Batman: Hush Film Review Which WILL Contain SPOILERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ladies and gents this weekend is San Diego Comic-con and at the event DC held the world premier of their latest film Batman: Hush. Now i'm not in America and I tickets to the event would cost to much so I got the digital copy of the film and as is tradition i'm writing my review of the film the day of it's digital release that doesn't mean it'll be posted everywhere on the same day tho and so here is my review of the film version of Batman: Hush.

The plot of the movie is a mysterious criminal known as Hush is determined to destroy both the crime fighting career and personal life of Batman which has already been complicated by a relationship with Catwoman. In terms of what I thought of the story it was very well told and well written but the makers of the movie make a key mistake which i'll get into later on this review since it's a spoiler.

Sadly this film is set in the DC Animated Movie Universe or DCAMU which sadly means we don't get Kevin Conroy as Batman or Mark Hamill as the joker. Instead starring in the film is Jason O'Mara as Bruce Wayne / Batman , Jennifer Morrison as Selina Kyle / Catwoman , Jerry O'Connell as Kal-El / Clark Kent / Superman , Rebecca Romijn as Lois Lane , Maury Sterling as Thomas Elliot , Rainn Wilson as Lex Luthor , both Peyton Lists as Barbara Gordon / Batgirl and Pamela Isley / Poison Ivy and Geoffrey Arend as Edward Nigma / The Riddler.

I can't help but wonder how much more awesome this movie would have been if they had Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill reprising their roles as Batman and Joker. Don't get me wrong Jason is fine as Batman as is Jason Spisak as The Joker but they don't hold a candle to Kevin and Mark. The rest of the cast do a solid job voicing their respective characters but for this story solid is nowhere near good enough.

Now I cannot find who did the animation for this film which is rather odd because I usually can find it on the day of the digital release. I have to say that the animation in the film is in my opinion pretty freaking solid but given that DC always has good animation in their films that's really nothing new but I do feel that some scenes could have been animated better but that might be due to the lack to time they have to make these films.

I can very easily see alot of people being confused by the cast list so allow me to clear things up their are two actress with the exact same name Peyton List. The older list has played Ivy before on the show Gotham and has also done Mad Men and the younger List is mostly known for her work on the Disney Channel and I believe that this is her first time doing voice acting for a feature film since she has voice acted before in a crossover episode with Ultimate Spider-Man and her show Jessie.

SPOILERS START HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now unlike alot of comic adaptations that I review I have actually read the original book however i've not read it in years. So I had to do a quick read through of the Wikipedia page for the comic book and from what I read the film does stick to the plot of the book quite closely except in this film there's no Huntress of Killer Croc with Croc's role here filled by Bane for some unknown reason and there's no Ra's al Ghul either.

Now in the cast list I did actually make a small edit and that's because I didn't want to give away who Hush is. However since we are are in the spoiler section I can reveal that Hush is The Riddler in this film which to me is weird because just based of what I read The Riddler wasn't Hush but was the mastermind behind the whole thing with Hush being Thomas Elliot and I have no idea why they made that change at all for the film.

The mistake that I mentioned earlier on in the review is that for a large portion of the film's running time we're ahead of Batman in terms of what he knows. Which isn't how you create a good mystery which is what a good Batman film should do we should be learning things as Batman does and not be several steps ahead of him yet tho for some reason this film thinks we need to be ahead of the character which only makes the character in my opinion pretty dumb.

It was great to see Batman take on pretty much all of his famous foes since it's something that's very rarely done in film. I do wish tho that even tho it was cool to see it happen that they had cut down on some of the fights or removed the ones that weren't relevant to the plot of the movie we didn't need to see Batman almost kill the joker you could have cut that scene of early and it would have served the same purpose in my opinion.

Now if you know what happens in the current Batman comics and have seen this film then you'll know why I put this image here. Since for some reason instead of focusing on the actual mystery of who Hush is and giving us clues the film makers instead choose to put more focus on the relationship between Batman and Catwoman where like in the comic book they become a couple and while that's not a bad idea in theory I feel that it could have been handled much better like for example why not have them share the odd look or to because it really does come out nowhere at least in this film it does.

Now I was going to end the spoilers part of the review with the Batman and Catwoman relationship but I realised that the above picture might be considered a spoiler. So that means we have to talk about some of the fan service we get in this film because we get a scene that will send fourteen year old minds ablaze with Catwoman and Poison Ivy kissing and it's pretty awesome I mean it adds nothing to the story and is forgotten about but still it's awesome to see it.

SPOILERS END HERE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

There is some action in this movie as you'd expect from a Batman movie and as you'd expect alot of it is just seeing who can hit who the hardest. Which by now is something that i've come to expect from these movies but I do like the fact that we do get to see Batman use more of his gadgets during those scenes since it does keep them from being boring and repetitive and boring but like I said when talking about some certain scenes they go on for a little to long in my opinion.

Overall this was a decent watch and it was a good adaptation of the original story but missed casting opportunity's aside it does feel rather long which is a shame because the film is only just over an hour and twenty minuets long and so the film gets a 7.5 out of 10 from me and if you've been following Comic-Con news then you'll know why i've put the cover for Superman: Red Son as a picture let's just say 2020 is going to be a hell of a year for DC animated movies. 

Lego DC Batman: Family Matters Review

Lego fans the company has produced alot of films based on DC Comics characters and well there latest film has leaked out now out. I'll be the first to admit that i totally forgot that this film was even coming out since i'm more focused on Batman:Hush which i'm going to say now i'm not one hundred percent sure if i'm going to be able to review it when it first comes out but we'll see anyways here is my review of Lego DC Batman: Family Matters.

The plot of the movie is a new villain called Red Hood has started to terrorise Gotham and it's up to the whole Batfamily to stop him and work out who he is. I'm just going to come out say it if you've read the comics or seen Under The Red Hood then you'll know right away who Red Hood is but this film isn't made with you in mind it's made with little kids in mind and so you can't be to harsh on them. 

In terms of what I thought of the story it was perfectly simple enough for a kids film but at the same time the core theme of Batman trying to open up was something that was already explored in The Lego Batman Movie so there was no need to have it in here since it's already the main focus of a much better Lego Batman movie and in all honesty it just feels lazy on the film makers part since there just copying others work.

Starring in the film is Troy Baker as Batman , Alyson Stoner as Batgirl , Scott Menville as Damian / Robin , Jason Spisak as Red Hood , Steve Blum as Scarecrow , Zach Callison as Billy Batson / Captain Marvel , Cam Clarke as Brother Eye & Bat Computer , Will Friedle as Nightwing , Ralph Garman as Wizard , Jake Green as Fred , Josh Keaton as Board Member , Tom Kenny as Gordon & Penguin , Christian Lanz as Harvey Dent / Two-Face , Nolan North as Alfred & Killer Croc , Andre Sogliuzzo as Riddler , Tara Strong as Batwoman and Fred Tatasciore as Solomon Grundy.

The acting in the film is honestly alot better then what it has any right to be if anything I think people would have forgiven these actors if they chose to foam it in in these movies. What does annoy in some ways but it makes since in others is the fact that Scott Menville is using the same voice he uses for Dick Greyson and all it does is make me want to watch Teen Titans or Teen Titans Go! To the Movies but it also makes sense since that's the voice that little kids will be used to hearing.

As per usual I couldn't find who did the animation for this film the closest I could find is The Lego Group but that's a long shot. The animation in the film is pretty good at least for a kids straight to DVD movie  but I honestly prefer the stop motion look of the big screen Lego movies as opposed to the fully CGI look of these straight to DVD movies but like I said the animation in the film isn't that bad it's just my personal taste.

There is one story thread which i'm shocked that they did because it's something that I never thought that any film would do. I can't really mention what it is because it's a spoiler and i'm trying to respect the film makers by not giving away plot lines but i'll say that when you see this movie hopefully you'll be as shocked as I was when it came up in the film and it's something that I now want more Batman films to deal with.

This film is stuffed to the prim with main villains there are at least three in this movie and that in my opinion is two to many. I've already mentioned Red Hood but there's also Two-Face and Brother I and there not really needed the film would have been much better if there was just one villain having three of them just makes the film feel bloated and you have to spend alot time explaining who each of them are and that takes time away from expanding on the plot.

As well as having to many villains there also to many plots going on at once every character apart from Batwoman has a subplot. You don't need alot of plots for a kids Batman movie especially when the main plot is strong enough and could easily support the whole film. So when you have all of these plots going on at the same time it means that none of them have time to fully develop and be as good as they could be because there fighting for time with several other storylines.

Now if i'm right this is the first Lego film to feature Batwoman and I have to say they did a pretty solid job with her. They don't go into the fact that she's a lesbian which in this case is really understandable but they show us enough so that we get the message that she's a woman not to be messed with and that is honestly all we need to really know about her at this point since she's getting a TV series that's due out on The CW in October.

Since this is a Lego movie there's alot of jokes in this but shockingly there's not as many as I was expecting. Given the jokes that we did get however tho that's a good thing because alot of the jokes in this film just aren't that funny there's one or two jokes that might get a smirk out of people but that's really it the rest are the kind of jokes that you would expect them to make and there just as unfunny as you'd think they are.

This is a superhero film and so that means that there are action scenes and in my opinion the action scenes in the movie aren't that bad there also not that good either. What makes me say that is the fact that you can tell that the team is trying to be creative by putting the heroes in unique and fun situations but it feels like either Lego or Warner Bros or maybe even DC was holding them back by forcing them to do certain things be it making a joke or or by cutting the scene of to early.

Overall there is fun to be had with this film like there is with all of the Lego films but I can't honestly find myself recommending this film since it does use the same theme as The Lego Batman Movie and that's just pure lazy to me maybe little kids will like it but for this batfan it gets a 5.5 out of 10 from me.

  

Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon Review

Scooby fans Comic-Con starts next week and Scooby-Doo is going to have some sort of presence that weekend. So I thought i'd take a look at the only film that features a set up similar to Comic-Con except it doesn't feature comic book heroes but features a group of teenage crime solvers and there talking do. This is one of the many Scooby-Doo films i've not even seen so I was going into this film pretty blind so here is my review of Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon.

The plot of the movie is Shaggy and Scooby convince the gang to go to a Comic-Con type convention where they meet the original Blue Falcon actor Owen Garrison but all is not what it seems as there's someone attacking the convention and so it's up to our gang of heroes to solve the mystery. As a comic book fan I found the story in this film to be really good i've never seen the franchise essentially tell a superhero story before so I was shocked at how refreshing it really was and how well told the story was as well.

In this film the scooby regulars are voiced by Matthew Lillard as Shaggy Rogers , Frank Welker as Scooby-Doo, Fred Jones and Dynomutt , Mindy Cohn as Velma Dinkley and Grey Griffin as Daphne Blake. They are joined by Diedrich Bader as Brad Adams/Blue Falcon II , Dee Bradley Baker as Hideous Hyde Hound , Jeff Bennett as Owen Garrison/Blue Falcon , Gregg Berger as Hank Prince , John DiMaggio as Mr. Hyde , Nika Futterman as Jennifer Severin , Kevin Michael Richardson as Mayor Ron Starlin , Tara Strong as Austin , Fred Tatasciore as Jack Rabble and Dynomutt II and Billy West as James Becker.

The acting in the film wasn't that bad but I think that's more due to the quality of the actors involved with the film rather then the quality of the film's script. That's not to say that the script is bad far from it but when you see actors such as Tara Strong and Frank Welker then you know that they are going to deliver great performances and here the same is true for the whole cast both regular and guest and that's not something I get to say often.

The animation for the film is done by Digital Emation who also do the animation for OK KO and I have to say that the animation is honestly pretty good. It's not as good as I thought it would be but it's also not as bad as it perhaps could have been but the characters have these really thick lines which at times do get rather frustrating but the overall quality of the animation is that of a high quality and that for me is always a good thing.

As a movie which is technically a crossover movie I thought that how they did the crossover was really fresh and clever. It would have been so easy to have Blue Falcon and Dynomutt be actual people but to have them be characters to me was a smart and clever idea and it's one that I wish that more Scooby-Doo crossover movies would do but for some reason none of them ever do it and I have no idea why that's the case.

When I said that this version of Comic-con doesn't feature comic book heroes that's because there are cameos from other Hanna-Barbera productions. They don't just stick to popular HB shows either Frankenstein Jr. from Frankenstein Jr. and The Impossibles makes a few appearances it honestly makes watching the scenes set at the convention alot more fun to watch because you never know who's going to appear and a word of advice keep an eye out on the posters because there's a lot more references there as well.

I was honestly shocked at how many references there actually is in this movie even in the above picture I just spotted a Wacky Races references and that was something that I never noticed in the original movie. I don't want to keep on banging on about this because there are other things to talk about but just the fact that they made so many references to other and some times little known HB productions is such a cool thing.

What I wasn't expecting was a nod to a classic Spider-Man story called Spider_Man No More in which Peter Parker gives up being Spider-Man. To be honest I really wasn't expecting any kind of super hero reference at all but the fact that the makers of the film went to the length of referencing what is perhaps one of the most famous Spider-Man scenes is something that is both truly shocking and awesome at the same time.

In terms of what I thought about the actual mystery and in my opinion the mystery in the film is actually pretty good. It's not great by any means since we don't see the gang collect any clues and there is a time in the third act where we the audience get ahead of the gang which should never be the case but for the most part it is a fun mystery and the reveal is someone that you might not see coming which for a mystery is always a good thing.

Overall the best word I can use to describe the movie is fun it's a fun movie in every sense of the word be it from seeing Shaggy , Scooby and Daphne geek out over things from the over the top third act it's just to watch but it's not a perfect movie and so it gets a 7 out of 10 from me.

Teen Titans: Raven Review

DC fans the company has for some reason started this trend of turning it's characters into teenagers for a new I guess line of graphic novels. Well the latest one in that line has come a few days ago and just due to my busy schedule i've only just got around to reading it and since my review of the new Mera graphic novel went down so well I thought i'd try and review every graphic novel in this line and so here is my review of Teen Titans: Raven.

The plot of the book is Rachel Roth and her mother get into a car accident in which the mother dies and Rachel looses her memory so now armed with new friends Rachel has to deal with the darkness growing inside of her all the while working her way through high school. I'll be the first to admit that the plot to this book is basically that of a bad YA novel even down to having a bland male love interest and having him fall in love with the main girl after first setting eyes on them.

I'll admit to not really being the biggest fan of Raven it's not got anything to do with her character but it's to do with the fact that I can't find any books with her as main character or any book that she's in infact the last Raven book I read was the 2016 miniseries. That said however I still felt that how she used here felt more in line with the typical YA heroine in that she's the only one who can stop this thing from happening and she spends alot of time pining over a guy she just met.

The whole amnesia angle I did think was pretty interesting and the book does stick with this angel all the way through which I really wasn't expecting. If anything I was expecting them to drop this aspect of the story once the main love interest came into the story but no they stick with it and not only that it plays a huge part in the story which was honestly really refreshing since it would have been super easy for them just to drop it and pretend it never existed.

The writer of this book is Kami Garcia who in terms of comic books has only written this book but is perhaps most well known as the writer of the YA series of books The Caster Series which has five books in total the first of which Beautiful Creatures was also turned into a film. Yeah no wonder this whole book feels like a YA novel they had a freaking YA writer writing it that being said tho the writing isn't that bad but it's also not that good either.

To me the most real scene in this book is also the one that I feel is the best written it's the scene where Raven starts hearing students thoughts for the first time and she hears what there really thinking. To me that's a great scene because of the fact that we get to get inside the head of teenagers and get to see what there really thinking with the best example being a girl who's being bullied and just wants her bully not to turn up who hasn't thought of that when they were being bullied that's a great insight into the mind of a teenager.

The art for the book was done by Gabriel Picolo and I cannot find anything this guy has worked on according to the official DC comics website he's done work for Boom Studios and Blizzard but there's nothing saying what specifically he's worked on. His art on this book I thought was very minimalistic there's very little detail both in the backgrounds and in the character design and that was quite shocking at first but it was something that I got used to very quickly.

Just so you all know when I was saving these photos on my Laptop i've been giving them all names just so their easier to find for the above picture the file name simply read TTR (Teen Titans: Raven) Bland Love Interest. That's because we find out nothing about him we get a few lines near the end of the book but that's really it and yet somehow we're expected to buy this character as a love interest for Raven they don't even bother to give him a personality.

I was going to use two pictures to help illustrate a point here but one of them has a watermark on it so I can't really use it. This book both oddly and rather refreshingly has a lesbian couple I say it's both because it comes out of know where and plays no part in the story and so it feels like the writer forcing equality on us but on the other hand it's refreshing because it's not the sole reason why the characters used for it were created there friends with Raven and her new friend Max and they just so happen to be gay there characters first and homosexual second.

Speaking of Raven's new friends the only one we really get to know is the character of Max who Raven is staying with. I honestly like Max she's sassy and yet sensitive at the same time and I honestly feel that if DC wanted to bring the character into the main comic books she'd work really well because it's all there her character is solid as she is and so she'd only need to be written well in a few good books and she'd have a small fanbase.

I'm not going to name who the main villain of the book is but given that this book focuses on Raven you can take a pretty good guess on who it is. However I have no issue with telling you that Slade Wilson is in this book and like the lesbian couple he really adds nothing to the story he doesn't act as a red herring he just shows up every once in a while does something and then leaves and he leaves no impact what so ever. 

However you could make the very real case that his impact is that someone close to Raven isn't who they say they are. I however would make the case that that's the impact of that character and not the impact that Slade himself makes. Which is both a good and bad it's good because it allows you to let those new characters grow but bad because Slade is a classic DC villain and so he should be used in a way that's more fitting.

Now since this is a superhero book that does mean I have to talk about the action that's seen in the book itself. Which very oddly enough there isn't that much action in the book itself the only real action scene comes near the end of the big where Raven and Max have to take down the big bad with help from Max's mother which I thought was super odd because this is a super hero book and so one expects there to be at least a few action scenes sprinkled throughout the book but nope we get one and that's it.

What I did find super annoying is that after the big bad has been defeated the book carries on going for quite a few more pages and i'm sat here going please just end already. I get the feeling that the writer was trying to set up the other books but couldn't fit it in anyway and so just stuck it all in at the end because the ending feels like one big set up for another book which luckily we are getting next year.

Overall while this wasn't a great book by any means it also wasn't a bad one either for everything that I liked about the book I found something that I didn't like or was just predictable and so Teen Titans: Raven gets a 5 out of 10 from me and yes the next book in this line is Teen Titans: Beast Boy it looks like there giving all of the titans there own books which honestly makes me wonder how there going to do Robin but we'll have to wait until next summer for the Beast Boy book to come out.

  

Bilby and Bird Karma Review

Hello there animation fans I thought that i'd do something that I very rarely do and that's review a short film. Now since shorts films in the realm of animation never last longer then ten minuets I thought that to make it bit more fun for me I would review not one but short films and as look would have it two short films came online this morning and so I present to you my review of both Bilby and Bird Karma.

The plot to Bird Karma is very simple it follows a bird who eats alot of fish and one day he finds this orange fish but over the course of the film the bird becomes greedy and it turns into kind of a Road Runner cartoon. Out of the two I can very easily see why this was a short film because there's very little in terms of story. The plot for Bilby is an Australian creature known as a Bilby risks his own life to look after a baby albatross. Again this is a simpler plot but it's one that I think works for this short and out of the two it's one that I could very easily see as a feature film.

This is the easiest part of the review because only one of the short films has acting in it and so starring in Bilby is Dee Bradley Baker as Baby Albatross and David P. Smith as Bilby. I'll full on admit that i wasn't paying to much attention to the acting in Bilby because there was something else that was stunning but from what I heared when I was paying attention to it the acting was fairly solid and alot better then what i thought it would be.

As mentioned Bird Karma has no voice acting in it at all and given how dark that short film gets I think that's a good thing. It also adds to the Road Runner vibe that I was getting from the short because if you remember outside of a few noises neither Wile E. Coyote or the Road Runner had any lines of dialog outside of a few noises from the Road Runner and so to see this short do the same thing really added to that vibe.

The animation for the short films was done by Dreamworks Animation and both ofer a vastly different animation style with Bilby going the 3D CGI route and Bird Karma going for 2D hand drawn animation. The animation for both films is truly great and alot better then the animation seen in a lot of short films but out of the two the animation used in Bilby I thought was alot better and it looked like the kind of animation you'd see in a feature film.

Speaking of Bilby the reason why i think the animation for this film is good is because this was going to be a feature film called Larrikins but it's hard to say how far along in the making of that film the team got before it morphed into Bilby. I'd be so happy if Dreamworks announced that they were going to make Bilby into a feature film because as I was watching it I could see where all the big set pieces would be and how that would play out in a movie.

Both of these shorts are apart of Dreamworks history because they are the first shorts to come out of the companies new shorts programme. I'm so glad that the studio is giving young talent a chance to shine because you know that Disney won't do it unless it's PIXAR so the fact that Dreamworks is taking a chance with new unproven talent can only be a good thing for both the people involved and the animation industry.

If you want to know where you can watch these shorts there going to be on the home video release for the third How To Train Your Dragon movie and given how popular those films are i'm glad that these little known shorts are getting a big push from Dreamworks. It would have been so easy for them to push these shorts under the rug and act like they never happened but the fact that there going to be on DVD for a major film is again a good thing.

In terms of the jokes there are a few goods ones to be found in both films but so few of them are laugh out loud funny. Alot of the really funny jokes do come from Bilby but there is charm to how dark Bird Karma and it's humour is like for example when ever the bird eats a fish you see the fish's skeleton which I thought was cute little gad but it's also a dark as hell joke but like I said the really funny jokes do come from Bilby.

Overall both films do have a certain charm to them and Bird Karma is very freaking dark and I mean very and the ending is darkest ending i've seen in a kids animated short film. Out of the two i'd say Bilby is the best one but that's just me and Bilby gets a 7 out of 10 from me while Bird Karma gets a 5 out of 10 from me.

My First Impressions of Scooby-Doo and Guess Who? Might Contain Some Spoilers

Scooby-Doo is a franchise that will never die it will last longer then anyone on Earth and now there's a new series. I'm just going to come right out and say it that set up to this show show is exactly the same as The New Scooby-Doo Movies i'm not even joking it's the exact same set up , and this is a first for me because this is the first time i'm doing a first impressions for new Scooby-Doo series and it will lead to my first review of a new Scooby-Doo series and so here are my first impressions of Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?.

When I said the set up of the two shows was the exact same I wasn't kidding just based of this first episode it looks like each episode will start of with the gang somewhere else and then will end up running into insert famous person or character here and then they'll do the mystery. There's a case for if it's not broke don't fix it but this formula has been done to death and when another show in the same franchise does this set up then you need to do something different but they don't at least in this episode.

Of course we have all of the Scooby regulars back so that mean we have Frank Welker as Fred Jones and Scooby-Doo , Grey Griffin as Daphne Blake , Matthew Lillard as Shaggy Rogers and Kate Micucci as Velma Dinkley. There acting was exactly what i'd come to expect from them at this point and that's not a bad thing at least in my opinion because you know that these actors can deliver a great performance.

The selling point for this series is that each episode will feature as famous guest star (I wonder what over Scooby-Doo series did that) and the guest star in this episode is basketball legend Chris Paul. His acting in this was pretty bad which I was honestly expecting since he's not an actor so of course it's not going to be as good as the regular cast members and I will admit that this version of him was indeed entertaining.

The animation is being done by Yeson Entertainment with the show being produced by Warner Bros Animation and the animation is where I found my first major issue because while it was good in terms of movements when it comes to some of faces it looks bad with perhaps the best example being Daphne. I will; admit that it was good that they went back to using the classic designs which was honestly something that really caught me of guard.

Not only did they use the same designs for the main characters but they also used the same running poses as well. I know that alot of people won't really pick up on that and that's fair enough but I thought that it was a nice touch and it's something that they didn't have to do so i'm glad that the makers of this version of the franchise went the extra mile. That said tho I would have preferred it if they came up with some original designs just so it would help the show stand out a bit more.

I have no idea who Chris Paul is infact when I heard he was in it I actually thought that he was related to Jake and Logan Paul. In my defence tho i'm not American so i'm not going to know who he is and i'm sure that alot of other none Americans thought the exact same thing as me and i'm sure that some Americans did as well. That said tho I have to wonder why did they start of with him and not someone more universally more well known. 

They also use a new version of the classic Scooby-Doo theme song which while i'm glad that they did use that classic song because it's what alot of people think of when they think of Scooby-Doo. I personally would have preferred it if they had come up with something new because all it did was remind of the classic series which is something I didn't want to be doing I wanted to be thinking about this new one but I couldn't do that when they started playing the Where Are You theme.

SPOILERS FROM HERE ON OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

For some reason they have I think Gofer's but i'm not exact sure and they add nothing to the overall plot of the episode. If anything all it did was remind me of Caddyshack and i've not even seen that movie but I did see A Futile and Stupid Gesture which does include the making of that movie. Adding to that because of those gofer's being in the episode all they do is make Scooby look dumb which is a very bad thing considering he's the franchise main star.

We have to talk about the mystery aspect and this is the weakest aspect of the whole episode in my opinion because the franchise built it self on giving you enough clues to work out who did it for yourself. This one however doesn't do that in fact they give you no clues at all so not only does it come out of know where when they reveal that the culprit was this caddy seen in the above picture but they also explain key points which happened of screen things which would have helped make the mystery good.

In terms of what I thought of the actual comedy in the episode it actually wasn't that bad there was a few moments that got a smile out of me. That's not to say that all of the jokes are good there are alot of jokes that just don't work like for example any scene where they make Scooby look dumb which while jokes like that can be funny here they just don't work. I did however liked that they went back to having Shaggy , Scooby and in this case Chris Paul put on an effort to distract the villain which I honestly thought was pretty funny.

NO MORE SPOILERS FROM HERE ON OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Overall this series looks to be good and it does give of a better first impression then Yabba-Dabba Dinosaurs! and unlike most shows on Boomerang this show is being released weekly and that means you can expect a review within a few weeks and there is not going to rating from me. 

  

    

My First Impressions Of Amphibia WILL Include SPOILERS!!!!!!

Disney fans the company is back at it again with another animated series and like alot of of you this is one that i've been looking forward. This and Owl House are shows that i've been keeping a huge eye on since they were first announced last year and like The Owl House I was super excited to see this show and well now that the first episode has been made available to watch on Disney Now as well as the official Disney Channel Youtube (if your in the UK sadly it's region locked) so here are my first impressions of Amphibia.

So far there is no real plot forming we do get hints of things to come at the end of the first segment and at the end of the second segment. I'm not going to give it away but the officially released synopsis is kind of hiding something important and i'll get more into that later because for the first time ever my first impressions will include some spoilers for the episodes and I can see why they hid this bit on information.

Starring in the series will be Disney Channel legend Brenda Song as Anne Boonchuy , Justin Felbinger as Sprig Plantar , Amanda Leighton as Polly Plantar , Disney legend and current Goofy voice actor Bill Farmer as Hopadiah "Hop Pop" Plantar , Anna Akana as Sasha , Stephen Root as Mayor Toadstool , James Patrick Stuart as One-Eyed Wally and the always awesome Troy Baker as Grime.

I will say that two of the above listed actors don't play a role until the end of the second segment and even then only one of them speaks but this character was listed because it looks like there going to play a huge role later on. As for what I thought about the acting so far it seems pretty good acting in the first episode is never perfect that's just how it is and the same is true here but just based of these two segments it looks like this show will have solid acting in it.

The animation for the show is being done by Rough Draft Korea, SMIP, and Saerom and I have to say that the animation so far looks freaking fantastic. There's alot of energy in each frame and movement that you just don't see in animated shows these days and it really does go well with this show at least in my opinion. I will say that the designs to me do look pretty bland and generic but i'm hoping that they'll grow on me as the show continues.

Now I have to talk about spoilers here because there's a few things that happen in this opening episode which get me excited for what's to come. The first one being Anne isn't your typical hero and by that I mean she's a lier and a thief that right there gives her such an interesting character arc because you know at some point she's going to have confront that issue and when she does she'll be better of for it.

The second one being that at least one of the people that Anne thought was her friend in the human world is in the same frog world as her. If i'm right this is going to tie in to Anne's character arc for this season and if that turns out to be the case then we could be in for an interesting journey for both characters. I only have one wish tho for this subplot and that's that I don't want Disney to resolve it straight away I want them to build it up over the course of the season so then we can have a proper pay off.

Disney did a really unexpected thing that's that they released the first full episode online both on DisneyNow and the official Disney Channel Youtube Channel. Like I said at the start tho you can only view it on youtube if your in America because screw giving us fans in the UK or anywhere else that matter something to watch but in there defence doing this does mean that alot of hype can be built up for the next episode and judging by how well done this episode has been received it's worked.

Overall so far it looks like Disney on to another winner with this show and I for one cannot wait to see where they take this show and this story , I don't think this needs saying but at some point in the future there will be a review of this show i'm just not to sure on when that will be and this show has already been renewed for a second season so you know it's good.