new footage added into this and unlike the other two where it's mostly bridging the gap between seasons here the new footage is literally the rest of the season. Which again makes me wonder why they chose to release the second part of this show as a movie since it would have most likely have been finished when episode one came out so they could have just released the whole series there and then but nope they chose to make us wait a year.

I know I keep on going on about waiting a whole year to see how it ends but it's really did annoy me since a few of those shows were honestly really good and the fact that they didn't just release the whole thing at once was just frustrating.This show / movie does something good tho and that's give us plenty of awesome kills yeah i;m not kidding there's a lot of kills in this movie and you see them all and there so freaking cool and awesome that it makes me wonder why the whole thing wasn't like those kills.

There's plenty of action to be found in this show / movie as well and it's all wonderfully animated and wonderfully done. The issue I have with the action is that it's al magic based and that for me while being very well done just isn't that interesting to see and I know this is going to sound odd given what im reviewing but it didn't seem real to me like I like my powerless heroes to fight with there fists and yes I do count Constantine as a powerless hero.

Overall this wasn't a bad show / movie it also wasn't that great of one either if your a fan of the character then chances are you'll like this alot but for me it gets a 6 out of 10.

The Powerpuff Girls 1998 Review

Cartoon fans I was a kid of the nineties and that means the show that i'm about to review for you all is a show that I grew up watching. I'll admit that I didn't watch this show all the time mostly because I was busy watching other shows but other time this show has started to grow on me and well I thought that since i've reviewed both the reboot and the movie it only makes sense for me to review the original so here is my review of the 98 version of The Powerpuff Girls.

The premise of the series is basically three girls with superpowers fight crime and protect the town and people of Townsville. As my summery will suggest this show is episodic so you don't really need to watch episode one to understand say episode ten you can watch any of the episodes and get the personality of each of the girls and while I do think having this be an episodic show works for this show I still would have liked it to have a long running story just to make things a bit more interesting.

Starring in the show was Catherine Cavadini as Blossom , Tara Strong as Bubbles and E. G. Daily as Buttercup. Since there are quite a few characters in the show i'm not going to name who played every single so I chose just to name who played the three girls because it would save me alot of time and because let's be real that's all you really wanted to know. I will say tho that there are alot of great voice actors in this series so it's worth watching just to hear who pops up as what character.

In terms of what i thought about the voice acting in general it's alot better the acting in the reboot mostly because every actor in this feels like there actually trying where as in the reboot all of the returning actors just feel like there putting in the minimum amount of effort. It goes without saying that the actresses playing the three girls do a great job since all of the actresses are voice acting legends and all three are perfectly cast in this show.

The show had two animation studios working on it during it's run with the animation for the first four seasons being done by Hanna-Barbera Cartoons and the final two seasons being done by Cartoon Network Studios. Your guess is as good as mine as to why they switched studios halfway through maybe Cartoon Network wanted more control over the series or HB wanted more money per-episode regardless the animation remains top notch all throughout the series run.

Now there was no way I could review this series and not talk about the design of the girls while the designs are indeed iconic. That's not to say that the designs aren't creepy as hell because trust me they are but this show makes them work and it somehow makes them adorable and that's not something that many shows pull off. I will say tho that the thick lines can be quite distracting but given that this was a late nineties show thick lines are to expected.

This show had a total of six seasons , three specials one of which was a christmas special and a theatrical movie. In total there were seventy eight episodes of the show made which given the premise to me is really shocking since at most this should have been a two or three season show but the fact they managed to get as much out of it as they did is true testament to the creative team and really everyone involved.

Now there's a chance that this could be wrong but during production of the show there was a hiatus which I think happened in season 4 and that was because the crew stopped working on the show to work on the movie. In my opinion I really don't see why they couldn't have hired more people to work on both that way they could have had the show airing as the movie came out but I guess that they wanted to make the movie feel more like the show.

One of the many things that this show does better then the reboot is the fact that it actually includes strong female characters and not just say there about female empowerment. To me and I think many others one of those characters is Miss Bellum here is a character that is beautiful but she's also smart and skilled fighter among many other things. So why she was not included in the reboot is beyond me since she is everything the makers of that show wanted there version to be.

Now I will admit that this series had one episode which to me felt like it was trying to hard to push a feminist agenda and that's the episode "The Boys Are Back in Town" where the girls learn that in order to defeat the Rowdyruff Boys they have to make there masculinity feel threatened. To me that seemed like it was trying to hard to push a feminist agenda onto people and if every other episode of the show was like that I wouldn't mind it since it would feel out of place but this is the only episode that really does it and it stands out by a mile.

Another thing that this show did better then the original was the fact that it actually has action scenes in it. I know that's hard to believe an action cartoon actually having action scenes who would have thought of it all joking aside tho the action in this series is honestly really well done you can tell that the team put alot of effort into these scenes and it's because of that that I have to wonder if this was a storyboard driven show or not. Also I will admit there are a few action scenes which go to far even for my tastes like in episode one where the girls are transformed into dogs and they have a fight with other dogs and we see every punch and kick thrown but as someone who's a dog lover that was just to much for me.

I have to say tho that not all is good with the show since there are alot of episodes that just go know where and that did start to get really frustrating for me personally just because they seemed like really fun episodes but then without any reason they'd just end. If i'm being honest this is one of the few things that the reboot does better then the original show just because in the reboot they at least tell complete stories.

To get back to the positives tho this show does have a great sense of honour and I did find myself laughing alot of the time. Alot of the jokes in the show aren't just from what the characters there from what's seen in the background like for the fact the registration plate on the Professors car is pretty good joke and who honestly doesn't love evil Bubbles that whole concept is just freaking funny at least in my opinion.

Overall this show is miles better then the reboot and is honestly everything the reboot should have been. It's not a perfect show tho by any means in fact I think i've listed all of the problems with the show but if there's anymore then please let me know and it's those problems that keep the show from being a perfect ten so it gets a 7.5 out of 10 from me.

    

Love, Death & Robots "Sonnie's Edge" Review

Animation fans I know that i've already talked about this show (at least I have depending on where your seeing this review)  but it was after watching it and writing the review of it that something hit me I came to the realisation that I could should I choose review any episode of the show. So that's what i've done well at least for the first episode I don't know if this will be a weekly thing or not but it gives me a chance to talk about Love, Death & Robots some more so here is my review of episode one Sonnie's Edge.

The plot of this short is a girl and her beast enter this contest where the aim is to stay alive but what happens when the contests owner offers the girl alot of money to loose. I'll admit that plot wise it's not that good since all you get is the basic set up but for something that's only seventeen minuets long that's kind of what you'd expect but given how rich the world building is here I would have loved the story to have been a bit stronger.

Now when I wrote my review of the whole series there was no cast list to be found however that has since changed so starring in this episode is Helen Sadler as Sonnie , Hayley McLaughlin , Jennifer , Time Winters as Dicko , Omid Abtahi as Wes and Christine Adams as Ivrina. Before I talk about what I thought about the acting i'm going to tell you know that just because IMDB has finally added the cast doesn't mean i'm going to re-write my review of the series it just means that whenever I review an episode i'll list the cast.

As for what I thought about the acting given that the actors don't really have that much dialog in the whole short it's honestly pretty good. I say pretty good because I did my research and alot of the actors in this short really haven't been in anything noteworthy outside of a few random TV episodes and some short films so this short in my opinion was there chance to fully show of what they can do and I hope that it leads to them getting more work down the line.

This is one of four shorts that was animated by Blur Studio with the others being episode 2 "Three Robots" episode 4 "suits" and episode 10 "Shape-Shifters". Since the show uses different styles of animation for each episode I have to say that this episodes uses CGI and it looks freaking fantastic like I saw this show on Saturday and I was blown away by how good the CGI looked and even now when I went to load the episode up I was still blown away.

Given that this is the same studio that did the fantastic opening for the 2011 remake of my favourite film The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo it really doesn't surprise me that the CGI was good. It surprises me tho in the way that they pulled it off on basically a web series budget and that's now got me hopeful that they'll one day work on an animated feature film since if this the kind of animation they can do with a small budget then picture what they could do with a few hundred million dollars.

If I ever do more reviews on this series this is something that you'll hear me say alot but I really hope that they give this short it's own series. I say that because the world building was good in this episode that it made me want to find out more not only about the world and it's rules but the characters that live within it. I know that the chances of this short getting it's own series is most likely not that good since it would cost a lot just to do the animation but we can dream.

It was also while watching this short that I came to the realisation that Sonnie is this show's version of Lisbeth Salander from The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo there both bada*s strong women who have been both physically and mentally tortured by men and our now doing something about it. I hope that i'm not the only one who's made those connections but at the same time I could just be looking way deep into something that isn't there.

Now i've thrown up the old warning sign because there's alot of nudity and alot of gore in this episode and there was no way I could do a review on it and not feature images of it mostly because there the only images Google has of the episode. Yeah this episode is gory as hell and when I say gory I really mean it like you see people's heads getting stomped on and monsters getting their arms ripped of it's awesome. 

I will admit that both the nudity and the gore is just there for the sake of it like you could remove both of those aspects from the short and you'd loose nothing plot wise or character wise. One of the things that really interested me and I think many others judging from the comments i've seen of this episode online was just how good the twist ending is i'm not going to give it away but I will say that it's something you don't see coming and that's what I good twist should be.

This short has a monster fight and that means we have to talk about the fight itself and for me personally the fight in this short is freaking insane. Heck i'd have been happy if the whole episode was just this fight but at the same time im glad it's not because I honestly love sonnie but tho what I think makes this fight standout from other monster fight scenes is that it appears that this one is advancing the story being told and with that twist helps with the great world building and that's something that i've not seen before now.

Overall this isn't my favourite short of the series if you want to know what this you'll either have to wait or read my review of the show but let's just say it's not one your expecting. This short tho is a great start to the series and so it gets an 8.5 out of 10 from me.

Love , Death & Robots Review

Wow it's been along time since I did a full series review but my god what a series to return with this is a series that i've been so looking forward to seeing and it doesn't disappoint. This is a series that I can very easily see alot of animation fans talking about heck i'm shocked that alot of them haven't already started talking about this show it's that good and it's one of the few Netflix shows that I want to get a second season so here is my review of Love , Death & Robots.

Now I would normally tell you what the plot of the show is and give you my thoughts on it but like Batman: Gotham Knight this is an anthology show. Each of the shorts has a different story with nothing that connects them so you can really watch any episode and get an idea of themes of each short. I will admit that the pacing for each episode can feel off since sometimes it goes by way to fast but sometimes it goes by far to slowly.

Now this is a first for any of my reviews because I can't list any of the actors that appear in this show and the reason why is because there's not a set cast list available anywhere. Also not helping as to why I can't list any of the actors is because they change the cast list literally every single episode so it would be impossible for me to say who's in the show and who isn't so I apologise for not mentioning who's in the show.

Just because I can't name who's in the show doesn't mean that I can't talk about the acting that's in it. That for me is a very mixed bag since in one episode you'll get pretty acting but then in the very next episode the acting might suck so it's really hard for me to fully judge the acting since it's such a mixed bag and in all honesty that's fine with me because that's the same for alot of TV shows be they on Netflix or not.

The animation for this show was handled around by fifteen different companies with perhaps the most note worthy name being that of Sony Pictures Imageworks. As well as alot of different companies working on each short the animation also came in from all over the world so while you will see companies that are based in America working on this show you'll also see companies from for example the UK and Spain.

I have to say that the overall quality of the animation is shockingly good i'm not even kidding and these guys aren't working with a feature film budget either there working with a small budget and most likely a small crew. So if there able to pull of this level of animation with little to no budget and a small crew then imagine what they could do with the budget of a feature film and the fact that there using animation companies from all over the world is great because it gives them a chance to shine and that can only be a good thing for the animation industry.

Now i'm not going to lie and say all of them are animated because there not but they all include animation of some kind and that helps the show stand out even more in my opinion. Netflix to me is one of those companies which is creator driven and by that I mean they allow the people who are making stuff for them to really do what ever the hell they want and that makes them the perfect place for this kind of show because it's something that so of the wall that it's actually on another wall.

I cannot give this show enough praise yes there is the odd one or two bad episode but that's something that your going to get with any show anyway. I honestly feel that the only note that producers David Fincher and Tim Miller gave the people creating the shorts is that there short has to have something to do with either love , death or robots or possibly all three because that's the thing that really connects all of the shorts it's those themes.

I have to say that if you have little kids and you think that this might be a show that they'll enjoy don't show it to them. This is very mature show and when I say very mature I freaking mean it there's blood , gore , sex and nudity and that's just in the first episode and trust me it gets alot more strange and alot more adult from there so this will have to be one animated show that they'll have to go without seeing.

Now i've seen sites like IMDB throw around that some of the shorts could be considered horror in my opinion the whole thing should be considered horror. Not because of the fact that there's alot of blood and gore in alot of the episodes but because of it's ideas and themes which to me make the series far more scary then blood and gore ever could even tho one of the common ideas thrown around is that mankind is doomed to kill itself it's still a scary idea.

I have to say not all of the episodes in this show fall under horror in fact all of the eighteen shorts made fall under a wide range of sub-genres ranging from horror to fantasy to comedy so there's really something for everyone here. The best episodes tho for me personally are the ones that have a great twist ending that you don't see coming for example episodes one and three have a freaking great pairs twists which have to be seen to be believed.

I can't believe i've gotten this far into the review and not really gave you that much information about the episodes themselves. There are eighteen episodes in total and each episode will last no longer then twenty minuets but they really range in length with some episodes lasting seventeen minuets and others lasting around seven minuets. So you you could honestly watch the whole series and in a few hours and still have time to write a blog post about the show.

Overall go and watch this show right now like stop whatever it is your doing and go and watch it because trust me you will not regret it. It's not a perfect show as i've explained but in my opinion it's damn freaking close so it gets a 9.5 out of 10 from me.