Some Thoughts About Final Space

Guys a few days ago TBS did something I don't think any other network has done and that's debut the premier episode or in this case episodes on Reddit and now finally i've seen those two episodes and here are some thoughts I have about Final Space.

Bottom line I really like it so far but i'm going to go into a bit more detail as to why starting with the mystery yeah there's a mystery in this show in the opening few minuets of both episodes one and two we see our hero is nearly dieing and yet we don't know why or what's caused this current situation plus there's this other mystery with another main character which starts in episode two.

The cast consists of creator Olan Rogers , Fred Armisen , Spongebob Squarpants , David Tennant , Tika Sumpter and Coty Galloway and I have to say that based of the first two episodes the cast are really good I honestly couldn't tell who David Tennant was playing in this show and I won't spoil it here just because it doesn't sound like at all nor does it sound like Scrooge Mcduck either.

Unlike most other cartoon shows I review this isn't episodic or at least these first two episodes aren't we see things set up in part one that pay off in part two and I hope we get more of that in future episodes I obviously cannot talk about the story just yet as we are only a few episodes in but I do like the fact that there seems to be a story forming.

Unlike Hot Streets where the animation was very mixed here the animation seems to be really freaking good and to be frank I was shocked at how good it really was just because I don't really think TBS has made a good cartoon series and yes I don't count American Dad as that show is made by Fox where as this show is made by TBS.

Not only is the animation really good but so is the CGI and the backgrounds I find it's very hard to see good CG in cartoons as it often stands out next to the 2D characters but here it honestly does look really freaking good and the backgrounds look like something you'd see on Rick and Morty or any Steven Spielberg produced show.

Guys to give you a fair warning these two episodes are violent as heck especially episode 2 where a main character has something happen to them and you see something I thought i'd never see in a cartoon and that's really all I can say about it without either spoiling the episode or making some of you feel sick but it's also something i'm glad they added since it makes the show feel more real somehow.

I don't exactly know if i'll do a full review of this series yet it all depends on how many episodes there are and if I can find the time to do it but this is a show I will be watching when it comes out that's how good it is I actively want to watch the next episode.

Overall guys this is a show worth watching it's dark and twisted in some places so if you like that kind of stuff then you'll love this and you watch the first two episodes now on the TBS website and on the TBS app or if you want you can wait until February 26th to watch them both on TV. 

  

Be Cool, Scooby-Doo! Review

Hello there Scooby fans i've had the pleasure of reviewing alot of Scooby-Doo related media but for some reason i've never gotten round to reviewing one of the many shows in this franchises history well now that all changes with my review of Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!.

The set up for this series is that the gang are going there separate ways at the end of the summer and thus decide to travel in the Mystery Machine seeking fun and adventure but also running into lots of mysteries. I have to admit I actually kinda like the set up for this show since we now know how it would all end there's a ticking clock added since every adventure could be the last one the gang go on together.

Now what is interesting about the cast for this series is that this was the first time since A Pup Named Scooby-Doo that someone other then Mindy Cohn voiced Velma here is she played by her new voice actress Kate Micucci who is joined by the other Scooby regulars Matthew Lillard . Grey Griffin and the only original series cast member still with the franchise Frank Welker.

I do have to admit it did take me a while to get used to Kate playing Velma since all I could hear was her character from Scrubs but once I got used to it I did and still do enjoy her performance. The rest of the cast deliver the kind of performance you expect from them at this point Frank is great which is no surprise since he's been playing Fred since the 60's and been playing Scooby since 2002 I will talk about Grey later on but she's good in this show as is Matthew Lillard.

When this show first came out it premiered and aired on Cartoon Network for most of it's first season but for some reason nearly a year after it last aired the final six episodes from season 1 aired on Boomerang at 1 am and it's aired on Boomerang for it's second season and I have to ask why did Cartoon Network air it for so long on there main channel and then for no reason put it on Boomerang to me that makes no sense what so ever so either they 

When the first images were released I admit i was horrified by the changes made to the designs and now to me at least most of the characters look like they would fit in with the Phineas and Ferb characters which no surprise since Zac Moncrief who is a producer for this new show was also a writer and director for Phineas And Ferb but tho I still think that Scooby does look kind of ugly but that might be just me tho.

Since this is basically a mystery show you'd expect at the very least more then half of the episodes would feature a good solid mystery that is not the case in fact if you pay close attention you can easily work out who the culprit is and that's not what a good mystery should do a good mystery should give you small hints as to the bad guy is and not make it obvious within the first ten to fifteen minuets.

I thought that the animation for the show was at actually really good it's a lot better then the animation for The PowerPuff Girls and Ben 10 reboots that's for sure there's a great amount of detail in the back grounds as well which was something that I liked and the characters have never had more fluid movements to them in any of the previous series and I know that will make a lot of fans of Mystery Incorporated angry but since I havn;t watched much of that show I will choose not to make any comment.

I'm just gonna come right out and say it Daphne in this show is best character because in this show they give her not only a purpose but also a personality in most of the shows she's just there and has the personality of a piece of wood but here tho she's the groups resident nut ball and every week she has a new quirk and alot of the time those quirks help solve the mystery of the episode.

Unlike the previous show which I believe was very serious this one is more light hearted and I think this is where Grey Griffin shines she has great comedic timing and that's something you can't teach as for the jokes them selfs they are laugh out loud funny I cannot count the amount of times I laughed just in the first episode alone the jokes aren't the smartest of jokes but they are funny none the less.

Overall this is a welcome addition to the Scooby franchise in my eyes yes it's as drama heavy as the previous show but I will say that you'll either love this show or hate it me I love it but I do wish the mysteries were better so it gets a 7 out of 10.

Hot Streets Review

Hot Streets fans the show has aired the final episode of it's first season and since i've been talking about the show non-stop when it was airing here is my review of the series as a whole.

The plot of the show is Agents Mark Branski and Donald French team up with Branski's niece Jen and her cowardly dog Chubby Webbers to take on paranormal phenomena. I admit when I did my first impressions review a few weeks back I thought the show would be episodic but my god was I wrong because alot of what happens prior to the finale either gets a call back or characters reappear and I have to say I really enjoyed the plot of the show.

Starring in the show is J.D. Ryznar , Scott Chernoff , Baby Daddy's Chelsea Kane , Rick and Morty Co-creator Justin Roiland and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.star Ming-Na Wen. I have to admit I had no idea Agent May was in this show until someone pointed it out to me over Twitter and yeah she does a fairly good job in this show Scott tho could use a few more acting lessons just because his delivery is sometimes a bit off and Chelsea Kane is funny as hell.

There's no getting around it Chubby Webbers is Scooby-Doo if Scooby-Doo! was made by Adult Swim I mean lets look at the facts both are dogs , both are brown , both have something to do with the paranormal and both are cowardly there's literally nothing that separates the two characters plus both have a human best friend.

Now prior to watching the final two episodes of the show I watched the pilot episode and if you guys think the actual series is strange and weird you havn't seen nothing yet the pilot is way more bizarre then the series it self it is and to be frank i'm glad they toned it down for the series just because I could see that being of putting heck it was even a chore for me to watch and I wanted to wanted to watch it.

When I was getting ready for this review I found  a great way to describe this series and it comes from a website called Inverse.com they describe the show as "Rick Sanchez from Rick and Morty gave the gang from Scooby Doo space drugs" and that is the best way to describe Hot Streets in my opinion just due to how freaking true it is.

Now I kinda get why people in the cartoon community don't talk about this show it aired at midnight so alot of people won't be able to watch it and to some like I said before due to how strange the show is it would put them of watching but I urge you to watch the show it's basically a stranger version of Rick And Morty which is not a coincidence since alot of people who write for Rick And Morty wrote for Hot Streets.

I'm not gonna lie the animation in the show can be pretty bad at times but I think that it adds to the overall charm of the show but bad animation is bad animation and I have no idea what they used to animate this show in but I wish they had gone the CGI route since they are alot of CG scenes in the show anyways so it would have helped the animation a little bit I think.

I feel that the humor of the show can be pretty mixed for every joke that doesn't work they'll throw in a joke that semi works but for me the best character to get jokes from is Chubby Webbers because for me he's like Kenny from South Park where you don't understand a word he's saying but at the same time you can't help but laugh at the situations he's in.

I don't really think this needs to be said but this is an adult cartoon but that said when i was doing research for the review I found out that one of the distributors for the show is Cartoon Network now I don't know if they still own Adult Swim and that's why there distributing this show but it feels strange that a channel for kids is distributing this strange and very adult show.

Overall this was a decent first season and I hope this show gets a second season because in my eyes this is a show that's worth watching but with all of that said it gets a 6 out of 10 from me.

  

Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: The Flash Review

DC fans another movie is here and as you can guess by the title the most popular character...........................of The CW world has his own movie so here is my review of Lego DC Comics Super Heroes: The Flash so here we go.

The plot of the movie is The Flash looses his powers thanks to Reverse Flash so me must find a way to get them back and stop Reverse Flash. To say the plot is pretty thin is an understatement but in this case I do get why it's a thin plot because this movie is meant for little kids but at the same time I do wish they had put the more focus on the plot of the movie.

The film stars James Arnold Taylor , Kate Micucci , Troy Baker , Nolan North , Grey Griffin , King Ezekiel , Dwight Schultz , Tom Kenny and Eric Bauza. The voice cast do a decent job in the movie alot of them did voice these characters in previous films such as Nolan North who has played Lego Superman before so it's no wonder that the actors do a decent job and alot of the actors have played the same characters in previous DC animated media.

What I thought was great about this film was the fact that a few lesser known villains do pop up in this movie for example you see who I think is The Trickster I won't reveal what he does since it's a spoiler but it's glad to see lesser known villains getting some love from Warner Bros.

As you can most likely tell by the above pictures this film like all of the other direct to DVD Lego movies the film uses CGI animation and the animation I thought was pretty decent for a straight to DVD movie that's the one thing I can't fault these direct to DVD Lego movies the animation is always decent at least but I do wish they would have taken more advantage with the characters being Lego.

As someone who is a bit of a Flash fan I didn't like how he was portrayed in this movie they portray him as someone who sleeps in a lot and always arrives late and to me that's not The Flash if anything he's the first one on the scene the lazy guy really is Plastic Man who is also in this movie for some unknown reason.

Unlike the previous direct to DVD Lego movies there's not that much humor in this film or at least humor that I thought was funny there's alot of "jokes"that just didn't sit well with me like all of he early Flash scenes to me went against the character like I've said before but at the same time the stuff with a certain villain at the start did work were actually funny.

One thing which I think most fans will agree with is the plan Reverse Flash has makes no sense at all since if he stopped The Flash from becoming The Flash it would wipe him out and thus preventing him from going back in time and stopping The Flash in the first place so surely it would have made more sense for him to want to help The Flash and then get rid of him in the future.

Speaking of plans that don't make sense Batman has a plan that gets revealed in the third act and it makes absolute no sense what so ever i'm not going to spoil it in case you guys want to see the movie but even for Batman it makes no sense and with Batman you can pretty much get away with anything and it would make sense.

Overall this is a solid kids movie and I have to stress that this film is for kids so if you want to get the movie it's out now digitally or you can get it on DVD and Blu-Ray on March 13th I give this movie a 6 out of 10. 

Robot Chicken Season 9 Episode 8 "We Don't See Much of That in 1940's America" Review

Robot Chicken fans it's that time of the week again and I have to say that without going into to much detail this episode is a step up from last weeks episode so here we go with a review of "We Don't See Much Of That In 1940's America"

In this weeks episode Dom Toretto drives the Titanic , James Bond joins The Bachelor , Harry Potter relives his golden years , Miss Frizzle tries to survive in the mountains after The Magic School Bus crashes. After last weeks dreadfully unfunny episode i'm glad to say that alot of sketches in this episode were actually funny and apart from one of the sketches they don't go on to long.

Doing guest voices for this weeks episode are Abraham Benrubi , Luke Evans , Amy Forsyth , Milla Jovovich , Arielle Kebbel , Ally Maki and Patrick Pinney. I'm gonna be frank I had no idea Luke Evans or Milla Jovovich where in this episode and i'm fans of both of them and I think I know who they play i'm sure Luke plays James Bond and Milla plays Miss Frizzle but since the acting for this show overall is really good it could be anyone.

Yeah I know this isn't from the episode but since pictures from the episode are hard to find I figured this will do since they spoof The Magic School Bus. Also getting better from last weeks episode was the animation which for some reason took a downward turn last week but it's back to being pretty good this time around with a nice mixture of there traditional stop motion and some CGI.

There is one downside and it's more of a personal issue then anything else but I think they should have made it more clear which version of The Magic School Bus they were spoofing just because whoever was doing the voice for Miss Frizzle doesn't sound like Lily Tomlin or Kate McKinnon which is a shame because it is a funny sketch and it would have made the sketch a think a little funnier if they brought in either actress to voice the character.

I covered most of the sketches at the start of the review but there's a lot more and they are all really funny but for me tho the two funniest sketches were the James Bond sketch at the end because i'm a Bond fan and this is something every Bond fan pokes fun at and the sketch at the beginning with the Cheerios Bee I won't spoil any of the jokes in this episode because they are all worth watching and laughing at.

Overall this was a return to form for the team and i'm glad that last weeks episode was just a fluke and we can get back to the funny stuff once again this episode scores a 8 out of 10 from me.

  

Batman: The Animated Series Review

Hello there batfans I make it no secret that I was a fan of this show growing up and I figured that it was high time I reviewed this awesome show not like i'm bias or anything by the way did I mention this show is awesome.

Incase you didn't know the series started in 1992 and it ran until 1995 but something strange happened to the show because for the final fifteen episodes the show was renamed The Adventures of Batman & Robin Batman: The Animated Series had a grand total of 85 episodes with season 1 having a whopping 65 and season 2 having a much shortened 20.

The show used the villain of the week format instead of having an overall plot line which I think works well for superhero shows but that's not to say that the show didn't have multi-part episodes in fact a fair chunk of season 1 is made up of multi-part stories and they help make the show feel more epic and grand even if the episode really didn't need to be two parts.

Since the show has a freaking huge cast list i'm not going to name every actor who played a role on the show so in the series we have the great Kevin Conroy , Loren Lester both Clive Revill and Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. , Bob Hastings , Robert Costanzo , Melissa Gilbert , the great Mark Hamill , Arleen Sorkin and Adrienne Barbeau. Now the question is shall I say how good Kevin Conroy is in this show and the answer is yes I shall why because he's freaking awesome he was and always will be THE voice for Batman just like Mark Hamill will always be THE voice for The Joker. 

What I found interesting is that both Clive and Efrem both voiced Alfred but at different points Clive did the first three produced episodes while Elfrem did the rest of the series and you really cannot tell the difference and I should know i've spend most of the day watching a ton of episodes and I can say there's no difference at all in the voices.

This show really did Batman the best just due to the fact that we actually see him solve mysteries yeah think about in all other Batman media we rarely see him be a detective despite having the name "The Worlds Best Detective" but here we see him gather clues to help find out who the villain or in some cases what there scheme is and it makes me wish that more Batman cartoons and movies did this since it's apart of his character.

As well as giving us new takes on the classic villains the show also gave us a whole host of new characters the most famous of which is easily Harley Quinn and while watching her debut episode I was shocked that she wasn't in it that much but at the same time it helped create a mystery about her that would later get answered.

What occurred to me while watching the series for the purpose of reviewing is the fact that the setting and style help make it a timeless show all you'd need to do is show people one picture from the series and they will know it's Batman. I also loved the fact that there was a lot of different time periods thrown into this show the blimps seen at the start of every episode are from the 30's and 40's , the style of the cars they drive are much from the 40's , the way the characters dress i'd say is from the 50's and the technology for the most part is from the 90's.

The animation in the show to be honest it's not that good but at the same time it's alot better then most of the stuff that's being produced today *cough* Teen Titans Go! *cough* and this was all hand drawn as well that is something that's not done today for me personally tho the animation is at it's best during both the intro and the fight scenes.

I couldn't do a review of this show and not mention the classic intro there's a reason why the intro is a classic it's so freaking good and if you notice not only is there a little story going on but there's also no sound apart from the lightning at the end and the music all of that combined help set the mood for the show it lets you know that this show will not pull any punches so just enjoy the ride.

This is an action show so of course there's going to be alot of action in it and the action is honestly pretty damn good yes it's just Batman punching people but in those scenes you get to see Batman using his brains so he tries to outwit as well as out punch his opponents.

Even tho the show uses the main theme from the 1989 Batman movie the the score for the show was done by the late Shirley Walker and I honestly think she was born to make scores for Batman because she kills it with this show all of her music fits the show perfectly and it really is hard to imagine the show without her music playing over it.

Overall if your a Batman fan young or old I highly recommend you watch this series it's so freaking good and I promise you'll love every single second of it for me the show gets a 9.5 out of 10. 

  

The Looney Tunes Show Review

Here is a review I was thinking of doing for a few days now and I cannot believe I didn't think of it sooner I had forgotten all about The Looney Tunes Show and yes it is easily better then Wabbit so here is my review of the show.

For those of you who don't remember the show it was first announced in 2009 and it was delayed and delayed for unknown reasons until it finally premiered in 2011 and it ended in 2014 after two seasons but the show wasn't met with universal praise in fact even now the show has divided Looney Tunes fans with some claiming it to be the best thing ever and others claiming it to be the worst thing ever.

The show it self doesn't have a plot in fact it takes more of a sitcom style approach and by that I mean any and all plot lines are wrapped up in thirty minuets and nothing has any effect on the rest of the series and I think it works not only for the show but also for the Looney Tunes themselves as they were never meant to have long story arcs.

One thing that this show does differently then Wabbit is the fact that it takes chances with the characters by making them more human and less looney for example Bugs doesn't always win every battle in fact he looses quite a lot of the time so when he does win it makes it all the more special and less dull like in Wabbit.

The show has a huge cast so i'm not going to name every one but starring in the show are Jeff Bergman) , Bob Bergen , Fred Armisen ,  Maurice LaMarche , the late and great June Foray and the saving grace of Lola  Kristen Wiig. Honestly I didn't really expect the voice acting to be bad since you could consider most of these voice actors legends which is certainly true with June but even I was shocked at how good the acting is in this series Jeff plays both Bugs and Daffy and they both sound great. 

What really did shock me tho was how good Kristen Wiig was as Lola to me it felt like they wrote this version of her for Kristen just because it feels like the type of character you would see her play and the two went perfectly together so it makes me wonder why they didn't bring her back for the movie Rabbits Run.

I have no idea what the budget for this show was but judging by how good the animation was i'd guess that it was quite high the characters for a long time havn't had this quality of animation honestly i'm surprised they didn't get the team how did the animation on this show and got them working on a movie because they are quite clearly talented.

The show also has what i'd say are minimalistic and while I think that could be quite distracting you do get used to them and for me at least the backgrounds start to look alot like paintings and I think that helped set the show apart from other shows airing at that time.

The show also has fully CGI segments featuring Wile E. Coyote and The Road Runner or at least they do for the first season I will say that while the CGI segments do look good they do get boring after a while and i'm glad they dropped them after the first season.

I know i'm not the only one who's said this about Lola but thank god they actually gave her a personality which trust me is better then what they did with her in Space Jam where she was there just be Bugs's love interest and nothing else here tho she's a scatter brain and while she is still a lover interest for Bugs but it's rarely the focus of her character.

It wouldn't be a Looney Tunes product if there wasn't jokes and this is where I agree with people who don't like the show because alot of the jokes don't work and aren't funny but for every joke that's un-funny you get two or three that are funny as heck but at least the jokes in this series are alot better and are alot funnier then the jokes in Wabbit. 

I know alot of the people hating on this show are hating on it because of the fact it's set in suburbia but I have to say that at least this show takes chances while I can see what there trying to do with Wabbit the fact is they cannot make a show like the classic shorts anymore so we need the characters to do something different in order to remain relevant.

Overall this is a really funny Looney Tunes show that takes the characters in new and interesting directions but it does have it's problems that keep it from being a perfect show so it gets a 8 out of 10.