Wednesday: Chapter I: Wednesday's Child Is Full Of Woe Review

In exactly one week from today the show that made The Addams Family more well known to the Tiktok crowd comes back. With there not only being a second series of the show but also a recently CONFIRMED third series as well it's safe to say that this show isn't going anywhere for a good long while and as such I thought that i'd go back and review the episode that started it all and so then join me as I review the episode that sees Wednesday basically join Hogwarts with the episode in question being called simply just "Chapter I: Wednesday's Child Is Full Of Woe" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when she is expelled from high school Wednesday is sent to the same school where her parents fell in love. 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 all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that he actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. As even tho it was hard to summarize just what the plot of this episode is that's more due to the streaming nature of this show and not due to the quality of the plot itself as here in this first episode all we get is what is the set up for this first series and that's it and well to bee fair in a streaming show that's really all you need as people can always just watch the next episode right away if the set up is good enough like it was here as while we do get alot of the series overall plot in this episode which was sprinkled all throughout the episode it didn't over power the main plot of this episode which was Wednesday just getting adjusted to this new school and meeting all of these new characters as instead the series overall plot and the episodes plot worked hand in hand together and while yes granted the episodes plot could have been alot more stronger as if anything the plot that was summarized could have been the basic premise of the episode as it's not that strong of plot and not really focused on that much but again it doesn't need to be as we have all of the other episodes right there to watch and while first impressions are everything this episode does leave a good enough first impressions that you can somewhat forgive it for not having the most strongest of plots with the plot of this episode also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams and Gwendoline Christie as Principal Larissa Weems. Also starring in this episode is Emma Myers as Enid Sinclair , Riki Lindhome as Dr. Valerie Kinbott , Victor Dorobantu as Thing , Jamie McShane as Sheriff Donovan Galpin , Hunter Doohan as Tyler Galpin , Percy Hynes White as Xavier Thorpe , Joy Sunday as Bianca Barclay , Georgie Farmer as Ajax Petropolus , Naomi J. Ogawa as Yoko Tanaka , Christina Ricci as Marilyn Thornhill , Luis Guzmán as Gomez Addams , Isaac Ordonez as Pugsley Addams , Iman Marson as Lucas Walker , Max Pemberton as Dalton , George Valentin Burcea as Lurch , James Clay as Ethan Hanson , Caroline Lawrie as Martha , Johnna Dias-Watson as Divina , Oliver Watson as Kent , Luyanda Unati Lewis-Nyawo as Deputy Ritchie Santiago , Calum Ross as Rowan Laslow , Cezar Grumăzescu as Coach Vlad , Simon Furness as A Farmer , Islam Bouakkaz as Carter , Morgan Beale as Jonah , Karina Varadi as Young Wednesday Addams , Daniel Himschoot as The Hyde Monster and Catherine Zeta-Jones as Morticia Addams.

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 / resented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With alot of this episodes actors turning in some really good performances in this episode and really starting to make there characters really feel there own which is something that must have been hard to do for the episodes legacy characters as each member of The Addams Family have been played by several different people over the decades and yet the actors in this episode still found a way to make them feel like making the characters their own and while yes some actors don't get as much screen time as others as quite literally every single member of The Addams Family except for both Thing and of course Wednesday get around five maybe ten minuets of screen time total and then get written out of the episode which does mean that we the audience really can't get that solid of a handle on their performances but from little of them that we see the actors playing them do do a solid job of portraying these iconic characters with of course the best actor in this whole entire episode being Jenna Ortega as Wednesday Addams as she just steals every single scene that she's in and is quite clearly just having a blast playing this character with enough actors that's having a blast in this episode being Emma Myers as Enid Sinclair as while she doesn't quite match what Jenna is doing with Wednesday Emma does make Enid seem like a very fun character and someone who is perfect to be friends with Wednesday with both actors really bringing their best work out of each other with the acting that's in this very episode really being helped by the fact that this episodes script is just so good that all this episodes actors have to do is just say the lines as hey are written and a good performances will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode.

Doing the CGI for this episode is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Agog Special Effects and Rocket Science VFX. Now then interms of what u personally thought / felt about the actual CGI 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 CGU that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad with the episode having alot of really decent looking effects shots in it however that the same time tho the episode does also contain alot of really goofy looking effects as while things like well Thing himself do look good with the same thing also being true for alot of the sky alterations that are in the episode what doesn't look all that good is The Hyde Monster as it does look a little two much like a cartoon character to be taken seriously in a live action setting this is despite the fact that the design for the character does look good and suitably creepy it just needed better quality effects to make it look actually scary and while the piranha fish that Wednesday uses at the start of the episode do look good in some shots in others that do look pretty bad but given that there only in that one scene and aren't seen every again it's forgivable the effects team didn't give them alot of attention as the episode does have alot of other effects that need there attention and therefor it's understandable that they would turn out to OK at best but at the same time tho when the next big effects heavy creature that we see is The Hyde Monster with him looking like a cartoon character it really does make you wonder why the effects team didn't put more time and money into making him look good as they quite clearly had the resources to do so but at the same time it very easily could have been a budget issues as they'd have to stretch out this shows effects budget across several other episodes.

Enid in this episode was a nice addition to the episode as she's everything that Wednesday just isn't which is what makes her a fun character. As there two characters that deep down do need each other as Wednesday wants friends and Enid just needs someone anyone outside of her family to care for her and while that doesn't mean that there infact couple as there not a couple it is something that does make them good friends even if they don't know it with the one thing that makes Enid a really annoying character it's the fact that she's a character that is so obviously meant to be the character that todays Tiktok loving generation can get behind as she talks and acts exactly like them and when you add in the fact that the episode doesn't really give her any character flaws it is something that could potentially make her a badly written character with really the only thing about her character that does seem interesting in this episode is we are told that she's a wolf that can't wolf out and while this is something that does obviously set up her character arc for this season with it even ending exactly how you think it would do it is something that could make her an interesting character as now we the audience have a character outside of Wednesday that we want to see achieve their goal no matter how small the goal is interms of the bigger picture with the only thing that could have been changed about her character from this episode being the fact that she's basically just there for the Tiktok crowd and therefor does feel out of place when she's in a scene with quite literally any member of The Addams Family as while even tho The Addams Family have always thought that being normal was to them weird it would therefor seem out of character for someone like Wednesday to talk to let alone befriend someone who in our eyes is normal when Wednesday would infact be more interested in someone who is in to the things that she's in to.

One of the thins that the episode gets wrong is the fact that it treats Wednesday as being the bad guy at the start of the episode. As while yes granted setting loose two bags full of piranha on the school swim team is a bad thing she only did that because of the act that they picked on her brother so all she was doing was standing up for Pugsley something that is in her character to do as The Addams Family is a very close knit family and so of course she would stand up for him she even says as much in the scene where she sets the piranha loose and yet for some odd Morticia and Gomez still kind of treat her like she was in the wrong for doing something that kept her brother safe from further harm and while OK granted The Addams Family never directly hurt anyone and would never directly cause harm to anyone they would still sick for of their own and they would still defend one of their own as well and while Wednesday could have found another way to get her revenge for her brother to do literally anything else would feel out of character as after all she outright caused a riot at the camp in Addams Family Values just because of the fact that she , her brother and all of the over people that the camp owners and some of the campers deemed to be weird and out of place and yet she still did it because that's in her character and yet her parents didn't punish her for that they applauded her for it and yet here while she's doing the exact same thing by defending her brother they punish her for it which makes no sense and it seems like an excuse for the makers of the shoe to get her into this school when they didn't need one as they could have started the episode with her being driven there and that's it.

For some odd reason the maker of this episode chose to have the school Nevermore Academy look pretty much how The Addams Family Mansion looked in the 1991 film. So much so that it would be forgivable if people thought that this show took place in the house as from the outside they do look the exact same and while that's not a bad thing as the house did look pretty good in that movie all it does is remind you that you could have been watching the 1991 movie and it makes you wonder if what your seeing was actually the families house or not from that movie but just reused as the school for this show and speaking of the school the idea of having a school for all of these supernatural people is a good idea as it does make sense that all of these types of characters would eventually need a school like this it just reminds of you Hogwarts as the school in the Harry Potter films and the school in this show fill the exact purpose and even have a main outside area that does look kind of similar with the only difference being in this school people have all sort of magical powers and aren't just either witches or wizards and that's it with even the school itself having alot of character to it that does make it look like a charming place almost as if it's a character in it's own right with the very idea of tieing this newly created to the Addams legacy in this case in being where Morticia and Gomez not only met but also feel madly in love with each other was a good idea as it's a good way to tie into the legacy of these characters and while the design of the school does look like the house from the 1991 movie it does also feel like something that Charles Addams himself would design as it does have this dark and almost gothic look to it that makes it perfect for the world of The Addams Family.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly fifty nine minuets and twenty seconds. Which is pretty much the exact grad total running time for all of this show as alot of this shows episodes also had a very similar running time to it as well with it being helped by the fact that this episode really does have the right amount of plot there to really cover that amount of running time as even tho this episode really doesn't use it's running time all that wisely it's also an episode that does really need to be that long due to how much plot for the season as a whole that it needs to set up including why Wednesday is even at this school in the first place and while this does come at the expense of giving the episode an actually strong plot as for a whole it does seem like Wednesday is just doing things purely for the sake of doing them and not because of the fact that it's to forward what little plot that this episode has going for it in the first place with same thing even being true for the episodes characters as well as while Wednesday Morticia and Gomez come across as being decently well done with of Wednesday being the better of the three characters none of this episodes new characters get alot of screen time to get across what there personality is alot of the time thus making them come across as being very one dimensional this is something that is only an issue because of the fact that the episode introduces so many characters all of whom will play a part in the first season of the show and yet doesn't bother in this episode to give us a reason as to why we should like them or even what there personality is in the first place with the only exception to that being of course Enid and that's really it but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a comedy that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well the in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With Wednesday and even Morticia having alot of really funny one liners in this episode episode all of which are really funny and while alot of them are basically just "the thing that the normal people like is weird to us" kind of jokes they are done so well in this episode with the episode even having alot of laugh out loud moments in it and while granted not alot of this episodes jokes are that memorable that doesn't stop them from being good with one of the episodes best jokes being when Wednesday is just hurling insults at Morticia and while she does take it on the chin Wednesday says something about not having a heart to which Morticia simply says "finally a kind word for your mother" which is such a good joke as it feels like something that the two of them would say and while Wednesday herself does get alot of dark jokes all of which are aimed at Enid the best one has to be when the statue is falling down towards her and all she's doing is thinking about how happy she'd be if she died which is a joke that her character would say and because of that alot of her jokes do oddly enough work as they all feel like something that she'd say with this episode having alot of jokes just like those two in it with nearly all of them working really well as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall while we only have to wait a week to find out if the first half of the shows second season will be any good what can be said for sure is that not only this first season of the show but also this first episode set the bar really high as this is a really good first episode that really does sets the tone for the rest of this first season as it's just that good of an episode in my freaking opinions anyways / at lest. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very episode really does ern itself a grand old score of exactly a 7.5 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 and 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 The Addams Family fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very episode that I used in this very review being the really great the official The Addams Family fandom wiki page really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very episode with alot of them being better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on the official The Addams Family fandom wiki page are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

The Muppet Show "Roger Moore" Review

It's been well over a year now since anything to do with the classic The Muppet Show has been covered and well I thought that now was the right time to delve back into the world of The Muppets. As i'm also a huge mega James Bond fan it really only made sense that the episode that I review also feature the actor who has been in the most James Bond films with this review even being one that's proven to be very difficult to get off the ground as well and so then join me as I review the episode that sees James Bond team up with Kermit The Frog with the episode in question being called simply just "Roger Moore" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is with this episodes guest star being Sir Roger Moore himself Kermit The Frog wants to make sure that this episode goes off without a hitch which includes hiring hiring real spies for the episodes final sketch. 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 all 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 as this episodes plot was a simple plot which is something that really does work for this show as thew main attraction of this show is never the plots it's always either The Muppets themselves or the sketches and having a deep thought provoking plot would get in the way of the characters just being there wonderfully chaotic themselves and the sketches as well as now they would have to fit in a deep plot which is something that you really don't need for The Muppet Show as while yes it is great that some of this shows do have plots in them there usually just something related to what's going on backstage and that's really it and that's all they need to be as here the plot of Kermit getting real spies for the episode is wonderfully absurd and as something that could only work in an episode of the show and while it would have been better if this episode did have more of an plot as the whole getting real spies was one of the more entertaining aspects of the episode it's not rally something that was needed as this episode was also pretty entertaining in it's own right with the plot of this episode also being really rather entertaining and a swell as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Starring I'm this episode is Jim Henson as Kermit The Frog , Rowlf , Villager , Waldorf , Link Hogthrob , The Newsman and The Swedish Chef and Frank Oz as Miss Piggy , Fozzie Bear and Boo Mortmorkinson. Also starring in this episode is Jerry Nelson as Pops , Lew Zealand , Louis Kazagger , Purple Spy , Viking Pigs,  Quongo and Gnu , Richard Hunt as Scooter , Janice , Statler , Bruno , Otter, and Viking Pig , Dave Goelz as Beauregard , Pink Spy , Mackerel , Baskerville , Viking Pig , Handcuff Salesman and Figurehead , Steve Whitmire as Viking Pig , Rizzo The Rat , Green Spy , Deer and Rabbit , Louise Gold as Annie Sue Pig and Villager , Kathy Mullen as Gaffer and Villager , Betsy Baytos as Singing Fish and Cow and Sir Roger Moore as Himself.

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 really good. As while of course Sir Roger Moore is really good in this episode with him playing a more debonair version of himself it's the shows regular actors that really god turn in the best performances in this episode as all of them have alot of moments that make you remember why these characters are so well beloved in the first place be it either Miss Piggy trying to flirt with Sir Roger or Scooter and Beauregard confusing Kermit's request for spies with pies there are alot of great acting to be seen in this episode which makes it all the more shocking that people just don't straight up recognize the actors in this episode as actors as they have to go through all the things that regular actors go through only these actors not only have to to invent the character but they also have to all the emotions for the character through either their voices or their own hand movements all of which comes into great effect in this episode with it being painfully hard to tell just who the best actor is in this episode as they could all make that claim but if push does indeed come to shove then it would have be either Jim Henson , Frank Oz or Sir Roger Moore as while playing a character is easy work playing a version of yourself is always going to be harder work to do and in the case of both Jim and Frank they are both just so good in this episode with the acting that's in this episode really being helped by the fact that this episodes script is just so good that all this episodes actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written that all this episodes have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of the naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode. 

Speaking of Sir Roger Moore he really was a joy to watch in this episode as while it does come across as him playing up to The Muppets. He is still quite clearly enjoying himself in this episode with even this more fictional version of him just as much char and charisma as Sir Roger himself is known to have with the only thing that let down this take on the man himself being the fact that they don't play up to the fact that he's also kind of a goofball as he was known on various James Bond film sets for pulling harmless practical jokes something which would have fit in right at home with the more chaotic nature of The Muppets and while he does make for a very natural guest star for this show to have as he is quite possibly the biggest if not one of the biggest names to ever appear on this show in the first place he's not really used all that well in the episode as while he does rather rightfully get alot of screen time alot of it is just spent mugging for the camera which is something that does feel out of place with even Sir Roger himself looking very awkward in those moments and while Brain Henson did describe him as being very debonair something which was true for him even in his real life as well he was also someone who wasn't afraid to standup to what he believed in which was why he got involved in charity work in his later career something which the makers of this episode might have been able to use for material depending on when he first started to do his charity work with really the only aspect of the real Sir Roger Moore that was translated over to this more fictional version of him being the fact that he was kind of a ladies man something which we see in his opening sketch. 

Given that his episode has perhaps one of the most well known classic James Bond actors in it and the fact that they mention spies quite alot during the episode you'd think that they'd do a James Bond spoof at least once during the episode. However they oddly don't which might be because of the fact that the creature of The Muppet Jim Henson hated violence but given just how well known the character of James Bond was back then it would have made sense for them to give the character a Muppets twist and while it could be argued that films like Ocotopussy and A View To A Kill help to make the Sir Roger Moore version of the character a parody anyway it would have made sense for The Muppets to do there own take on James Bond lest we forget they also spoofed Star Wars when that film was out even down to using some of that films original actors and yet here here they don't do it now granted there's not really much of a way that you could spoof it outside of doing a very badly done sketch with someone like Link Hogthrob playing a version of Blofeld and Miss Piggy playing a Bond Girl but that's really it and even then there's no way that you could have a Bond Girl in the sketch due to the fact that they usually have very innuendo laden names but even so it still would have been nice to see what the world of James Bond would like through the world of The Muppets as that's a take on the character that really hasn't been seen before and given the franchise already did have a parody film released in the sixties it wouldn't have been out of the realm of possibility either as it would have been quite fun to see Sir Roger Moore spoof the role that arguably made him even more well known then what he already was at the time.

At the start of the episode it's stated by Brian Henson himself that the "In The Navy" sketch is one of the best things that The Muppets have ever done with this coming down to the fact that it took a day to film. Which might not seem like much but when you take into account that the average episode of the show usually took three days to film it now seems like quite alot of time to spend on a sketch that whilst it is yes ambitious it's also not that funny or crazy it's just sort of there and heck even the opening skit with Pops being revealed as a spy is more funny as that's something that you don't really see coming where as with this episodes opening sketch it's just not that funny to watch with what could have made that sketch even funnier was if they had The Swedish Chef come im to try and convince the audience that The Vikings weren't all that bad which is something that they do set up as a possibility when he outright attacks Kermit at the Sketch when he says all of these horrid things about them and therefor having him come in to interrupt the sketch just to try and defend there actions during the sketch would add an extra layer of chaos to the sketch and while the idea of them using the Pigs for that sketch was a good idea it would have been funny if they had a rather disinterested Miss Piggy be one of the characters in that sketch like there all just singing the song and she's doing anything that they she can do to either move the sketch along and make it alot more faster then what it already is or just to get out of the sketch itself as she deems to be beneath her just anything would have made it funnier then what it already is as right now whilst it is a good idea for a sketch it's also one that does feel like it's rather undercooked as well.

To give this episode some credit it really does know how to use it's more established characters as even tho characters like Gonzo and Fozzie don't really make an appearance outside of appearing in the shows opening. All of the other more established Muppets characters do work really well and while they could have done with them being in more of the backstage skits as these are usually where The Muppets shine there brightest the fact that we do still get all of the things that made us love these characters in the first place and that still makes kids today love these character in the first place does show that the makers of this episode really did know how to use there characters as it would have been very easy for them to appear just with Sir Roger Moore and that's really it and it would have sense for them to do that as well as the very idea of seeing James Bond appearing in a scene with Kermit The Frog would be more then enough to get people to want to watch this episode but what gets them to watch the next episode is seeing how these characters interact with each other and seeing Kermit get a little bit frustrated with both Scooter and Beauregard over a simple case of mixing up his orders for the final sketch is something that does work as it then leads to a scene that carries on the traditional Muppet chaos something that would have been lost if we didn't have the traditional Muppet characters being there lovable selfs but at the same time there is quite a clear love for Miss Piggy in this episode as she's the one that appears in the most sketches which is fine as she's a funny character but at the same time it would have been funny to see Sir Roger trading bad jokes with Fozzie or even talking about stunt work with Gonzo.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty six minuets and twenty nine seconds. Which is a perfectly solid running tie for this episode to have as it's pretty much the bogstandard running time for this as while this episode really doesn't have the right amount of plot there to cover that running time in this case that isn't really a bad thing as you don't really come to the Muppet Show for it's plot you come for it's sketches and therefor not having a plot that justifies being in an episode that's this long in the first place isn't really an issue as is the fact that the episode doesn't really use it's running time all that wisely in the first place as it doesn't matter if the plot is that well developed due to the fact that it doesn't need to be that good in the first place it just needs to be passable enough to get to the next sketch and that's really it and the episodes characters don't really need to be that well developed as all of the more established characters have the several dozen episodes and movies to get there character development and therefor they don't need it in every single episode of the show and it could even be argued the fact that there characters don't really get any character in the show let alone this episode is something that adds to there charm as they are meant to be these characters who are just trying their best to put on the best show possible with the thing that makes the show as a whole work being the chaos that goes on around them and that is something that doesn't really require character development as all it does is require the character to be fun and charming and that's what they are both in the show as a whole and in this episode as well but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a comedy that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well the in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With this show having some really moments in it all of which feel true to who The Muppets are as characters with even alot of this episodes jokes doing a good job of showing of just how fun and goofy that Sir Roger Moore was as even he's blantly playing up to The Muppets it is something that does make his scenes all the more fun to watch as it would have been very easy to have his scenes be flat and boring and have no jokes but the fact that the makers of this episode when the extra mile by having be this kind of goofball type of character does show that the makers of this episode really did know how to make him a funny person with the best joke in this episode being the fact that when Kermit is introducing the first sketch of the episode he says that the vikings where these horrible people which causes The Swedish Chef to come out and argue with Kermit which ends with hi hitting Kermit across the back of the head with his pans which causes Kermit to suddenly say that the vikings where nice and forgiving people which is just a really good joke with the episode being filled to the brim with really good jokes as well like the fact that Miss Piggy not only can't speak French but also gets stood up by Sir Roger Moore but also the fact that the person he's standing her up for also looks exactly like her which is just a really good joke in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Overall whilst this episode might not be the best episode it is one that is still pretty funny as it shows us just how funny not only The Muppets can be but also how funny that Sir Roger Moore was as well and while the episode could have been alot more better it also could have been alot more worse as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very episode really does earn itself a grand 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 and 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 The Muppets fandom wiki page , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very episode that I used in this very review being the really great the official The Muppets fandom wiki page really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very episode with alot of them being better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on the official The Muppets fandom wiki page are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Batman "Eternal Youth" Review

It's been quite a while since anything from the classic Batman: The Animated Series was reviewed by yours truly. With the series spawning many great episodes alot of which went on to impact the Batman franchise as we know it to be today it was only a matter of time before we got to an episode that's not that great with the episode episode that i'm going to be talking to you all about today being one such an episode and so then join me as I review the episode that sees Alfred get in on the action with the episode in question called simply just "Eternal Youth" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when Alfred and a lady friend go to a spa hotel and the insistence of Bruce Wayne they come back and can't wait to go again and so it's up to Batman to find out what's actually going on at this spa and stop it before it's far to late. 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 all 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 but that's also the problem as it's not all that good either with the episodes plot being one that's just average at best as no matter how you try describe it you can't make it sound interesting with the only interesting aspect of the episodes plot being the fact that Alfred gets involved in it and that's really it as the whole subplot about the missing millionaires feels wasted as it's not that well developed and while the plot is an interesting enough idea that it could make for a decent enough episode of the show it still needed a skilled hand to make a good plot and that's sadly what we didn't get here as almost everything about this episodes plot just doesn't work as it does feel like a weak plot with the whole plot of the episode really hinging on Alfred going to this spa with his lady friend which don't get me wrong is a great idea as having Alfred involved does add stakes to the episode but at the same time tho the episode doesn't do all that much with that idea with this episodes plot feeling like that there was a good plot in there trying to get out but for whatever reason it just couldn't with the plot of this episode also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is Kevin Conroy as Bruce Wayne / Batman and Bob Hastings as Commissioner Gordon. Also starring in this episode is Efrem Zimbalist Jr. as Alfred Pennyworth , Animaniacs , Wakko's Wish and Plump Fiction star Julie Brown as Lily , The Little Mermaid star Paddi Edwards as Maggie Page , Diane Pershing as Poison Ivy , Lynne Marie Stewart as Violet and Sister Act star Carmen Zapata as Judge Vargas.

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 actors that you expect to give us a truly good performance from giving us exactly that the issues comes however from the fact that alot of this episodes guest cast feel lost and unsure of themselves at best and just straight up miscast at worst with the best example of this being Julie Brown who's character Lily is a henchwoman in this episode and yet she's given this very soft spoken very Californian type of voice that makes her sound more like a comic relief to the main hero then she does a sidekick to the main villain with the same thing also bein true Violet played by Lynne Marie Stewart which does make them feel like they were miscast in this episode and while Paddi Edwards can and has turned some really good performances in the here it feels like that she's struggling a little bit to turn in a good performance with it being clear as day that the here best actors in the whole entire episode are of course Kevin Conroy who is as always pitch perfect as both Bruce Wayne and Batman , Efrem Zimbalist Jr. who is just a joy to listen to in this episode and Diane Pershing who is wonderfully menacing as she always is as Poison Ivy with the acting that's in this episode no really being helped by the fact that this episodes script is just so bad as it gives none of this episode actors absolutely nothing to work with interms of what it is that there characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does help to hurt the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode.

Doing the animation for this episode is the legends and the really greats that currently over at Sunrise Inc.. 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 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 the best part of this episode as that's just how good that this episodes animation was with the episode being filled to the brim with these really dark and borderline gothic looking backgrounds that really do suit this version of Batman and while the rest of the episode was really weak at best the one thing that did stand out because of how good that it was was the animation as you can tell right from the first frame that the makers of this episode but alot more thought and effort into making the episode look really good and giving us some really high quality looking animation which is something that really does shine through in the final cut of the episode and even tho the characters movements do look a little bit stilted and wooded at times when the movements look fluid they work really well with even the episodes animation going above and beyond in trying to hide the fact that the villain is so obviously Poison Ivy by having her front covered entirely in shadow leaving just enough for us the audience to work out who it is which is something that the makers of this episodes really didn't have to do as it's pretty obvious who the main villain of the episode is but at the same it does give us a really cool looking shot that works really well because of how well done that the animation in this episode really is.

Speaking of Poison Ivy whilst she does get a pretty cool looking opening shot she isn't really all that well used in this episode. With her scheme in this episode being the fact that she wants to get revenge on all of the millionaires that have done something wrong to the environment which really makes her seem more look the good guy then a straight up villain as while yes her motives are just it's how she goes about it that makes it evil as she first invites them to this spa under the promise of looking younger forever and then when they come back a second time she basically turns them into trees which does lead to some pretty creepy looking visuals and while the episode at the start does look like it's going to make it a big mystery who the main villain of the episode is going to be you can tell right away who it is and by the time we see the character in her disguise for the episode that whole mystery aspect of the episode is all but dropped which is something that does make alot of sense as this version of Poison Ivy does have a very recognizable look to her and so you'd be able to work out who it is the second that she appears on screen anyway and while the character does get alot of screen time in this episode it just feels like the makers of this episode are just going through the motions with her character as there's nothing really there to her character in this episode and while granted this episode an this show do treat the character alot more better then both the Harley Quinn animated series and Batman & Robin it feels like that they could have done something more interesting with her character in this episode as to be frank it kind of felt like that she was only added into the episode because the makers of this episode forgot to include an actual villain and so they just threw her into the episode late into the scriptwriting stage.

Even tho the show is named after him and he is the main character of the show Batman in this episode felt more like a side character. With him being relegated to what was basically the side plot of the episode with the episodes main character for it's first and second act being none other then Alfred himself which did make for a refreshing change of pace as you just know that if Bruce Wayne was the one going to this spa then he very quickly would have worked out that Poison Ivy was the one behind everything and plus making Alfred the main character foes add some stakes to the episode as now Bruce isn't just fighting to stop Ivy he's also fighting to keep his butler and friend alive and well with the only downside to this being the fact that the episode doesn't really take the time to develop Alfred or even Maggie Alfred's friend all that much as characters and while that's fine for Alfred as there are several other episodes with him in it it's not something that works for Maggie as while the episode still does keep it's high stakes regardless of if both characters get developed or not it does make it hard to tell just what there relationship is even meant to be as she treats him like he's her boyfriend and he treats her like there just good friends and really nothing more then that and that is something that could have been more defined if the makers of this episode spent the time that they really needed to in developing her as a character as that would then make us the audience be all the more shocked when they both get attacked and sprayed by Ivy's poison and start t turn into trees and while the shock of that happening is still it's more due to the fact that Alfred is a minor character in the show rather then both of them being that well developed in this episode.

To give this episode some credit it really does have some really creepy looking visuals to it as the image of Alfred being turned into a tree could be from a kids horror film as it's just that creepy. With it's imagery being one of a few things that the episode does have going for it with the other being the fact that the two plots do tie together in a way that whilst yes it is predictable thanks to the opening prolog it is still creative and filled to the brim with tension but at the same time tho this episode does make both Alfred and Bruce out to be pretty dumb as Bruce receives the tape for the spa at his house at random and doesn't even question it when that right there is a major warning sign and Alfred even tho he most likely has seen pictures of Poison Ivy before either on that Batcomputer or the TV or even in the newspaper doesn't put together that this strange doctor who's telling him that these thins that will apparently make him younger is all around the building and in all of the drinks and food at this hotel which again is a major warning sign and yet both characters shrug it off when in other and better episodes they'd be on high alert from that point on and which does make it feel like that this episodes writer Beth Bornstein really doesn't know how these characters would act in this same situation but in saying that showing Bruce Wayne run from the Batcave in full Batman suit to Alfred's room n broad daylight just because he thinks that his friend is in trouble does feel like something that the character would do so there is some resemblance of good characters in here you just need to sit through alot of bad stuff to get to it.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty two minuets and twenty one seconds. Which to be fair to this episode is a perfectly solid running time to have with it being perfectly in line with the running times of all of the other episodes of this show as well and while this episode does just about have the right amount of plot there to cover that amount of running time this episode really doesn't use it's running time all that wisely as it's main plot isn't that well developed with the episode instead being more focused on showing us the relationship between Maggie and Alfred then it is in telling us a well thought out story and while seeing those together does make the episode more fun to watch it gets to the point where seeing them together actively takes away from the main plot of the episode as the episode isn't giving it's plot the time that it really does need to be well developed and thought out with it seeming like that the characters are just doing things at random alot of the time as very little of what the characters do actually ties into the main plot of the episode with as was mentioned the episodes characters not being that well developed either as all of the new characters are either very one note like Maggie or just forgettable like Lily and Violet and both of those things are issues that could have been solved with just one rewrite of the episodes script as then you could allow for the plot to be well more developed and you could also alo0ow for the characters to be more well developed and more memorable as well but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is an action show that really does mean that I have to actually talk about 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 actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad, As even tho the episode only really has the one action scene in the whole entire episode it was one that was really well done with this being due to the fact that if Batman doesn't defeat Ivy this time around then Alfred will permanently be turned into a tree which yes is a little bit out there but given that this is a comic book show it is something that does work for the episode as it does make the stakes of the action in this episode all the more higher as it's not just Batman's life on the line now it's now also the life of someone that he's close to with the episodes best action of course being the only action scene in the episode and that's the third act fight better Ivy and her sidekicks as they take on Batman which works as now Batman has to try and find away of defeating three women at once all the while trying not to get sprayed by Ivy and turned into a tree himself which is something that does add an extra bit of tension to the episode as well but at the same time tho this episode could have used with a few more fight scenes just to better make the episode a bit more entertaining to watch as this episodes action scene while it is good doesn't really have all that much going on in it where as if you had a small and quick action scene with Alfred in it then it would have been pretty entertaining to see in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Overall inn a show that's filled to the brim with good and sometimes even great there was bound to be one or two episodes that just aren't that good with sadly this episode being that one episode as this is an episode that is better left forgotten and left to history as it's just that average of an episode in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all o the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode and as such that really does mean that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as or where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and 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 Batman: The Animated Series fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very episode that I used in this very review being the really great the official Batman: The Animated Series fandom wiki page really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very episode with alot of them being better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on the official Batman: The Animated Series fandom wiki page are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Kim Possible Movie: So The Drama Film Review

Disney has been trying to make alot of strong female characters recently yet what they fail to realise is the fact that they've already done that. With the film that i'm going to be talking to you all about today not only being a good example of how to do a strong female character but also a film that could also be a mini Boy Meets World reunion and so then join me as I review the film that was so popular that it forced Disney to renew the show that it's based off of for one more season with the film in question being called simply just "Kim Possible Movie: So The Drama" enjoy.

The plot of this film is when Dr. Drakken launches his evil scheme to rule the world it's up to Kim Possible to save the day all the while having a boyfriend that causes friction between her and Ron. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good and was oddly a right way to end the show as it's just epic enough to be worthy of being in a movie and yet at the same time being the next logical step up for this franchise which is something that does make sense as this film was meant to end the show and that is something that does show all the through the plot of this film as this films plot does wrap up the main plot of the show in a way that feels natural with the plot of the film being a really fun filled plot and one that does feel right at home with the show and while the 2019 film would try and up and stakes plot wise it just can't compete with this films plot as we the audience had the chance to get to know these characters something which the film does take full advantage in it's plot with it being something that does work well enough to the films advantage and while the plot of the film could be seen as being a bit on the weak side that is a case that could also be argued for an episode of the show as well with it not being something that's unique to this film but to give this films plot some credit it is only a story that could only be told in a feature film format which does mean that this films plot isn't something that would make the film feel like an extended episode of the show with the plot of this film also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is Christy Carlson Romano as Kimberly Ann "Kim" Possible and Will Friedle as Ronald "Ron" Stoppable. Also starring in this film is Nancy Cartwright as Rufus , Tahj Mowry as Wade Load , John DiMaggio as Dr. Drakken , Nicole Sullivan as Shego , Ricky Ullman as Eric , Gary Cole as Dr. James Timothy Possible , Jean Smart as Dr. Ann Possible , Shaun Fleming as Jim and Tim Possible , Raven-Symoné as Monique , Kirsten Storms as Bonnie Rockwaller , Rider Strong as Brick Flagg , Diedrich Bader as Lars , Eddie Deezen as Ned , Clyde Kusatsu as Nakasumi , Lauren Tom as Miss Kyoko , Kevin Michael Richardson as Sumo Ninja and Dr. Gooberman , Maurice LaMarche as Big Daddy Brotherson , voice acting legend Tara Strong as Dr. Possible's Voice Command and April Winchell as A Reporter.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film 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 film was in all honesty really good. Which is something that does make a whole lot of sense given just how is starring in this film as alot of this films actors are a bunch of really good actors in their own right and therefor it does make sense that they would all turn in some really goo performances in this film with alot of them also reprising their roles from the show as well with this being something that does also help the films acting as who else would know best on how to portray these characters then the actors themselves with it actually being quite hard to say just who the best actor is in this film as if you want someone who is more dramatic then you have Christy Carlson Romano nailing it as Kim but if you want someone who is little bit more goofy and just more fun to listen to in this film then you have the choice of either Will Friedle , John DiMaggio and Nicole Sullivan among many others with all three of them turning in these really goofy performances and yet it's those goofy performances that do work for these characters as these characters are much as they can be very dramatic can also be quite goofy with even Christy Carlson Romano even being a bit goofy at times as well and yet none of it feels out of character for any of them with the acting that's in this film really being helped by the fact that this films script is just so good that all this film actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film.

Doing the animation for this film is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Rough Draft Korea. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film 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 film was in all honesty but at the same time it wasn't all that good either as there was very little visual upgrade from what we were getting in the show and fair enough this might be because of the fact that this film had a really small budget like a lot of Disney Channel Original Movies do but there are a few shots spread through out the film that do show a huge visual upgrade from the shows animation which while it is nice to see that kind of upgrade in the film it also makes you wonder why the rest of the film wasn't given that upgrade as well as this film does look like an episode of the show as a result of that lack of upgrade and while the film does blend it 3D CGI with 2D handdrawn animation really well it doesn't take away from the fact that this films animation could have been a lot more better now we are not talking about making it Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across The 2nd Dimension but it should have been something that looked better the shows animation quality which fair enough was already really high quality in the first place and adding in the CGI was a great way to make the film standout on an animation level but this films animation is just lacking that extra special something as while the characters have these nice and fluid movements and the backgrounds look nice there's nothing that separates them from what we were getting in an episode of the show.

This show has always been influenced by James Bond with this film wearing it's influence on it's sleeve. With the film having a very James Bond esique title sequence which does look like it that it came right out of a sixties James Bond film and while that is something that could be seen as a being a bad thing as it would just be reminding you of other better films here tho given the fact that Kim Possible is basically a spy franchise only for kids it does make sense that they would tip there hat to the grandaddy of all spy franchises even if it's not a direct reference to any of the James Bond films and while this films opening title sequence won't quite capture the imagination the same way that a James Bond title sequence would do the very fact that the makers of this film not only did one but also had what could very well be considered a pre-title sequence as well does make it look like that the makers of this film where showing there love for the James Bond franchise but doing so in way that's unique to not only them but also the Kim Possible franchise as you could very well believe that any film featuring this character would start of the way that this one does just to get you in the mood for the film that's to come with it being made perfectly clear that the makers of this film knew how to make a great Kim Possible film and just had fun with it and because of that while we do get a film that is basically James Bond for the Disney crowd it is something that does work really well as the film isn't afraid to be the dumb movie that people already think that it's going to be with this also being the very thing that makes the film alot more fun to watch as well as by all rights this film is one that should have been rally bad but because of the fact that the makers of the film knew that they were making a dumb film it allowed them to make the film alot more fun in the process.

While this film does put alot more focus on both it's action and romance aspect this film is also a comedy film. With the films comedy being very much like it's romance aspect in that it's very hit and miss as while the film does have some funny moments with Ron getting upset at every little change that's being made to his favorite restaurant Bueno Nacho with even Rufus getting a few small laughs here and there from a comedy point of view this film does feel like that it's trying to hard to funny where as the show just was funny as it allowed the characters to be there more goofy selfs where as here because of the fact that the films romance aspect of the film gets alot more attention then the films comedy part of it it does mean that jokes that should have been funny just don't work as well as they should have done with the film even carrying on running jokes from the show like for example Ron loosing his pants which is funny and even Dr. Drakken forgetting Ron's name both of which are still funny in this film but they do them so many times in the film that they start to become unfunny because it's a joke that we've seen played out where in the show you'd get one of those jokes maybe once an episode and that's it which allowed them to remain being cute and funny gags and even the films romance aspect felt forced and was the part pf the film where it started to feel the most boring as while Kim Possible has always been about mixing being a spy with the average life of a teenage girl it was always fairly well balanced where as here it felt like that they were leaning more into the teen drama side of the things then they were anything else and that helped o make the film quite a bit boring to watch at times.

To give this film some credit it's villains Dr. Drakken and Shego much like they were in the show and even the 2019 movie for that matter were hugely entertaining in this film. As any scene with the pair of them together is always going to be comedy gold with Dr. Drakken having this really over the top villain plan to finally defeat Kim Possible by learning what her one true weakness is and then trying to take over the world by launching a robot invasion which is something that is just so over the top that not only could not only work in a film but it's also something that's also quite perfect for his character as well as he is a really over the top character with him even being the Ron to Shego's Kim in that just like Ron he's utterly useless but also quite fun to watch and just like Kim Shego is the one that really does all of the heavy lifting and isn't afraid to speak her mind and while him having a clear end goal in mind doesn't make the smartest villain out there as he is afterall still a lovable goofball it's the fact that even both Kim and Shego both of whom are characters that have proven themselves to be quite smart in the past can't quite work out what his plan in the first place that oddly makes it a good plan as if they can't work out then how can he be stopped and because of the fact that we'd had three seasons worth of episodes at that point in time we really do feel a sense of fear for Kim as this time she really is facing Dr. Drakken at his best which is something that does make his plan not ingenious but something that's smart by his standards but at the same time tho it would have been nice if the makers of the film had left clues for us the audience to work out just what his plan is in the first place as then we can basically be Kim and work out as we go along and reach the same conclusion when she does and not have it spelled out for us.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and eleven minuets and one second. Which to be fair is pretty much the exact grad total running time that you'd expect an animated Kim Possible movie to have and to this films credit it really does have the right amount of plot there to really cover that amount of running time and while the film does use it's running time wisely in one regard in that it's main characters are as fully developed as there going to be that's more due to the fact that alot of them did stat out on the show and isn't really anything to do with this film it doesn't use it's running time all that wisely when it comes to it's plot however as the plot is all of over the place with them having three plots going on all at the same time as we have the main plot of the film and then both Kim and Ron have there subplots as well and while they all do tie together in a way that does make sense as Kim's plot is all about getting a boyfriend who turns out is working for Drakken and Ron's subplot is all about investigating the changes that are happening at Bueno Nacho which again does tie back into the main plot as that's where Drakken is using to manufacture his evil robots it does leave little room for the main plot to be as fully developed as it really could have been as all three plots are all fighting for screentime with this being something that very easily could have been fixed just by giving this film fifteen extra minuets of running time as then all three plots could have the screentime that they all need and all three can have those big moments that the makers of this film are quite obviously trying to have with them but I really will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as is this an action film that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. With this film action being one of the more entertaining aspects of the film as you can tell right away that the makers of this film put alot of thought and effort into creating some really action set pieces for this film with them really going above and beyond what they were able to do in the show and while this films action will of course never be ale to top anything in a theatrically released action film for a made for TV kids animated action film this films action was alot more better then what it really had any right to be as by all rights this film should have played it safe during this films action but the very fact that they didn't and actually gave us some fun action scenes says that the makers of this film knew how to craft some good looking action with the best action scene in the whole entire film being the films third act as that's where all of the films plots come together with the film even mixing CGI with handdrawn animation as well with the films animation even coming more alive during this third act and really making it all the more better then what it should have been with the rest of this films action being really good it's just none of this films action is as good as this films third act as it really was just as fun as the rest of this films action was as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall while A Stitch In Time is technically the first Kim Possible movie it's this film that is the first proper Kim Possible movie with this film being a really fun film and while the film was meant to serve as the series finale due to this film being so good the fans demanded a fourth season of the show and that's exactly what we got but if this film was to have served as the show finale then it would have been a perfectly serviceable way to end the show as this film is just that good in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that sre in this very film in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of a 7 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 and 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 James Bond fandom wiki page , the official Kim Possible fandom wiki page and the official Disney fandom wiki page. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very film that I used in this very review being the really great the official Disney fandom wiki page really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very film with alot of them being better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on the official Disney fandom wiki page are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.