X-Men fans as some of you may know i've just reviewed the very first X-Men movie and well I thought that i'd keep this X train rolling only with something that has a kicka*s theme song. I make it no secret that I think that in terms of animation the nineties was the best era for comic book TV shows just think of the shows that we had we had "Spider-Man: The Animated Series" , "Batman: The Animated Series" "Superman: The Animated Series" and the show whose first two episodes i'm taking a look at today"X-Men: The Animated Series" and so here is my review of the first two episodes "Night Of The Sentinels Parts 1 And 2" enjoy.
The plot of these two episodes is new mutant named Jubilee finds her world is turned upside down when she finds out she's a mutant and her foster parents turn her over for Mutant Registration scared and alone she runs head first into the world of the X-Men. I'm not going to lie plot wise this two parter pretty freaking solid and i'm glad that it was a two part story because there is no way in hell you could have told a story like this in one episode hell they could barely do it in a two and a half hour movie that's how epic this story is in my opinion.
Starring in these episodes are Cedric Smith as Professor Charles Xavier/Professor X and Norm Spencer as Scott Summers/Cyclops. Also starring in the episodes are Cal Dodd as Logan/Wolverine and Pool Thug , Iona Morris as Ororo Munroe/Storm , Catherine Disher as Jean Grey , George Buza as Hank McCoy/Beast , Lenore Zann as Rogue , Chris Potter as Remy LeBeau/Gambit , Alyson Court as Jubilation Lee/Jubilee , Ron Rubin as Morph , Len Carlson as Robert Kelly and Jubilee's Foster Father , David Fox as The Sentinels and Brett Halsey as Bolivar Trask.
In terms of what I thought about the acting in these two episodes if i'm being really honest it wasn't that good. That doesn't mean it was bad because it wasn't but at the same time it's not as good as it perhaps could have been which is slightly understandable since these episode were the first two produced I believe and so it makes sense that the acting isn't that good since the actors are still getting used to each other but if I recall the acting does get better in later episodes.
Doing the animation for not only this two parter but for the rest of the series is Akom who mainly did animation for Animaniacs and Arthur. Now I want it known that i'm not going to mention the fact that there are alot of animation errors or that Akom turned in alot of the animation very late because honestly that wouldn't effect the overall quality of the animation in my which I feel is really high yes there are a lot of animation errors in the first episode but there not as bad as the one's seen in the 2016 Powerpuff Girls reboot and there are alot of really fluid movements in these two episodes as well it's so in my opinion the animation is really solid.
Without this show being as good as it was and these two episodes being as good as they are I don't feel that we wouldn't have got the first X-Men movie. Simply because Marvel wasn't in a good place when this show first started out and so they wouldn't have been able to convince any studio small or large to make a movie based on these characters but because the show was a success and these two episodes are really good it would only have been a matter of time before we saw a live action film version of the characters.
I'm just going to come right out and say it Morph was the most pointless character in this two parter his only goal in these two episodes is to die and that's it. He's just there so the team can find out how dangerous there current mission is and that doesn't make the character good , interesting or funny it just makes him pointless hell you could cut this character out of the show and nothing would be lost whatsoever that's how pointless he is.
Things do get a little bit better with the character of Jubilee as played by Alyson Court since this character isn't annoying as hell. True she doesn't add anything to the plot other then being someone for the X-Men to rescue but she's at least pleasant to watch which trust me is more then what I can say Morph who made me want to turn the episodes of every single time he was on screen with his annoying as hell laugh.
Out of the main X-Men there are perhaps two women that I think every guy and some girls had a crush on growing up those being Rogue and Storm and yeah it's not hard to see why. Since both characters kick a*s in these two episodes and they both looking stunning as hell both in and out of there costumes I honestly wouldn't have minded if these two episode were just about these two characters because I loved seeing them fighting giant robots on screen.
Another thing that I didn't like about these two episodes and it's the same thing that i didn't like about the first movie. It's that not alot of the team is given a chance to shine whereas in the movie you can't really forgive them for that because they had a longer running time you can forgive them here since combined they would have had at least forty five minuets which just isn't enough to give all of the characters a chance to introduce themselves and a reason as to why we should care about them but that's what the other episodes are for.
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 the show itself. Which for a nineties kids animated TV show it was honestly really good you get to see alot of the team use there powers which in my opinion is always a good thing and you get to see some really cool looking action scenes because of the fact that you get to see alot of the team using there powers.
Overall these honestly were a really good pair of episodes and our a great way to start of this great show. That being said however these two episode do have alot of issues in them and these issues were for me at least hard to ignore it doesn't make the episodes any less enjoyable but they are very noticeable in my opinion as such combined these episodes get an 8.5 out of 10 from me and if you guys want to review more episodes from this show let me know.
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