Dexter's Laboratory "DeeDeemensional" . "Dial M For Monkey: Magmanamus" and "Maternal Combat" Review

 

We all have cartoon shows that we have very fond memories of watching when we was kid with alot of these shows mostly likely still holding up to this very day. Well when I was looking for images for my The Powerpuff Girls review I suddenly remembered another show that I used to like growing up and well I thought that i'd check out the very first episode just to see if it really was still a good show and so then join me as I review the episode that really introduced did the world to a boy genius and his kid sister with the episode in question having segments that are called simply just "DeeDeemensional" . "Dial M For Monkey: Magmanamus" and "Maternal Combat" enjoy.

The plot of "DeeDeemensional" is Deedee is set back in time by Dexter to warn him of a giant monster that he himself sets loose whereas the plot of "Dial M For Monkey: Magmanamus" is when a giant lava monster attacks the town it's up to Monkey to save the day before it's far to late with the plot of "Maternal Combat" being when Mom is ill Dexter builds a robot to do all of the cooking and clean but things start to get our of control when Deedee steals the controls for the robot. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plots 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 plots that are actually featured / resented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad with the plot of the first segment "DeeDeemensional" being the stronger and really the most fun plot of all three segments in in this episode my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is Rugrats star Christine Cavanaugh as Dexter and Woman and Allison Moore as Dee Dee, Also starring in this episode is voice acting legend Frank Welker as Monkey, Man 3 and Pilot , Everybody Loves Raymond star Brad Garrett as Magmanamus, Man 1 and Driver , Spongebob Squarepants star Tom Kenny as Man 2 , Man 4 and Man 5 , Kath Soucie as Mom and Jeff Bennett as Dad.

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. This isn't really all that surprising as the episodes cast are a bunch of really known voice actors who we know for a fact can turn in a good performance with this really being helped by that the scripts for each of the segments are just so good and the fact that each of the segments co-directors really do know how to direct their cast and so all the cast for this episode have to do is just the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them really naturally.

Doing the animation for this episode is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Rough Draft Korea. Now the 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 the animation in this episode being alot better then what it really had any right yo be as this is show that was made and released in the nineties and as such nobody was expecting the animation to really hold up an yet it's the opposite that's true as the animation really does hold up really well almost to the point where the show looks like that it was made in the early to mid two thousands and not the early to mid nineteen nineties.

If your wondering if this show was as fun to watch now as it was back then the answer is firmly yes as this episode was so much fun to watch. With the characters having some really great and fun interactions all of which go along way to make the episode feel as fun as it was back in the nineties with the same thing also being true for the set up for each segment which was really simple for each of the three segments with them being noting more then an excuse for the segment just to be fun and to have some wild ideas and when you add in the fact that the characters in all three segments coming across as being very likable characters it's no wonder that this show was always fun tom watch as we always wanted to see these characters get into these crazy situations and see just how they would get of them and how they would interact with each other.

As a comedy this show hasn't aged all that well with alot of the jokes in all three segments not really having aged all that well. This is n't of the fault of anybody involved with the making of the show as they of course don't know that jokes will age badly and yet that is very sadly the case with alot of the jokes in those episode as there are alot of jokes that were funny back in the nineties but now they just aren't that funny which is a shame because the set up of the first episode "DeeDeemensional" does allow itself to be open for some really good jokes and yet outside of one joke near the end of the episode this segment has really nothing funny in it with the same thing also being true for the episodes third segment "Maternal Combat" which despite it's funny set up and premise doesn't really have any funny jokes in it at all.

For some reason instead of having either one single segment or two eleven minuet segment this show has three segments per-episode. Which just doesn't work as it means that a segment that could have worked out really well as a full length episode now gets rushed as it has to fit in two other segments which might not be as a good as that one segment whilst having multiple segments per episode might work for a show like Animanaics the difference is tho is that show was made to host multiple segments per-episode where as with this show as it;s not in a verity show format it doesn't really make sense to have multiple segments in just one episode and it's not something that will always work as one story or even all three stories will suffer because of it and that is the very case with this episode as all three episodes do suffer from the short running time that all three segments are forced to have due to the fact that they have to fit in two other episodes.

Now then this episode has / had a grand total running time of exactly twenty one minuets and thirty six seconds. Which would be a running time that would work f this show was telling one story per=episode and yet because this episode is telling three stories in every single episode this running time comes across as being rather short as it means that all of the stories don't have the time that they need to be fully developed and in the case of both "Maternal Combat" and "DeeDeemensional" don't even have proper conclusions to them with them just ending without actually concluding the story that they were telling and while that might work for other shows it's not really something that works for this show as the stories that there telling are so good and yet because they can't be fully developed it's hard to fully get behind all three of the stories that are in this episode but I will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a comedy that means that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very review well then 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 not that bad. However as was stated in this very review alot of the episodes jokes were very dated and while the story of a Monkey fighting evil does lend itself to alot of god jokes the episode sadly doesn't take advantage of that set up but I will admit that when this episode tells a good joke you really do know about it but there alot mire bad jokes then there are good ones which given who was involved with the making of this show really shouldn't have the case in the slightest in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall while this episode was still a really fun to really fun and great show it's also a good example of the show having not really aged all that well in the ways that truly matter in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the goo ad as well as 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 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 Dexter's Laboratory fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from these very episodes that I used in this very review being the official Dexter's Laboratory fandom wiki page simply just due to the fact that alot of the images that are on the official Dexter's Laboratory fandom wiki page are all really fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

The Powerpuff Girls 1998 TV Series "Monkey See, Doggie Do" and "Mommy Fearest" Review

 

The nineties was a great time for cartoons on TV with there being alot of shows being made that would go on to become truly iconic shows i their own right. Well thr show that i'm about to talk about today is one such a show with this show having a an a list team of people working on it from great voice actors and to really great writers and directors all of which came to together to make this show the hit that it was and so then join me as I review the episodes that introduced the world to The Powerpuff Girls with the episodes in question being called simply just "Monkey See, Doggie Do" and "Mommy Fearest" enjoy.

The plot of "Monkey See, Doggie Do" is the people of townsville are being turned into dogs and it's up to The Powerpuff Girls to find who is doing this evil crime and stop them once and for all and the plot of "Mommy Fearest" is when The Professor falls in love it's up to The Powerpuff Girls to convince him that his new girlfriend is truly evil. 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 n all honesty really good with "Monkey See, Doggie Do" having the stronger plot whilst the plot for "Mommy Fearest" was quite easily the weaker of the two segments in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this very episode is Catherine Cavadini as Blossom , E.G. Daily as Buttercup and Tara Strong as Bubbles and Woman Neighbor. Also starring in this episode is Tom Kane as Professor Utonium , Puppet Pal Clem and Talking Dog , Roger L. Jackson as Mojo Jojo , Tom Kenny as The Narrator and The Mayor , Rob Paulsen as Puppet Pal Mitch and Jennifer Hale as Ima Goodelady and Sequsa.

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. Which given who is involved with this show shouldn't really be all that surprising as the show has some really legendary voice actors working on show and a really good creative team writing and directing the show with the acting in this episode really being helped by the fact that the script for this episode is really good and so all the cast have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them really naturally.

Doing the animation for this episode 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 n 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 not that bad as the animation in this episode does look really good but at the same time it does also look really dated this is of course no fault of those making the show but it is something that dates both the episode and the show itself as it just looks like that it was made in the nineties and as such the shows animation really doesn't come across as really being timeless unlike the animation in say Tiny Toon Adventures for example.

In the first half of this shows first episode we do get to meet The Powerpuff Girls most iconic villain that being Mojo Jojo. With the villain just being as entertaining as he was back in the nineties which is nothing new for this show as the makers of this show did put in alot of effort intro creating memorable villains be it for there right reasons or for the wrong reasons and they also put in alot of time and effort into making the villains in not only this episode but the show as a whole as entertaining as the shows main heroes as well with Mojo being a prime example of this as why he's not the most creepiest villain in the shows history he is one of if not the most well known villain in the shows history and alot of that comes down to the fact that he is both really well written and really well acted as well both of which help to really make him a really entertaining villain.

Sadly the comedy is where this episode falters as the comedy in this episode just isn't that funny in the lightest. Which is odd because we have a bunch or directors in Craig McCracken , John McIntyre and Genndy Tartakovsky al of whom know how to make funny animation and how to make things funny in the world of animation and yet for some strange reason they just didn't do it in this episode with the jokes here just coming across as lazy at best and unfunny at worst and when you add in the fact that we get a shall we say adult type of joke with a straight up naked person appearing in this episode and yet it's just not that funny and all it does is make you wonder how in the heck they manged to get that scene past all of the censors.

Out of the two segments the first one is the better of the two just because it was a good example of what the show was like when it was at it's best. However with that being said episode two was also rather enjoyable as it gives us some insight as to what the girls are like at home which just reminds us that outside of their superhero duties these girls are still just little girls and so they do things that kids there age would like to do only because they have superpowers they now have alot more pressure of going to save the town as and when they are needed and seeing their home life was also really entertaining in it's own right as it made the segment feel more personal as it's just mostly confined to the girls house for most of the segment.

Now then the first segment has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly eleven minuets and twenty nine seconds whilst the second segment has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly ten minuets and one second. With the first first segment having the better running time as the first segment has more then enough their interms f plot ti cover that large amount of story where as the second second segment really doesn't have alot of story there and so alot of the segment comes across as being filler but both segments don't really to take the time to fully develop their respective villains which does make it hard to route for the hero as we're not really given a reason to but I will admit that both segments have some really good pacing to both of them.

So now then as 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 actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With both segments having some really good action in them as we get to see alot of the girls powers in the second segment and we get to see just how creative the girls can be in a fight in the first segment both of which make the segments respective action scenes look really good and look alot better then the action that we get in mist modern day action cartoon TV shows n my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall both of these segments were really entertaining in their way as they both show of just how entertaining this show was and could be when it was at it's best 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 means that the first segment earns itself a grand old score of exactly a 7.5 out of 10 whilst the second segment earns itself a grand old score of exactly a 6 out and the episode as a whole earns itself a grand old score of a 7 out 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the image that I personally used in this very review well then boy sand 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 Powerpuff Girls fandom wiki page, IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from these very episodes that I used in this very review being the official The Powerpuff Girls fandom wiki page simply just due to the fact that alot of the images that are on the official The Powerpuff Girls fandom wiki page are all really fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.