Our Cartoon President Review

Cartoon fans there are alot of shows out there that divide people and while I can see why people would hate the show i'm about to review I honestly really enjoy it so here is my review of Our Cartoon President let's get it on.

The premise of the show is that the White House opens it's doors for an 'all access' look at a typical day in Donald Trump's world examining quintessentially Trumpian details of the presidency and his most important relationships. It's a world in which no one is safe from close family and confidants to key political figures of both parties and members of the media.Yes this show has no real story to tell and is episodic but I think for this show it really does work since not every show needs a story sometimes all you need is the set up and you can watch it the rest play out.

Starring in this show we have Jeff Bergman as Donald Trump , Cody Lindquist as Melania Trump , Emily Lynne as Ivanka Trump, Eric Trump, Karen Pence, and Nancy Pelosi and Gabriel Gundacker as Donald Trump Jr., Stephen Miller, and Brian Kilmeade.  The acting is kinda what you'd expect from unknown actors and i'll admit it's not the best and I do wish they had got Alec Bladwin to play the president but Jeff Bergman is the only good actor in the show and he does a fairly solid job playing the part.

Now this show does feature politics there's really no getting around it when you make a show about the current American president you have to throw in some politics but there not always at the forefront of every story infact in the most recent episode there wasn't any politics involved but when the show does dive in to them it's mostly for comedic effect.

While doing research for this review I found that two companies worked on this show and I have no idea which one did the animation those companies are Licht Media Solutions and Spartina Productions but either way the animation in this show for me goes between decent to downright ugly which is a shame because this was made using flash animation and for some reason the show likes to use the same CGI shots for multiple episodes and sometimes the lip movements are off by a few seconds.

I've said a lot of bad things about this show but I do have to mention one of the few highlights and that's the president himself he is an entertaining character in this show there are also a few other funny characters such as his son Eric who's most likely the best character on the show and Ted Cruz who never fails to get a smile out of me but that said the rest of the characters are really just there and are very forgettable.

When I last talked about this show I said that they don't demonize the president and I do still stick by that because they of the fact that they present him as this lovable idiot and I think that's the right approach if you want to make a show that can appeal to pretty much everyone and while they havn't really succeeded in doing that it was a good idea.

I do see why people do hate this show and most of it is for the reasons i've already listed but for me this show is junk food basically yeah your not going to get much out of it but while your eating your loving every minuet and if you personally don't like the show that's fine that's just how I see it.

Oh boy how do I describe the humor in this show for one thing it's very hit and miss alot of the time a joke won't land but there are a few times where I found myself smiling and most of those times it was because of something Eric said or something Ted Cruz did and I think that the makers of this show should have made it a satire like That's My Bush was a satire of that president but they chose not to do that and so the comedy falls victim because of it.

Overall i'm not sure if I should recommend this show or not but i will say that if this review got you interested in watching the show then i'm sure you can find somewhere that has all the episodes heck Showtime who airs the show like it so much they've ordered an additional seven episodes which will air this summer and bring the series total number of episodes up from 10 to 17 so this show gets a 5 out of 10 from me.  

My Brief Thoughts On Our Cartoon President

Ok then guys as you know by a previous post I did where i mention this show I was really looking forward to seeing the first episode and well the first episode was released online yesterday and i've just finished watching it so here are my brief thoughts on Our Cartoon President.

Ok so the premise of the show is The White House has opened it's doors for an all access look into the president's life. Yeah as you can most likely tell this show will be episodic in nature and i quite like it altho i had to get that summery of Wikipedia since they don't actually explain it in the show it self.

Starring as the president is Jeff Bergman who is joined by William Sadler , Zach Cherry , Gabriel Gundacker and Anna Eilinsfeld and for the pilot episode co-creator Stephen Colbert and I have to say that Jeff Bergman does a spot on impression of the president and he gives a really funny performance as do most of the cast in this first episode.

Now I have to say that this show isn't thirty minuets of bashing Donald Trump since that would get old pretty quick but it instead chooses to make him a lovable idiot and this is coming from someone who doesn't even like him and in a way i'm glad they didn't go the obvious route and just bash him for thirty minuets since that would have been far to easy.

I'm going to be frank right now i can see alot of people hating the animation heck even hating the show and judging by what people have been saying on twitter about the animation i'm right in that regard but I personally don't hate the animation that much yes it does take some getting used to but once I got used to it it was decent it wasn't anything groundbreaking but it wasn't anything awful either.

The jokes as well were a bit hit and miss but I think that's more down to the actual trailer which made the show look like it was a satire of Donald Trump and in some cases that's true but not for alot of the time and it's in those cases that the jokes don't work they still could have done a satire and showed a more human side to the president but they chose not to.

Overall i'd say that this is show that you might like and i hope that alot of people do give it a shot i know i will you can find the first episode up on Showtimes website or you can watch it when the show premiers on Showtime and February 11th as you can guess there will not be a rating since it's only one episode in but if you guys want maybe when the series ends i'll do a full review then and rate it.

  

Some Animated Shows Coming Out This Year

Hello there animation fans I know that this post isn't exactly topical right now since were know where near the start of the year but since i'm writing this on my birthday i can do whatever i like so here are some animated shows that are coming out this year and some of them are shows i'm really excited for.

Our Cartoon President

I never knew about this show when i started this list / post but after seeing the trailer I know cannot wait for February 11th if you want to know who there spoofing exactly all you need do is look at this image plus it's being produced by Stephen Colbert who also created the show but if you cannot wait until then the episode will be online on January 28th.

ReBoot: The Guardian Code

I admit to knowing nothing about this show but based on the images that i've seen the series does look like something that i would be into there's pretty much nothing released about the show when it comes to air dates the only bit of info i can find is that it will air in February on Netflix but sometime sooner on YTV.

The Adventures of Kid Danger

Nickelodeon has been killing it recently when it comes to animation but this is something nobody wanted and something nobody asked for in case you don't know this show is a spin-off of Henry Danger a live action comedy and it just looks bad.

Watership Down

This show is being made by the BBC and i'm guessing will air in the UK on CBBC if not one of the main BBC channels and it will on Netflix in America this show has a huge budget of £20 million and i've read the cast list it reads like a who's who of cinema it's a really impressive cast list.

Big City Greens

Pretty much the only thing that's known about this show is the plot which reads The series will focus on Cricket Green a mischievous but optimistic country boy who moves to the big city along with his family. This honestly doesn't look that bad Disney have been killing it recently with there animated shows so this one does have potential to be great.

Close Enough

Much like alot of the shows i've mentioned there's next to nothing released about this show the only thing released is something we all know and that's the fact it's being made by J. G. Quintel who is also doing one of the voices.

Final Space

This show looks funny as heck and that's the best way I can describe how excited i am for this show even now i'm struggling to write more about this show that's how good it truly looks and i cannot wait for it to start on February 26th.