It was weirdly not an uncommon thing for popular live action properties in the nineteen eighties to get an animated TV series spin off. However what alot of things have in common is the fact that the original property was wither made for kids or made for the whole family but for some weird reason it become oddly popular to make a kids cartoon series based of off mature rated films as is the case with what i'm going to be talking about today and so then join me as I review of the first episode of a show that even franchise star Sylvester Stallone didn't like with the episode in question being called simply just "First Strike" enjoy.
The plot of this episode is that when an evil general tries to invade a peace loving country it's really up John Rambo and his team to get the general out of their and really put a stop to the invasion for good. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in al honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad with the plot being alot better then what I thought that it would be with this episodes plot also being rather really enjoyable and fun in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in this episode is Neil Ross as John Rambo Michael Ansara as General Warhawk and The Fresh Prince Of Bel-Air and Teenage Mutant Nina Turtles star star James Avery as Edward "Turbo" Hayes. Also starring in this episode is Transformers legend Peter Cullen as Sergeant Havoc , Don LaFontaine as This Shows Narrator , Mona Marshall as Katherine Anne "K.A.T." Taylor , He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe star Alan Oppenheimer as Colonel Samuel "Sam" Trautman and Scrappy-Doo actor Lennie Weinrib as Gripper.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. With the acting in this episode being exactly what I thought that it was going to be and that was nothing more then just OK with this episode featuring alot of really good actors ad actresses all of of whom are trying to make this idea and this script work for them but the issue is is that the idea is so dumb and the script is so bad that they just can''t turn in that good of a performance as the script just won't allow for it.
Doing the animation for this show and i'm guessing this episode is Daewon Media and the legends and the greats that are currently over at Toei Animation. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty alot better then what it really had any right as while the animation in this episode doesn't hold up all that well given just how lazy that they really could have been the fact that the we got animation has alot of really creative camera angles and is really impressive is quite an impressive feat none the less.
For some strange reason Hollywood thought that it was a really good idea turning the R rated First Blood movie into a kids cartoon. Which means that the more mature elements of both the film it's first sequel and the book that both the film and the sequel are based of off don't get included in this episode which means that you really could have named this show anything else and you'd have to change nothing as there's really nothing that resembles Rambo in this episode hell with this show really kicking of the trend of turning R rated movies into child friendly kids animated TV shows i'm surprised that they didn't try to turn Die Hard into a kids animated TV show.
If your like me and you didn't even know that this show was even a thing this is a show that aired in syndication. With the show starting with a five part mini-series which sired daily from April 14th to April 18th 1986 and the shows full length series airing from September 15th 1986 and airing daily until December 18th 1986 why the makers of this show chose to air this show daily is beyond me as this show apart from the mini-series is very episodic and so they really could have aired this show weekly which would have given the show more of a chance to find an audience but as it is the show pretty much got alot of hate from the people making the show as they were concerned about making an R rated movie into a kids cartoon series and even the star of the franchise Sylvester Stallone was reportedly really annoyed and really embarrassed that the Rambo character was used as a cartoon character.
What I really didn't like abut this episode was the fact that they made Rambo out to be this unstoppable action hero and yet none of the main heroes got alot, of screen time. This would be fine if this was a Rambo solo show but it's not it's meant to be Rambo as part of a team and so the team needs to be fully developed and yet they don't do that which means that the rest of the team just come across as being rather bland and one dimensional with the same thing also being true for Rambo himself who is given one personality trait of none stop action hero and that's it and that's not enough to make him an interesting character and it doesn't make his team interesting characters either it makes them all really bland and boring characters and really nothing more then that.
Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty one minuets and thirty eight seconds. Which was a really good running time to give this episode as this episode is mostly just about setting up the plot of the mini-series but at the same time I would have liked it if the episode was a bit longer just so some of the other main characters could get some development which would have helped the show out in the long as it would have gave us more characters t care about then just Rambo and it would have given the show makers a chance to gave Rambo more of a personality as well instead of just rushing from plot to plot point and I will admit that this episode does have some fairly good pacing to i tho.
So now then since this is an action show that means that I have to actually talk abut the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actual;y featured /presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With the action in this episode being the best part of the episode as it was where the episode got the most fun ad got the most crazy but at the same time as the plot of the episode was so thin it meant that I just didn't care about the action in the episode despite the action in this episode being really good and really impressive to watch in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Overall while the idea of turning an R rated movie franchise into a kids animated TV series will always confuse me this was a really fun episode that was just a joy to watch in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that means that this very episode earns itself a rand old score of exactly a 6.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys ad girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Legends Of The Multi-Verse fandom wiki page , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website that I personally preferred to use to get the images that I personally used in this very review being the wonderful Google Images as since all of the images that are all currently up and of course featured / presented to us on the great Google Images are all really fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.