Thomas & Friends TV Series "Thomas's Christmas Party" Review

This review is being written on Christmas Day over here in the UK and well with Thomas The Tank Engine And Friends still being a big institution over here in the UK it made sense for me to review one of there Christmas specials. With there really being only one choice for this particular review as it does have an images that is for lack of a better word magical and it's that very image that made me want to review this episode and so then join me as I review the episode that is the only episode of the show to be purposefully written by Rev. W. Awdry with the episode is question being called simply just "Thomas's Christmas Party" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when Thomas gets the idea to through a Christmas party for a friend that once helped him and Toby out the rest of the engines get a party together. 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 really good with this episodes plot being the kind of plot that you'd want to see in a kids TV Christmas episode as it's just fun and charming with there not really being danger to the story as the characters have to just get a party together for this one person who has helped them out in the past and that's really it and that's all that's really needed for this plot to work as this isn't the kind of plot that requires you watch several other episodes just understand one line of dialog or one joke and while yes the plot of this episode is a bit on the thin side this is something that not only could be said for the rest of the shows episodes as well but is also something that does work well enough to this episodes advantage as the only thing that this episode really needs is a good premise and that's it and when the premise of the episode is this good it really doesn't matter then the plot of the episode is wafer thin as we the audience are already hooked on what's going on in the first place and with Christmas specials in general you don't really want a deep and thought provoking plot you just want something simple and really that's what the plot of this episode is it's simple in all of the best ways possible 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 of course Sir Ringo Star as The Narrator with Ringo being his usually quite happy and joyful self. Which is something that is a big off putting in other episodes but here it is something that does work due to the episodes setting with even the fact that the engines are describes as being happy around Christmas time being something that does work as well and while he doesn't give any of the characters any kind of accent like her would do in Series 2 of this show there is an effort made to make each characters voice stand out as when he's doing The Fat Controller for example he gives him a slight booming voice and when he voices Thomas his voice sounds more youthful it's when we get to the other engines that we start to have a problem as none of the other engines in this episode have very distinct voices to them which does mean that you have to pay attention to the episode alot more otherwise you'd be confused as to who is talking with this being a good example of where the CGI series trumps the model series as in the CGI series they have a full cast for the episodes where as here it is quite literally just the one person doing all of the voices and while that does have it's own unique charm to it as it does come across like he is reading us the audience a bedtime story it does also have it's drawbacks as well as it is something that does require The Narrator to put on different voices for the different characters as don't forget this shows main audience is little kids and there not going to be able to tell who is talking at any given moment and therefor giving the characters more distinct voices especially in this episode where there are alot of speaking characters would have gone a long way into making this episode alot more better then what it already is in the first place.

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 really good. As even tho for alot of this shows history they only have one person doing all of the voices and telling us the episodes story much like there reading us a bedtime story that person in this case Sir Ringo Star do still have to put in an actual performance with that being something that is overlooked alot of the time by the more casual Thomas fan and yet it is something that he does do really well in this episode as he is by default the episodes best actor as if he himself doesn't believe that these characters are real then that is something that would show through in his performance and yet it's because of the fact that he does believe these characters to be real that he manages to turn in a performance that's as good as it is as while yes this episode is basically a Christmas special and those don't typically have that good acting in them here you can tell that Ringo is still trying to turn in a good performance this is despite the fact that he's not a trained actor and yet you can still tell that when a character is meant to be sad or happy that those emotions really do come through in his voice with the acting that's in this very episode really being helped by the fact that the script for this episode is so good that all this episodes actor has to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out him naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode.

Believe it or not this episode is actually written by Rev. W. Awdry as both show creator Britt Allcroft and show director David Mitton wrote the idea for the story they then took it Rev. W. Awdry to be written and published in the book of the same name. With this episode being the only episode of the show that he technically wrote an episode and you really can tell that it was written by him as it has that charm to it that you only find in The Railway Series books with the characters having an almost old fashioned way of talking to each other with the story being a sequel to another story called "Mrs. Kyndley's Christmas" which was published in the book "Toby The Tram Engine" with the characters feeling more like there book selfs then they do there TV selfs which s something that does make sense as this episode was written by the original author but at the same time tho when the story was being adapted to the series there should have been more of an effort to make the characters feel like how they are in the TV show and not how they are in the book as characters like Thomas and Gordon for example are vastly different in the books when compared to the TV show and yet you can tell that even tho this episode was only written to be nothing more then an episode of the show that there was still a great amount of love and detail put into it as while Awdry doesn't go into that much detail like he does in the books he still does make this railway feel like an actual railway which was something that he was always proud of doing as he was a train enthusiast and that amount of love and care for trains is something that did shine through in his books and it's something that does shine through in his writing for this episode. 

As was just mentioned this episode is a sequel story which wouldn't be a bad thing were it not for the fact that the original story "Mrs. Kyndley's Christmas" never got adapted into an episode in this first series. Which is odd as both Toby and Thomas act like they are good friends with Mrs. Kyndley and yet as far as we the audience are aware there've never had any screen time together and as the original story never got adapted that does mean that the makers of this episode have to shoehorn in flashbacks to the events of that story just so that we the audience know who this character is and why alot of the engines like her so much when it would much more easier to just adapt the story in the first place and heck given it's title it very well could have been the episode that aired prior to this one and yet for one reason or another the makers of this episode didn't adapt it with it feeling like that this episode was an afterthought almost as if they decided at the last possible second to do a Christmas episode and so instead of doing a proper adaptation of a story that introduces a key character in this episode they instead just went straight to the sequel and while the shows kid audience most likely wouldn't have noticed that there's a new character that all of the engines seem to really like that's not really an excuse as kids are alot more smarter then what we give them credit for and when you have a show that's usually very good with it's continuity it makes no sense for them to suddenly do a sequel episode when they havn't even done the original episode in the first place and given that alot of the of the stories in "Toby The Tram Engine" were adapted for this first series it's weird that they would suddenly skip over a story in favor of doing it's sequel adventure.

The best word that can be used to describe this episode is magical as that's exactly what it is and that's exactly what this Christmas special needed to be. As while it doesn't have the typical Christmas message that all kids Christmas specials seem to have this one does fully embrace the Christmas season and isn't afraid of being this cheesy and sickly sweet episode and to be fair that's exactly what a Christmas special should be especially when it's aimed at little kids as all they want to do is see there favorite characters being kind to one another during the festive season and to see them spread some goodwill and that's it and that's exactly what we get in this episode with the episode billed filled to the brim with snow and Christmas cheer and while that make alot of people's inner Grinch come out to play it is something that does make this episode feel unique as all of the other episodes in this very first series were all busy on trying to tell this one season long story arc with the trains getting used to each other and all of the changes that are happening in their lives and yet in this episode all of that gets put aside for something more fun and light hearted which is exactly the kind of thing that you want to see in a Christmas special and while yes this episode could have done with having a character who is set against Christmas at first but then over the course of the episodes comes round to the idea of the holiday that's also something that really isn't needed in this episode as Thomas the main character of the episode is already fully on board with the holiday and is just there to do something that's genuinely nice for someone that he cares for and at the end of the day dont we all want to something that's genuinely nice for someone at Christmas time.

Whilst this first series of the show wasn't all that known for doing alot of cool camera moves with them mostly having a static camera. There was one shot in this episode that did stand out and that's when we first see the other other engines in the shed and the camera slowly starts to pan over the set with it landing firmly infront of the other engines that is a shot that that's not in the rest of the first series and yet it's hard to see why it is a really cool shot and one that does make this episode stand out even more due to the fact that you can tell that the makers of this episode are willing to try and do new things with the camera instead of sticking with what they know for a fact works which is something that they very easily could have done given the fact that this episode was produced alongside the rest of the first series and yet the fact that they not only pulled of a really complicated camera move to do on a model set but also made it look good does show that there is some willingness to be creative and to try new and different things in this episode when that's not something that they really needed to do in this episode as this is the episode that would have been on to shut up the little kids while the mums and dads go off and do other things and yet its the fact that they did do something that's this creative that makes it stand out with it being something that does make you wonder just how managed to pull it off in the first place as this was made during the model era of the show and therefor they wouldn't have been able to go into a computer and animated the camera that way rather they would have had to have worked it out themselves and thank the heavens that they did as while this first series wasn't known for having alot of creative camera moves this is one that does prove that this team could do a verity of camera moves when there pushed to do so.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly five minuets and thirty five seconds. Which is pretty much the exact grand total running time for the alot of this shows very early episodes as well and to be fair this episode really does have the right amount of plot there to really cover that amount of running time in the first place and while the episode not really using it's time all that wisely to fully develop would usually and quiet rightly be seen as being a bad thing here tho due to the fact that the plot of the episode is that simple in the first place it really doesn't need any kind of plot development as this is after all a show that's made for little kids and while it would have been nice for this episode to have some kind of plot development in it its not really something that's all that needed as the plot of the episode works just fine without it with the plot of the episode being charming enough and magical enough in the first place that it does make you forget that the plot of the episode is as simple as it is with the same thing also being true for the episodes characters as well as not only are they simple enough to not really need that much character development in the first place alot of the episodes main characters got there character development over the course of the first series so it would be pointless to give them more character development in this episode but at the same time tho it is something that would bog this episode down and stop it from being as enjoyable as it is as the episode would have to shoehorn in character development when this is a story that really doesn't doesn't need it but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a comedy that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy 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 comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With alot of this episodes comedy stemming from the fact that Thomas is just being cheeky to his coaches and that's really it and that's all it needed to be as that's true to Thomas's character as he is the kind of character that would make a quick joke to his friends with that being his character arc in the first series with the best joke in the whole episode being when Annie and Clarabel say that they always feel full at Christmas time and Thomas just asks them where there festive spirit which granted isn't a laugh out loud funny joke but at the same time doesn't need to be it just needs to be cute and that's exactly what it is it's a cute joke that will make little kids and adults smile with that also being the case for alot of this episodes jokes as well and that is all that they needed to be as the main focus of the episode is getting across that it's Christmas time and in getting us to a wonderfully magical image with the engines at the end of the episode at the shed with Christmas lights all around them and each engines having a Christmas hat on them whilst being surrounded by Christmas trees and to be fair if that's the ending image then the episode has already succeeded as a Christmas special and while it would have helped the episode if the episode did have more funny jokes in it the jokes that the episode does gave do work really well for the episode in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall this magical episode does exactly what it sets it to do and that's make you feel warm and fuzzy inside with the episode being one that's fun to watch with this episode giving us all of the things that we love in Thomas & Friends with the only difference being that this episode is filled to the brim with Christmas cheer and that's really it and that all that it really needed to have to be a good episode 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 things 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 7.5 out of 10 from me.

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The Muppet Show "John Cleese" Review

The Muppet characters are so beloved that it's hard to picture a time where there wasn't some form of Muppet media in our lives. With The Muppet Show being that popular of a show that alot of the time they made fans out of the people the guest stars that worked on the show with the same thing being true for the episode that i'm going to be reviewing for you all today as the guest star for this episode built up a really good working relationship with the muppet crew and cast and so the join me as I review the episode that depending on where you first saw the episode had two slightly different introductions to it with the episode in question being called simply just "John Cleese" enjoy.

The plot of this show is when he is booked to be the guest star on the show John Cleese doesn't want to do the show with Kermit having to try and convince him to do the show. 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 really good with it being very refreshing to see a guest star be so openly opposed to appearing on the show that he will do quite literally anything to get out of appearing in the show and while this plot line does kind of get resolved by not even the half way mark it was still a really interesting plot and one that could have carried the whole episode as there are room for lots of jokes about John not wanting to be on the show in the first place with this episode even kind of having a subplot with Gonzo as well as when one his stunts goes right Gonzo ends up with a really long arm and has to try and figure out a way to shrink it back down to size with the episodes main plot being the more interesting of the two plots just due to the fact that it does give us something new as all of the guest stars on The Muppet Show are always happy to be there that it does make it refreshing to see someone that wants to be anywhere else but on The Muppet Show with the only thing that does hold the main plot back is that it does not only get resolved quite early on in the episode but it does also get forgotten about quite quickly when they could have spent the entire episode just on that one plotline alone 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 this episode co-writer Jim Henson as Kermit The Frog , Link Hogthrob , Rowlf , Waldorf , The Newsman and Zeke and Frank Oz as Fozzie Bear , Miss Piggy , Whatnot Dancer and Gramps. Also starring in this episode is Jerry Nelson as Slim Wilson , Floyd Pepper , Crazy Harry , Robin , A Waiter , Eric The Parrot , Whatnot Dancer and The Announcer , Richard Hunt as Scooter , Statler , Sweetums , Bubba , A Waiter and Pig , Dave Goelz as Gonzo, Koozebanian Spooble , Marvin and Lubbock Lou , Louise Gold as Lou and Sir John Cleese as Himself.

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 really good. With this being something that does make alot of sense as all of the Muppet performers are a bunch of really good actors in there own right a while yes there just playing with puppets basically they still have to turn in a performance and that is something that they always manage to do and do well with this episode being of no exception to that as they all work really bouncing there already manic and chaotic energy off of John Cleese who himself turns in a manic and chaotic performance with it being quite hard to say just who the best actor is in this episode as alot of the Muppet performers do a good job with there characters as you'd expect from them John Cleese is also really good as someone who just wants to get out of this mad house whilst he himself is trying to keep his own sanity but if push did come to shove the best actor in this episode would have be Dave Goelz really just due to the fact that Gonzo gets alot more screen time in this episode then what he usually really gets and therefor Dave gets more of chance to show us just what it is that he can do as an actor with the acting that's in this 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.

As was mentioned this episode does give Gonzo not only his own subplot in the episode but also more screen time so much so that you could consider him a co-leading character in the episode. With this being odd as he doesn't usually take a lead role in alot of Muppet productions with his only other leading role really being the film Muppets From Space and that's really it and yet here him being being in a co-lead role oddly works as we get to see what happens when one his stunts does work with him catching a cannonball with one hand which has the adverse effect of making the arm that he caught the ball with longer then the rest of his body and while the episode doesn't really take the time to explore what this could do to Gonzo as a character as he was always full to the brim with confidence it would have been interesting to see him become more big headed because of it only for the other characters to remind him of his longer arm but for whatever reason the makers of this episode instead go the opposite way and have the character become more despondent not because of the fact that the stunt was a success but it's rather because of the fact that both Fozzie and Floyd keep on making jokes about his long arm which does feel true to there characters but at the same time it would have added to Gonzo's character if we got to see him be this big headed person who now thinks that he can do anything like how funny would it be to see him act like a diva to someone like Miss Piggy or something like that as that would have felt like a natural extension of his character given the fact that he's meant to the groups everyman and alot of people when they do a small amount of success do nine times out of ten get a big ego because of it.

This episode does technically have two introductions to it depending on where you saw the episode as in the USA John Cleese is introduced as being someone from Monty Python which makes sense as Monty Python And The Holy Grail was a big film. However over here in the UK he is introduced as being one of the stars of Fawlty Towers which again makes sense as that was his latest show to air at the time and while nothing is lost in the two intros as all they are is a way to introduce just who John Cleese is it does feel odd that they would film two completely different introductions for the same person when it would have made more sense for them to just us the Monty Python one as Monty Python was the bigger name at the time and yet in saying this tho it does make sense for them to use different intros as alot of people outside of the UK to this very day still don't know about Fawlty Towers this is despite the fact that it's one of the UK's most well known sitcoms and heck it could be argued that John in this episode is playing himself more like he plays Basil in Fawlty Towers as he is constantly stressed out and is always trying to impress people even when it all comes crumbling down around him much like what Basil would do whereas John in real life is actually a pretty smart and well educated person who actually knows that he's talking about but with the show having two different introductions for him there is a good chance that it will make people who haven't heard of Fawlty Towers to go and look up the twelve episodes and even if they have heard of it then it might make them want to go and check out his work with Monty Python either way it will result in a good time and having him work with The Muppets was always going to be good time for us the audience.

In what was a really shocking move it turns out that Sir John Cleese actually had a hand in writing alot of his scenes for the episode more specifically he either wrote or helped to write the Pigs In Space sketch , the scene backstage with Gonzo where he refers to him as the ugly one and the episodes finale. With John bringing his own manic energy and writing style to the show and whilst that could be seen as being a negative due to the fact that The Muppets themselves are pretty much just chaos in felt form here it oddly works as John is portrayed as being someone who has enough of The Muppets and there kind of chaos and will do just about anything to get out of the show and while it's not obvious that he and the rest of the episodes cast and crew struck up a good working relationship so much so that they had him do a cameo in The Great Muppet Caper it is something that does help as it shows that he is in on the joke and doesn't have to be to be convinced to go as over the top as the other guests do as he already knows The Muppets style of humor due to the fact that it's close enough to the style of humor of both himself and the rest of the Monty Python team with Jon being a very good fit for this show because of his expirence with Monty Python and while it would have been more funnier if John was the more manic one and The Muppets were the more calm ones in this scenario that would also go against just who they are as characters as well as the guest host should compliment The Muppets style and not do something that works against it Roger Moore works as he gets to be charming and calm whilst this whirlwind of chaos is happening all around him and John works because his actively encouraging the chaos to happen.

The Muppets have always ben known for innovating and for pushing just what it is that you can with a puppet. With oddly enough the same thing being true for one single shot in this episode as in what shot during a song that's sung by Miss Piggy we see the full Muppet Theater stage with the camera then slowly moving back in on Miss Piggy with that one shot being something that makes you wonder just how it is that they did it as with the movies you could very well argue that they had the budget to try out these new things that might or might not work but with a TV show where every single is a special effects shot and the budget has to be spread out across several episodes that's just not something that you can do ad yet in this episode they do pull off a shot that is hard to work how they did it as it could have been a remote control Piggy which is something that would make sense as there's not a really a way to fit the puppeteer in the shot but on the other hand it very well could have been the traditional Miss Piggy puppet being controlled as she normally would have done which is something that does make sense as this scene was a UK spot and therefor wouldn't really need that much effort put into it but at the same time tho it does look like a really hard shot to pull off with a traditional puppet and therefor there very well might have been a remote control puppet used to make the shot either way it is something that does highlight the fact that the makers of this episode really were some creative people and it's something that the makers of the 2026 The Muppet Show special should try to be if they want to do The Muppets any kind of justice as The Muppets were always creative and where always trying to do new and exciting things.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty six minuets and thirty seconds. Which is pretty much the exact running time for alot of this shows other episodes as well with this episode having just about the right of plot there to cover that amount of running time in the first place as while the main plot is more then enough to cover that amount of running time it really makes it when you add in the subplot with Gonzo as well and while this episode doesn't really use it's running time all that wisely as the episode doesn't develop either of it's plots it really doesn't need to as the main focus of this show has always been and will always be the episodes sketches and that's really it with this show being one that doesn't really require a deep and thought provoking plot in order to make it work as all it needs is good sketches and that's really it with this even being true for the episodes characters as well as The Muppet characters have several other episodes to get across just what there character is and get there development in those other episodes and therefor it's not really needed in an episode like this where they don't have that many backstage segments with the ones that do have being there to push along both the main plot and the episodes subplot which does leave very little room for character development and while it would have been nice for there to be some form of character development as characters like Gonzo very rarely is ever get the lead role and therefor he could have done with getting character development it also wasn't need as his character in this episode works just as fine without it but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho. 

So now then as this is a comedy that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy 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 comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With this episode having alot of really funny jokes in it all of which play to both the strengths of The Muppets and to John Cleese and all of which work really well because of it and while yes this episode does have a few bad jokes in it those jokes are very few and far between as the episode has that many jokes in it that by the time that it's told a bad joke it's busy telling you one that will make you laugh with the best joke in the whole episode being the backstage segment where Gonzo is trying to get John to make his arm normal length again with the only thing that John does to help him is pull his other arm to make it the same length and when Gonzo then complains that he can't tie his shoes John then pulls his legs to make them the same length but in doing so he then makes Gonzo's arms smaller so he has to pull both of Gonzo's arms at the same time with the thing that makes that joke work being the psychical comedy from John as he really is great at that kind of silly slapstick comedy and while the episode really does have a lot of really funny jokes in it all of which play to the strengths of both The Muppets and there guest star the episode really plays to it's strengths when the jokes are more slapstick based as that's what John Cleese is more known for and that's when we get to see true comedy gold and that's when the episode becomes alot more funnier in this episode in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall this is one of the more better episodes of the show due to the fact that we get to see just why both Sir John Cleese and The Muppets are really funny with them both really working off of each perfectly and being a match made in comedy heaven as that's just how good that they both work really together in this episode and in The great Muppet Caper 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 thigs 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 7 out of 10 from me.

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Chrome Alone 2 Lost In New Jersey Film Review

To say that this year has been a pretty rough year for the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles would be a huge understatement as the only other piece of animated turtles media Tales Of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles got cancelled not long before it was released. However tho there was one bright light and that's the fact that the characters were due to star in what is both there first every animated short film and there second ever Christmas film as well and well that short film has now premiered and you all just knew that I had to take a look at it the very first chance that I got and so then join me as I review the short film that shockingly makes alot of ties to the turtles first Christmas adventure with the short film in question being called simply just "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Chrome Alone 2 Lost In New Jersey" enjoy.

The plot of this short film is when the turtles spot fake toys of themselves on TV whilst out trying to find a gift for Splinter the turtles head to New Jersey to put a stop to it for good. Now then interms of what I personally tought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very short 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 short was in all honesty really good with the plot of the short film basically being that of We Wish You A Turtle Christmas only done much more better with the added fact that the turtles now have to stop a machine from selling fake toys of them being something that does make what could have bee seen as being a really plot now seem alive and well with this plot being one that's perfect for a short film format as there's not really alot of plot there to carry a feature film and yet this films plot is one that is still pretty weak as the turtles soon forget about getting a gift for Splinter and don't bring it up again which is something that does make us the audience forget that that was even meant to be a thing in the first place with this films plot not really taking fully advantage of the fact that it's meant to be set in the Mutant Mayhem universe as there's nothing about this films plot that connects it back to that film so much so that you'd be forgiven for taking one look at the film and thinking that it took place in another turtles universe and yet at the same time this is a plot that could only work as a Christmas special as whilst it doesn't have the typical Christmas message that a Christmas special would normally have it's plot is still fun enough to make the short film work without it with the plot of this short really 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 Cousins For Life star Micah Abbey as Donatello , The Chi star Shamon Brown Jr. as Michelangelo and The Walking Dead: World Beyond , Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures , Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie and The Fabelmans star Nicolas Cantu as Leonardo. Also starring in this film is The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers star Brady Noon as Raphael , Superman 2025 star Beck Bennett as The Commercial Announcer and In the Loop , The Office USA and Silicon Valley star Zach Woods as Chrome Dome.

Now then interms of what I personally  thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very short 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 short was in all honesty really good. With all of this shorts actors turning in some really good performances in this short which is something that really isn't all that surprising as the four main leads are of course reprising their roles from both the Mutant Mayhem movie and Tales Of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and therefor they would have a pretty good grip on there characters by now and would therefor know just how best to perform there respective characters and what kind of performance that there characters would give in any given situation with even the shorts new actors turning some solid performances as well with Zach Woods making for a pretty funny villain and Beck Bennett being as over the top as you'd want him to be for his character with the best actor in the whole short being all four of the turtle actors as they all just work so well together with all four actors having such great chemistry together that it really wouldn't be all that surprising if they recorded all their lines together as they all really just bounce off of each other so well in this short film with the acting that's in this film really being helped by the fact that this short's script is just so good that all this shirts actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally 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 short film is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Mikros Animation and Wizz. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very short 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 short was in all honesty really good with this being something that was completely unexpected as outside of Disney and Warner Bros you don't really expect short animated films to have really high quality animation to it and to be fair to this film whilst this films animation isn't feature film worthy by any means it's also alot more better then the animation that you'll find in alot of TV shows as well with the only down side being the fact that the style of animation that these Mutant Mayhem films are going with is getting pretty old and tired and that is something that does come through in this short film as while the idea of having a 3D animated film look stop motion can be great just look at the Spider-Verse films as proof of that it does also need to serve a purpose and that's something that's not the case with this film as this is a film that could have been produced in 2D and it still would have worked just as well where as if you did the Spider-Verse films in 2D you'd loose something in doing so with those films knowing how to use this style of animation because of the fact that pretty much came up with it with this film blending 2D animation and 3D CGI animation really well as alot of the effect like smoke and other such things are done in 2D whereas everything else is done in 3D and it does work well with this film but at the same time tho the characters do have these really stilted movements to them which does make the animation look unfinished at best and at it's worse just cheap. 

Much like with the Spongebob short film "Order Up" this short is also attached to a feature length film that being oddly enough the latest Spongebob movie The SpongeBob Movie: Search For SquarePants. Which is an odd pairing for this film as surely having this short film air on TV alongside A Loud House Christmas Movie: Naughty Or Nice would be more fitting as both films are themed around Christmas time where as here there's nothing that makes it make sense for this film to be paired up with the latest Spongebob movie not that that's a bad idea as it's not as it does serve as a great way for that film to get more money and eyes on it due to the fact that it's not going to do that well at the box office due to it going up against both Zootopia 2 and Avatar: Fire And Ash both of which are much more bigger movies that were very heavily promoted but at the same time tho Spongebob is more then capable of shifting cinemas tickets on his own without the need to get help from another property as let's be real here this film is going to be getting fans of Mutant Mayhem and fans of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on the whole paying to see the film just because of the fact that it's got a short film featuring characters that they like in it and after that they'll most likely leave but if this was paired up with latest animated Loud House movie then that film would get more ratings as you can have this short film play right before it as The Loud House just isn't in the same level as something like Spongebob is and they therefor could have done with the help from this film but at the same time tho this is a short that does deserve to be seen on the biggest screen possible so there really is no way to have this short play infront of something that makes sense.

In what could be seen as being a surprising move this short film is more closer in tone to the 1987 TMNT series then alot of the more recent turtles media. With the characters cracking jokes and making one liners all over the place which is something that does oddly enough work for this short film as this is basically meant to be a Christmas special and therefor you do have permission to make jokes alot of the time even if your based off of a very serious IP or based in a world where the characters don't usually do that and while Mutant Mayhem might have basically been the 1987 show but put up on the big screen as they did make jokes in that film as well they also kept things mostly straight where as here there making jokes all of the time with that being something that will appease the young kids audience however the best film in the short film is not only one that little kids won't get but it's also one that could be considered a spoiler but let's just say that they play a certain song at the end of the short film that was totally unexpected as it's a call back to the film "We Wish You A Turtle Christmas" which is something that none of the kids watching this short film will get the adults that actively either looked the film up or watched it when they were kids will find it to be really funny as that special is ne of the worst pieces of turtle media ever and the reason why i'm not saying what it is is because of the fact that I want you guys and girls reading this review to expirence the same way that I did by not knowing just what's coming as then you'll fully get why this joke is so funny in the first place with it being something that does show you that the makers of not only this short film but also Mutant Mayhem really are die hard turtles fans as they include alot of very deep cut references that your not going to get unless your a die hard turtles fan.

This film is also one that's really topical as the film goes out of it's way to make sure that you know that it's dead set against AI. With this being something that does also date the film already as right now the only major film company talking about using AI is Disney with there new AI deal and that's really it and yet tho it is something that does tie into the film in a really cool and funny way as the films main villain chrome dome has a backstory that is just very poorly done knock offs off other more popular characters and IP's with him creating the fake turtles toys pretty much as a way to trick people into thinking that there official merch and therefor make alot of money out of it which is what AI can do when it's used in a negative way with the likeness of the turtles even being used without there express permission which again is something that's very much associated with the use of AI with the only turtle not really defending AI but rather being more in the middle about the whole thing being Donnie himself as he does point out that AI is just prompts so if the prompt put into something like Sora 2 or ChatGPT for example then you could get something that looks really good with the films villain being one that's just as goofy as you'd want for a short film like this one as he's not that serious and is not meant to be a big and scary villain he's just meant to be a funny and goofy character and that's it and to be fair that's exactly what Chrome Dome is with even the fact that he doesn't really have an end game in mind outside of making money being something that is kind of perfect for a short film and heck they could bring this character back in Mutant Mayhem 2 as the character does have some potential to be a really fun comic relief villain for the turtles to fight against much like what The Spot was in Into The Spider-Verse.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly seven minuets and twelve seconds. Which to be fair to this film is pretty much the exact grand total running time that you'd expect a short film like this one to have in the first place with this short film even having the right amount of plot there to really cover that amount of running time as this is a short film that doesn't really need a lot of plot in the first place it just needs the basic setup and premise and that's really it and that's something that this film does indeed have with this film not really needing to use it's running time all that wisely as the films plot is as developed as it will ever be given the fact that it's set up and premise is really simple with the shorts plot not really needing to be that well developed as the set up is that simple and the shorts characters don't really need to be that well developed due to the fact that they get alot of there character development in both the previous film and in Tales Of The Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as well but in saying this tho it would been nice if the film did give these characters some small amount of character development as it would have showed that the characters are growing as people but as the film is alot more focused on being campy and over the top in all of the best ways possible then it does mean that the shorts characters can't get that much character development however tho this is a short that really doesn't need it as the plot for the short doesn't allow for any kind of character development to happen in the first place with this even being true for alot of short films as not alot of them need character development as it would be hard to squeeze into something that's seven minuets long but I really will admit that this short really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is an action short that really does mean hat I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very sort well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual short that's actually featured / presented to us in this very short was in all honesty really good. As even tho this film does have the one action scene in it it was something that des really well and was something that does show of just how creative that the makers of this film could be when there coming up with action scenes for these characters to be in with this films only action scene by default being it's best action scene as we get to see the turtles take on Chrome Dome in what is a really fun fight with at least three of the turtles getting the chance to take him on head on with Donnie using his brains to help them win the day which is something that does go along way into showing us just what it is that alot of the turtles bring to the team with it always being a fun time seeing them all team up to take on a bad guy with all four turtles coming up with unique ways to hurt Chrome Dome as he does nothing but use there own moves against which is something that does lead to him being defeated in a really fun way and while it would have been more fun if he had an entire army of the fake turtle toys come out to help him in his fight against the turtles that is something that could be seen as being a bit to epic for a short film as that's something that would work alot more better in a feature film format but it is also something that would have justified them mentioning the fake turtle toys outside of having them be a joke at the end of the short with the fight against Chrome Dome being a really fun filled fight in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall this film is massively better then what We Wish You A Turtle Christmas is as this film is watchable at the very least whereas that film is one that's best avoided by anyone and yet with this film you can tell that there was a clear love and passion for the brand and wasn't just made to sell some VHS tapes 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 are in this very short in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very sort 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 sued 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 IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very short 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 really are all really from this very short with alot of them being really better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on Google Images really are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

The War Between The Land And The Sea TV Series SPOILER FILLED Review

People have been saying for years that Doctor Who is dead and yet right now there's just been a show that has not only been a hit with both critics and Doctor Who fans alike but has also been a ratings hit. With this show proving that if you give us good quality content then we will come back and watch the next show with this show even going as far as to prove that people really do still watch television as well and will be willing to watch it if you give them something good to watch and that is something that the past two series of Doctor Who had failed to do and heck this show has been doing really better then the last two series of Doctor Who has been doing in the ratings and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FILLED review of the show that now officially marks the end of the Doctor Who and Disney deal with the show in question being called simply just "The War Between The Land And The Sea" enjoy.

The plot of this show is when an ancient alien race calling themselves Homo Aqua suddenly emerges from the sea the human race must hold peace talks with them to prevent a war something that is not helped by the fact that factions on both sides want the other dead. 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 plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty really good with this episodes plot being alot more better then what it really should have been as by all rights a Doctor Who spin off written by modern day Russell T. Davies really shouldn't have worked and yet it oddly did with it feeling like that this show was more of a passion project for him as he did put in alot of his best work into this show and into this shows plot and while the show was co-written and co-produced by Pete McTighe Russell does deserve alot of credit here as both her and Pete helped to make this plot as good as it was as by all rights this is a plot that should have fallen flat on it's face and yet somehow they managed to tell a really tight and contained story all in five episodes and it's something that not only makes you remember why Russell is such a good writer in the first place but it also makes you wonder why he didn't bring this level of skill to the last two series of Doctor Who as while this shows plot could be seen as being quite weak alot of the time as the show doesn't spend that much time on it's main plot but when it does that's when you get some of the best scenes in the whole entire show with the plot of this show being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

 

Starring in this show is Russell Tovey as Barclay Pierre-Dupont , Gugu Mbatha-Raw as Salt and Jemma Redgrave as Kate Lethbridge-Stewart. Also starring in this show is Colin McFarlane as General Austin Pierce , Alexander Devrient as Colonel Christofer Ibrahim , Ruth Madeley as Shirley Anne Bingham , Adrian Lukis as Sir Jonathan Hynes , Vincent Franklin as Harry Shaw , Steward Alexander as General Oscar Gunsberg , Barbara Probst as General Dominique Dussolier , Patrick Baladi as Sir Keith Spears , Francesca Corney as Sergeant Hana Chakri , Ann Akinjirin as Barbara Pierre-Dupont , Cat Gannon as Kirby Pierre-Dupont , Samuel Oatley as Tide , Mei Mac as Min Tso , Waleed Hammad as Colonel Tariq Hashim , Hannah Donaldson as Captain Louise Mackie , William Gaminara as Ted Campbell and Lachele Carl as Trinity Wells.

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 this show getting alot of praise for it's acting and rightfully so as my god is the acting in this show top notch as everybody is just on top form in this show so much so that even if your not that big in to science fiction the show is still worth watching just for the acting alone with all of this shows actors really bringing there A game to this show which is something that does make alot of sense for the actors that are reprising their roles either from Doctor Who or Torchwood as they would have played there characters before but even this shows new actors really do nail there characters down perfectly and turn in some really good performances as a result of that with the shows best actor also being the one that's been getting alot of praise for their acting in this show that being Jemma Redgrave as Kate Lethbridge-Stewart as she is just so good to watch in this show with her character getting put through alot in this show and it is something that does come across in the acting as Jenna does make Kate a really believable character something which Russell Tovey does also manage to pull off quite well as well with the acting that's in this show really being helped by the fact that this shows scripts are just so good that all the actors in this show 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 show.

Doing the CGI for this show is the legends and really the greats that are currently over at Millennium FX. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI 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 CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty really good with this being something that both is and at the same time isn't all that surprising either as while the main show has in recent years had some really good effects in it thanks to the Disney money there was still no way of knowing on if that would translate to this show having some good looking effects in it and yet at the same time it's not all that surprising either as Millennium FX have done some top notch work for Doctor Who in the past and therefor it would have been very wise to expect more of the same here in this show which was exactly what we got as while this show isn't as effects heavy as Doctor Who is what effects we got in this show looked really good with alot of that coming down to the fact that there was a huge effects budget for this show thanks to Disney pumping money into Doctor Who with there not really being a single bad looking effect in any of the episodes as all of this shows effects do look really good with it being clear as day that there was more of an effort to do things practically wherever possible and because of that it does mean that we get a lot less effects shots in this show with the only real effects used in the show looking really good as the effects team would have had alot more time to make them look as good as they possibly could have done.

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

One of the big things coming out of this final episode was the fact that according to Comicbook . Com they straight up turned Kate into the villain. As the had an article that is headlined "Doctor Who Just Turned One 30-Year-Old Classic Character Into a Villain (In the Best Possible Way)" which with that headline would make you believe that the character has taken a dive off of the deep end and yet if you watch the final episode you'll know full well that she's only telling the man at the end to pick up his rubbish because of the fact that she's trying to avoid another war something which DOESN'T make her a villain as she's trying to do the responsible thing and has been through alot over the course of these five episodes however she does somewhat act a bit evil at the start of the episode where she straight up blackmails someone into letting her continue working on the case despite the fact that she's still seeing her dead lover Colonel Christofer Ibrahim everywhere which she puts down to her suffering from PTSD but is more then likely due to the fact that she hasn't had the time to grieve over him yet as she's not stopped working since he got shot in episode three of this show with the fact that she's willing to stoop to blackmail in this episode being the only thing that she does in this show that could be considered evil and that's it and while it would be nice to see her continue to have this mental breakdown as it would add some depth to the character it is also something that wouldn't really work in Doctor Who and would only really work in these more adult themed spin off shows as then you could really go into what it is that's causing her all of his pain and how she truly feels about loosing Colonel Christofer Ibrahim and how she truly felt about him as well with those things being something that you really can't do in Doctor Who due to the fact that Doctor Who is a show that was created with kids in mind.

In something that could be seen as being both a smart move and a really obvious move the show doesn't have Homo Aqua be the main villains of the show. As rather it's both them and us humans that are meant to be seen as being the true villains of the show as Homo Aqua only start acting out when we kill one of theirs and they start pushing back by threatening us with them even melting the Polar Ice caps as a way to flood the earth so that they may take control of it once again with this being something that could be seen as a being a smart move as a show like this one really doesn't need to have one central villain as due to the fact that it's more of a drama and political thriller then what Doctor Who is there should be this intrigue there that wants you to want to keep on watching the show with both sides actually making some very valid points as to why in their eyes it's the other side that's meant to be seen as the main villain but on the other hand this could be seen as being rather predictable due to the fact that the show does have a heavy environmental message to it which does borderline on being a tad bit preachy and yet at the same time given the race of aliens that we are meant to be dealing with in this show and where these characters have it does make sense for this show to have that kind of a message and while the message does come across as being a bit heavy handed alot of times as they mention the fact that the water is filthy several times an episode when really they only needed to do it once or twice early on in the show and that's it it is something that is more fitting in this show then alot of the forced messaging that's been creeping up more and more in the last two series of Doctor Who as here the message actually plays apart in the shows story and is key to the story of the show whereas in Doctor Who those kind of heavy messages weren't needed.

To be blunt the romance subplot between Barclay and Salt just didn't work as it kind of felt like the makers of the show were trying to replicate what Guillermo Del Toro did with his film The Shape Of Water. Only here due to the fact that this show was only five episodes long they don't really take the time to fully set up the fact that Barclay and Salt do have these deep and strong feelings for each other as it comes across in one episode as them just being friends and nothing more then that and yet by the end of episode four there sleeping together where as if there was a few more episodes to this show then they could have had some extra time devoted to making there relationship feel more real and feel more earned as on paper there relationship should have worked as there basically meant to be like Romeo And Juliet only instead of being in an intense romantic drama there in an intense science fiction drama and while both characters do work really well together so much so that you want to see more of them it's there relationship that really does need fixing with this being something that should have been fixed at the script writing stage due to how vital that there relationship is for the show but for one reason or another the makers of this show instead gave us a scene where Barclay now gets gills for no reason which isn't explained with it only being hinted that that's what accord was meant to be when there should have been more screen time devoted into giving their relationship some development as there scenes together in episode four where some of the more sweetest scenes as they told us alot about both characters and if we had more scenes like that in this show then there relationship would have been really good.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly fifty three minuets and forty one seconds. With each episode of the show having a very similar running time to them with the fact that this sow being five episodes long is something that does harm the story as there's more then enough plot to cover at the very least six or seven episodes with this episode having more then enough plot to really cover it's running time but at the same time tho this episode really doesn't use it's running time in one respect as while it doesn't need to fully develop it's plot as that's what the previous four episodes do this episode does feel like it's trying to do a bit to much as it's trying to wrap up the shows storyline whilst also trying to tell it's plot and it just can't do that with this being another reason as to why this show should have had a few more episodes to it and yet the episode still does give the time to alot of it's characters to give them some character development as the Barclay that we meet at the start of the show is vastly different character to the one that we meet at the end of the show as he has gone through and has over come alot of things with the same thing also being true for Kate who went from being this person who also saw the best in humanity due to her exposure to The Doctor to someone who has now gone through this life changing event that she has to learn to navigate with The Doctor there to ground her in someway with the only character that doesn't really go through any kind of character development being Salt herself which it could be argued is the point of the character and is also due to the fact that we don't get to spend alot of time with her outside of these meetings and yet what little time we do spend with her outside of these meetings to offer some insight into who she is as a character as we find out that she's basically afraid of being alone something which the show could have gone into more detail about but it doesn't due to it shorter episode count but i really will admit that this show really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a drama that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual drama 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 drama that's actually featured / presented to us in this very show was in all honesty really good. With this show really taking full advantage of the fact that it's a more adult show then what Doctor Who is as the characters are now given the chance to talk about things that they can't do in the other show with the fact that there also dealing with what they think is a hostile alien race with the fact that there are even people within the human race all wanting different things being more then ways to create some really good drama something which this show does take as full advantage of as it really could have done with the best drama in the whole show being a small scene between Barclay and his wife as at the start of episode three of this show before he and some others are about to go to the home of Homo Aqua Barclay breaks down infront of his ex-wife and admits that he's scared as if he messes up here then that's it for the human race with him even admitting that he's scared because of the fact that he doesn't know if the machine that's going to lower them down there several thousand miles under the water will hold up and keep them alive and that is something that does remind us that Barclay is this normal ordinary person who has been put into this extraordinary situation as we are so used to seeing two hearted aliens who are confident walk into these very dangerous situations that we forget that these kinds of situations would be seen as being really scary for a normal person with the show itself having alot of really good dramatic moments in it in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

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

Overall this show is everything that the past two series of Doctor Who should have been as this show puts alot more focus on telling a tight story with characters that you like with this show reminding us of just how good of a writer that Russell T. Davies still is a writer even tho this episode still does fall into the same old trappings that all of his Doctor Who finales fall into 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 things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly an 8.5 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 Tardis . Wiki 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 Tardis . Wiki really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that really are all really from this very show with alot of them being really better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on Tardis . Wiki really are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.