Animation fans even tho i've covered alot of superhero movies and TV shows one of the shows that i've never covered is Teen Titans Go!. Well I thought that it was about time that that comes to an end and with six seasons with i'm guessing nearly three hundred episodes there was a lot of episodes to choose from some good and some bad and well I chose what I think to be a pretty good episode and so join me as I review the Teen Titans Go! episode called "Truth, Justice and What?" and so enjoy the review everyone.
The plot to this episode is that after Robin puts and lifts a pizza ban after the titans go wild eating to much pizza after a successful fight they find that all of the pizza in the world has been stolen and so it's it's to the titans to get the world's supply of pizza back. Yes this plot is honestly pretty silly but given the show that it's attached to what else do you expect and to be fair the story was rather simple and was very easy to follow or at least I think it was anyways.
Starring in the episode is Scott Menville as Robin and Donatello , Khary Payton as Cyborg and Hynden Walch as Starfire. Also starring in the episode is Tara Strong as Raven and Greg Cipes as Beast Boy and Michelangelo , yeah i'mm not going to lie it's weird as hell seeing other comic book characters appear in this show and trust me I will get more into this later on in the review just due to how weird and bizarre as well as out of nowhere the appearance by the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles truly is in my opinion.
As for what I thought about the acting in the episode given how talented the voice cast for this show it should come as no surprise to learn that I actually liked the acting in this episode. Like I said the voice cast for this show is super talented and that's something that even people who don't like the show have to admit and so to hear them go from serious to goofy and back to serious like they do in this episode is for me a truly fun thing to see and it's something is very hard to do even more so if what was just said was really funny since then you have to hold the laughter in.
For once not only can I not find out who did the animation for this episode but I cannot find who did the animation for the actual show. Which is a shame because while the show does rather rightfully get alot of hate for it's animation this is one of the better animated episodes in my opinion since the animation is very smooth and fluid at times and from what I could tell there were no animation errors which for this show is always a plus if you ask me that is.
Yeah this episode is technically a crossover episode since even tho they are not mentioned by name and they look alot different it features characters that are so obviously meant to be the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. These knockoffs are so obviously meant to be the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles i'm actually shocked that Warner Bros who are the makers of Teen Titans Go! actually got away with including them in this episode since all they did was change up there design a little bit and not mention there names so Paramount / Viacom could if they wanted sue Warner Bros since it's infringing on there property.
Not enough was really changed about these knockoff characters to really get away with using them since the characteristics are still the same. Hell they even use the same weapons as the actual Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles so for all intense purposes they are the same characters and thus not characters that are owned by either Warner Bros or DC which means that Viacom should they so choose of course sue either company for using there characters without there freaking permission.
I will admit that the way they brought these two groups together to me felt a little forced since they don't explain how the two groups fully know each other even tho they do have a scene very early on in the episode with Robin talking to one of the turtles. They also don't explain how Robin knows where the turtles live , what there password to there secret lair or how the rest of the titans don't know of the turtles these are all things that really needed explaining but due to the episodes only being around ten to fifteen minuets long they don't do explain any of it because they have to hit all of these plot points at a fast pace.
This sadly means that characters cannot be fully developed or the story cannot be developed fully either which is a shame because the story for this episode could have been really good if it was fully developed. It also means that we don't get to see the turtles steal all of the world's pizza which I thought was a really funny idea and is something that could have been a great idea if it was in a slightly longer episode.
Now then since this show is more of a comedy then it is an action show that does mean that I have to talk about the jokes that are in this episode. I honestly feel that the jokes in this episode were fairly funny i'm not going to say that they got a huge laugh out of me because i'd be lieing but for a kids show or a show aimed at kids the jokes in this episode were fairly funny hell even the idea that the titans use a kind of Popeye type of method in the final fight with the turtles is honestly pretty funny and at the same time pretty bada*s.
Overall while I cannot say that this is a great episode I can say that for this show this is a pretty solid episode in my opinion. That doesn't mean that it's perfect because it's honestly not and hell i've listed some of the things that I found wrong with the episode in this very review and i'm sure many of you will tell me many more things that are wrong with this episode as such the episode gets a 5 out of 10 from me.
All of the images that I used in this review were gathered from either the official Teen Titans Go! fandom wiki page or Google Images. Since the overall majority of the images that I used for this review came from the official Teen Titans Go! fandom wiki page I have no choice but t recommend that you guys use the official Teen Titans Go! fandom wiki page for images from either the show , this episode or the Teen Titans Go! franchise since alot of the images are really high definition and are thus really high quality or at least I think they are really high quality.