Johnny Bravo Review

Cartoon fans we're taking a trip back to the nineties for this review and this was a show that alot of us myself included grew up with. I will say that after watching a bunch of episodes of this show i've come to the conclusion that this show wouldn't be made today and i'll go into the reasons why later and let us prey that none of us use the pick up tactics used in this show and so here we go with me review of the one and only the legend that is Johnny Bravo.

The premise of this show is Johnny Bravo is a simple man who just wants to get a girlfriend and the show follows his exploits as he tries to get a date with a girl. Yeah there really isn't a plot to the show outside of that premise and with a premise as strong as that you don't really need a plot. At the same time tho I would have been good if there was a small plot running through some of the episodes but at the same time if that was the case then this show wouldn't be the same.

Starring in the show was Jeff Bennett as Johnny Bravo , Brenda Vaccaro as Momma , Mae Whitman as Little Suzy , Tom Kenny as Carl and Larry Drake as Pops. In all honesty the acting isn't that bad at least for a nineties show Jeff really does kill it is the title character and in my opinion all of the characters are perfectly cast. I only wish that the actors were given alot more to work with but sadly there not.

Now every famous person had to get there start somewhere and well this show was the start for a pair of animation legends and they are Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane and Butch Hartman. It's honestly really weird to see where these two legends got there start but at the same time you can really see that they had a lot of talent and you can see that even back then they had a lot of potential.

Now i'll admit that I couldn't find who did the animation for this show but knowing that Hanna-Barbera worked on the show then chances are it was them. I could however be wrong so don't hold me to it in terms of what I thought about the animation tho it's honestly really good at least in terms of early Cartoon Network and for once there's no repeating backgrounds and the animation isn't cheap which is new for Hanna-Barbera.

Now I said at the start of the review that this show wouldn't be made today and to be honest all of that is due to the fact that Johnny can act a little bit sexist towards the females. I'll admit it's not much sexism it's only a little bit here and there but when you see it it makes you see the show in a whole new light and I have to admit when I saw the sexism present in the show it really shocked me because I never saw it as a kid.

This amazed me as a little kid but I loved the Johnny Bravo / Scooby-Doo crossover episode to me what made that episode standout was the fact that they poked alot of fun of the Scooby-Doo formula and even some of the rumours surrounding the characters. That to me made the episode so much funnier just due to all of the in jokes plus it hopes that it was a really good episode in it's own right as well as a good crossover episode.

This show started airing in 1997 and it lasted until 2004 but even with that long air time there was only four seasons of the show aired and that's because the show was put on hiatus and with no warning was picked up for a second season in 1999. It didn't stop there tho as the creator of the show Van Partible left production after the second season and for the rest of the show's run the production was overseen by Kirk Tingblad who retooled pretty much everything about the show from it's humour to it's tone and characters.

I'm not going to name what network this show aired on just because the show was so well known and still is well known that pretty much everyone knows which network this show was broadcast on. I will say that for airing on this network they got away with alot of stuff some of which i've already mentioned but on the lighter side of things they also included cameo's from really obscure HB characters like Speed Buggy shows up at one point for no reason.

One of the things that I think that this show became known for was it's use of slapstick humour and if you don't like that kind of humour then don't even bother watching this show because it's like the only joke in this show. That's not always a bad thing but it would have been nice if they mixed it up every once in a while but no they stuck to the same type of humour for alot of the episodes and if i'm being honest that made me crave some other kind of joke.

Overall this is a classic CN series and it's not hard to see why it has great humour for the first few episodes and it gets away with a lot more stuff then today's shows do/. That said however it's not a great show by any means and so it gets a 7.5 out of 10 from me.

Constantine: City of Demons Review

Constantine fans when this series first debuted I did a review just based of the first six episodes and i've now come the the realisation that that wasn't a good thing to do. So i've taken down that review and i'm going to re-review this product only now i'm watching the whole story so I can fully judge it better and hopefully turn out a much better review so here we go with me review of Constantine: City of Demons.

The plot of this show / movie is John Constantine and his mate Chas travel to LA in a battle to save the soul of Chas's daughter. I'll admit that I don't really know this character at all so I can't say if this story fits with the character or not but I can say that as a story it's really well told altho this does kind of feel like a TV show which will make sense later on in the review and that's an issue with every CW Seed DC animated shows.

Of course reprising his role from both his solo show and from the Arrowverse is Matt Ryan as John Constantine he is joined by Damian O'Hare as Chas Chandler , Laura Bailey as Asa the Healer / Nightmare Nurse and Trish , Emily O'Brien as Renee Chandler , Rachel Kimsey as Angela , Robin Atkin Downes as Butler and Jim Meskimen as Beroul. This is a first for me because every actor i've listed is also pretty much every actor that appears in this show / movie so I didn't pick certain actors I just listed everyone.

As for what I thought about the acting in this show / movie it's honestly not as bad as it could have been since the acting in this thing could have been really bad. Of course Matt Ryan is great as John he pretty much owns the role of this character much like how Kevin Conroy owns the role of Batman in animation. The rest of the cast I feel do a good job and since a few of them are really good voice actors that's not a surprise but they all fail when compared to Matt.

The animation for this show / movie was done by Digital eMation and I can't really find what else they've worked on outside of Young Justice: Outsiders and Johnny Test. I can say that the animation in this show / movie was honestly really good and of a higher quality then any web series that i've seen. There is a downside tho and that is that the animation doesn't do a good job of helping the the tone and mood that the show / film is going for.

Now as you may have noticed that several times in this review i've been calling this thing a show / movie and well that's because while this thing did in fact start airing as a show on The CW Seed about a year after it's fifth episode a film version was released that had the back episodes edited in to finish the story. Why CW chose to do this not once but three times is beyond me because if you recall they released three shows each lasting around two seasons and then they would release them as a movie with new animation and that to me makes no sense why didn't they just release all of the episodes instead of releasing a few and then making us wait a year to see the rest.

In all honesty the only show that did this right was Vixen since that show aired both of it's seasons before releasing the movie version and both of those stories at least told two whole separate stories. The other two tho didn't and that got really frustrating because you'd just be getting into a show and they would end it on a huge cliffhanger and that meant we had to wait around a year sometimes a little bit longer to find out what happens next.

Now on the show's Wikipedia page they have this listed as a spin off of the Justice League Dark film all because it's Matt Ryan playing Constantine. If that's the case then the live action show and every show in the Arrowverse is a spin off this show because in my opinion this show isn't a spin off since it's set in the world of the CW DC shows and not in the world of the current DC Animated Movies and that makes all the difference.

Like both Vixen and Freedom Fighters there's new footage added into this and unlike the other two where it's mostly bridging the gap between seasons here the new footage is literally the rest of the season. Which again makes me wonder why they chose to release the second part of this show as a movie since it would have most likely have been finished when episode one came out so they could have just released the whole series there and then but nope they chose to make us wait a year.

I know I keep on going on about waiting a whole year to see how it ends but it's really did annoy me since a few of those shows were honestly really good and the fact that they didn't just release the whole thing at once was just frustrating.This show / movie does something good tho and that's give us plenty of awesome kills yeah i;m not kidding there's a lot of kills in this movie and you see them all and there so freaking cool and awesome that it makes me wonder why the whole thing wasn't like those kills.

There's plenty of action to be found in this show / movie as well and it's all wonderfully animated and wonderfully done. The issue I have with the action is that it's al magic based and that for me while being very well done just isn't that interesting to see and I know this is going to sound odd given what im reviewing but it didn't seem real to me like I like my powerless heroes to fight with there fists and yes I do count Constantine as a powerless hero.

Overall this wasn't a bad show / movie it also wasn't that great of one either if your a fan of the character then chances are you'll like this alot but for me it gets a 6 out of 10.

The Powerpuff Girls 1998 Review

Cartoon fans I was a kid of the nineties and that means the show that i'm about to review for you all is a show that I grew up watching. I'll admit that I didn't watch this show all the time mostly because I was busy watching other shows but other time this show has started to grow on me and well I thought that since i've reviewed both the reboot and the movie it only makes sense for me to review the original so here is my review of the 98 version of The Powerpuff Girls.

The premise of the series is basically three girls with superpowers fight crime and protect the town and people of Townsville. As my summery will suggest this show is episodic so you don't really need to watch episode one to understand say episode ten you can watch any of the episodes and get the personality of each of the girls and while I do think having this be an episodic show works for this show I still would have liked it to have a long running story just to make things a bit more interesting.

Starring in the show was Catherine Cavadini as Blossom , Tara Strong as Bubbles and E. G. Daily as Buttercup. Since there are quite a few characters in the show i'm not going to name who played every single so I chose just to name who played the three girls because it would save me alot of time and because let's be real that's all you really wanted to know. I will say tho that there are alot of great voice actors in this series so it's worth watching just to hear who pops up as what character.

In terms of what i thought about the voice acting in general it's alot better the acting in the reboot mostly because every actor in this feels like there actually trying where as in the reboot all of the returning actors just feel like there putting in the minimum amount of effort. It goes without saying that the actresses playing the three girls do a great job since all of the actresses are voice acting legends and all three are perfectly cast in this show.

The show had two animation studios working on it during it's run with the animation for the first four seasons being done by Hanna-Barbera Cartoons and the final two seasons being done by Cartoon Network Studios. Your guess is as good as mine as to why they switched studios halfway through maybe Cartoon Network wanted more control over the series or HB wanted more money per-episode regardless the animation remains top notch all throughout the series run.

Now there was no way I could review this series and not talk about the design of the girls while the designs are indeed iconic. That's not to say that the designs aren't creepy as hell because trust me they are but this show makes them work and it somehow makes them adorable and that's not something that many shows pull off. I will say tho that the thick lines can be quite distracting but given that this was a late nineties show thick lines are to expected.

This show had a total of six seasons , three specials one of which was a christmas special and a theatrical movie. In total there were seventy eight episodes of the show made which given the premise to me is really shocking since at most this should have been a two or three season show but the fact they managed to get as much out of it as they did is true testament to the creative team and really everyone involved.

Now there's a chance that this could be wrong but during production of the show there was a hiatus which I think happened in season 4 and that was because the crew stopped working on the show to work on the movie. In my opinion I really don't see why they couldn't have hired more people to work on both that way they could have had the show airing as the movie came out but I guess that they wanted to make the movie feel more like the show.

One of the many things that this show does better then the reboot is the fact that it actually includes strong female characters and not just say there about female empowerment. To me and I think many others one of those characters is Miss Bellum here is a character that is beautiful but she's also smart and skilled fighter among many other things. So why she was not included in the reboot is beyond me since she is everything the makers of that show wanted there version to be.

Now I will admit that this series had one episode which to me felt like it was trying to hard to push a feminist agenda and that's the episode "The Boys Are Back in Town" where the girls learn that in order to defeat the Rowdyruff Boys they have to make there masculinity feel threatened. To me that seemed like it was trying to hard to push a feminist agenda onto people and if every other episode of the show was like that I wouldn't mind it since it would feel out of place but this is the only episode that really does it and it stands out by a mile.

Another thing that this show did better then the original was the fact that it actually has action scenes in it. I know that's hard to believe an action cartoon actually having action scenes who would have thought of it all joking aside tho the action in this series is honestly really well done you can tell that the team put alot of effort into these scenes and it's because of that that I have to wonder if this was a storyboard driven show or not. Also I will admit there are a few action scenes which go to far even for my tastes like in episode one where the girls are transformed into dogs and they have a fight with other dogs and we see every punch and kick thrown but as someone who's a dog lover that was just to much for me.

I have to say tho that not all is good with the show since there are alot of episodes that just go know where and that did start to get really frustrating for me personally just because they seemed like really fun episodes but then without any reason they'd just end. If i'm being honest this is one of the few things that the reboot does better then the original show just because in the reboot they at least tell complete stories.

To get back to the positives tho this show does have a great sense of honour and I did find myself laughing alot of the time. Alot of the jokes in the show aren't just from what the characters there from what's seen in the background like for the fact the registration plate on the Professors car is pretty good joke and who honestly doesn't love evil Bubbles that whole concept is just freaking funny at least in my opinion.

Overall this show is miles better then the reboot and is honestly everything the reboot should have been. It's not a perfect show tho by any means in fact I think i've listed all of the problems with the show but if there's anymore then please let me know and it's those problems that keep the show from being a perfect ten so it gets a 7.5 out of 10 from me.

    

Love, Death & Robots "Sonnie's Edge" Review

Animation fans I know that i've already talked about this show (at least I have depending on where your seeing this review)  but it was after watching it and writing the review of it that something hit me I came to the realisation that I could should I choose review any episode of the show. So that's what i've done well at least for the first episode I don't know if this will be a weekly thing or not but it gives me a chance to talk about Love, Death & Robots some more so here is my review of episode one Sonnie's Edge.

The plot of this short is a girl and her beast enter this contest where the aim is to stay alive but what happens when the contests owner offers the girl alot of money to loose. I'll admit that plot wise it's not that good since all you get is the basic set up but for something that's only seventeen minuets long that's kind of what you'd expect but given how rich the world building is here I would have loved the story to have been a bit stronger.

Now when I wrote my review of the whole series there was no cast list to be found however that has since changed so starring in this episode is Helen Sadler as Sonnie , Hayley McLaughlin , Jennifer , Time Winters as Dicko , Omid Abtahi as Wes and Christine Adams as Ivrina. Before I talk about what I thought about the acting i'm going to tell you know that just because IMDB has finally added the cast doesn't mean i'm going to re-write my review of the series it just means that whenever I review an episode i'll list the cast.

As for what I thought about the acting given that the actors don't really have that much dialog in the whole short it's honestly pretty good. I say pretty good because I did my research and alot of the actors in this short really haven't been in anything noteworthy outside of a few random TV episodes and some short films so this short in my opinion was there chance to fully show of what they can do and I hope that it leads to them getting more work down the line.

This is one of four shorts that was animated by Blur Studio with the others being episode 2 "Three Robots" episode 4 "suits" and episode 10 "Shape-Shifters". Since the show uses different styles of animation for each episode I have to say that this episodes uses CGI and it looks freaking fantastic like I saw this show on Saturday and I was blown away by how good the CGI looked and even now when I went to load the episode up I was still blown away.

Given that this is the same studio that did the fantastic opening for the 2011 remake of my favourite film The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo it really doesn't surprise me that the CGI was good. It surprises me tho in the way that they pulled it off on basically a web series budget and that's now got me hopeful that they'll one day work on an animated feature film since if this the kind of animation they can do with a small budget then picture what they could do with a few hundred million dollars.

If I ever do more reviews on this series this is something that you'll hear me say alot but I really hope that they give this short it's own series. I say that because the world building was good in this episode that it made me want to find out more not only about the world and it's rules but the characters that live within it. I know that the chances of this short getting it's own series is most likely not that good since it would cost a lot just to do the animation but we can dream.

It was also while watching this short that I came to the realisation that Sonnie is this show's version of Lisbeth Salander from The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo there both bada*s strong women who have been both physically and mentally tortured by men and our now doing something about it. I hope that i'm not the only one who's made those connections but at the same time I could just be looking way deep into something that isn't there.

Now i've thrown up the old warning sign because there's alot of nudity and alot of gore in this episode and there was no way I could do a review on it and not feature images of it mostly because there the only images Google has of the episode. Yeah this episode is gory as hell and when I say gory I really mean it like you see people's heads getting stomped on and monsters getting their arms ripped of it's awesome. 

I will admit that both the nudity and the gore is just there for the sake of it like you could remove both of those aspects from the short and you'd loose nothing plot wise or character wise. One of the things that really interested me and I think many others judging from the comments i've seen of this episode online was just how good the twist ending is i'm not going to give it away but I will say that it's something you don't see coming and that's what I good twist should be.

This short has a monster fight and that means we have to talk about the fight itself and for me personally the fight in this short is freaking insane. Heck i'd have been happy if the whole episode was just this fight but at the same time im glad it's not because I honestly love sonnie but tho what I think makes this fight standout from other monster fight scenes is that it appears that this one is advancing the story being told and with that twist helps with the great world building and that's something that i've not seen before now.

Overall this isn't my favourite short of the series if you want to know what this you'll either have to wait or read my review of the show but let's just say it's not one your expecting. This short tho is a great start to the series and so it gets an 8.5 out of 10 from me.

Love , Death & Robots Review

Wow it's been along time since I did a full series review but my god what a series to return with this is a series that i've been so looking forward to seeing and it doesn't disappoint. This is a series that I can very easily see alot of animation fans talking about heck i'm shocked that alot of them haven't already started talking about this show it's that good and it's one of the few Netflix shows that I want to get a second season so here is my review of Love , Death & Robots.

Now I would normally tell you what the plot of the show is and give you my thoughts on it but like Batman: Gotham Knight this is an anthology show. Each of the shorts has a different story with nothing that connects them so you can really watch any episode and get an idea of themes of each short. I will admit that the pacing for each episode can feel off since sometimes it goes by way to fast but sometimes it goes by far to slowly.

Now this is a first for any of my reviews because I can't list any of the actors that appear in this show and the reason why is because there's not a set cast list available anywhere. Also not helping as to why I can't list any of the actors is because they change the cast list literally every single episode so it would be impossible for me to say who's in the show and who isn't so I apologise for not mentioning who's in the show.

Just because I can't name who's in the show doesn't mean that I can't talk about the acting that's in it. That for me is a very mixed bag since in one episode you'll get pretty acting but then in the very next episode the acting might suck so it's really hard for me to fully judge the acting since it's such a mixed bag and in all honesty that's fine with me because that's the same for alot of TV shows be they on Netflix or not.

The animation for this show was handled around by fifteen different companies with perhaps the most note worthy name being that of Sony Pictures Imageworks. As well as alot of different companies working on each short the animation also came in from all over the world so while you will see companies that are based in America working on this show you'll also see companies from for example the UK and Spain.

I have to say that the overall quality of the animation is shockingly good i'm not even kidding and these guys aren't working with a feature film budget either there working with a small budget and most likely a small crew. So if there able to pull of this level of animation with little to no budget and a small crew then imagine what they could do with the budget of a feature film and the fact that there using animation companies from all over the world is great because it gives them a chance to shine and that can only be a good thing for the animation industry.

Now i'm not going to lie and say all of them are animated because there not but they all include animation of some kind and that helps the show stand out even more in my opinion. Netflix to me is one of those companies which is creator driven and by that I mean they allow the people who are making stuff for them to really do what ever the hell they want and that makes them the perfect place for this kind of show because it's something that so of the wall that it's actually on another wall.

I cannot give this show enough praise yes there is the odd one or two bad episode but that's something that your going to get with any show anyway. I honestly feel that the only note that producers David Fincher and Tim Miller gave the people creating the shorts is that there short has to have something to do with either love , death or robots or possibly all three because that's the thing that really connects all of the shorts it's those themes.

I have to say that if you have little kids and you think that this might be a show that they'll enjoy don't show it to them. This is very mature show and when I say very mature I freaking mean it there's blood , gore , sex and nudity and that's just in the first episode and trust me it gets alot more strange and alot more adult from there so this will have to be one animated show that they'll have to go without seeing.

Now i've seen sites like IMDB throw around that some of the shorts could be considered horror in my opinion the whole thing should be considered horror. Not because of the fact that there's alot of blood and gore in alot of the episodes but because of it's ideas and themes which to me make the series far more scary then blood and gore ever could even tho one of the common ideas thrown around is that mankind is doomed to kill itself it's still a scary idea.

I have to say not all of the episodes in this show fall under horror in fact all of the eighteen shorts made fall under a wide range of sub-genres ranging from horror to fantasy to comedy so there's really something for everyone here. The best episodes tho for me personally are the ones that have a great twist ending that you don't see coming for example episodes one and three have a freaking great pairs twists which have to be seen to be believed.

I can't believe i've gotten this far into the review and not really gave you that much information about the episodes themselves. There are eighteen episodes in total and each episode will last no longer then twenty minuets but they really range in length with some episodes lasting seventeen minuets and others lasting around seven minuets. So you you could honestly watch the whole series and in a few hours and still have time to write a blog post about the show.

Overall go and watch this show right now like stop whatever it is your doing and go and watch it because trust me you will not regret it. It's not a perfect show as i've explained but in my opinion it's damn freaking close so it gets a 9.5 out of 10 from me.

  

How I'd Adapt Saga For TV

Now then boys and girls we live in a world where anything that's a comic book is getting some sort of adaptation mostly it's comic books getting turned into movies. So I thought for this post i'd not only look at something that would be difficult to adapt but i'd choose a different medium and so I thought that i'd tell you how i'd adapt the great comic book series Saga not for film but for TV because let's face it this series would work best as a TV show.

For those of you who don't know what the plot of the comic book is well it's about a couple who in the first issue give birth to a baby girl and the mother and father are of different races who were once at war and they have to find ways to survive. I'll admit i've not read the whole thing so that summery is mostly based of the first six issues and so there's a very high chance that the plot might change in further issues.

For me this plot is perfect as it is so you really don't need to change that much of it really the only thing i'd do to the plot is make more like the James Bond films and by that i mean make more unpredictable so then even if your a fan of the comic book you'll have no idea of what's going to happen next. In terms of the plot like I said there's really nothing wrong with it as it is but I would add in more scenes with the Robot Prince and his girlfriend and even show some of the war that they mention.

In my eyes i'd make this as a TV show (hence the title) just because if something has the word saga in the title then you just know it would get butchered as all heck if it was turned into a movie. I even have an idea of how many seasons it should be in my opinion this should be at least ten seasons long with maybe ten to twenty two episodes per season. it goes without saying that each episode should be near enough an hour long just because that time length would work best for the plot of the overall show.

When things are being adapted for TV not many people give alot of thought of which network should air it. I'm not most people because i've given this alot of thought and I think that the best place for this to go is Netflix because the Saga comics hook you in so you have to read the next issue right away. That fits perfectly with Netflix releasing the whole series in one go since you can just load up the next episode.

Also going with Netflix would mean that you could get away with the more adult stuff seen in the comics that you perhaps wouldn't be able to get away with if you were on a more well known network. You could very well make the argument that the show would be at it's best on HBO but but then you'd have to wait a week for the next episode which if the show is good can be a very hard thing to do.

I'll full on admit I havn't thought of the full cast list infact the only actor that i've thought of before writing this was Hannah John-Kamen for the role of Alana. I honestly thought of her because when I pictured this show being in live action the person who came to mind for that role was her she might not be the best pick but to me that's who I see when I picture a live action version of this epic tale.

Now given that one of the main characters starts of as a baby then you would run into the issue of having to recast the role every few years. Which I can see as a big reason for this show not being made because it would be expensive to that every few years but given how good the story is and if you have the right people working on it you could be looking at the live action equivalent of the Batman Animated Series.

In terms of who should be the showrunner for this adaptation it should be someone who understands the world and it's characters and who's better at that then it's creator Brian K. Vaughan. Yeah I honestly think that the creator of the comic book should be the show runner because he would understand it's characters and the story much better then anyone else in hollywood but given that he's got a few films to work on as well as working on Runaways this would only be a pipe dream.

I'm not going to lie this show would need a huge budget in order to pull it of and when I say huge I mean one season would need around 50 to a 100 million dollars. Which again is something that would put alot of people of wanting to produce it but given that you'd be making more money from merchandise it would be a risk worth taking.

Now i'll admit I have no idea who should do the music for the show or even what the theme for the show should be. I do however think that the theme should be something that sounds weird because let's be real this is a weird show and so the theme should reflect on that as for what artists should be featured i'd personally prefer none to be featured the whole thing should be treated like a movie score where the artists only appear on the soundtrack album but if I had to choose i'd go with Hey Violet who are this punk rock band and I think that there music would fit in well with some of the action scenes.

If this show is a hit which it very well could be since the comics then you could very easily so sequels and spin offs. You could do several sequels all set after the events of the series heck you could even do a show set at the same time as this series but instead of doing it as a drama it could be a comedy. Or if you wanted to go the Game Of Thrones / Star Wars route then you could make a prequel to the show which could be interesting.

Overall this is how i'd adapt Saga for the small screen of course tho chances of this happening aren't that good since Brian himself said that the point of doing it as a comic is to get away with things that he couldn't do as a TV show or movie but we can only hope that one day this would happen.

Debunking The Cartoons Are For Kids Myth

If your a cartoon you've at some point came across someone be it a friend or a family member or even a complete stranger use some combination of these words "cartoons aren't they just for little kids" or my personal favourite "it's ok it's just for kids". Now I was just going to talk about the first one but now that I think about it i'm going to take on both of these because honestly they can both be annoying at times so let's crack on with it shall we.

Cartoons first started as we know them first started in the 1920's and were shown before a movie these shorts would most likely be silent cartoons until the release of the classic Mickey Mouse short Steamboat Willie. Most of these shorts where mostly made for audiences of all ages since you'd also see cartoons featuring highly intense action as well as goofy comedy so it made sense to market them for all the family.

Now in my opinion this would all change in the 60's with the release of The Bugs Bunny Show this to me is the case because adults dont have the time to go and watch cartoons anymore but kids do and the fact that this was on TV meant that they could watch these classic shorts for nothing. This right here is in my opinion the debut of the whole cartoons is for kids mind set because parents suddenly realised that they could stick there kids in front of the TV for thirty minuets and get some piece and quite.

To me the whole mind set that i've just briefly explained the beginning of doesn't work these days and that's because everything surrounding cartoons has gotten much better. In the past you could get away with having lazy writing and lazy animation because we didn't know any better all we had in terms of TV animation was terrible parring the odd one or two great shows and in terms of movies again outside of one or two great one's we didn't have that much great ones.

If you want an example of a cartoon which is aimed at and made for little kids but has alot of adult humour then I highly recommend you check out Animaniacs in fact if you guys see anyone who still thinks cartoons is just for kids then show them this cartoon. I say that because there's alot of stuff in here which isn't for little kids (finger prince anyone) and yet still for some unknown reason parents still think that cartoons are just for little kids.

We all remember Saturday Morning Cartoons it was that one day a week where we got to see all of our favourite characters. While alot of those shows have stood the test of time and some could even be used in this argument alot of them really don't help the cause and that's not there fault because they were made in a time where kids cartoons weren't taken as seriously and that's not something the makers of those shows can help that's all us but for every Bonkers we got a Batman: The Animated Series a show which not only took it's source material seriously but treated is audience as equals and guess what it's become the best adaptation of the character because of that fact.

I'm one of the unlucky few who's seen the new Peter Rabbit movie more then once and honestly from what I recall it was bad but every single parent who saw the movie said the exact same thing which was "it's a kids movie what do you expect". That right there is the problem you should tare a movie apart even if it is a kids movie and why because kids deserve better they deserve better movies and shows your just going to excuse a movie for being bad then your just as worse as the the people who made the film because you accepting a terrible movie and not demanding better.

Now i'm not going to say that all kids shows and movies should be aimed at the whole family indeed people should at times expect some kids movies to be pretty bad. That however doesn't mean that you should say that all cartoons are for little kids because to say that without even watching them makes you come across as ill-informed it would be so easy for me to say that Steven Universe is a show for little kids but the more you go into it the more you realise it's more adult then you first realised.

To me if you want a perfect example of something that is clearly made for little kids then look at Top Cat: The Movie and the Cars franchise these two are so obviously made for little kids so no one would blame you for saying that there just for little kids. However again I have to hit this point that doesn't excuse them from being bad movies if somethings bad then you should say so because if not then your going to be seeing more terrible movies like the first Cars movie and Top Cat: The Movie.

I don't mean this post to cause any hate so if you don't agree with anything then please be respectful i'm also not saying that you can't enjoy any of the movies or shows that i've mentioned but if you look at them you know that they were really are just for little kids. I'm saying al of this just to cover myself because you just know that someone somewhere is typing that i'm telling them they can't like there favourite show or movie when that's never going to be the case.

I will for forever and a day say that Batman: The Animated Series is one of the best cartoons out there and that's taking into account cartoons from today as well. I say that because of how good the writing is this is show that's made for little kids and yet it treats them as smart people this is the kind of stuff that should be in cartoons and yet whenever a parent says that cartoons are just for little kids they are lumping not only this great show but Steven Universe , Gravity Falls and Star Vs The Forces Of Evil together with shows that air on Disney Junior or shows that are straight up bad.

Also by saying that cartoons be they in movies or TV shows are just for kids your kind of also disrespecting those involved with whatever it is your saying is just for kids. I know that people aren't going to care about a total stranger and that makes sense but imagine if someone walked up to you in the street and said that whatever it is you did for a living was something a little kid could do how would that make you feel i'm willing to bet that it would make you feel pretty bad in some cases.

Also really debunking that whole mind set are shows like Steven Universe , Star Vs The Forces Of Evil and The Legend Of Korra among many others which push the boundaries of what's expected from a kids show. One of the ways they do that is by including same sex couples that's something that alot of shows that alot of us grew up with wouldn't even try to do and yet when people say that those shows are just for little kids it kind of feels like a step backwards at least in my opinion it does.

Now I can see why adults would say this because they only look at what's popular and assume it's the same thing all round. That does make sense because let's be real they don't have the time to check out every single animated show or movie so they only look at what's popular and like it or not the kind of shows and movies that are popular are stuff made for and who's target demographic is little kids I know that sucks but it's true and the sad part is there's nothing we can do about it.

 

Boys and girls I know that this post seems all over the place and that's because I came up with this idea and started writing this post in like ten minuets. However the heart of the post is still there and I know there are alot of people on certain apps who agree with the statement that cartoons aren't just for little kids however tho there's nothing we can do to change people's minds because there only going to look at what's popular and nothing more.