The Simpsons Review

Cartoon fans there are so few cartoons that can truly be called iconic and I think it's safe to say that one such series is the series i'm going to take a look at today it's also a series that really should have ended by now and that series is of course The Simpsons.

Here's something that will make you all feel really old the show has been on the air for nearly thirty years regardless of what you think about the show you have to admit that's impressive and what's even more impressive is the fact that the cast has stayed with the show from the very beginning when it was just a series of shorts for The Tracy Ullman Show.

Is there really any point in me telling you the plot of the show this show is so iconic that pretty much everyone knows the plot of the show but I have to say that I like the slice of life aspect to the show since it makes the show feel more true to life and it's obviously worked since the show has been running for years so as the saying goes if ain't broke don't fix it.

The voice cast at this point is pretty much all legends and they are Dan Castellaneta , Julie Kavner , Nancy Cartwright , Yeardley Smith , Hank Azaria and Harry Shearer. I would list any guest actors but the show has so many i'm just not going to and I will say that all of the actors are phenomenal most of the actors play more then one character and I have to say you cannot tell the difference for years I had no idea that the voice of Homer was also the same guy who plays Krusty and Santa's Little Helper.

I like the rest of the world was not only a huge fan of The Simpsons but I also watched the show growing up and not just on the weekends when new episodes would air but also during the week where the channel i was watching it on would play older episodes and they still do show older episodes every night at 6pm.

As well as watching the show on TV I also remember having The Simpsons Too Hot For TV on VHS which when looking back I realized there was really nothing too hot for TV about it it was pretty tame when you think it but I had fond memories watching it.

Even tho the show is freaking legendary I cannot find out who does the animation for this show since it's animated in Korea but I can say that the animation for me was a very mixed bag in it's early years but it gets better later on and it crushes me to say that since I raised on those early seasons but it's true at least for me but I will say that when the animation in those early years is good it's freaking fantastic.

While I was doing some research for this review I found out that apart from one or two games and the comic book series there was a brief magazine , two rides which are still running plus lots and lots of books it's truly nuts how big The Simpsons is and the fact that they are still pumping more merch into this franchise.

I even found out that the premier episode "Simpsons Roasting On An Fire" wasn't the first episode produced and it wasn't intended to be the first episode to air this episode was in fact the eighth episode to be produced I can't find out which episode was intended to air first but if I was to guess i'd say it was episode to Bart The Genius since that episode has the classic Simpsons opening.

I think we can all agree that even tho Homer does some really questionable things throughout the series run he is deep down a loving father and husband take for example the premier episode where he hides the fact that he didn't get a bonus this year from his family because he didn't want to ruin Christmas for them and I can some up another example with these words Do It For Her you all know what I mean.

Like the rest of the world I thought the writing in the earlier episodes was far better and the jokes where better i'm not saying there isn't some funny moments in the latter seasons but the jokes in the latter seasons aren't as good as those in the earlier episodes and I think that's the biggest downfall of the show being on for so long.

Overall guys there's nothing I can say about this show because of how legendary it is and the fact there's over 600 episodes proves that but the show does get a 9 out of 10 from me.

  

Guardians Of The Galaxy TV Series Review

Hello there Marvel fans this is a review i've been toying with doing for a while now and finally here it is and just by pure chance it's come not long after my review of Avengers Assembled so here is my review of the pretty fun Guardians Of The Galaxy TV series.

Like Avengers Assemble each season of this show has a different plot the first season has the guardians trying to find and destroy something called The Cosmic Seed before Thanos gets his hands on it and uses it to wipe out the galaxy. Season two on the other hand has the Guardians looking for a strange sarcophagus which contains something really powerful and it also has them trying to defend that powerful object.

Now what I found great about the first season's story was that it lasted the whole twenty plus episode season they really did take there time telling that story and that made the pay off much more rewarding but it's a shame then that in season 2 them trying to find the sarcophagus only lasts until episode 10 that whole plot line could have lasted a whole season.

Starring as the guardians we have Ron Stoppable as Peter Quill , Hera as Gamora , Trevor Devall as Rocket , Lion Turtle as Groot and David Sobolov as Drax. Yes I know the actors have names but lets face it those are the names you'll most likely no them by but tho all kidding aside the actors playing the guardians do a really great job even if it was hard for me not to hear the live action actors at the beginning and even tho Yondu is in this series he's not played by Micheal Rooker and he is the only person who is aloud to play him I have now decided. 

What I forgot to mention before is that unlike Avengers Assemble which changed it's title pretty every season for this shows first two seasons it's just called Guardians Of The Galaxy it's only getting a subtitle for it's upcoming third season which is due to premier next week on Disney XD and I think they said the premier episode will be an hour long.

What I found while doing some Avatar research was that Studio Mir did the animation for this show but only the first season and I cannot find out who did the animation for the second unless Marvel Animation took over since that would save them alot of money. 

The animation for the show it self I thought was really well it looked like it existed in the same world as Avengers Assembled there's lots of great fluid looking movements and stunning backgrounds I think that's the one thing that even people who hate the current Marvel animated line up can agree on the animation is really good.

I admit when the series was first announced and they released the character designs I like most of the world thought this was set in the MCU I mean how could you not they all look like there live action counterparts but nope this has nothing to do with the MCU it instead takes part in the Marvel Animated Universe but then I have to ask why did they make the characters look like how they did in the movies why not make them look different kids would still watch the show because of how good the movie was and the same reason goes for the adults even Thanos kinda looks like Josh Brolin.

This is a question I asked myself during the first season finale since it took place on earth why the hell didn't either The Avengers or Spider-Man come in to offer some help it took place in there backyard and they didn't even cameo even in the season two premier where the avengers did appear they don't even mention it.

I can safely say that the action scenes are one of this shows big selling points for me personally they were really well animated and for me personally they were pretty creative and they don't always boil down to who can hit who the hardest there are times in this series where one of the heroes has to use there brains to win the fight and that was something that I really liked.

This show has a pretty sweet soundtrack and i'm not going to lie I might have sung a song or two during this series but in my defense they played both Hooked On Feeling and Don't Stop Me Now the actual score for the show for me was pretty bland but that might be because I was more interested in what ever song was playing during that episode then the actual music.

Overall this was a really fun show and I hope that it gets more attention since it's miles better then the new Spider-Man cartoon and it has fun with it's characters and setting plus the soundtrack is pretty sweet it gets an 8 out of 10 from me.

Trolls: The Beat Goes On! Season 2 Review

Trolls fans it's time for something new from the Trolls franchise as season 2 of The Beat Goes On! has just dropped on Netflix and since I liked the the first season I thought why not review the second so here we go.

As with the first season the show is episodic and I think it works for this series and some of the shows stories are really fun to see play out even if you know how the story is going to end before it happens I won't lie I saw the ending for Big Poppy coming a mile away but that doesn't mean it wasn't fun to see play out.

Returning for the second season we have Skylar Astin , Amanda Leighton , Kari Wahlgren , Sam Lerner , Ron Funches , Kevin Michael Richardson and Fryda Wolff. Unlike the last season where I couldn't get the original voices out of my head now I think Skylar and Amanda are great replacements for the film actors but with that said I still would have preferred it if they got all of the films main cast back for the series.

The animation was once again done by Dreamworks Animation and I think that the animation in this season is better then what they had in the last season if that even makes sense and it has a certain charm to it it's not the best animation like in Avatar but at the same time it's not as bad as Teen Titans Go! or any Sony Pictures Animation movie.

Alot of people might be wondering why I like this show well that's because while it is a bad show it's like the Fast & Furious movies in that it's pure junk food for the brain you know it's not going to be any good but at the same time you go and enjoy them anyway and to me that's what describes this show yes it's bad but at the same time you want to go and see it and have fun with it.

I have to ask this but do we really need Cooper in this show he's so freaking annoying he's fine in the movie because he's not in it that much but when the show focuses on him you would have thought that the makers of the show would have tried to make him less annoying but nope they didn't and it really does hurt the show as a whole.

Even tho I didn't notice it last season but DJ Suki is adorable as hell and in my opinion she's one of the best characters on the show (apart from Poppy that is) and it's a shame that she doesn't get that much screen time in the series which is a shame because every time she's on screen I end up laughing at least once.

For some reason people don't really talk much about this show and I think that's partly due to the fact it's on Netflix but also due to the fact that this for sure a kids show but either way I do think people should be talking about this show more even if it's in a negative light it's still better then nothing but if your not talking about it because you havn't got Netflix then fair enough.

This show does something awesome it makes a Back To The Future reference and it's really freaking funny but tho sadly not all of the jokes this season are funny in fact quite a few aren't and for some reason they reference The Shining as if the target audience have seen that movie but for every bad joke there's one or two that will at least make you smile and that's the best thing I can say about them they will make you smile.

Like the last season there's alot of songs in this season so many in fact that I actually cannot remember any of them I know Poppy has a solo song I think in episode one but that's really it and they have a song at least once per-episode it's like they made the soundtrack first and then released they had to come up with a way or marketing it so they made a Netflix series to sell the soundtrack.

Overall this season was pretty good but it's not as good as the first but then again the first season was so fresh to me that no matter how good this season was it wasn't going to top the first for me this series gets a perfect 5 out of 10.

  

Avengers Assemble Review

Marvel fans here we are with a review that I never thought i'd be doing but now is the right time given that Black Panther is killing it at the box office and the show's fifth season is going to focus on Black Panther so here is my review of Avengers Assemble.

Now the plot for the first season is The Avengers reunite and have to stop Red Skull from using the Tesseract while season two mainly deals with The Avengers fighting Thanos it's from season three on wards that the show changes it's title with this season being called Ultron Revolution and yeah it's in the name who The Avengers have to defeat and the current season is called Secret Warriors and it follows Black Panther and a new set of heroes who have to find The Avengers who have been scattered across space and time. 

As you can pretty much gather each season has a different plot and a different title to go with it in terms of the best story I like the one being told in Secret Wars just because the team in season four havn't teamed up before the premier episode so we get to see them bond as a team and that to me makes this season more interesting.

Starring in the series is Laura Bailey , Troy Baker , Adrian Pasdar , Bumper Robinson , Roger Craig Smith , Fred Tatasciore , Travis Willingham and Adrian's replacement as Iron Man for season 4 Mick Wingert. Yeah for some reason they replaced Adrian Pasdar as Iron Man for season 4 and I don't like his replacement I think that Adrian has such a distinct voice that's perfect for playing Iron Man the rest of the cast are really good Fred has been playing Hulk since 2009 and I think it's safe to say that he is the voice of The Hulk now.

What kinda surprises me is how little known this show is for one thing it's Marvel they get alot of publicity from doing anything and secondly it's on a network owned by Disney who could pay for more publicity for the show Channel Frederator havn't even done a 107 facts video on the series and yet they did one for The Emoji Movie.

What most people either don't know or didn't realise is that this is part of an animated universe called the Marvel Animated Universe it so far consists of the since cancelled Ultimate Spider-Man , Avengers Assemble , Guardians Of The Galaxy and the since cancelled Hulk And The Agents Of Smash but you can watch these shows really in any order you want so you don't have to watch Ultimate Spider-Man to understand Guardians and so on.

As far as I can work out the animation was dine in house by Marvel Animation but there's a chance I could be wrong but if i'm not for an in house animation the animation was pretty well done I was looking to watch something as different as Avatar as I could and this really did hit the spot because it looks so different from Avatar.

The show also makes use of CGI animation as well and for the most part the two do blend really well but then there's scenes where you can tell straight up that it's CGI and it did take me out of the episode a little and I wish that they could have spent more time on making the CGI look a little better then what we did get.

Now what's interesting is that they have two designs for Falcon in the first three and the first episode of season four Falcon is dressed more like his comic counterpart but from episode 9 of season four he looks more like his live action counterpart not only is his suit more like it is in the live action movies but they also make him look like Anthony Mackie I was shocked at how much they made him look like Anthony.

I have to say that this series did the Inhumans better then the Inhumans TV Series did it's not saying much because that show's freaking terrible but in this series the Royal Family actually act like a Royal family and not just really angry siblings in this series they take measures to make sure Maximus cannot do anything evil which is way more then what they did in the god awful Inhumans show.

Since this is a superhero show there's alot of action in every episode and I have to say the action in the series was handled really well it's never just there for the sake of having an action scene it serves a purpose and that purpose is to help the story and for me that's the best thing an action scene can do and while it does boil down to who can hit who the hardest here it actually makes sense so I can't really knock the series for that.

If your an animation fans you'll want to know who's working on this series the writers for the first and the shows producers is the group Man Of Action who created the original and reboot of Ben 10 but also serving as a producer is Eric Radomski who is the creator of Batman: The Animated Series that's a lot of talent right there and i'm glad that Marvel put the right people onto this series because it could have been very freaking wrong if they didn't.

Overall this is a really good show but at the same time it's not as good as I think it could be but I do think that the show deserves more attention then what it does get so the show gets a 8.5 out of 10 from me.

  

Star Wars Rebels Final Episodes Spoiler Free Review

Star Wars fans it has finally aired after four long seasons spanning many episodes and hopefully earning alot of fans not only did the season finale air but so did the final every episode of Star Wars Rebels and so this is what I thought of the episode.

The plot of these final episodes is actually one story it details The Rebels plan to get the Empire of Lothal for good. To me these episodes felt like Ocean's Eleven for some reason but for this story that's a good thing and this is the type of story that should have been on the big screen and not on a TV screen.

Now since I havn't seen most of seasons 3 and 4 i'm only going to name the main cast that appear in the episodes so we have Dee Bradley Baker , Taylor Gray , Vanessa Marshall , Tiya Sircar , Steven Blum and co-creator / co-director and co-writer of these episodes Dave Filoni. I didn't mention Freddy because I did some research so even tho he is listed in the end credits i'm not going to credit him but the voice cast did a great of playing those characters for the last time in this series which for Dee he's been playing Rex since 2008 and he's still freaking awesome as the character. 

There's not really much I can mention about these episodes because anything I can say could be considered a spoiler but tho to me that's the sign of a good finale alot of good things happen but you can't say what happens because it would be a spoiler and the less I say about the ending the freaking better.

The animation was done by Lucasfilm and I have to say that the animation for me was freaking movie quality that's how freaking good it was I felt like I was watching a movie everything animation wise was freaking fantastic i'm not going to say it was PIXAR quality but it was better then the animation in any Sony Pictures movie and that makes me want to know what kind of budget this show had because it was clearly alot in order to pull of this level of animation.

Not only was the actual animation freaking amazing but so was the backgrounds and the fire effects incase you don't know it's very hard to pull of fire in animated films so i'm glad that this show pulled of some realistic looking fire as for the backgrounds they were breathtaking to look at.

Now i've watched alot of Avatar episode prior to this finale so I knew before episode fourteen finished that it was directed by Dave Filoni because of how freaking action packed the episode was and how action packed his Avatar episodes are and I have to say the man has stepped up his game.

Speaking of the action the action in these episodes and when I sat alot I mean alot and it's beautiful to see and it's not just punching and kicking either there's a lot of blaster shots and lightsabers being used and they use alot of really creative camera movements which i'm not sure if I can spoil so i'm going to play it safe and not mention it but i'm shocked they managed to pull it of on a TV budget.

What really blew me away was how good Kevin Kiners music truly was in this episode like everything else in this episode it felt like it belonged in a movie and to me it helped sell the emotion of every single scene and I liked that they reused some of the classic Star Wars themes.

It's not all good tho since there's a plot point in episode fourteen that I saw coming a mile away and it played out the exact way I knew it would they didn't even try to mix it up it just felt lazy to me especially since it's a key scene you thought they would have put a little bit more effort into it but nope.

Overall this was a great way to end the series and I hope we get to see more from these characters in another series or a book or a comic book i've mentioned the only issue that I found with the episode so it gets a 9 out of 10 from me.

  

Avatar: The Last Airbender Book 3 / Sozin's Comet Review

Avatar fans the time has come after about a week of watching nothing but Avatar and Voltron here is the final review of the series and unlike the first series and the second series where I watched alot of the episodes this time round i'm only reviewing Sozin's Comet which is the season 3 finale so here we go.

After two years of set up and it's here Sozin's Comet and it's up to Aang and Team Avatar to defeat the fire lord and end the war once and for all. This is the kind of epic story you get when you spend years setting it up and moving all of the key players into place this was such a good story to watch unfold and in a way this story was like the Harry Potter books after they got more adult and i'm thankful for that because it's what the show demanded.

Now sadly Mako isn't in this series due to him dieing after finishing season 2 so he is replaced by the only new actor to the show Greg Baldwin altho they did add Mark Hamill as a series regular this year i'm not going to go on about the older cast members since there awesome but it's the newer cast members I want to talk about I didn't like the voice Greg uses for Iroh it doesn't sound anything like Mako at all and Mark is freaking scary.

I have to say Grey Griffin plays a great crazy person I honestly just want her to play crazy people for the rest of her career she's that good at it and the scenes with Azula going of the deep end were very well done in my opinion.

Coming back to finish the animation was JM Animation who this series was joined by Moi Animation and I have to say that the animation in these final four episodes really did blow me away the animation in these episodes looked like something you'd see in a movie and not a TV show that's how good it was and from what i've seen the quality only gets better in Korra and yes I will be talking about the animation again when I mention the fight scenes.

Speaking of the fight scenes bra and vo because they were really freaking impressive and i'm glad they saved the best action scenes for this finale because this is where we needed to see the best of everyone and they did a great job with them and it's helped by the fact that the animation in those scenes was really freaking good all of the characters movements where really fluid and fast paced and that helped sell the action for me.

The only thing I didn't enjoy about the episode was the fact that they do the cliche ending where everyone gets with the person there meant to be with to me that really wasn't needed and it would have been better if they left it up to people's imaginations but for an epic episode like this and that only has one minor complaint that really is something.

Overall the show was a freaking fun ride but at the same time i'm glad that ride's over so I can get off the episode was also really epic and it gets a 9 out of 10 from me while the series as a whole gets a 9.5 out of 10.  

Avatar: The Last Airbender Book 2 Review

Avatar fans as you know i've been on an Avatar mission to review each and every season and here we are at season 2 and I have to say that it's a really good season and so here is the review.

Unlike last season which had one story Book 2 pretty much has two the first one is Aang has to find an earth bending master it's an interesting story and it's one that I wish lasted the whole series but it doesn't but the second story is Aang has to learn to master the Avatar state and it's not really that interesting of a story and they wrap it up in two episodes.

All of the main actors returned for the series but sadly this was the final series to feature Mako as Uncle Iroh as he died after this series had finished production. Joining the returning cast we have Jessie Flower , Grey Griffin , Cricket Leigh , Olivia Hack and Clancy Brown and I have to say that I really enjoyed the newer characters and there performances but out of all the cast members I have to say that I liked Grey Griffin the best just because you could tell she was having playing Azula and I had fun watching her.

I liked what they did with Zuko this series they turned him being a straight out villain to something more along the lines of an antihero and to me that made him more interesting and it made his scenes more interesting to watch but I guess it was also helped by the fact he wasn't just stuck on a ship this series.

The animation for this series was handled by two different companies those being JM Animation and DR Movie both of whom also did the animation for the first season with only JM Animation returning for the third. I have to say that I felt that the animation got a huge upgrade from the last series which is saying something because the animation in the first series was truly something to behold but tho with that being said I did notice animation errors which like the first series it was mostly people missing faces and I hope to god the third series doesn't contain any errors.

What I hope doesn't change however is the wonderful looking action scenes and unlike the first series not all of them are forgettable I remember the first fight with Azula pretty damn well. I think all the fight scenes came of better this year because not only was there alot more emotion behind them but we as an audience had grown to love the characters more.

Speaking of Azula she is freaking terrifying she is such a good villain and she is so unlike how her brother was in the first series it's unreal Zuko could be terrifying at times but he also came across as a less emo Kylo Ren but Azula is freaking scary and is willing to put her own friends life in danger if she doesn't get her way so if she's willing to that to a friend then imagine what she'd do if she doesn't even know you.

In the same way that the Harry Potter series grew more mature with it's audience and story I think that this series is more mature with it's story and it's audience for example even tho we don't see it it's implied that a character dies and unlike the last series where it was done by magic and thus the character could live on here it's death and that's it I can't think of a series that came out at the same time as this show that did anything close to that.

Honestly I can't decide who was the best character this series which for me was between Azula and Toph now i've already gave my reasons as to why I think Azula is the best character but for Toph she was a delight to watch and it was great seeing her relationship with Katara grow from Toph pretty much hating her to seeing Katara as a friend and alley and she had alot of the funniest lines this year as well almost everything she said had me laughing out loud.

Overall this was an entertaining second season but unlike what i've done for both this and the first series i'm not going to watch every episode of the final season just the last four episodes since I think they will show everything that is great about this show so far me Book 2 gets a 9 out of 10 see you all for the third and final series Book 3 Fire.