DC fans the day has finally come i've been waiting so long to watch the first few episodes of the the DC Super Hero Girls TV show. To tide me over until the series officially premiered i've been watching all of the shorts which while fun are never going to top the full thing and well on Friday the show officially premiered with a four part special which i'm not going to be reviewing for you all and you can also count this as my first impressions for the series as whole so here is my review of Dc Super Hero Girls "#SweetJustice",
The plot of the episode is Barbara Gordon has just moved from Gotham to Metropolis and on her first day makes friends with five other girls Diana Prince , Kara Danvers , Zatanna Zatara , Jessica Cruz and Karen Beecher they must learn to not only be friends but also work as a team in order to defeat someone who is taking over Metropolis. In terms of first episodes this is pretty basic it's the kind of first episode you'd expect from a new show but I think that this works to the specials advantage because no one knew what to expect going into it.
Starring in the special is Grey Griffin as Diana Prince/Wonder Woman , Tara Strong as Barbara Gordon/Batgirl and Harley Quinn , Nicole Sullivan as Kara Danvers/Supergirl , Kari Wahlgren as Zatanna "Zee" Zatara/Zatanna , Myrna Velasco as Jessica Cruz/Green Lantern , Kimberly Brooks as Karen Beecher/Bumblebee , Cassandra Lee Morris as Spoiler Alert , Will Friedle as Lex Luthor. Now i'm a fan of the original web series so I have to wonder why didn't they just bring over the voice cast from that show because to me that makes alot of sense and if you follow the show you'll notice that alot of actors do reprise there roles in this special.
As for what I thought about the acting does it even need to be said because alot of these actors are legends so of course for the most part it'll be great. All of the actors that you expect to deliver a great performance really do deliver and I honestly had no idea that Will Friedle was even in this series and I can guarantee now that you know he's in the show you'll either just hear his character from batman Beyond or Ron Stoppable because that was me when I found out the original Shego was playing Supergirl.
Now since I do plan on reviewing the show at some point i'm not going to list who's done the animation just because i'd be repeating myself when it came to the series review. I will say tho that when the designs for the show were first revealed I wasn't the biggest of fan of them but now after seeing the designs in action threw not only this special but also the shorts I do like them but I still prefer the designs from the web show.
As for the actual animation I have no idea what the budget is for this show but it's money well spent in my opinion because my god is the animation in this special truly something to behold. Every movement leaps of the screen with the kind of energy that you'd expect in a show from Lauren Faust and heck half of the jokes in this special are made funny because of how well the facial expressions are.
As I mentioned earlier in this review the show and this special are based of the web series also called Dc Super Hero Girls and so you'd expect certain things to carry over. Get ready to be let down alot on that front because while the show does take place in a high school it's not super hero high it's Metropolis High and all of the character act very differently from there web series counterparts so it would be best to view this show as something that's set somewhere else in the DC Multi-verse.
Now my big issue with the web series is that even the villains are acting like superheroes and so far just by going of this special that doesn't look like it's going to be the case in this series. That for me is a good thing because it's how those characters would act in those situations of course tho I can't say if that's going to always be the case but there's once scene that hints at that and even tho it's a scene that doesn't effect the plot of the special to me it says the characters that are usually villains act like actual villains.
This review isn't that long because of the fact that this special is only like forty five minuets long so it's just the first four episodes edited together. To be honest im ok with Cartoon Network airing premier episodes as these hour long episodes since it's a great way to tell these epic stories and to get across who each character is and what there like in a more natural way which is something that you wouldn't be able to do if it was just eleven minuets long since everything would need to be rushed.
I touched on this before but this special is actually really funny there's a lot of great jokes and alot of what makes them funny comes down to the great facial expressions. I've honestly lost count at how many times I laughed during this special and that for me is a very rare thing to do and now that I think about it the character that actually got the most laughs out of me was Barbara herself and that's due to I think just how much energy she has.
In terms of the actual action seen in this special there's alot more of it then what I thought there would be and that's not to say that I wasn't expecting there to be any action scenes it's just there was alot more then what I thought there was going to be. To me that's a good thing because it was something that caught me of guard and the action that we do say if really good for a kids show you get to see all of the main girls use there powers in all of the fights so there for you get to see why they should be on that team.
Overall this wasn't a bad premier it sets up something which I hope they follow up on as the series progresses and if your excited to watch the series from next week they'll be airing new episodes. This is by no means a perfect set of episodes but it's alot better then what I thought it was going to be so it gets a 7 out of 10 from me.