Well I said that i'd be taking a look at another Disney produced Marvel animated show and i'm a man of my word so here we are. I'll be freaking honest out of all the animated shows that Marvel have done for Disney this is the one that I watched the least simply because it just didn't seem that interesting to me and while I have seen the first first two episodes before now i've never reviewed them and so here is my review of the first two episode of Hulk And The Agents Of Smash called "Doorway to Destruction" so enjoy the review everyone.
The plot of the two parter is Annihilus opens up a portal from space over a town in New Mexico the problem is that's where Hulk lives and so the two are set on a collision cause with the fate of the whole world at stake. I do realise that I most likely undersold these episodes but I do feel that the story is honestly pretty good and is the kind of story one would expect from the first two episodes of a Disney produced Marvel animated show.
Starring in these two episodes are Fred Tatasciore as Bruce Banner / Hulk and Clancy Brown as Red Hulk / General Ross. Also starring in these episodes are Robot Chicken co-creator Seth Green as Rick Jones / A-Bomb , Ben Diskin as Skaar , Robin Atkin Downes as Annihilus , J.K. Simmons as J. Jonah Jameson , Eliza Dushku as Jennifer Walters / She-Hulk and the always great James Arnold Taylor as The Leader / TV Director.
In terms of what about the acting in these two episodes it was honestly alot better then what I thought it was going to be. However at the same time it's not as good as it perhaps could have been given whose in the main cast but with that said the actors do a solid job with returning Hulk favourite Fred Tatasciore being a pure joy to listen to and Seth Green is always enjoyable and the same is true for these two episodes but what let's the actors down is the fact that the characters either have no personality or to much personality as such alot of the actors given really over the top performances which doesn't suit either the show or the character there playing.
Doing the animation for these two episodes is DR Movie who I believe have worked on some of the Scooby-Doo direct to DVD films but I could be wrong but I know for sure they worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender and Suicide Squad: Hell To Pay. As for what I thought about there work on these two episodes it honestly wasn't that bad but the issue is the animation isn't that good either it just feels like all of the animators are just doing the bare minimum and nothing which no matter the studio or what there working on should never be the case.
Unlike pretty much all of the Disney produced Marvel animated shows at this point this one has no design that looks like it's from the movies. Which i'm so freaking glad about because not everything has to look like it's live action counterpart and plus this way the show gets a chance to stand on it's own since it won't remind people that they could be watching something alot better which is always a good thing.
Just to go back to the actors for a second I have to say that Eliza Dushku is perfectly cast as Jennifer Walters / She-Hulk. Whenever I picture Eliza playing a superhero Marvel or DC this is who I picture her playing because like She-Hulk Eliza herself is a strong badas* who looks like she could beat up anyone who disagrees with her and so having her play this tough as nails character to me is just perfect casting.
Even tho the opening two episodes for Avenger Assemble had enough story for the two parts this one I feel had enough story material for at least three parts. Since there's alot of stuff that they had to set up in episode one and just don't all of which could have made for an interesting episode but since they only made it a two parter alot of stuff that should be explained or looked into doesn't get that at all like Rick becoming a hulk type creature could have made for an interesting story and seeing how Hulk deals with what happened to his best friend could have been interesting but nope the episodes do nothing with those two ideas.
For some strange reason they made Rick Jones the comic relief character which to me just doesn't work since he's mean't to be the thing that ties Hulk back to his humanity. As such when you strip that away from the character you strip away everything that the character is and don't get me wrong Seth Green gets alot of laughs out of me in these two episodes but they come at the expense of making an generally interesting character.
Another thing that slightly bugged me is that not only did they have Hulk in his Hulk form for the entire two parter but they also have him speaking complete sentences with know reason given as to why this is the case. This is something that really should have been explained or if they did explain it then it should have been explained better since Bruce Banner is part of Hulk's life and so to explain why he's not in the series would have been great.
Now then since this is an action series that means that I have to talk about the action that's in these episodes. Which like the rest of the two parter is just average for me which is a same because seeing the Hulk smash things should be cool but there's only so many times you can see that in a single episode before it starts to get boring and sadly here it got boring fast as such I didn't find myself invested in the action that much.
Overall out of all the Disney produced animated Marvel shows that i've taken a look at this one is easily the worst one. Simply because it's just average which is a shame because it has Paul Dini writing these episodes and he helped create Batman: The Animated Series and created Harley Quinn and so it's sad to see that one of his stories just isn't that good as such these two episodes gets a combined score of a 5 out of 10 from me.
All the images that I used in this review were taken from either the official Disney fandom wiki page or the official Hulk fandom wiki page. I really cannot say where it's better to get images from either these episodes or this show since the Disney fandom wiki page doesn't have that many images and the Hulk fandom wiki page has fairly low quality images and so I have to say use whichever website you want to use since it really doesn't matter in this case.