It really does seem like Disney and Marvel have this weird thing for Riri Williams right now with the character recently being the main character of the disastrous Ironheart TV show. Yet now she's back as a main character in another show this time it's an animated show that's made for little kids and well given as I had nothin else to do today I thought that i'd check out the first full episode of the show and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FILLED review of the episodes that really tries to make the phrase armour up a thing with the episodes in question bein called simply just "Enter The Iron Friends" and "Amadeus Cho's Eggcellent Eggventure!" enjoy.
The plot of Enter The Friends is when Ultron starts stealing all of the kids toys it's up to the Iron Friends to stop him before it's far to late and in Amadeus Cho's Eggcellent Eggventure! when Amadeus accidentally causes his favorite Chicken restaurant to turn into an actual Chicken he and the Iron Friends have to stop this fowl monster before it's 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 weas in all honesty not that bad with the first segment "Enter The Iron Friends" having the stronger of the two plots even tho it is a pretty weak segment on it's own as nothing in regards to the episodes plot gets explained with things just happening for the sake of it but in saying that tho that is the kind of thing you expect from shows that are made for little kids these days and to be fair to that episode it is the more fun of the two whilst Amadeus Cho's Eggcellent Eggventure! despite being the better overall segment as the episode does have a moral at the end of it does have the more weaker of the two plots as the episode does try to make out that being helpful is a bad thing with both segments being really light on plot which again given who this is show is aimed for is kind of understandable but it is also something that stops both plots from reaching there potential as both plots did have the potential to be dumb but fun and stupid plots with the both plots 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 Mason Blomberg as Tony Stark / Iron Man and Kapri Ladd as Riri Williams / Ironheart. Also starring in this episode is Aidyn Ahn as Amadeus Cho / Iron Hulk , Tony Hale as Ultron , Fred Tatasciore as Gamma / Iron Pup , David Kaye as Vision , Jess Harnell as Eggy , Charley Rowan McCain as Girl 1/ Kid , Abril Bellido as Girl 2 , Luke Lowe as Boy 1/ Civilian 2 , Cree Summer as A Shopkeeper , Rama Vallury as Skateboard Kid , Drake Yu as Boy 2(voice) and Decker Brooks as Civilian 2.
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 on 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. As for a show that's aimed at very little kids the acting that we got in this episode wasn't as bad as it really should have been given the fact that they did hire actual kids to play the main characters as kids do nine times out of ten deliver very wooden performances and while the three main leads in this show aren't bad persay there also not that good either as they are at best passable with Mason Blomberg making for a semi decent sounding Iron Man and Aidyn Ahn being pretty good in this episode but out of the three of them it's Kapri Ladd who is the best one as she at least sounds like she's having a good time playing her character where as the other two just sound bored alot of the time with the episodes best actor being Fred Tatasciore as Gamma / Iron Pup as even tho he's only playing a dog in this show he really does make it count and while someone like Dee Bradley Baker would have excelled in this part due to the fact he's used to playing animals Fred Tatasciore does make for a decent dog with the acting that's in this very episode not really being helped by the fact that this episodes scripts are just so bad as they don't rally give any of the episodes actors anything to work with interms of what it is there actual characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does hard the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode.
Doing the animation for this episode is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Atomic Cartoons. 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 really good with this episodes animation being alot more better then what you'd think you'd get for a show that's aimed at very little kids with all of the characters having the typical kids character look to them that makes them look alot more friendly to little kids with that being something that does oddly work for this episode as this is of course the first episode and the kids that are watching this show won't know who these characters and therefor giving more a more friendly look is something that does work for the episode with the thing that doesn't for this episode from an animation point of view being the fact that the backgrounds do look a little plain and generic like they could be the backgrounds to any kids TV show and aren't exclusive to this one with this having the add on effect of making the shows animation look even more cheaper then what it already is as while the characters are very expressive and they do have some very fluid movements to them the whole episode in both segments just have this air of cheapness about them as you don't really get to see anything that's all that expensive looking on the screen but in all fairness to the episode tho this episodes animation does come alive during the teams suit up sequence which is very bright and very colorful and is bound to make the shows target demographic audience really happy.
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Incase you don't know this show is technically a spin off of show as it's a spin off of Spidey And His Amazing Friends. With the two shows even having a very similar look and feel to them and heck both characters even teamed up for a crossover special called Spidey And Iron Man: Avengers Team-Up! however tho where as that show only used characters that are actually spider people in the comics this show goes the opposite route as while it does make sense to have both Tony and Riri there as they are both iron people Amadeus Cho on the other hand is a Hulk and therefor him being on the team feels out of place even more so when you take into account that the show very easily could have used James Rhodes otherwise known as War Machine which is something that would make sense as he and Tony are meant to be best friends and while having a character with the word war in his name you very easily could have changed that to Iron Machine but for whatever reason the makers of this show thought it would be good to have a Hulk armour up in this show even tho it makes no sense even with the whole idea of these little kid Marvel shows being to get little kids into reading Marvel Comics so therefor wouldn't it have made more sense to have people who are actually Iron Men and Iron Women on the team much like what they did with the Spidey show and while this episode doesn't really do much to make Amadeus feel like a member of the team as he adds pretty nothing to the team this is something that makes you wonder why the makers of the show even had him be on the team in the first place and if they actually read a comic book before.
To be fair to this episode tho the second segment Amadeus Cho's Eggcellent Eggventure! is a fun segment. With the segment also kind of taking the time to give us a moral lesson that being that whilst it is nice to be helpful sometimes you don't need to be helpful and being helpful when you don't need to be can end up causing more harm then good which is a good message to teach little kids but the segment handles that message in such a way that it makes it look like that the actual message is don't be helpful ever as when Amadeus thinks he's helping the owner of his favorite food truck the owner does nothing to stop him with him only very weakly saying to stop and his friends just stand there and let him do it with it all being the under guise of him trying to help out a friend which is something that does make the message hard to understand even more when you take into account that Amadeus really doesn't do much either way to help get that message across as they very easily could have had the segment operate on a three strikes and your out type of situation where he tries to be overly helpful three times with it getting worse each time and then on that third time that's when the truck turns into a giant chicken as that would at least then show that the character is just doing his best to help out his friends and that would also not confuse the segments central message and moral as it is nice to be helpful to people and to help a friend out and that message does get lost in this segment but to be fair to that segment tho at least that segment does have a message where as Enter The Iron Friends doesn't have one which fair enough might be because of the fact that it's the shows first ever segment but at the same time tho for a show that's aimed at very little kids there really should have been a life lesson put in this episode.
Speaking of that first segment they did Ultron the best way that they possibly could have dine given just who this show is being made for. As there's no way to do the character any kind of justice in a show like this one with his main goal in the first segment being that he wants to to steal all of the kids toys from the city that the show takes place in and that's really it which yes granted might be a very one dimensional plan as he has no other end goal out side of that but in saying that tho he really doesn't need one as in these types of shows the simpler the character is the better as little kids aren't going to care about having fully formed villains that are creepy as that would give them nightmares as would even the Avengers: Age Of Ultron take on Ultron would as well and therefor just having him scooping up toys in what is basically a giant vacuum cleaner is something that does work for this take on the character however tho what would have made this take on the character all of the more appealing to little kids was if the makers of this show made this character a little bit more goofy not so much that his looses all threat and menace as a villain as due to dialog spoken in the episode he's meant to be the teams biggest foe but enough to sort of soften his edges for the shows target audience as he does have kind of a creepy design to him and therefor making him a bit more of a goofball is something that could have worked for this character with the only thing that really does work for this character being the fact there's not all the much to him as a character with even his design being very generic as he just looks like a generic kids robot character and not something that Marvel themselves would OK.
Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running tome of exactly twenty four minuets and five seconds. With each of the episodes two segments being a little bit over a eleven minuets each with each of the episodes having just about the right amount of plot there to cover there respective running times but in saying that tho both segments don't use there running time all that wisely as neither segment develops there plot which to be fair is kind of expected given just how simple that both plots are and while alot of shows that are aimed at very little kids also don't really develop there plots either it still would have been nice if either segment took the time to fully develop there plots but for whatever reason the makers of this show are more obsessed with making sure that the phrase armour up is known by it's kid audience an because of that the episodes already weak plots do come across as being even weaker with the same thing also being true for the episodes characters as they all do come across as being very one dimensional which is to be expected for characters in a little kids show but at the same time tho given the fact that at least one of these characters is a legacy character that alot of people love then there really should have been more effort into giving Tony Stark some character development as we know as much about all three of this shows main characters coming out of the episode then we did coming into the episode but in all fairness tho these types of shows don't typically give there characters character development as they like to keep them as simple as possible for there target audience 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 while this show really can't away with to much from an action point of view what action we do get whilst it is very kid friendly it does also have some really good moments like with the Iron Friends having to use there wits to get Ultron to let them out of the trap that he got them in or Amadeus letting the giant chicken eat him so that he can take it out it's batteries which are on the inside of him all of which work as they do show us just how smart that these characters are with the best action in both segments being in Enter The Iron Friends where we see Amadeus , Riri and Tony all team up to take down Ultron in one big attack which is something that will always be cool to see as it's always cool seeing heroes team up to take down a foe with it working here as it's the first segment of the show and therefor having the best action scene in the whole episode in that segment does work as you want to start of with your best foot forward but in saying that tho whilst the action in the first segment was better the one in the second segment was more fun to watch just due to the fact that it's our heroes teaming up to take on a giant Chicken which is just campy enough that it works but it's also not so campy that the whole show looks bad because of it with even the ending to that action being pretty smart as well it's just that the action in the first segment was the more stronger out of the two in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
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Overall whilst this show won't harm any little kids that watch it's also hard to say if little kids will get into comics because of it due to the fact that the characters are so watered down from there comic boom versions that it would be jarring for a little kid to watch this episode and then read an Iron Man comic book for example but at the same time tho this is a pretty solid episode that is sure to please it's target audience. 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 episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 5.5 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I pers0nally 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 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 Google Images 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 really better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on Google Images are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.