Craig Of The Creek Review

Hello their Cartoon Network fans this has been a review long in the making and it's also a review i've been waiting to do since it's a really good show so here is my review of the new Cartoon Network show Craig Of The Creek.

The show is episodic so the premise of the show is basically Craig and his friends get into adventures at a creek.For some reason when I watched the pilot episode it reminded me alot of Disney's Recess and honestly the same is true for this series and that's not a bad thing at all in fact it's part of the show's charm.

The show stars Phillip Solomon as Craig , H. Michael Croner as J.P. and Noël Wells as Kelsey but is really interesting is that for the pilot and the first three episodes Kelsey was voiced by Georgie Kidder and there's no given reason as to why they switched her out. The acting in the show is pretty decent and I like that they got an actual kid to play the main character and Phil does a good job voicing Craig.

In all honesty there's nothing really bad I can say about the show apart from the fact that it's way to short this series really should have been a full twenty two minuets since that would allow the stories more time to breathe instead of moving at breakneck speeds but honestly that's my only major complaint.

This show was made in house by Cartoon Network and was thus animated by Cartoon Network Studios and i've seen the list of shows they've made and damn that's a lot of good shows back to the animation tho this is show is really well animated I know that comes across as me being surprised but i'm really not since this is the same studio that animated Steven Universe and Adventure Time.

Now I know alot of people are going to say that the characters look like Steven Universe characters but to me that kinda makes sense since the creators of this show  Matt Burnett and Ben Levin did write episodes of SU so it makes sense that that show would influence how some of  the characters look in this show.

For some reason I remember alot of people talking about the pilot of this show which for some unknown reason is not uploaded on the official Cartoon Network Youtube page but i'm glad that I watched the pilot the first chance I had because if not I feel like I would have missed out because the way the pilot played out it was just screaming to be picked up for a full series and it's very rare that you see a pilot like that.

For me the best character in the whole show period is Kelsey I just love the fact that she's really over dramatic and she's basically into Game Of Thrones which is my show (#TeamDany4Life) and for me she is not only the groups strategist but she's also the crazy one of the group and that only makes me love her even more.

The show for me is really freaking funny like really funny and while you do get jokes in their for little kids i'm sure that there are some jokes in their that are for adults but there's a chance that I might be wrong and the jokes are so well written which is something i can also for pretty much all of the characters and I say pretty much because J.P. is just the typical dumb kid character.

Overall I highly recommend you check out this show trust me you will not disappointed just set aside a few hours and binge watch a a dozen or so episodes you'll love it for me this show gets an 8.5 out of 10.  

  

My Thoughts On Both Summer Camp Island And Craig Of The Creek

Hello there cartoon fans i thought that instead of producing the next Cartoon History i'd tell you my thoughts of two recently released pilots and honestly one of the pilots has me excited while the other has me interested in the fact it offers something different.

The plot of the pilot for Summer Camp Island is that Oscar and his best friend are having there annual sleepover and that best friend invites someone else. I'll admit the summery i gave doesn't really do it justice just due to what happens in the end and just based of that alone makes me interested because it is something different. Now the plot for Craig Of The Creek is Craig and his best friends go on a journey to help Craig get his staff back i have to say that the pilot to this show reminded me alot of Recess and that's not a bad thing at all.

Now i can't say if Summer Camp Island has a great cast of characters since in just the pilot we didn't see much of them but i can say that the characters in Craig Of The Creek and they all have there own little quirks like for example one of Craig's friends will sometimes narrate her own life like it's a book and she's the hero  not only is that clever and it also makes the character more interesting.

I do have to give Cartoon Network alot of credit here because a show like Summer Camp Island is a big risk for them to take not only is it an odd premise but the characters also look strange and the story telling is alot more adult then most of their shows are and you could even make the argument that Craig Of The Creek is a risky show as well.

I can see why people would be put off by the artwork of Summer Camp Island i mean instead of making cartoony looking designs they look like real animals and while that did in fact throw me off at first especially when you add in the large pupils i think that once you get past that you'll find a strange show that is oddly entertaining.

As for the designs in Craig i think it's pretty clear that the creators who also worked on Steven Universe made their characters look like Steven Universe characters (if that makes any sense at all?) but with that being said the characters do look good.

In terms of jokes i'd have to say that Craig is s freaking funny i cannot count the amount times just in the pilot episode alone that i lost it there's even a Steven Universe cameo in there i won't spoil where the cameo is but when you see it you'll know all of the jokes in that pilot to me worked. 

However the same cannot be said for Summer Camp Island i don't know why but none of the jokes in the pilot episode really worked altho i did like the fact that everything in that camp is strange and odd that was pretty clever and i hope they go further with it when the show premiers.

So there you go guys that is what i think of these two pilots and honestly i cannot wait to watch more from these two shows it's just a shame we don't know when they will actually start airing episodes.