Tiny Toons' Night Ghoulery Review

 

Ladies and gents with the announcement that Tiny Toon Adventures is getting a revival within the next for years. I thought that i'd take a look at one of the shows many episodes and well given that i'm writing this on halloween and Tiny Toon Adventures just so happened to produce a halloween special which for some reason didn't air in October and so here is my review of the shows only halloween special "Tiny Toons' Night Ghoulery" enjoy.

There is no plot to this episode with the episode instead taking on anthology approach with each segment being hosted by Babs Bunny. I have to admit that I kind of want to see what a Tiny Toon Adventures halloween special would be like if it had one single plot line but at the same taking an anthology approach seems oddly on brand for the show and because of the fact that this episode is taking an anthology approach it does mean that more Tiny Ton characters can appear and that does make the episode more fun to watch in my opinion.

Starring in the episode is Joe Alaskey as Plucky Duck , Tress MacNeille as Babs Bunny and John Kassir as Buster Bunny. Also starring in the episode is Don Messick as Hamton J. Pig and a TV Executive , Cree Summer as Elmyra Duff and Uhura , Maurice LaMarche as Dizzy Devil / The Brain and Gossamer , Gail Matthius as Shirley the Loon , Kath Soucie as Li'l Sneezer and Fifi La Fume , Danny Cooksey as Montana Max , Frank Welker as Furrball /Gogo Dodo /Byron Basset /Calamity Coyote/ Little Beeper and Gremlin , Ron Perlman as Mr. Scratch , Jim Cummings as Paddy /Villager and an Announcer , Jeff Bennett as Shamus / Pumpkin Guy and The World's Biggest Tiny Toon Fan and June Foray as Witch Hazel.

As for what I thought about the acting in this special it was alot better then what I remember it being and bare in mind i've seen this special a few times now. However on this most recent viewing of the special I found the acting to be really good with all of the actors putting in a good performance and for me it helps that alot of the actors have been playing these roles since the very start of the the Tiny Toon Adventures and so they know there characters very well and as for John Kassir who is taking over the role of Buster Bunny from Charlie Adler he does a passable job but he really doesn't have that many lines in this special and so I can't really judge his performance.

The animation for this special was handled by TMS Entertainment otherwise known as Tokyo Movie Shinsha. The animation I thought was really good which given how high the animation quality is for this show really shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone , helping things in my opinion is the fact that the backgrounds look visually stunning as well as the fact that all of the characters get these really fluid movements which help give the characters alot of life.

I will say that doing a Halloween special with the character of Elmya is to me a really good choice since you can do a lot of things with that character and it would not only work but would be really funny. I'm not going to say what role they have in in this special but you'll just have to trust me when I say that it's not only fitting for her character but is in my opinion one of the characters most funniest roles.

In a rather odd move for a Halloween special this episode they didn't have this episode air in October which was the original plan instead that had the episode air in May. Which to me defeats the entire purpose of a Halloween and it makes me wonder why the choice was made to have the episode air in May rather then in October since we associate October with Halloween and so it would have made alot more sense to air the special in October rather then in May.

This special is forty four minuets and fifty five seconds long so let's round that up to forty five minuets which either way is still to short for this special. I say that because they have so many cartoons in this one special that only last a few minuets and so you can't really get into the story because by the time everything in the cartoon has been set up they have to end it as such I feel that the special as a whole should have been a bit longer maybe make it closer to an hour without commercials and each cartoon should have been longer as well.

Since I just watched The Nightmare Before Christmas a few days ago I was shocked that Tiny Toon Adventures spoofed Nightmare Before Christmas. I say that I was shocked because it has been a while since I last watched this special and so seeing it again it was like I was watching it for the first time but even so im surprised that Tim Burton didn't get on the phone to the Tiny Toon Adventures team and threaten to sue them since it's so obvious what it is there spoofing.

Now then boys and girls this is comedy and so that means that we have to talk about the jokes that are in this episode / special. Which me to the jokes were very hit and miss since for very joke that worked and every spoof that worked there be a joke and spoof that didn't work which is a shame because when this episode / special does tell a good joke then it is really funny and the same goes for what ever they spoof as well since whenever they do spoof something really well it can be funny but then there are times where I was left thinking "What The Hell Are They Spoofing" because whatever it was they were spoofing just wasn't that good or that funny.

Overall this was a really funny episode and it's one that I can see alot of people espically fans of Tiny Toon Adventures enjoying. That being said tho the episode / special does have some issues which do sadly keep this episode / special from being a perfect ten out of ten and sadly those issues have been covered in this review as such Tiny Toons' Night Ghoulery gets a 7.5 out of 10 from this Tiny Toon Adventures fan.

All and I do mean all of the images that I used in this review were gathered from the official Tiny Toon Adventures fandom wiki page. Since I only went to one website for all of the images that I used in this review I have no choice but to recommend that you guys use the official Tiny Toon Adventures fandom wiki page if you want to get images from either this special / episode or anything to do with Tiny Toon Adventures.

 

 

The Mandalorian "Chapter 9: The Marshal" Review

 

Star wars fans when I made my first post on The Mandalorian TV show nearly two months ago I had no intention of reviewing any other episodes. However season 2 has just started and well I know what alot of people are going to be talking about for the next few months and well I like getting alot attention (that's a joke by the way) and so here is my review of the season two premier of The Mandalorian with the episode being called "Chapter 9: The Marshal" enjoy the review everyone.

The plot of this episode is everyone's new favourite Mandalorian finds himself on a very familiar planet and has to help a someone get rid of giant something to protect a town of people. I'm being as vague as I can here just because alot of what happens in the episode is so freaking cool that you just have to see the episode for yourselves and as for what I thought about the plot of the episode it was fairly decent it was nothing spectacular but it did it's job of keeping me entertained really well and that for me is always a good thing.

Starring in this episode is Pedro Pascal as The Mandalorian , Timothy Olyphant as Cobb Vanth and Amy Sedaris as Peli Motto. Also starring in the episode is John Leguizamo as Gor Koresh , Isaac C. Singleton as Twi'lek Doorman , David Choe as Ringside Spectator , Miguel A. Lopez as Tusken Raider #1 , Xavier Jimenez as Tusken Raider #2 , Leilani Shui as Jawa , W. Earl Brown as Weequay Proprietor , Dietrich Gray as Mos Pelgo Villager , Karisma Gideon as Jo and Dylan Curtis as Mos Pelgo Boy.

This show from the few episodes of the show that i've seen has a very high bar when it comes to the acting in any given episode and i'm glad to say that that streak continues with this episode. Since the acting from all of the cast members including the extras is so freaking good all of the actors in this episode really do a good job with this episode and to me it helps that the script and the writing is so freaking good and so all the actors have to do is just say the lines as there written and a good performance will come naturally.

After doing a lot of looking around Google Images I finally found the picture I wanted to represent the CGI in this episode because yeah the CGI in this episode is so freaking good it's unreal. Which shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone since Industrial Light & Magic , Image Engine Design and Base FX all did the CGI work for this episode and the rest of the show and yeah the CGI in this episode is so freaking good these are the kind of effects that you'd expect to see in a theatrically released movie and not a TV show that's how good the effects are in this episode in my opinion.

I'm just going to come right out and say it there are alot of cool as hell moments in this episode and I loved each and every one of them. Sadly tho I cannot say what those moments are because they are spoilers and so your just going to have to trust me when I say that there are alot of cool moments in this episode and to me what makes those cool moments work is the fact that we've gotten to know The Mandalorian character and so when those moments do happen they feel in character for that character and not something the show makers did for the freaking hell of it.

Now I do have some bad things to say about this episode the first of which is a very underwhelming reveal of a certain character. Again i'm trying to be vague here just because there might be some people who like myself didn't know that this character would be in this episode hence why I didn't credit the actor earlier on in the review. The reveal that they gave this character to me was underwhelming and it just felt like a huge let down even more when you take into account that this character us a fan favourite character.

This episode has a running time of fifty four minuets long which I do feel was a bit on the long side just because not alot happens story. As such the episode can get a little bit boring at times which for a show this could should never be the case however given that this show has it's main two characters (Baby Yoda and The Mandalorian) meeting a new set of characters every single week there will of course be episodes that do feel a bit boring in places.

To me this episode felt like it was a western with The Mandalorian character taking on the role of a stranger who has just wondered into town and ends up helping save the town from a bully or in this case an intergalactic monster. That to me is one of this shows strongest suits because it can take on any genre it wants and yet it would still be a good show because it has the writing and everything else to back it up and plus this means that no two episodes are the same episode two is different from episode one and episode three is different from episode four because they all take on different kind of genre's of film and TV.

Now then boys and girls since this is an action show that does mean that we have to talk about the action that's in this episode. Which i'm not going to lie is where alot of the episodes coolest moments come with the entire third act just being one cool as hell action scene and it's because of that fact that I cannot name what my favourite action scene because well all of them are and hell i'd recommend this episode just for the action alone since all of the action scenes in this episode are plain and simply cool as all hell in my opinion.

Overall this was a very welcome return episode for this show and if this episode is anything to go by then season two is going to be getting better and better with each episode. That being said there are a few bad things in the episode at least from what I found there are at least to me those bad things didn't always take away from the episode as such this episode gets a 9 out of 10 from me and let me know in the comments below if you want to see me cover more episodes from either the second or even the first season of The Mandalorian TV show.

All of the images that I used in this review were gathered from either Google Images or the official The Mandalorian fandom wiki page. Since I got the overall majority of images that I used in this review from the official The Mandalorian fandom wiki page I have no choice but to recommend that you guys use the official The Mandalorian fandom wiki page if you want high quality images from either this show or this episode.

 

Once Upon A Snowman Disney + Short Film Review

 

The never ending franchise that is Frozen is back with another short film but unlike Frozen Fever or even Olaf's Frozen Adventure this film isn't set after the first film but is set during the first film. I fully admit I was skeptical about the premise behind this short film just because there's not alot they can really do in terms of story or suspense but none the less I was looking forward to seeing what the makers behind this short film would pull off and so here is my review of the new Disney + Frozen short film called "Once Upon A Snowman" enjoy the review.

There is no real plot to this short film with the basic premise for the film being just after Olaf is created during the "Let It Go" musical number from the first film Olaf then sets out to find his true meaning. That's honestly it in terms of plot which I kind of suspected would be the case since this is only a short film but even so the story is at best weak but it is still a fun little story to see being played out even if the story and this short film are pointless since we already know how things are going to end due to this short film being set during the first film.

Now this goes without saying but all of the main actors from the first two Frozen films are reprising their roles in this short film. As such I won't bother to separate any new actors from the returning actors since there are no new actors in this short film and so starring in this short film is Josh Gad as Olaf , Kristen Bell as Anna , Idina Menzel as Elsa , Jonathan Groff as Kristoff , Frank Welker as Sven and Chris Williams as Oaken.

Since every actor apart from Josh Gad and Chris Williams appear pretty in archive audio from the first film in the Frozen franchise which is called Frozen (duh) it would be pointless for me to judge those performances. However I can judge the performances of both Josh Gad and Chris Williams since they appear in new scenes and there acting is honestly pretty much what I expected which was passable since it's clear that both actors are having fun playing these characters in this short film the script still doesn't give them alot to work with and so they can only turn in a passable performance to due to the script being pretty bad.

Now I cannot find who did the animation for this short film but the closest company I could was for obvious reasons Walt Disney Animation Studios. Walt Disney Animation Studios might not be the company did the animation for this short film tho but they are the closest company I could find so make of it what you will. As for what I thought about the animation it was honestly a lot better then it had any right to be no one would have blamed Walt Disney Animation Studios slightly OK animation since it's only a short film that will be forgotten about ten minuets after it's watched but nope they actually gave this short film some really good animation which I honestly wasn't expecting to be the case at all and i'm glad that they did give this film good animation since the Frozen feature films are known for having great looking animation and so that should also be the case for any Frozen short film at least in my opinion it should be the case anyways.

As mentioned this short film takes place during and slightly after the "Let It Go" musical number from Frozen. Which to me is a pointless thing to do because we already know how the story is going to end because of the fact that all of the characters debut in Frozen if anything it would have worked to this short film's advantage if it was set after Frozen 2 since then anything could happen and nothing would be predictable but that makes to much sense.

This short film does answer some questions like why does Olaf like summer and how he remembered his name. Which I have to admit is a great reason to make this short film but if that was the only reason to make this short film then I have to ask why bother making it since those two things could have been included in either of the first two Frozen films ort Frozen Fever or Olaf's Frozen Adventure they didn't need a whole short film just dedicated to answering those two questions.

Honestly there's no point in me making this a spoiler free review since like i've said this takes place during the "Let It Go"musical sequence from the first film. As such it should come as no surprise that the film ends with Olaf seeing Anna and Kristoff while they are on there way to save Elsa which honestly isn't how I personally would have ended the film I would have ended this short film with Olaf meeting Anna and Kristoff and joining them to save Elsa but the ending here works as well since it's a kind of sweet moment.

When I say this is a short film I mean it it's only seven minuets and thirty five seconds long so you could watch this short film and still have plenty of time wot write up your opinions on the short film (hrmm that sounds familiar nah lol) that's if you want to of course. I personally liked this running time since there's not really alot that they can do in terms of the story since we already know how it's going to end and so making it a short film honestly makes the most sense to me plus this short film doesn't have alot of story for anything longer then the seven and a half minuet running time anyways and so anything longer then that would just be filled with scenes that are filler and nothing more.

Now then boys and girls since this is still a comedy that does mean that we have to talk about the jokes that are in this short film. Which is honestly where this short film succeeds the most since Josh Gad is freaking hilarious in this short film as Olaf the character of Olaf gets so many funny lines and Josh Gad just makes them work yes alot of the jokes in this short film are aimed at little kids but that doesn't mean that adult fans won't find some of these jokes funny either.

Overall this is a passable short film but at the same time it's something that little kids will find both enjoyable and entertaining. I really can't be to hard on this short film since it is made with little kids in mind but at the same time the issues that I had with the film are very fundamental issues and are ones that the makers of this short film should have taken into account when making this short film as such this short film gets a 6 out of 10 from me. As for where I got the images that I used in this review well I got them from both the official Disney fandom wiki page and Google Image with my preferred choice of website to use for images being the official Disney fandom wiki page just because the images there are more higher quality then the ones found in Google Images.

 

 

Unikitty TV Series "Spoooooky Game" Review

 

Cartoon fans you might not know this but when the first Lego Movie first came out I loved the character of Unikitty so much so that I was happy when it was announced that she was getting her own animated TV show. As such I thought that it was about time that I take a look at the very first episode to air from the show which since we are a little over a week until Halloween arrives it's only fitting that the first episode to air was a halloween episode and so here is my review of the first to air from the Unikitty TV series with the episode being called "Spoooooky Game" enjoy the review.

The plot of the episode is Unikitty and her friends get a spooky game also called Spooky Game to play for game night but when they are all transported inside the game they have to complete the game in order to escape with the loses being trapped in the game forever. Yeah to say that the main plot of this episodes sounds alot like Jumanji would be a huge understatement but with that said for a ten nearly eleven minuet cartoon the story was decent and pretty goofy but in a good way since this show is known for it's goofy stories and so it makes sense that the first episode to air for this show feature a pretty goofy plot and not one that took itself far to seriously.

Starring in the episode is Voice acting great Tara Strong as Unikitty , Grey Griffin as Puppycorn and Roger Craig Smith as Hawkodile , Richard and The Sore Creeper. Also starring in the episode are Kate Micucci as Dr. Fox and that's it for who's in this episode I honestly admit that I thought that there was a long cast list for this episode and so to see the cast list for the episode is pretty small is honestly refreshing to see in my opinion.

In terms of what I thought about the acting in the episode given that alot of the actors and by alot I mean all of the actors in this episode are great voice actors it should come as no surprise that the voice acting in this episode is really good. All of the actors in this episode I feel are generally having a fun time recording the episode just because they get to be silly and goofy and it really does show in there performances as such you get sucked in by how much fun the actors are having recording there lines and in the end you yourself have alot of fun just listening to the voice actors as well as watching the actual episode itself.

Doing the animation not only for this episode but for the show as a whole is Snipple Animation don't worry if you haven't heard of them because I haven't heard of them either. Which is most likely a good thing since the animation in this episode really isn't that good but it's also not that bad either. The main issue that I have with the animation is that the characters designs don't really allow for that many expressions and so alot of the time the characters just have these blank expressions on there faces and you the viewer are struggling to work out what kind of emotion there expressing.

This is the issue that you have when you design your characters to look like they were made out of Lego since Lego bricks don't have any expressions. As such I do feel that the team behind this show should have changed the designs of the characters just so they could get more expressions out of them. Not helping things is the fact that due to the characters designs all of the movements feel weird which for a fantasy show like this is the right approach but the same time the animation on the characters still has to look good and the movements have to make some kind of sense in the world of the show or even to the people watching the show.

One of the things that really bugged me about this episode is the fact The Sore Creeper has Unikitty , Puppycorn , Dr. Fox and Hawkodile race through a corn maze and yet the makers of the show have Unikitty flying. As such Unikitty could very easily have won that competition due to the fact that's she flying and all the others are running honestly if the show makers wanted to make the games seem more fair then they should have had Unikitty running throughout the whole game and not just the final two portions of the game.

I will give the episode this it can get pretty creative at times i'm not going to say when those times are but if you've seen the episode then you'll know exactly what I mean and yes one of those times is the ending. To me the ending twist is something that you would see in a decent episode of the 1959 TV series version of The Twilight Zone because it is that well done even for a kids animated TV show and it's a twist that I honestly never saw coming.

As mentioned this episode is ten nearly eleven minuets long hell it's so close to being eleven minuets that you might as well say it's eleven minuets since the official running time is ten minuets and fifty nine seconds. Which I feel is just the right amount of time for this episode since there's not really enough story to cover anything longer then that eleven minuet running time and if they did go for anything longer then that then you know it would just be used as filler for the episode and would add nothing to the actual story of the episode.

Now then since this an animated show that's quite clearly aimed at little kids I have to assume that it's meant to be a comedy which means that I have to talk about the jokes that are in the show. To which I can't really be that hard on the show for it's lack of jokes since like I just said the show is aimed at little kids and so even tho I personally didn't find the episode to be that funny chances are the kid target audience might have found the show to be hilarious.

Overall I can't really be that hard on the show since like i've said it's a show made with little kids in mind and so I feel that they would get more enjoyment out of it. That being said tho this is a pretty average show and it's such a shame that the show got cancelled since this show is honestly a really fun show and this episode is a great example of that fact as such tho this episode gets a 5.5 out of 10 from me.

All of the images that I used in this review were gathered from either Google Images or the official Unikitty TV Series fandom wiki page. Since I got the vast majority of the images from the official Unikitty TV series fandom wiki page I have no choice but to recommend that you use the official Unikitty TV series fandom wiki page since not only are the images on the official Unikitty TV series fandom wiki page really high quality which for me at least is a very important thing when creating a review there's also a lot more verity of images from all of the episodes.

 

 

My First Impressions Of The Helstrom TV Series

 

Ladies and gentlemen we are in a time where there are alot of comic book adaptations be they happening on film or TV. Well now there's a new comic book adaptation on the loose and since there are no new comic book adaptations coming out until at least next year you just no that I had to take a look at this one just because it's new content and in a year where new content is hard to come across we have to take it where we can and so here are my first impressions of the Helstrom TV seires which is also called "Helstrom" enjoy this post everyone.

Now here is where I would normally tell you the plot of the episdoe as well as give you my thoughts on it. Which for me at least is a hige red flag since even debut episodes need to have some sort of story and yet this one doesn't bother to even have that which now makes me wonder if the same is going to true for the rest of this shows first season since if the debut episode doesn't have a story then what's to say that the rest of the episodes don't have a story as well.

Starring in this episode and the rest of the series is Tom Austen as Daimon Helstrom and Sydney Lemmon as Ana Helstrom. Also starring in this episode and thus the rest of the series is Elizabeth Marvel as Victoria Helstrom , Robert Wisdom as Caretaker , Ariana Guerra as Gabriella Rosetti , June Carryl as Louise Hastings and Alain Uy as Chris Yen. With some of this episodes gues stars being Jesse James Baldwin as Archer Cavallo , Daniel Cudmore as Keith Spivey , Sandy Robson as Alex Tilden and Eric Gustaffson as Edward Tate.

As for what I thought about the acting in this episode it was honestly alot better then what I was expecting it to be. Which to be fair I wasn't expecting the acting to be that good and so to see acting that's actually above passable is for me a good thing and it does give me hope that the acting in this series is at least good but given that the acting in most Marvel TV shows ranges from OK to bad I don't hold up much hope.

For those that don't know this show isn't based on any one particular comic book but is instead based on the characters of Daimon and Satana Hellstrom. I honestly have no idea what books these characters have appeared in nor do I want to find out what the books that these characters have appeared are like just because I want this show to standout on it's own since it's rare as hell to find a comic book show that isn't based of a comic book series.

This was the last show to be made by Marvel Television who produced every single live action Marvel TV show upuntil this point. Since from Wandavision onwards each TV show will now be produced by Marvel Studios and thus each of those live action TV shows will officialy be canon in the realm of the Marvel Cinematic Universe and it also means that each of these shows are going to have big budgets since cheap Ike Puearlmutter won't be controlling any of those shows thank freaking goodness.

This is as far as I can tell the first TV show (be it live action or animated) that Marvel have produced however I could be wrong when I say that. I will say that it was brave of Marvel to take on the world of horror since horror fans are the most obssesive fans I can think of and i'm saying that as a horror fan as such I do feel that it would have been very easy for Marvel not to lean on the horror aspect of this show to much.

Now then boys and girls since there is a horror element to this show that does mean that I have to talk about the scares in this episode. I honestly feel that the scares were pretty decent at best which was honestly alot better then what I was expecting them to be to be honest since i was going into this episode expecting the scares to be the typical supernatural jump scares which yeah there are some of those scares but then there are some really cool deaths and gore as well which for me makes all the difference.

I'll be honest another red flag for me is that I found this episode to be pretty freaking boring at times which is not a good thing. Part of what makes it boring is the fact that the episode has no plot to speak of and so all your left doing is counting down the minuets until something happens which really doesn't help things because very little actually happens in this episode and so your just waiting for something that's never going to happen.

This episode was fifty five minuets long which for me at least was a bit of an issue for the exact same reason as to why I found the episode boring. To me there was no need to make the episodes for this show an hour long esoically since your debut episode doesn't have a plot and so I honstly feel that this episode should have been at least twenty minuets if not thirty minuets since at least then the episode would be over pretty quickly and the episode wouldn't drag for large amounts of time because that also happens and it happens alot in this episode.

Overall in terms of debut episodes this one was really freaking since it only fails to do all of things that a debut episdoe should do in my opinion. It also fails to be entertaining and while it does have a few good things in this episode episode which i've covered in this post it also has alot more bad things in the episdoe which just like the good things i've covered in this post and since this is only my first impressions of the show I won't give the episode or show a rating just because the show could get better in later episodes and it wouldn't be fair of me to judge an entire show just of the first episode alone and i'll only watch the rest of the series if I hear enough good thing about the show.

All of the images that I used in this review were gathered from the official Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom wiki page or Google Images. It honestly doesn't matter where you get the images for this episode from since there are both the same in terms of quality but I will give an ever so slight edge to Google Images just because they have more images from the episode and the show as a whole where as the official Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom wiki page doesn't have that many or at least from I found the official Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom wiki page doesn't have that many images from either this episode or the Helstrom TV show as a whole.

Batman "Joker's Favor" Review

 

Ladies and gents it's been about two maybe three months since I last talked about an episdoe from the classic animated series Batman: The Animated Series. It's also been about a month since I last talked about anything featuring the character of Harley Quinn as such I thought that i'd take a look at a very important episode for the Harley Quinn character because without this episode there would be no Harley Quinn and so here is my revuew of the first ever episode to feature Harley Quinn "Joker's Favor" which as i've mentioned is from the classic Batman animated series called Batman: The Animated Series. enjoy the review everyone because trust me this is a good episode.

The plot of the episode is that Charlie Collins a normal everyday guy cusses out The Joker and when The Joker threatnes to kill Charlie Charlie then says he will do The Joker a favour and a few years later The Joker has come to collect on that favour which Batman must stop before something deadly happens. Plot wise the episode isn't the strongest since the plot is at best fairly average but with that being said the story itself is still so good and it's so much fun seeing this rather odd story play out on screen.

Starring in the episode is Kevin Conroy as Bruce Wayne / Batman and Bob Hastings as Commissioner Gordon. Also starring in the episode is Robert Costanzo as Harvey Bullock , Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. as Alfred , The Always Great Mark Hamill as The Joker , Ed Begley Jr. as Charlie Collins and Arleen Sorkin as The And Only Harley Quinn. There really aren't that many actors in this episode infact every actor that i've listed in this review are the only actors that appear in this episode.

As for what I thought about the acting in the episode it should really come as no surprise to anyone who has seen any of my previews review on Batman: The Animated Series that I think the acting in this episode is so freaking good. All of the actors in this episode do such a good job portraying there respective characters even Arleen Sorkin who has basiucally had to create the sound for Harley Quinn does such a good portraying her even tho Harley Quinn isn't on screen for a very long time.

The animation for this episode was done by Dong Yang Animation Co., Ltd. and I have no idea who they are or what they've worked on for that matter. Which is a shame because like alot of the episode in Batman: The Animated Series the animation is fo freaking good i'm not going to say that it's the best animation that's in this series but it's not the worst either it does enough to leave an impression on you and nothing more which for me is a good thing.

Like I said before this episode marks the first appearence in any media for one Harley Quinn which means without this episode we wouldn't have all the Harley Quinn stories that we love , Margot Robbie wouldn't be playing Harley Quinn in any DC Extended Universe films and the Harley Quinn animated TV show wouldn't be a thing. So if you love Harley Quinn then you owe thanks to this episode and Paul Dini and Bruce Timm for creating her.

In a rather odd move Batman isnt this episode alot despite the show bareing his name infact he only appears in the third act of the episode and even then he isn't on screen very much. In fact alot of the episdoe is spent with either The Joker (Mark Hamill) or with his unwilling accomplice Charlie Collins (Ed Begley Jr.) as such the episode becomes more of a dark comedy as we see Charlie struggle to deal with The Joker's own form of dark jokes which to me makes the episode more interesting since if Batman was in this episode alot more then it would feel like just another episode of Batman: The Animated Series this way the episode gets to do something new and something different with it's characters whilst at the same time still being a comic book animated TV show.

Despite this episode being the debut story for Harley Quinn (Arless Sorkin) just like with Batman (Kevin COnroy) she's actually not featured in the episode that much. Infact she's only on screen in a very small handful of scenes and yet at the same time she's leaves a lasting impact which just goes to show that this character was born to be one of the best things to come from Batman: The Animated Series or at least I think so anyways.

Hell in this episode instead of being treated like a co-villain with The Joker she's instead treated more like henchmen / henchwoman and not one that's high up in the ranks either. This just goes to show you how far the writers would later develop this character since she goes on to become the main love interest of The Joker as well as well being one of Batman's more unoredictable foes and all of this started because of this one story.

Now then for me at least one of the more interesting parts of the episode is the fact that near the end of the episode we see our boy Charlie threaten to kill The Joker using one of his bombs. Of course the bomb is filled with confetti but just that idea alone the idea that one mad when he's finally had enough is willing to sink to the same depths as The Joker to me says that anyone can become someone like The Joker when they've finally had enough and they finally snap.

Now then since this is an action show and there is action in this episode that does mean that I have to talk about the action that's in the episode itself. Which sadly like the plot is one of the episodes more weaker elements since there isn't that much action in this episode with the only action set peiece taking place near the end of the episode that ending action set peiece is mostly played for laughs and as such any drama that could have been built up is now lost but it is still pretty entertaining action tho which is for me at least a good if not great thing.

Overall this was a really good episode and is honestly a pretty solid debut episode for Harley Quinn since she is really entertaining in this episode. That being said in terms of the show this isn't the strongest of episodes i've covered the reasons as to why I think that this episode isn't that strong in many ways but at the same time if your a die hard Harley Quinn fan be it from whatever piece of media you've seen the character in then this episdoe is a must watch as for what rating I give the episode it gets an 8.5 out of 10 from me.

All of the images that I used in this review were gathered from either the official Batman fandom wiki page , the official Batman: The Animated Series fandom wiki page or the official DC Extended Universe fandom wiki page. For once I cannot say were it's best to get omages from this episode from just because even tho the official Batman: The Animated Series fandom wiki page has a lot verity of images there not all high definition but the poster which I got from the official Batman fandom wiki page is very high deifnition so I  say use whichever website you want to use for images from either Batman: The Animated Series or this episode which as said before is called Joker's Favor. 

Castlevania Season One Review

 

Ladies ans gents I make it no secret that i'm huge fan of the Castlevania animated series and well I thought that i'd do something that i've not done in a while and that's take a look at an entire animated series. Ths one is honestly the best one to do this kind of review with since this first season is only four episodes and so it doesn't take that much time to watch all four episdoes and so here is my review of the first season of "Castlevania" enjoy the review everyone.

The plot of this first season is Trevor Belmont from the legandary monster hunting Belmont family is tasked with protecting the city of Gresit from hordes of creatures unleashed by Dracula as revenge for some people killing his wife and is part of his plan to whipe out the entire human race. I have to admit the plot for this first season is so good and is engaging I honestly think that the plot is one of this seasons strongeest suits which is really saying something since this is not only a really good show but this season is also really good as well.

Starring in this season of the show is Richard Armitage as Trevor Belmont and Tony Amendola as The Elder. Also starring in this first season of the show is Matt Frewer as The Bishop , Alejandra Reynoso as Sypha Belnades , James Callis as Alucard , Fred Tatasciore as Blue Fangs , Timothy Omundson as Stave Priest , Emily Swallow as Lisa Tepes , Moira Quirk as Djuvara , Jonathan Lipow as Bosha and Graham McTavish as Count Dracula.

The acting in the show just like the plot is so freaking good all of the characters in my opinion are cast freaking perfetly. Part of what makes me say that is the fact that the scripts are so good and the scripts give the actors alot to work with in terms of character and the character's personality as such all the actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance would come out naturelly.

Doing the animation for this season is Powerhouse Animation Studios who have worked on things ranging from OK KO! Lets Be Heroes to the upcoming Blood of Zeus and the upcoming Masters of the Universe: Revelation. To say the animation is good would be like saying Avengers: Endgame or Joker are good movies no duh because every single frame of animation in this first season leaps of the screen and is so full of life.

This show takes on an anime inspired look which is actually becoming more and more popular but be rest assured this show is American produced in every single way. Hell I doubt that alot of the epopel who watched this show the first time knew that they were watching an actual cartoon because everything about the show is so mature that they most likly thought that they watching an anime because there not used to seeing an American made cartoon be this mature.

I'm not kidding when I say that this first season is really short because it's only four episodes long and each episdoe is around twenty five minuets long. So you could watch all four episodes in under two hours if you really wanted which is a shame because this show is so good that I honestly wanted there to be more episodes just so I had more content to watch in this first season but they most likely didn't have the story to cover more episodes in this solid first season.

In what I think is a rather strange move the makers of this show chose to have Dracular only appear in the first episode of the show and even then he is the main character of the first episode. I don't honestly get why they did this since Dracular at least for the first two seasons of this show is meant to be the main villain and so wouldn't it have made more sense to feature him in more episodes this way we can see how many people he's killed and thus we can fully understand what kind of a threat he really is to this small citry and our heroes.

One of my issues with this first season is that none of the characters main characters or not get any kind of character development. Which while I do understand why that's the case since this season is basically a prequel to the games it is still something that should have happened since they have this story that kind of demands that some characters go through some form of characters development and yet the makers of the show chose not to give the characters any kind of development whatsoever which is always a bad thing in my opinion.

When I say that this show is violent I really do meant and when I say that this show is not for kids I really , really , really mean it. Since yeah this first season is so freaking gory take for example whenever you see someone get ripped in half you see there insides in full on gory fashion on top of that there's a ton of swearing in everysingle episode and so if you have little kids or nicese or nephews do not show them this show it will scar them for sure lol.

Since this is an action show that does mean that I have to talk about the action that's in this first season of the show. Which i'm not going to lie is freaking cool and is where the animation truly excels in my opinion since every action scene in this first season no matter how short it is leaps of the screen and you feel every single punch as well and helping things is the fact that the action isn't just "see who can hit who the hardest" you see our heroes use there skills in various different ways and because if that the action is never boring.

Overall not only is this first season reallyu freaking good but it also holds up really freaking well in my opinion. Yes there are some issues in this first season and I have talked about those issues but in this review but for me this show is well written , well acted and most importantly well animated and is honestly a really good show to show people who say animation is just foir kids as such this first season gets an 8.5 out 10 from me.

All of the images that I used in this were gathered from either Google Images or the official Castlevania fandom wiki page. I have to say that even tho the official Castlevania fandom wiki page doesn't have that many images up for this show as far as I can tell the images that they do have are really high quality as such I have no other choice but to recommend that you use the official Castlevania fandom wiki page if you want images either this season , this show or the Castlevania franchise as a whole and yes I might be covering Castlevania Season 2 but we'll see.