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Monday, 2 December 2024

Teen Titans Go! "Four Hundred" A Short SPOILER FILLED Review


When any animated show reaches a high amount of episodes it is also a cause for celebration no matter the quality if the show itself. With Teen Titans Go just releasing there four hundredth episode celebration and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FILLED review of the episode that officially sees Teen Titans Go become the longest running DC animated series ever with the episode in question being called simply just "Four Hundred" enjoy.

Plot wise this episodes plot revolves around the Titans being sent to a stop motion dimension where they have to figure out how to get there shows budget undercontrol before they are cancelled. This episodes plot was really the stereotypical plot for this show only with nothing charming about it as while the plot is rather rightfully about Teen Titans Go reaching a good number of episodes the plot isn't all that interesting as it feels like the plot of an average episode of the show and not a twenty two minute episode of the show with the plot of this episode not really being being really rather entertaining nor is it really rather engaging either in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.


Starring in this episode is Scott Menville as Robin and Birdarang and Hynden Walch as Starfire. Also starring in this episode is Khary Payton as Cyborg , Tara String as Raven , Greg Cipes as Beast Boy , David Kaye as Superman and Fred Tatasciore as Detective Chimp.

This episodes acting was really good with all of the episodes actors turning in some really good performances in this episode. Which is something that really isn't all that shocking as all of this episodes actors are a bunch of really good actors in there own right with alot of them having played there respective characters since 2003 and would there for know how best to perform there respective characters and what kind of performance would best suit there characters in any given situation with the acting that's in this very episode not really being helped by the fact that this episodes script is just so bad as it gives none of this episodes actors absolutely nothing to work with interms of what it is that there respective characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does harm the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode.


Doing the animation for this episode is Copernicus Studios and Stoopid Buddy Stoodios. 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 not that bad as this show has always had some really decent looking animation in it with the same thing also being true for the episodes stopmototion animation as well which is not really that surprising as that was handled by the exact same studio that works in Robot Chicken.

SPOILERS START HERE!!!!!!!!!!



For some strange reason this episode chose to make Superman act out of character by having him be the episodes bad guy. Which even for the world that this show takes place in makes no sense as he was also presented as someone who really didn't care for the Titans either way and yet here he actively despises them all for the fact that none of his shows reached four hundred episodes with him being jealous being something that really doesn't work for this character as he's the ultimate good guy and heck it would have made alot more sense if the villain for this episode was Control Freak as that character hates this version of the Titans and it would there for be well within his character to send them somewhere where they might actually get cancelled.

To give this episode some credit is it at the very least better then the Warner Bros 100th Anniversary episode. As at least in this episode the heroes aren't pushing legacy characters to the side and while yes this episode does have it's fair share of problems is it at the very least creative with them making great use of the stopmotion format and even going into detail as to what it is and why it's not seen all that often where as thecWarner Bros 10th Anniversary special episode disregarded all of the characters that we'd actually like to see in an anniversary special and wasn't that creative with it's plot and animation this is despite the fact that it really could have been really creative with its plot and animation.


While I would very much like to tell you what this episodes grand total I actually can't but what I do know is that this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of roughly twenty two minuets. Which is rather fitting as this a special episode but at the same time tho it would have been alot better if this episode had the plot there to really cover that amount of time as this episode really only has enough plot there to really cover eleven minuets which is really how long this episode really should have been as that really would have been more in keeping with the rest of the show even more so when you take into account that this episode really doesn't have anything there that requires the extra eleven minuets with the episode mostly being made up of filler scenes with the titans exploring the stopmotion world all of which adds nothing to the actual plot of the episode 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 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. As the episode does have some really good fourth wall breaking jokes but at the same time tho alot of this episodes fourth wall breaking jokes do seem to rather main spirited as there just taking shots at shows that alot of people really like and yet because of the fact that they didn't make it to four hundred episodes that somehow makes it OK for this show to mock them when it really doesn't but when we do get a good joke in this episode it is a really good joke in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

SPOILERS END HERE!!!!!!!!!!



Overall this was a decent episode of the show but  at the samectime tho this is an episode that really should have been alot more better then what it was 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 5.5 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 Teen Titans Go 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 Teen Titans Go 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 Teen Titans Go fandom wiki page are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Saturday, 24 August 2024

Cow And Chicken "Field Trip To Folsom Prison" and "The Girl's Bathroom" Review


Back in the nineties there was no escaping Cartoon Network as it was the one channel that us kids just had to watch. With there being alot of really memorable shows that are still talked about to this very day and while yes we do get a few shows that aren't as well known today the overall majority of there shows were really well known shows this was the not the case with the episodes that i'm going to be talking about today and so then join me a I review the episodes that introduced the world to a talking Cow and Chicken with the episodes in question being called imply just "Field Trip To Folsom Prison" and "The Girl's Bathroom" enjoy.

The plots of these episodes are when on a field trip to a local prison Chicken gets mistaken for one of the prisoners and it's up to Cow to save him and in "The Girl's Bathroom" Chicken ventures where no boy has dared to venture before him the girls bathroom. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in thee very episodes was in all honesty really good as both plots are indeed some really simple and really easy to follow along with plots with both of the plots also being wonderfully child like and silly whilst  also adding in some more mature elements as well and while yes the plots of thee two episodes might seem silly and dated by today's standard that doesn't stop them from being a bunch of fun filled plots that serve as a a great way to introduce this show with as they give you a good idea of the type of plots that his show really did do quite alot of the time with both of these 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 these episodes is voice acting legend Charlie Adler as Cow , Chicken and The Red Guy and Dee Bradley Baker as Dad and Prisoner 2. Also starring in these episodes is Candi Milo as The Teacher and Mom , The Simpsons star and voice acting legend Dan Castellaneta as Earl , Howard Morris as Flem , Dick Gautier as Rhode Island Red , Glenn Shadix as Prisoner 1 , The Gate Guard and Poopy The Clown.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty really good. With the actors that you expect a really good performance will delivering on the acting side of things but that's also the problem as they give you the kind of performance that you expect from each of these actors and really nothing new and as such there's really nothing all that surprising about these actors performances it's just the same old type of performance that we've seen done better in ither and better shows with the acting that's in these episodes really not being helped by the fact that the scripts for these two episodes aren't really all that good as none of the give the actors alot to work with interms of what it is that there respective characters personalities are even meant meant to be in the first pace which s something that really does effect the overall quality of the acting that's really in these first two episodes.


Doing the animation for these episodes is Rough Draft Korea , SEK Animation Studio and Shanghai Morning Sun Animation.Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty really good with the animation in both of these episodes really being alot better then what it really had any right to be but at the same time this shows animation style is just weird and ugly to look at alot of the time with the characters eyes barely connecting to there heads in alot of shots which might have been a stylistic choice but it's also one that makes the characters very unappealing to look at as well and while yes granted the characters do have some really fluid movements and that zany animation does help with alot of the episodes more out there jokes it doesn't stop the whole thing from looking really ugly to look at with the show as whole looking like something that would actually scare kids and not something that they would actually want to sit down and hopefully even enjoy.


These two episodes alone and the show as a whole leave with alot of burning question none of which get answered. Like for example how does a female human give birth to both a Cow and a Chicken and why is the dad just OK with it with another being how does The Red Guy keep on getting jobs especially when it's painfully obvious to anyone with eyes and a brain cell who the character is modelled after these are just some of the questions that these to episodes alone leave with and to the episodes and the shows credit it doesn't explain any of them as to that would take away alot of the fun of the show as this is show is meant to be nothing more then junk food for the brain your not meant to question your just meant to sit down and enjoy it and that's really it and that is something that really does work well for this show as not alot of shows need to be smart shows as sometimes just being a dumb kids shows that meant for little kids is more then enough and while yes it would have been interesting to see either this show or these episodes address those questions head on to do so would go against the very nature of the show that being a show that's meant to be zany and goofy and not one that we the audience are meant to question at all.

While this episode does get alot of things it does some things right like the first segment "Field Trip To Folsom Prison" does do a good of setting up the shows formular and the relationship between the titular characters. With Chicken being more of cynical person who will do anything not to hang out with his sister despite he fact that deep down he really does care about and Cow being a very happy go lucky type of character who's just always happy to whatever anybody else wants to which does create an interesting dynamic between the two characters and while these first two segments don't really go into that much detail about there relationship and heck outside of two scenes in "Field Trip To Folsom Prison" the characters barely spend any time together when they do get together or a scene we really do get a good feel of what these characters and how the show is going to moving forward with them as the lead and while yes it would have been interesting to see hints of there relationship it's not really needed as they have the rest of the show to do that and as a result of that is the fact that it really doesn't need to do any of that in these first two segments.


Speaking of The Red Guy his inclusion in "Field Trip To Folsom Prison" really doesn't make any kind of sense. As his character wouldn't be the warden of this prison. If anything he'd be one of the prisoners as his original role in the show was to act as someone who would tempt either Cow or Chicken into these dangerous situations or into situations that they know is wrong hence why he looks the way that he looks where as here Chicken is already in prison not completely because of something that he did but due to how bad the guards are and as a result of that is the fat that it really does make no sense for his character to appear in the episode other then establish him as a character and that's really it and that's not really something that makes all that much sense once you not only take the rest of the show into account but also take in the shows pilot from What A Cartoon where alot of the time he is to serve as a cautionary tale and not somebody that you'll bump into on a school trip to prison even tho you personally have done absolutely nothing wrong infact technically the only crime Chicken does commit isn't committed by Chicken himself is committed by Cow who breaks her brother out of prison without him even knowing it.

Now then these segments has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly six minuets and thirty three seconds and six minuets and thirty four seconds respectively. With segment one having the better running time as it really doesn't have alot there interms of plot to cover anything longer then that and as a result of that is the fact that alot of the episode is all about advancing the plot forward where as with episode despite it having a strikingly similar running time to the first segment actually feels alot longer then that with "The Girl's Bathroom" having alot of scenes that could be seen ss being filler and as a result of that is the fact alot of the segment really does feel like padding as that one segment really doesn't have all that much there interms of plot to really warrant that amount of running time and as a result of that is the fact that "The Girl's Bathroom" really could have done with being a minuet or two shorter and while yes the first segment does also contain alot of filler like we don't really need to see Red just doing things in Chickens school as all that does is make the rest of the shows characters look really dumb those scenes do also serve a purpose of showing Cow come to realisation that Red isn't her brother thus also advancing the plot of the segment where as the same thing cannot be said for the second segment but I really will admit that both of these segments really do have some really good pacing to them tho.


So now then as this is a comedy that really does mean that I have to actually talk the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in these very segments and well then in all honesty I im all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in these very segments was in all honesty not that bad. However that's also the problem as alot of the comedy that's in these segments isn't all that good with alot of being random humor that adds nothing to the actual plot of the segment mixed in with the very occasional bit of slapstick and adult humor and while the adult jokes do work they also make you wonder how they managed to get that joke past all of the censors as in the "The Girl's Bathroom" segment when Chicken says that they can even buy cigar in here it's pretty obvious what he's actually talking about and while the kids watching the segment won't get it you just know that the adult who's watching it with them will get it and yet that's one of only two jokes that are actually funny in both of these segments with the other one being a nice slapstick joke near the start of "Field Trip To Folsom Prison" with that joke just being a really funny joke no matter what show tries to tell it in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.


Overall while this was a really solid pair of segments to start of this truly iconic show off on and it is also a really good example of just how weird and wacky that this show could be when it's at best as well and while this show will never be remembered as fondly as the other Cartoon Network shows at the time it will always be remembered by those who grew up watching it 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 these very segments in this very review and as such that really does mean that "Field Trip To Folsom Prison" really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 6 out of 10 from and "The Girls Bathroom" really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 5 out of 10 from me with both of these segments combined earning a grand total combined score of exactly a 5.5 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 ll pf the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Cow And Chicken fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from these very segments episodes that I used in this very review being the really great Google Images simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from these very segments and are really of course on Google Images are also really all fairly high in quality and really as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Wednesday, 14 August 2024

Johnny Bravo TV Series "Johnny Bravo" , "Jungle Boy In Mr Monkeyman" and "Johnny Bravo And The Amazon Women" Review


Cartoon Network in the nineties was a truly wonderful place to be with pretty much all of there shows fro that time period being really good shows. However with all of that success does mean that a few shows will get forgotten about as is the case with the show that i'm going to be talking about today as this is a show that really isn't talked about all that often not often by those who were around when it first airing either and so then join me as I review the episodes that technically aired as part of another cartoon show first with the episodes in question being called simply just "Johnny Bravo" , "Jungle Boy In Mr Monkeyman" and "Johnny Bravo And The Amazon Women" enjoy.

The plots of the episodes are in Johnny Bravo Johnny tries to recapture a nine hundred pound gorilla and in Jungle Boy In Mr Monkeyman King Raymond becomes jealous of Jungle Boy and sets out to ruin his reputation once and for all and in Johnny Bravo And The Amazon Women Johnny finds him on island full to the brim with beautiful Amazon Women and does everything that he can do to get near them. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plots that;s are actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plots that are actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty not that bad as all three of episodes plots were really strong plots with the weakest episode plot wise by Jungle Boy In Mr Monkeyman just because of the fact that alot of that episode is spent with nothing going on to advance the plot of the episode where as with the other two segments there was always something going on that was advancing the plots of the segments with the plots also also being really rather rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.


Starring in these episodes is Jeff Bennett as Johnny Bravo and Man 3 , Soleil Moon Frye as Mary and Maurice LaMarche as The Fat Robber and The Narrator , Roger Rose as The Gorilla  Scott , Butch , Christopher and Louis , Mae Whitman as The Little Girl , Cody Dorkin as JungleBoy , Michael McKean as King Raymond , Rupert and Rhino , Candi Milo as Mary Antelope , Effie and Jill , April Winchell as Donna , Kris and Liz , Brenda Vaccar as Melissa , Pat Musick as Grandma , B.J. Ward as Cindy and An Amazon and David L. Lander as Christopher.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that;s actually featured / presented to us in these episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in thee very episodes was in all honesty really good. Which is something that really does make alot of sense given that pretty much all of the actors that are in these episodes are a bunch of really are a bunch of really good actors and a bunch of really good voice actors in there own right with all of them really delivering some really good and some really funny performances in all three of these episodes with the acting that's in these very episodes really being helped by the fact that the scripts for this episodes are juts so good that all this episodes cast have to do is just say the lines as they 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 these episodes episodes.


Doing the animation for these episodes is Hanna-Barbera Productions , Fil-Cartoons , Mr. Big Cartoons , Sunwoo Entertainment and Wang Film Productions Company. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty person ally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in these vert episodes was in all honesty not that bad and was a lot better then what it really had any right to be but at the same time tho the animation that's in all three of these segments wasn't really all that good either as the backgrounds don't look that good in Johnny Bravo And The Amazon women this is despite them looking really good in Johnny Bravo and the animation and backgrounds in Jungle Boy And Mr Monkeyman while it wasn't really the best was certainly alot better then what it could have been with the backgrounds in that segment just looking really bland and really boring with the same thing also being true for Johnny Bravo And The Amazon Women as well with all of the characters having some really nice and fluid movements to them in all three of this episodes segments with the animation really shining through when it comes to all three segments comedy.


What alot of people might have forgotten about or just straight up don't know is that even these segments are indeed the first three segments in Johnny Bravo they weren't originally produced as apart of the series. As all three of them were instead produced as apart of the show What A Cartoon which showed new cartoons in every segment with the more popular ones becoming there own TV shows with prime examples of this being Cow And Chicken , Dexter's Laboratory , Courage The Cowardly Dog and The Powerpuff Girls with this show also being one and a few years after this show had been picked up and started airing int's first season these segments were then added into the mix to form the shows first episode this was done tho after the show official first episode had already aired thus meaning that all of the episodes get moved down one order from what they originally were and given that alot of the other shows that came of from What A Cartoon also included there original What A Cartoon shorts as part of other segments it does make sense that this show would combine there episodes to make up the first Johnny Bravo episode as even tho none of them feature the regular supporting cast of characters they do give us the audience a good idea of just what the show will be like in future episodes in the show moving forward.

To be frank this show would not be made simply due to the fact that Johnny Bravo himself does in the first segment force himself onto a woman and in the other segments of not only this episode but the show as a whole spends alot of time trying to get with various women. While yes he does get turned down in more often then not very violent and always hilarious ways you can just picture somebody somewhere getting offended by this cartoon without realising the fact that he's getting turned down is apart of the joke and is the shows way of saying that's he's in the wrong and that how he treats women in the grand scheme of things is also wrong as they'll just take this show at face value and that's really it and yet they'll find the Jungle Boy segment which is the weakest of the three segments to be the most enjoyable for no reason whatsoever this is despite the fact that the Jungle Boy segment has very little redeeming qualities about it as that character is one joke character where as with Johnny Bravo you can get a good few jokes just out of how dumb he is alone with the fact that he can't get a single woman to go out with him being as aspect of his character as all those people who are easily offended will be focused on is the fact that he kissed a woman without her consent despite the fact that she beats him up for it directly afterwards.


Speaking of the Jungle Boy segment there was one redeeming factor about that segment and thats the fact that King Raymond is the segments most entertaining character. As he's a villain who just wants his subjects to obey him and to love only him thus giving him a bit of an ego and yet everybody around him either hates him or just straight up ignores him which does lead to some very entertaining scenes as he sets out to ruin Jungle Boy's reputation by giving him a bad name all done with him going around dressed up as Jungle Boy which includes him shaving off all of his skin and wearing a wig all of which goes a long way to proving the fact that this character does have an ego and can;t handle the fact that nobody likes him heck even his own monkey butler really doesn't care for him all that much either and this is something that does make him an entertaining character as it gives him flaws and a reason for him being the way that he is and heck the whole segment would have been better if he was the main focus of it and if Jungle Boy was instead given more of a supporting role as Jungle Boy as a character really just isn't that interesting nor is he all that entertaining as a character as he's just the stereotypical good guy who just so happens to be a toddler and that's really all there is to his character where as there's alot kore to King Raymond as a character.

Now then the first segment has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly six minutes and fifty three seconds with the second segment having a grand total running time of exactly six minuets and thirty three seconds and the third segment has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly six minuets and twenty two seconds. With all three segments really having some rather solid running times as all three segments really do have the right amount of plot to really cover there respective running times with the the segment that has the best running time being Johnny Bravo And The Amazon Women just because of the fact that they do spend some time in setting up the amazon island and really making as good a use as they could have done with that running and while all three segments pack in a ton of jokes in there segments respective running times it's the first segment Johnny Bravo that takes as full advantage of it's running time as it could have done as that segment who Johnny is a character and still tell a really good story which it really does manage to given the short running time that the segment has but I will admit that all three segments really do have some really good pacing in them tho.


So now then as this is a comedy show that means that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in these vert segments well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that;s actually featured / presented to us in these very segments was in all honesty really good. With all three of this episodes segments really having alot of really funny jokes in them and all three segments really packing in alot of jokes in there respective running times alot of which are quick little sight gags that chances are your not going to notice on a first viewing like the fact that in the Jungle Boy segment that make a reference to Everybody Love Reymond which was a quick little joke but it was still a really funny joke with the first and third segments having some really funny slapstick moments which really do show off just how funny this shows animation really could have been as the slapstick not only looks painful but it also looks really funny as well but even then there not the best joke of this whole entire episode as that honor goes to a joke in episode where in order to convince the zoo keeper to let him go after the gorilla Johnny tells her that he's a superhero with one of his powers being able to make a sandwich which was just such a funny joke and really did show off just how dim witted that this character really was in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.


Overall while these episode both are and aren't the official start to Johnny Bravo they do give you a good idea of just how random that this show was and just how funny that this show was when it was at it's best and while it wouldn't get made there might be some people out there who love these segments as alot of them are just that good and are that funny 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 these segments in this very review and as such that means that Johnny Bravo earns itself a grad old score of exactly a 7 out of 10 , Jungle Boy In Mr Monkeyman earns it self a grand old score of exactly a 6.5 out of 10 and Johnny Bravo And The Amazon Women earns itself a grand old score of exactly a 7.5 out of 10 with all three segments earning themselves a combined grand total score of exactly 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 mages that I personally used in this very review from the official Johnny Bravo fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from these very segments episodes that I used in this very review being the really great the official Johnny Bravo fandom wiki page simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from these very segments and are really of course on the official Johnny Bravo fandom wiki page are also really all fairly high in quality and really as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Wednesday, 29 November 2023

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.

Monday, 27 November 2023

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.

Tuesday, 26 March 2019

Johnny Bravo Review


Cartoon fans we're taking a trip back to the nineties for this review and this was a show that alot of us myself included grew up with. I will say that after watching a bunch of episodes of this show i've come to the conclusion that this show wouldn't be made today and i'll go into the reasons why later and let us prey that none of us use the pick up tactics used in this show and so here we go with me review of the one and only the legend that is Johnny Bravo.

The premise of this show is Johnny Bravo is a simple man who just wants to get a girlfriend and the show follows his exploits as he tries to get a date with a girl. Yeah there really isn't a plot to the show outside of that premise and with a premise as strong as that you don't really need a plot. At the same time tho I would have been good if there was a small plot running through some of the episodes but at the same time if that was the case then this show wouldn't be the same.


Starring in the show was Jeff Bennett as Johnny Bravo , Brenda Vaccaro as Momma , Mae Whitman as Little Suzy , Tom Kenny as Carl and Larry Drake as Pops. In all honesty the acting isn't that bad at least for a nineties show Jeff really does kill it is the title character and in my opinion all of the characters are perfectly cast. I only wish that the actors were given alot more to work with but sadly there not.

Now every famous person had to get there start somewhere and well this show was the start for a pair of animation legends and they are Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane and Butch Hartman. It's honestly really weird to see where these two legends got there start but at the same time you can really see that they had a lot of talent and you can see that even back then they had a lot of potential.


Now i'll admit that I couldn't find who did the animation for this show but knowing that Hanna-Barbera worked on the show then chances are it was them. I could however be wrong so don't hold me to it in terms of what I thought about the animation tho it's honestly really good at least in terms of early Cartoon Network and for once there's no repeating backgrounds and the animation isn't cheap which is new for Hanna-Barbera.

Now I said at the start of the review that this show wouldn't be made today and to be honest all of that is due to the fact that Johnny can act a little bit sexist towards the females. I'll admit it's not much sexism it's only a little bit here and there but when you see it it makes you see the show in a whole new light and I have to admit when I saw the sexism present in the show it really shocked me because I never saw it as a kid.


This amazed me as a little kid but I loved the Johnny Bravo / Scooby-Doo crossover episode to me what made that episode standout was the fact that they poked alot of fun of the Scooby-Doo formula and even some of the rumours surrounding the characters. That to me made the episode so much funnier just due to all of the in jokes plus it hopes that it was a really good episode in it's own right as well as a good crossover episode.

This show started airing in 1997 and it lasted until 2004 but even with that long air time there was only four seasons of the show aired and that's because the show was put on hiatus and with no warning was picked up for a second season in 1999. It didn't stop there tho as the creator of the show Van Partible left production after the second season and for the rest of the show's run the production was overseen by Kirk Tingblad who retooled pretty much everything about the show from it's humour to it's tone and characters.


I'm not going to name what network this show aired on just because the show was so well known and still is well known that pretty much everyone knows which network this show was broadcast on. I will say that for airing on this network they got away with alot of stuff some of which i've already mentioned but on the lighter side of things they also included cameo's from really obscure HB characters like Speed Buggy shows up at one point for no reason.

One of the things that I think that this show became known for was it's use of slapstick humour and if you don't like that kind of humour then don't even bother watching this show because it's like the only joke in this show. That's not always a bad thing but it would have been nice if they mixed it up every once in a while but no they stuck to the same type of humour for alot of the episodes and if i'm being honest that made me crave some other kind of joke.


Overall this is a classic CN series and it's not hard to see why it has great humour for the first few episodes and it gets away with a lot more stuff then today's shows do/. That said however it's not a great show by any means and so it gets a 7.5 out of 10 from me.