The Flintstones is a brand that's been around since the sixties and spans many TV shows , movies and specials so when news of a new series was announced I was pretty excited since i'm a fan. Well guess what just came online yup the very first episode of Yabba-Dabba Dinosaurs! and boy oh boy if you thought Teen Titans Go was bad or that Thundercats Roar looks bad trust me you haven't seen anything yet.
The plot of this first episode is Fred destroys Wilma's flowers and Bamm-Bamm and Pebbles go to this place full of out of control dinosaurs. To say that the plot is all over the place would be a freaking understatement first of why are Bamm-Bamm and Pebbles now like eleven years old they work better as little kids second why is there a place full of out of control dinosaurs since this is the stone age there's a lot of things about the plot that just don't make sense and the episode doesn't go out of it's way to explain anything these things could have been avoided the episode was twenty two minuets and not ten.
Take a good long look at these world class deigns because your not going to be seeing them for the rest of this post. Since for some reason whoever was in charge thought that all of the characters need to look really ugly and of putting and not cute and charming because why would you want iconic characters who have stood the test of time to look cute and charming that's just freaking stupid.
Now I can't find a complete cast list anywhere heck there's not even a Wikipedia page for this show so the only listed actors I can find are Jeff Bergman as Fred Flintstone , Kevin Michael Richardson as Barney Rubble , Tress MacNeille as Wilma Flintstone , Grey Griffin as Betty Rubble and Frank Welker as Dino. For some reason there's no complete cast list so for the life of me I can't say who's playing Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm I will say tho that there voices are freaking weird in this show tho. As for the actors playing The Flintstones and Rubbles there cast really well at least in my opinion but given that alot of these actors have not only played these characters before but are also really good actors that's to be expected.
This image right here is everything that's wrong with this episode and so far the whole show i've already mentioned the terrible character designs so let's move on to the fact that there trying to make this show hip and with it by having Dino dab. Yup if you wanted to see a fan favourite cartoon character dab then this is the show for you if you didn't then your just not cool and yes that was me trying to make a joke because The Flintstones was never made for kids it was made for adults so having dino dab is just stupid and it dates the show.
The animation for the show was done by Salty Dog Pictures who havn't worked on anything really of note and are an Irish company that's really all I could find on them. After seeing this first episode that's a good thing because my god is the animation in this first episode terrible if you thought the animation in Thundercats Roar looked bad then trust me you've seen nothing yet because at least the animation there looked finished. Here tho there's a lot of very stilted movements that look like they forgot to animate the inbetween stuff everything about the animation screams unfinished.
Now if your wondering why there's what looks like a water mark on these images it's because these images actually leaked online a few months ago and there the only images I can actually find. I have to again wonder why the heck did they age up Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm because they work better as little kids I don't know what age there meant to be in this show but so far it's not working.
I never want a cartoon to be cancelled before it airs but i've heard a rumour that this show is being cancelled. While that is indeed a sad thing because it would mean no more new adventures with The Flintstones it's also a good thing because they deserve much better then this show if anything I hope that this show puts younger views on to the original show just so they can see what The Flintstones was like at it's best.
Now I no that it seems like i'm dead set against this show but the truth is i'm honestly not since this is the first new Flintstones TV series in twenty three years with the last one being 1996's Cave Kids and the last Flintstones movie was 2015's The Flintstones & WWE: Stone Age SmackDown!. If anything I want this show to succeed because it will say to executives that this brand still has life in it but the trouble is just of this first episode it's terrible and if something is terrible you should say so and you should say so even more when it's part of a franchise that has proven to put out good things.
Now I don't know if the first episode has officially aired on Boomerang or not since I watched it of Kimcartoon but if it hasn't and this is going to kill me to say it but don't watch it. That's something that i've never said before but that's how bad this show is so far yes it could get better and I hope it does but you only get one chance to make a first impression and this show has had it's one chance.
I really do wish I could make a comment on the jokes in this episode but I think that the creative team forgot to put any in because I didn't laugh once. That's a really bad thing because this is meant to be a comedy of course what makes me laugh might not make you laugh so there for you guys might find something funny but I didn't laugh once if anything I was counting down the minuets until the episode ended.
Overall like i've said just don't watch this episode if it's not up on Boomerang already i'll continue to watch it but only for the sole reason that I want to review it for you guys. This is a bad return of this iconic franchise and it's one that is best left in the stone age.
