Doctor Who: The Mark Of The Rani Review

There are alot of classic Doctor Who villains out there from the Daleks to the Cybermen to some more lesser known villains like The Ice Warriors. With all of these characters having the same thing in common in that not only have they all been brough back in modern Doctor Who but they've also been featured in multiple Doctor Who stories with the episode that i'm going to be talking to you all about today featuring the debut of a character who only appeared in two Classic Doctor Who and an anniversary charity special that we don't talk about before making her big return just a few short weeks ago and so then join me as I review the episode that sees The Master team up with another evil timelord with the episode in question being called simply just "The Mark Of The Rani" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when The Doctor and Peri find themselves being sucked down to earth in the nineteenth century and land in the town of Killingworth they discover that something has infected all of the male minors that work there and set out to stop it before it's far to late. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad as is pretty par the course for these early Colin Baker stories this one is pretty dark story wise which is something that does work given the fact that one of the episodes main villains is The Master and he is be default a very dark character with this episodes plot being a good example of just how good that the Colin Baker era could have been if the BBC had more faith in it as this is a plot that very well could have worked as the plot of a feature length film and while yes there are aspects pf the plot that don't quite work out all that well like the fact that they never explain why only the male members of this village are being given this thing that prevents them from sleeping in the first place as that is something that could have been used to make The Rani seem all the more smarter then what she already is in the first place and the fact that this episodes does at times feel a tad bit undercooked as a result of it not really explaining all that much with the plot of this episode also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is Colin Baker as The Doctor , Nicola Bryant as Peri Brown and Anthony Ainley as The Master. Also starring in this episode is Kate O'Mara as The Rani , Terence Alexander as Lord Ravensworth , Gawn Grainger as George Stephenson , Peter Childs as Jack Ward , Gary Cady as Luke Ward , William Ilkley as Tim Bass , Hus Levent as Edwin Green , Kevin White as Sam Rudge and Martyn Whitby as Drayman.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. With the actors that you expect a good performance from Colin and Anthony for example really giving us exactly that which is something that does make alot of of sense as Anthony had been playing The Master since the later end on Tom Baker's run on Doctor Who and therefor it would make sense that he would really know how best to play his version of the character and to his credit he still does play the character really well with even Colin Baker really starting to come into his own as The Doctor as well as even tho he debuted around the middle of the previous series this series would mark his first full series as the character and as a result of that is the fact that we get alot more of what Colin can do as an actor something that does come into play quite alot during this particular episode with even Nicola Bryant turning in a somewhat passable performance as Peri as she really doesn't get to do all that much outside of scream for The Doctor in this episode however this episodes true standout performer has to be Kate O'Mara as The Rani as she just steals every single scene that she's in with it being made clear as day that she's having a blast making this episode and playing this really over the top and yet still smart character which is something that really does shine through in her final performance in this episode with this episode acting really being helped by the fact that this episodes script is just so good that all this episodes actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode.

With this still being very early on in The Sixth Doctors life he is still a tad bit cold towards Peri something that we do see all throughout this episode. As he does frequently yell at and put her down quite alot during the episode and while he doesn't outright strangle her like he did in his debuting episode there are times where you can see that that's what he's thinking almost as if he is still trying to work not only who he is as a person but also if he can trust her as well which is something that does give this version of The Doctor a unique hook if you will as all throughout the show the character will just straight away trust his new companion and will almost never yell at them and yet when he does yell at them it's for there own safety and yet here's a version of The Doctor that is just constantly angry and is always fighting that urge to yell at her for other reason which does make it weird that they would remove this aspect of the character in his very next series as people did complain about that aspect of his character almost as if they were expecting him to be like the version of the first Doctor that we got towards the end of William's Hartnell's time on the show where as was this kind person who would do anything for anybody and yet what they instead got was basically a more modernized version of the early version of The First Doctor where he was mischievous and where he was ego centric and where he was a bit angry and untrusting towards his companions but what those people failed to realise was the fact that that Doctor went through a character where he learned to be more nicer and more warmer towards his allies and that's something that this version of the character doesn't get the chance to go through and therefor it makes his change in the character come out of nowhere.

As you can all no doubt work out from the above title this is the first episode to feature the character of The Rani. With the character here being someone whilst she is still evil in her own way with the more then willing to use humans as her personal test subjects without them even knowing it however even she is prone to falling for The Master's own tricks which could be seen as being hindrance to her character in this episode as while it does make there dynamic in this episode one that's really interesting it does also make look like a much more weaker villain not due to how she is being written in this episode as she's written really well but because of the fact that The Master is the much more stronger character and there any new villain that he gets paired with is going to come off looking like the weaker of the two and while of course it would have been impossible to predict that she would be coming back in just a few short years there still should have been some effort as to showing us why she hates The Doctor as the only hint of that that we get in this episode is when The Doctor starts to question her on what she's doing on Earth at this time and that's really it loke there should have been some backstory to explain why the two characters don't get along and why she hates The Doctor especially as the makers of this episode were clearly not going to make it apart of the main plot of the episode anyway and even tho she's paired with the much more stronger character of The Master The Rani herself when she's on her own or not in a scene with The Master does get a chance to show us the audience just how good that she could be as we see that she's every bit as smart as The Doctor only without thee humanity to know when to stop.

In what was a very odd move on the part of the BBC the whole series that this particular episode is apart off has every single episode be two forty five minuet episodes. Which is great when you've got stories that involve either Daleks or Cybermen but when your introducing a new villain you kind of want at the very least five episodes to tell the story as you also have a brand new character to set up and introduce as well as tell a good story but what makes this worse is the fact that this choice seems to have been made very late in the day as you can straight up tell where all of the cliffhangers would have been if this episode was made up of four twenty five minuet episodes and not two forty five minuet episodes as the episodes action would just be ramping up and getting exciting again and a main hero character will find themselves in some trouble before the episode will fade to black however instead of now playing the end credits which is what you should do after a cliffhanger the episode carries on for another twenty five minuets where the same thing happens again only now we get the end credits sequence at the end of the cliffhanger and while granted we now take having forty five minuet to tell a Doctor Who story for granted and in the 1980's it was still a new thing and one can't help but wonder if the show would have improved the next series if the makers of this show had stuck to this two forty five minuet episode format instead of just falling bac on doing four twenty five minuet episodes as to be fair here you can tell a more grander story with two forty five minuet episodes then you can with four twenty minuet episodes as now you can take your time in telling the story in the best way possible but in the old format which does still work you are also rushing the episode along to get to the next plot beat as well.

While seeing The Master and The Rani team up for this episode was a really good idea and is something that does somewhat work for the episode. What doesn't work is the fact that we don't get any kind if clue as to what there evil plan or why there even working together in the first place as while yes they both do hate humans so having them team up does make sense from that point of view but what doesn't work is the fact that The Master wants to speed up Earth's development which does go against his character as he hates humans so therefor wouldn't he want to do anything to slow down there development and not speed it up where as The Rani is more concerned with helping the people on a planet that she's already conquered regain their ability to sleep by using the humans as her own personal test subjects and that's really it which is something that her character would do as she is a scientist altho she has no morals so she's willing to use anyone or anything as her test subjects regardless of if they know about it or not but all that does is make it pointless for them to team up as The Master could have gone to anytime to achieve his goal he didn't have to be with The Rani much like how The Rani didn't need him all that much either because as we see in the episode she's more then capable of getting the make members of this village to come to her willingly which does beg the question of why there teaming up in the first place as nether of their plans need the other to make them work with being something that very easily could have been explained in the episode by having The Doctor or even The Master or The Rani for that matter just say that there teaming up because The Master needs her knowledge on certain things and the only way that she'd give it up with if he helped her with her plan and that's really it with that being something that could have been in just one line of dialog by any of the three characters.

Now then this episode really has / had an exact grand total running of exactly one hour and thirty minuets. Which is pretty much the bogstanderd running time for any series 22 episode of Doctor Who and to be fait this episode really does gave the right amount of plot there to really cover that amount of running time but at the same time tho it really doesn't use that running time all that wisely as the episode doesn't explain why The Master and the rani are teaming up in the first place nor does it explain why The Master wants to seep up the human race's development nor why it's only the make members of this village that's being tested upon all of which are things that are key plot points in the episode and all of which serve to make elements of this episode plot feel undercooked almost as if the makers of this show had no idea that they were going to be getting all this extra time until all of the scripts for this series were done by which time it's two little to late to add anything that would have fixed these issues with the episode not even taking the time to either fully develop alot of it's characters as The Rani despite being in the title gets no development as a character as we don't get to find out all that much about her including why she would personally want to hate The Doctor in the first place with the episode not even giving The doctor's own companion alot of things to actually do in the story thus making her feel more like an afterthought when there are parts in the episode where she could have played a more active role even if it's just consoling the female members of the village just something would have been nice but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this an action shoe that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With this episode shockingly having a decent amount of action in it with all of this episodes action being really well handled and even tho you can see some of men not really hitting whom ever it is that there meant to be hitting it's done so well that you don't really notice it alot of the time with the best action scene being in the whole episode being the cliffhanger for episode one where The Doctor strapped to a bed manages to knock a device out of The Masters hand which then sends him going down a hill in the village all with Peri chasing after him but it doesn't stop there as some of the infected men that The Doctor had made even more angry earlier on in the episode get to him first and then part him on a mine cart and push him on it tracks with the aim of sending him crashing down into the mine which is such a good way to end the episode as now us the audience are now left wondering how The Doctor will get out of this one as he doesn't have the use of his hands and while the way he gets out of it is a bit anti-climatic as one of The Doctor's allies just comes out into frame and stops him and that's really it doesn't and it change the fact that really the entire cliffhanger bit itself was something that was really well done especially on a BBC budget with the sequence itself looking good really good and being alot more better then what it really had any right to be with the same thing also being true for all of this episodes action scenes as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall this is a sold debut episode for The Rani as it does give us a good idea of her character but at the same time tho this is an episode that does have alot of flaws in it something which does very sadly tend to be the same with all of Colin Baker's run this is despite the fact that this episode is still a pretty solid episode in it's own right as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad tings that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 6.5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally sued in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies ad gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Amazon . Co . Uk , the official Doctor Who fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very episode that I used in this very review being the really great Google Images really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very episode with really alot of them being really better quality then what you'd really think of and really all of the images are really of course up and really on Google Images are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Phineas And Ferb Season 5 Part 1 SPILER FILLED Review

There are so few shows and movies out there that define people's childhoods and appeal to the kid in them all. With oddly enough one of those shows being Phineas And Ferb a show which originally lasted for four seasons and had one TV movie made for the Disney Channel before then being brought back years alter for another movie this time being released straight to Disney+ is now back again this time with brand new episodes airing on both Disney Channel and Disney+ and well then with the first ten episodes of this new season having just released you all knew that I had to check out this first batch of episodes the very first chance that I got and so then join me as I give you SPOILER FILLED review of the first half of season 5 of the show that let's be real here will never really die with the show in question being called simply just "Phineas And Ferb" enjoy.

The plot of this season is one year after having the most amazing summer ever Phineas And Ferb and all of their friends are back with more adventures and more inators. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plots that are actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally tought / felt that the actual plots that are actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty not that bad with the show hitting it right out of the back with pretty much all of the episodes plots as all of them have something in them that appeals to both kids and adults alike something which the original show also did and because of that while alot of the shows plots can seen as being pretty wacky and out there that's part of the charm of the show and it's something that hasn't been lost in this new season when it very easily could have been with the best plot going to the first episode which without giving away two much is kind of a two parter but it's also something that does feel worthy enough of being a two part episode in it's own right and it's something that really does set this season of the show off on the best foot and while alot of the seasons plots do seem more lighthearted in nature as is the case with the show those that are brave and bold enough to go to those more extreme places more often then not are the better episodes with all of this seasons episodes having alot of really fun filled plots with the plot of this season also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this show is Vincent Martella as Phineas Flynn , Ashley Tisdale as Candace Flynn and David Errigo Jr. as Ferb Fletcher. Also starring in this show is Caroline Rhea as Linda Flynn-Fletcher , Richard O'Brien as Lawrence Fletcher , Dee Bradley Baker as Perry The Platypus , Alyson Stoner as Isabella Garcia-Shapiro , Bobby Gaylor as Buford Van Stomm , Maulik Pancholy as Baljeet Tjinder , this shows co-creator Dan Povenmire as Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz , this shows co-creator Jeff "Swampy" Marsh as Major Francis Monogram , Tyler Alexander Mann as Carl Karl , Seth Green as Monty Monogram , Kelly Hu as Stacy Hirano , Olivia Olson as Vanessa Doofenshmirtz , Madison Pettis as Adyson , Isabella Acres as Katie , Isabella Murad as Milly , Diamond White as Holly , Michaela Zee as Ginger , Meira Blinkoff as Melissa , Ariel Winter as Gretchen , Alan Cumming as The Haberdasher and Lake Bell as Katherine Marshall.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty really good. With alot of the original shows main actors even coming back to reprise their roles in this new season barring one or two with the big one of course of course being Mitchel Musso as Jeremy Johnson with the actor choosing not to reprise the role and the character now being voiced by an unnamed actor with all of the performances in this new season being really good which is something that's to be expected as alot of them had been playing there roles since the very beginning of the show and therefor they would of course no how best to perform there respective characters and while Thomas Brodie-Sangster will always make for a great Ferb here David Errigo Jr. does a decent enough job with the role which is something that does make sense as he has been playing the role since 2016 with there not really being a true standout performer in these first batch of episodes as nearly all of them do do the best job that they possibly could have done in this new season of the show with the acting that's in this very show really being helped by the fact that this shows scripts are just so good that all this shows actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out 0of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very show.

Doing the animation for this show is Snipple Animation , Hosem Animation Studio and Wang Film Productions Company. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty really good with this seasons high quality of animation more then reaching up to the already high standers of animation that were set by the previous seasons as this show did always have some really high quality animation to it with the characters in this new season having alot of really fluid movements to them which make it look like that Disney spent alot of money in putting together some really high quality animation and it's something that does off as not only does the show look as good as it's every been with there being alot of details in every single crowd shot but the backgrounds also look really good as well with this new season even getting creative with alot of it's visuals alot of which are sold thanks to the high quality of animation and while nothing will ever top the high quality of animation from their first movie this new season does come damn near close to doing exactly that as it looks old and familiar yet also new at the exact same time with the show making very minor tweaks to the characters designs alot of which your not even going to notice unless your really looking for them in the first place with it being clear as day that the makers of this show knew that today's audiences will know to look for quality animation and so because of that they made sure to make this show look as good as it possibly could do and it's something that's payed off really well as this show looks drop dead gorgeous.

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While the show does mainly stick to what's worked before more often then not taking an if it aint broke don't fix it approach that doesn't mean that the show doesn't try do new things. Like for example in the episode "Tropey McTropeface" the whole entire episode is mainly ditches the typical Phineas And Ferb plot set up by having the main Phineas And Ferb plot be wrapped up in a few minuets and having the rest of the episode by based around the giant zoetrope that the boys made as it rolls around town interacting with several different character and even getting it's own love interest in the form of a Ferris Wheel and while we still do have the Agent P plot line which does still tie into the main plot of the show it's the fact that the makers of this show tried to do something new and different by having the regular main characters essentially by cameos in this one episode and having this giant zoetrope be the main character which is in of itself a pretty funny idea but then you add in the fact that it has it's own song sung by Michael Bublé and even has the episode end with it and the Ferris Wheel not only meeting up but also having their own family in the form of baby roundabouts that do help to make this episode stand out as one of the best episodes that we got this season and while there are other good episodes as well like both "Summer Block Buster" and "Cloudy With A Chance Of Mom" which is the two parter that aired as part of the same episode that plot was more about getting things back to how they were in the original show where as with this plot it was more about doing something weird and stupid and because of it we got a really good episode out of it.

What was shocking about the ending of "Summer Block Buster" was the fact that they straight up had the boy mother get hit with one of Dr. Doofenshmirtz's new weapon a Vaporizer-inator which as the name would suggest vaporizes anything that it hits which in this case with Linda herself which was a great cliffhanger for that segment as it straight away makes you want to watch the next one with even the very idea of one of Dr. Doofenshmirtz's weapons effecting anyone of the main characters even if they don't know that it's him in this harmful is a great way to not only set up that this lovable goofball can be a threat he's also still the same lovable goofball that he was in the original show as he still manages to get beaten at the end of the day with it being great seeing all of the kids working together not only to stop Linda who has transformed into a cloud from being destroyed by all of the various wind things in the town but also working together when Dr. Doofenshmirtz hits her with another gun that hits her hot front with a cold one thus causing her to fill up with water which does add a nice ticking time bomb to the episode as now the boys and Candace have to rush to get her back home and to find away to make her loose all that water weight so that they can transform her back to normal with this being something that the original show didn't really do at all not even in there many special episodes and yet they did it in the first episode of this show with this one episode being more then worthy of being it's own twenty two minuet special as it reminds of what the status quo is for the rest of the show and still gives us something that feels more at home being the plot of a special then it does a regular episode of the main show itself.

As with the rest of the show there are songs to be found in this new season with each one of the shows segments having at the very least one new song in it as With all of the seasons songs being some really good songs in there own right however tho while that was also true for the previous seasons as well here it did kind of tiresome as it did start got feel like that they were stopping the plot of the segment just to fit in a song as very little of the shows songs added anything to the plot of the segment and were only added in there because of the fact that they had songs in the original every single episode of the original seasons of the show with one of the more better songs this season being the song "Summer Is Starting Right Now" from the first segment of the new season as it's a song that is not only really catchy but is also sung really well as well with all of the main actors from the show getting in a few lines that not only remind older audience members of what there character is like but also lets the shows newer audience know what there character is like as well with all of the seasons songs still having that punk rock sound that helped to set the original series apart from all of the other kids animated shows out there that mainly had a pop soundtrack to them which is fine but it also makes them sound very similar with the only song that sues a more heavy rock to heavy metal sounding song in this season being the song "Watch It Burn" from the episode "Lord Of The Firesides" which even then doesn't sound that bad but it's not as good as "Summer Is Starting Right Now" as that song more then gets you in the mood for the rest of the season of the show.

Now then each episode of this show has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly no longer then twenty three minuets. With episode one oddly enough having the shortest running time of twenty one minuets and fifty nine seconds and quite literally all of the other episodes being twenty three minuets and one second which to be fair to this show those were pretty much the bogstanderd running time for this show to begin with as each episode is made up of two two segments with the plots of all of the segments having more then enough plot there to really cover their respective running times and this season is a strong case of the show show making some really good use it's running time as it doesn't have to fully develop any of it's characters as we have the other four season and two movies for that and there for the only thing that it has to do is develop it's respective plots and that's really it and that's something that all of the episodes do really well as all of the episodes do feel very well thought out with each segment giving alot of time to their respective plots something that the crew making this season would have had more then enough time to get good at as alot of them also worked on the original show as well and therefor they would know how well to balance the Agent P plots with the mainline Phineas And Ferb plots and not have one overshadow the other and while they never explain why Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz is once again evil something that they could have done even as a joke it's something that takes away from the plot development of this show first episode but I really will admit that this show really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is comedy show that really does mean that I have to actually talk about he actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show really good. With this seasons comedy being more then up there with the original seasons more then high quality jokes with even this new season starting it's own running joke with Burford wanting to build this one thing everyday only to either get shut down by the the rest of the gang completely or for something bigger and more important to come up which was a great running joke and it is one that you can very easily see what the final build of season 6 could quite possibly be as well and much like the rest of the show the seasons songs do also add to the comedy with the lyrics of certain songs just straight up singing abut things that are happening on screen with the joke in the whole entire episode being in the episode "Meap Me In St. Louis" where there's a running joke about a possible fifth season of weather which is a great meta joke as for the longest time the fifth season of this show was thought to be at best theoretical and at worst just straight up not going to happen with the episode making alot of references to a possible fifth season of weather all of which are really funny as it shows that the makers of this show are more then willing to make fun at themselves and just be goofy and silly whilst still telling a good joke with even that same episode having a great joke about how they were never going to make it in the first place but now that they did they had to incorporate all of the scenes from the fake trailer in this one episode which much like the rest of this episodes jokes was a really funny joke in it's own right with alot of the seasons jokes being just as funny as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

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Overall it's very save to say that Phineas And Ferb are back as these first ten episodes are such a joy to watch and are ones that alot of people be it on Disney Channel where there airing weekly or you can watch first ten episodes of this new season right now on Disney+ as this is a season of the show that is just as good as what the other seasons and the first movie well and truly was in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad thins that are in this very season in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very season really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 9.5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Disney fandom wiki page , the official Phineas And Ferb fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very show that I used in this very review being the really great the official Phineas And Ferb fandom wiki page really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very episode with really alot of them being really better quality then what you'd really think of and really all of the images are really of course up and really on the official Phineas And Ferb fandom wiki page are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Scooby-Doo! And Kiss: Rock And Roll Mystery Film Review

Scooby-Doo and the gang have teamed up with a great deal of celebrities over the years ranging from The Addams Family to the WWE. However one of their more oddest crossovers comes in the form of this movie as while the idea of having them crossover and meet the band Kiss isn't a new thing it's what the film does with the crossover that makes it weird and so then join me as I review the film that turns both Kiss and the Scooby gang into superheroes with the film in question being called simply just "Scooby-Doo! And Kiss: Rock And Roll Mystery" enjoy.

The plot of this film is with a witch haunting there theme park before there big Halloween night concert the band Kiss are forced to team up with Scooby and the gang to solve this mystery before it's far to late. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good with this films plot being alot more better then what it really had any right to be as by all rights this films plot should have been really bad and yet because of the fact that the film takes the crossover in a unique and new direction by literally turning the band Kiss into a group of superheroes it makes the pot of this film all the more fun and bizarre as now it can go to those more campy and strange places that just wouldn't be possible if the film kept it's crossover aspect straight by having the band just be there usual selves with this films plot being one of the more better direct to DVD Scooby-Doo animated movie plots because of it but at the same time tho this films plot isn't as good as it could have been either as it doesn't develop it's plot well enough with this films plot coming across as being a bit more on the weak side of things because of it which is something that does make this films plot feel more like an afterthought with it being obvious that the main attraction of this film is seeing the band Kiss being animated and teaming with Scooby-Doo with the plot of this film also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is Frank Welker as Fred Jones and Scooby-Doo and Matthew Lillard as Shaggy Rogers. Also starring in this film is Grey DeLisle as Daphne Blake , Mindy Cohn as Velma Dinkley , Paul Stanley as The Starchild , Gene Simmons as The Demon , Tommy Thayer as The Spaceman , Eric Singer as The Catman , Jennifer Carpenter as Chikara , Garry Marshall as Manny Goldman , Penny Marshall as The Elder , Doc McGhee as Chip McGhoo , Jason Mewes as Worker 1 , Pauley Perrette as Delilah Domino and The Crimson Witch , Rachel Ramras as Shandi Strutter , Darius Rucker as The Destroyer and Kevin Smith as Worker 2.

Now then interms pf what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. With all of this films actors turning in some really good performances in this very film which is something that does make sense for the regular Scooby-Doo actors as they have been playing their respective characters for at the very least a decade at the earliest and in Frank Welker's case he's been playing Fred since the sixties however the good acting also extends to this films guest actors as well with them all turning in some really decent performances in this film with it being hard to say just how the best actor was in this film as being realistically anyone of them could make that claim and it would make total sense but if push did come to shove the best actor in this film has to be Mindy Cohn as not only does this film mark her final voice performance as Velma but she also manages to turn in a good performance as the character as well as while Velma's plot line is the same one that she always gets in films like this with her having to come to terms with the fact that elements of supernatural are infact real hearing Mindy deliver these lines in such a wonderful does make you wonder why Warner Bros didn't bring her back when it turned out that she got better from her illness as she really did make for a good animated Velma with the acting that's in this film really being helped by the fact that this films script is just so good that all this actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film.

Doing the animation for this film is the legends and the really greats that are currently over at Digital eMation. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad as this films animation much like the plot is alot more better then what it really had any right to be as by all rights this films animation should have been really bad as afterall it's a crossover movie made to promote a band and those don't typically require good or even great looking animation in them and yet because of the fact the animation studios working on this film went above and beyond what was asked of them we get animated sequences that actually feel really well thought out with the film mixing in 3D CGI elements with 2D elements really well with the films animation really taking off and becoming even better during the films truly insane third act with the animation there really coming alive with all of the characters getting these really nice an fluid movements to them and heck if this film had a bit more money thrown at it for it's animation it could pass for animation in a feature length film as it's just that good and while yes the film does some choppy looking animation in some places and while the characters thick outlines can be a bit distracting the animation is on the whole one of the more better aspects of the film and is so much more fun to look at as well with the film even being worth watching just for it's animation alone as that's just how good that this films animation really is alot of the time in this film.

As was mentioned at the very start of this review this film turns the band Kiss into superheroes complete with giving them super powers as well. Which is quite frankly a unique way to go with this crossover and it is something that does work really well in this films favour as it means that you never quite know just what it is that your going to be getting next and heck the film even takes some anime influence as well by straight up giving the band a Sailor Moon inspired transformation sequence which is as every bit as insane as it sounds and yet at the same time tho it's also something that does work really well with this film as this film is all about doing things that haven't quite been done with the Scooby-Doo franchise as this point and that does include turning characters into superheroes and giving them an anime style transformation sequence and heck it could have even be argued that the spaceship that Kiss and the Mystery Inc gang drive near the end of the film is a giant mecha as the ship is hidden in Kiss's own theme park but what doesn't work is the fact that even tho Velma herself sees all of this happening and actively takes part in it she still doesn't believe that any of it is real and given that in later films the Mystery Inc gang would straight up travel back in time this film could be argued is the one that started of the trend of pushing these more weird things into the movie but where as with the time travel element in The Sword And The Scoob here the superhero element is actually fun to watch as we get to see alot of the characters including Shaggy and Scooby do their best to fight of the witch on Kiss's home world.

With this film being a comedy it does work pretty good as the film does have alot of really solid jokes in it. Including a few solid running jokes like the fact that The Starchild always refers to Fred as Frank which could be seen as being a fun filled meta joke and the fact that every time Kiss use special effects there manage comes in to clean up after them whilst also complaining that there wasting money on those effects both of which are some really solid jokes however tho there is one thing that doesn't quite work as well and that's the fact that they turned The Demon into the films comic relief character with him spending alot of his screen time getting into scrapes with Shaggy and Scooby which fair enough Gene Simmons is the most well known member of the band and there for having him be the one to team up with Shaggy and Scooby does make sense in that regard but at the same time tho the film gives him nothing funny to say with the or do when he's with the two of them with alot of his best stuff coming from when he's interacting with the rest of the films characters and while he does get a few good jokes with Shaggy and Scooby like when they first meet him and Scooby thinks that he's one of those heads that you can squirt water into and does exactly that that's a decent joke as plays into the fact that Scooby Doo isn't the smartest person in the room and so it feels true to his personality but having The Demon always be with the two of them even to the point where he himself calls in out near the end of film just doesn't work as Scooby and Shaggy's comedy works as they don't need a straight man when they already have the Crimson Witch to fill in that role and therefor having two straight men to there funny men just doesn't work at all.

With this film being a Scooby-Doo film you'd think that alot of effort would be put into creating an actually good mystery. Well you'd be wrong as the film doesn't do that at all with the film instead putting more effort into action filled third act then it is into creating an actually good mystery as this films mystery doesn't give us any clues as to who or in this also what The Crimson Witch is thus meaning when they reveal who the fake witch is at the end of the movie it not only doesn't make sense but it also comes out of nowhere as nothing involving the character goes on to suggest that she would be The Crimson Witch with this being something that proves that this films mystery just doesn't work as not only is there technically two versions of The Crimson Witch as we also see The Starchild take her on on the band's home world but the film doesn't give us any clues so we can't work out who she really is in the first place let alone work out that there's technically two of them with this being an issue that very easily could have bee fixed with a re-write of the films script and having one of the characters confirm that there is two versions of the same character as that then would make the films mystery all the more intriguing as now the characters have to work out who both of them are something that both groups very easily could have done just by gathering clues both here on Earth and on the band's home world as well but for whatever reason the makers of this film thought that we come to a Scooby-Doo film to see some action and so they put alot more effort into giving us a truly insane third act action scene then they did into giving us a really good mystery to solve.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and eighteen minuets and forty three seconds. Which to be fair to this film is the bogstanderd running time for all of the direct to DVD animated Scooby-Doo films to have and to this films credit it does have the right amount of plot there to cover that amount of running time but at the same time tho this film really doesn't use it's running time all that wisely as the film doesn't take the the time to fully develop it's plot with it being hard at times to work out what the actual plot of the film is even meant to be alot of the time with it seeming like that the characters are just doing things for rando reasons alot of the time with the film not even taking the time to fully develop alot of it's characters either as while none of the Mystery Inc gang need to be that well developed since they've been around since the sixties but the film doesn't develop any of the Kiss characters with it seeming like that there just the same character alot of the time as that's how little the makers of this film add to those characters with even characters like the band's manager and the theme park owner being none characters as they add nothing to the plot of the film and yet the film expects us to by into them as red herrings something which just can't happen as the makers of the film don't develop there characters to make them feel alot more like three dimensional characters instead of being like the one dimensional characters that they are with these issues being things that could have been solved if the film was even just ten minuets longer but I really will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is an action film that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. Which s something that you really wouldn't expect from a Scooby-Doo movie as these film are usually more comedy driven and yet with this film it seems to be more action driven and that is something that works so well for this film just due to how they present the band with all of the band having their own powers that goes along with there names which does allow for some really creative imagery during the films action and even tho this is something that really doesn't need saying but the films best action scene in the whole entire film is quite easily the entire third act of the film as that's where this films gets to be well and truly insane with the Scooby gang helping Kiss to take on The Crimson Witch on the bands home world with even Scooby and Shaggy learning how to breathe fire just like The Demon which is just as insane as you'd imagine that it would be but then it gets more insane as Kiss travel back to Earth lure this creature into this time stream where the Scooby gangs with the help of Kiss have to defeat not only threw the use of explosions but also due to the bands own powers all of which is done to one the bands actual songs with that sequence not only being a really good example of how to do an action scene with Scooby-Doo as it's just so insane and fun that you can't help but by into it but also because of the fact that it's just such a fun action scene in it's own right in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall out all of the direct to DVD animated Scooby- Doo films that are out there this film is easily one of the better ones just due to how insane that it gets where as The Sword And The Scooby just plays things a bit to safe even with the introduction of time travel and the fact that this film was so close to getting a sequel before it was cancelled is just a crime as this film is just that good in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad thigs that re in this film in this very review and a such that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 6.5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Scooby-Doo fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very film that I used in this very review being the really great the official Scooby-Doo fandom wiki page really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very film with alot of them being better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on the official Scooby-Doo fandom wiki page are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Doctor Who: The Reality War SPOILER FILLED Review

The day that we have both been dreading and looking forward to is now finally here as the final episode of Doctor Who to air for a while has just been released. With this present series earning a very mixed response from fans with some loving and others hating it I personally liked this second series and while it's not as good as the first one it's still a really good series in it's own right and as such you all just knew that I had to review this episode the very first chance that I got and so then join me as I give my SPOILER FILLED review of the episode that is spoiler filled for a VERY GOOD reason with the episode in question being called simply just "The Reality War" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is The Doctor has to escape The Rani in order to stop her evil scheme of resurrecting Omega all the while trying to stop one little girl from being whipped from existence. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad but in saying that much like with last years finale this episodes plot just didn't do that good of a job of trying to wrap things up in a way that felt satisfying as it came across as trying to do to much when just telling a good solid story whilst also wrapping up the seasons arc of getting Belinda back home was really all it needed to do and while it was nice seeing how things from the previous episodes came into play thus making this whole ear feel more like one long movie then a TV show alot of those things just felt a bit two much like fanservice as nine times out of ten they just added nothing to the overall plot of the episode but in saying that tho given what else does actually happen in this episode having those moments in here does make sense in ways that can't be mentioned at this point in the review with this episodes plot trying to be as epic as The End Of Time Parts 1 and 2 were without realizing what made that plot so big and epic was the fact that we had gotten to know all of the main characters in that two parter where as here we really hadn't and because of that there was no need for this episode to try and do what worked best in a two part episode in one singular episode with the plot of this episode being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is  Ncuti Gatwa as The Doctor , Varada Sethu as Belinda Chandra and Millie Gibson as Ruby Sunday. Also starring in this episode is Archie Panjabi as The Rani , Anita Dobson as Mrs. Flood , Steph de Whalley as Anita Benn , Sam Lawton as Winnie Petheridge , Ruth Madeley as Shirley Bingham , Michelle Greenidge as Carla Sunday , Jonah Hauer-King as Conrad Clark , Sienna-Robyn Mavanga-Phipps as Poppy , Jemma Redgrave as Kate Stewart , Susan Twist as Susan Triad , Alexander Devrient as Christofer Ibrahim , Yasmin Finney as Rose Noble , Bonnie Langford as Melanie Bush , Angela Wynter as Cherry Sunday , Nicholas Briggs as The Voice Of Omega , The Vlinx and The Daleks and Nila Aalia as Lakshmi Chandra.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in al honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. Which is something that's not really all that new as the acting from both of these seasons as has always been job notch even in the seasons more lesser episodes and as such it was all but guaranteed that the acting in this episode would also be really good as well with all of this episodes actors turning in some really good performances and while Archie Panjabi isn't as good in this episode in this episode as she was in the previous one she still does make for a rather fun and threatening villain with her performance still being pretty decent with the best actor in this episode being none other then Ncuti Gatwa himself as he just steel every single scene that he's in with this performance in this episode being a true highlight of the episode very closely being followed by the always really good Millie Gibson with it being fun to see the two of them share the screen together again as it's clear as day that the two of them have some really chemistry together and that is something that does shine through in this episode and while Varada Sethu is still good in this episode she's not going to compete with Millie just because of the fact that Millie has had more experience in playing her character then what Varada Sethu has with the acting that's in this very episode really being helped by the fact that this episodes script is just so good that all this episodes actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode.

For once I actually cannot list just who it is that's doing the CGI for this episode as there are no effects companies listed anywhere online. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad with this episode having some really good looking effects in it even in one of the episodes biggest SPOILER SCENES the effects in the scene in question do look really good with it being clear the the makers of this show spent alot of the money that they used in making this show on this episodes CGI and while yes there are some wonky effects shots in this episode much like there was in the previous episode the overall quality of the effects does seem to be really good with there being one major effects issue and that's the fact that they didn't include a reflection of The Doctor in a scene where there would normally be one in real life which was something that might take you out of the episode as it just reminds that your watching a TV show and while there are alot of really good effects to be found in this episode with Bone Dinosaurs being a really good example of that it's those little issues with the episodes effects that does stop them from being great as even tho you can see where all of that Disney money went it's a odd that none of it was used to fix those little effects issues as those are things that would have made the effects in this episode be close to being feature film worthy instead of being TV quality worthy as they are right now.

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

You might have noticed that there two names that are missing off of the above cast list and they are Jodie Whittaker as The Doctor and Billie Piper. With it not being confirmed who Billie is playing but given that she appears out of the regeneration after Ncuti Gatwa has just regenerated it's all but confirmed that she's playing The Doctor with her reveal not only being something that was rumored to be happening for some weeks now but also being something that I can foresee making alot of die hard followers of Doctor Who angry much like how Jodie's casting did back when she was first announced but at the same time this is something that's to be excited about as now we get to wait and wonder just what this version of the character is like and that is something that's going to be exciting as now we don't have to wait until Christmas to find out as there's as far as we know there's no Christmas special this year and there's no Doctor Who Series 16 coming out next year either and so we won't get to know just what this version of the character is like until she starts appearing in either Doctor Who Magazine or in the Doctor Who Comics at the earliest with it being odd that they would bring back someone who has already played a companion to two past Doctors but what the makers of this show can now do is take the lessons learned from Jodie's run on the show and apply them here by giving this new version of the character some actually good scripts something that was very sorely lacking in the Jodie Whittaker era and heck it could even be argued that her character in this episode is written so much more better then what she was when she was The Doctor with the only thing that didn't work about the actual regeneration being the fact that it looks like that the Regeneration energy is hitting The Doctor when it should be coming from him.

Last week when they announced that Omega was coming back i'm sure alot of people got really excited myself included as this is a villain that you could do so much with. Yet in this episode he appears on screen for a little less then a minuet and then is killed off right away which just seems like such a waste of a really good villain as this villain was always the smartest person in the room and heck in hist first appearance in took THREE versions of The Doctor to beat him as that's just how powerful he is and therefore having him be the bi bad for the series finale would make sense as you always want to toughest villain for your characters to face to be in the season finale for the show and yet here because of the fact that he's got rid of not only so quickly but by one version of The Doctor it makes not only Omega look like a weak villain but it also makes the previous versions of The Doctor that did go up against seem weak due to the fact that it took three of them to beat him the first time around where as here it just took the one with this not really working as Omega would have accounted for this even tho he's been driven insane he still would have had a back up plan in mind should he be defeated yet again and while this shows current showrunner , executive producer and this episodes writer Russell T. Davies does understand what it was that made him such a threat the first time around here much like he did with Sutekh he now seems to think that making him bigger is a sure fire way into making him a credible villain when having him be just as he was in the seventies worked better because then they had to rely on the writing of the character with the character in The Three Doctors being alot more better then the writing for him is in this episode.

As well as not really doing Omega all that well this episode does also kind of drop the ball with The Rani. As even tho she's still very much the main villain of the episode and is still a pretty big threat in her own right she doesn't really get all that much to do in the episode and just isn't that fun of a villain this time around and yet if you compare her to last weeks episode she was not only more threatening of a villain with her even coming close to killing The Doctor as that episodes big cliff hanger here much like Belinda herself she doesn't really do all that much with the only thing of note that she does is get eaten by Omega and that's really it and yet this is a character that the fans have wanted back since 2005 and while yes the episode does tease that Mrs. Flood could potentially come back in future episodes and while she is also a Rani as well Archie just brought this character back to life and made her exciting to watch due to the fact her take on the character was a bit of snob even scoffing at the idea of Bi-Generation and that was a fun aspect of her character as it's one that hadn't really been explored with the character and yet this episode just gets rid of her the very first chance that it gets and while she does have a pretty good scene in U.N.I.T. HQ that's the only time that she gets out of her bone palace in this episode and that feels like a waste of a character as this is a character that very easily fools people with her disguises heck she even tricked the seventh Doctor with a very bad disguise in The Time Of The Rani and so the makers of this episode very easily could have had her be on the streets alot of the time or even in past episodes but they don't instead they just choose to mainly keep her in the one location for no reason whatsoever.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and six minuets and forty seconds. Which was a really solid running time for this episode to have but at the same time tho this episode also doesn't have alot of plot there to cover that long of a running time with about the last fifteen minuets or so of the episodes running time being spent on a new plot where The Doctor has to try and make sure that Poppy exists in the real world which OK fair enough they do need to explain why this current Doctor has to regenerate but they could have done that as apart of the main plot and still have Poppy be in the real world as well just by having Omega fatally wound The Doctor with The Doctor only choosing to regenerate once he has not only saved the world but also made sure that everyone is safe and that Poppy is still alive in the real world as well as that then would not only cut out all of the pointless fifteen or so minuets that he spends with Belinda and Poppy at Belinda's house but it would also make the plot all the more dramatic as now we know that The Doctor is going to die and seeing this version of him come to terms with that could make for a really good scene and while yes having a Doctor say goodbye to his companions is a series tradition it's usually saved for when the actor playing him has been playing him for a good amount of time thus making that kind of scene not only work but also make sense as well where is with Ncuti he hadn't been playing the role for that long and so to dedicate that long of time to just saying goodbye to Belinda and Poppy not only doesn't make sense but it also doesn't work either as us the audience hadn't spent that long of time with him and so we'll feel nothing where as with David Tennant when he left at the end of The End Of Time part 2 we felt very emotional because it was the end of an era something that isn't true in this case with this episode not even using it's running time all that wisely either as while the plot of the episode doesn't need to be that well developed due to the fact that it's the second part of a two part episode but the episode also doesn't take the time to fully develop it's new characters either as we don't get to find all that much about this new version of The Rani before she gets eaten alive with the rest of the characters getting there development from the other episodes and not this episode but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.  

So now then as this is an action show that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode and well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. With the episode having some really good action sequences in it like form example The Doctor flying The Rani's flying vehicle through the bones of one of the giant Bone Dinosaurs just to reach The Bone Palace was a really thrilling scene to watch but at the same time tho the bad CGI in that scene does take you out of it a bit where as the same thing cannot be true for what surely has to be the best action in the episode and that's the scene where The Doctor quite easily defeats Omega by shooting him with the vindicator and taking the fact that The Doctor fire a gun let alone one that's a laser at a foe in the first place it is something that does show us the audience just this version of The Doctor s able to think on his feet to come up with a solution as Omega was quite literally inches away from eating him and yet he still managed to find away to defeat him with the scene itself a being a really exciting action scene that was really well done not only by Ncuti but also the effects teams as well as the episodes CGI really did get to shine in that scene but sadly it is becoming a thing now for Russell to have The Doctor act out of character in his series finales as in the last series finale he pretty much killed Sutekh and yet he does the exact same thing to Omega in this episode only now it's done in a really well done action scene and that's really it in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

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

Overall while the TARDIS might be going into storage for a while there is still some Doctor Who content coming next year with The War Between The Land And Sea but after that who knows what the future holds for this show but one things for sure this episode is one that's going to get the fans talking for quite a while in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then  i've talked about all of the good and as well all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such tat really does mean that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 7 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Doctor Who fandom wiki page , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very episode that I used in this very review being the really great the official Doctor Who fandom wiki page really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very episode with really alot of them being really better quality then what you'd really think of and really all of the images are really of course up and really on the official Doctor Who fandom wiki page are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.