Trolls: The Beat Goes On! Season 2 Review

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  

Avengers Assemble Review

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  

Star Wars Rebels Final Episodes Spoiler Free Review

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Avatar: The Last Airbender Book 2 Review

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Voltron: Legendary Defender Season 5 Review

Hello there Netflix and fans and I guess you could say Avatar fans while I did watch a lot of season one and bits of seasons two and three i've never seen a full season for did a I even watch season 4 of Voltron but i've seen enough to get what the story is so here is my review of Voltron: Legendary Defender Season 5.

Even tho I just said i've seen enough to get the story for the show I still found the story for this season very hard to follow the closest thing to to a story that this season has involves something called the Kral Zera which I won't get into detail about and it only lasts about four episodes and there's no real story after episode four but at the same time the more I watched it the more I came to realise that the show is pretty episodic and i'm not sure if that works for something like Voltron or not.

Returning to the series we have Josh Keaton , Glenn From The Walking Dead , Finn The Human , Bex Taylor-Klaus , Tyler Labine , Kimberly Brooks , Rhys Darby , Neil Kaplan , The Great Cree Summer and A.J. Locascio. I think that not only was this season well cast but the show overall was cast really well since all of the characters sound really well and the actors do a good job pulling of this sci-fi heavy show and make it sound interesting.

Now I mentioned Avatar in my intro and that's because alot of the crew from Avatar and Korra work on this show and those people include co-showrunners Joaquim Dos Santos and Lauren Montgomery Joaquin directed episodes from both Avatar amd Korra while Lauren served as a storyboard artist for Avatar Season 3 but it doesn't stop there because Ki Hyun Ryu who's a producer and director on Voltron also directed episodes of Korra and writer Tim Hedrick who was a staff writer on Avatar and korra is the lead writer on Voltron so in a way this is an Avatar reunion.

Continuing this little Avatar / Korra reunion doing the animation for Voltron is Studio Mir do did the animation for Korra and I have to say that the quality of animation seen in the Avatar franchise does carry on to this series which does make sense since alot of the same crew worked on Avatar and Korra and like both of those shows this show does take it's look from anime and as an anime fan I like that alot of mainstream shows are looking towards the east for inspiration but that said I don't think Voltron needed to be one of them.

The animation for this season was well done with the characters having some great fluid movements and facial expressions. The great animation also carries over to the more emotional scenes which I won't get into since this season has just aired but to me and unlike Avatar I didn't notice any animation errors in this season of the show.

Now people say that Hanna-Barbera is bad at reusing animation and rightfully so however they reuse the Voltron transformation scene alot both in the show and in this season so people if your going to have a go at Hanna-Barbera for doing it then you need to have a go at Disney and at this show because they both do it and i'm willing to bet your favorite show reuses alot of animation as well.

I will say that while this show and season doesn't relay to much on action scenes when they do show up they are pretty nice to look at and that's honestly the best thing I can say about those scenes because they are pretty forgettable as of this writing i've just finished season 5 and I can't remember a single action scene so I do wish they would have put more effort into making the action scenes more memorable instead of just giving them pretty animation.

I will give this season this it did have some funny moments but again since this season just aired on Netflix I won't go into to much detail but I will say that I think that the animation really did help sell those moments due to how good the facial expressions were as well as how funny the joke it self actually was and yes there are no fart jokes thank the heavens.

The opening theme for the show was done by Alex Geringas and I have to say that I really liked the opening theme it makes the show feel more epic then I think it really is plus i'm a sucker for a good electric guitar which that song does make good use of and I wouldn't be surprised if you saw heard his music in movies one day he's that good.

Overall I kinda found this season to be a bit boring and that's not something I want to say because I do really want to like it but after watching that is Avatar it now makes me want more from Voltron and I believe it can be better heck the ending to this season does hint at bigger things and we'll have to wait until June 15th for season 6 and yes the poster does indeed main i'll be reviewing the second season of Trolls: The Beat Goes On! next week but as for Voltron season 5 it gets a 8 out of 10.

   

Avatar: The Last Airbender Book 1 Review

Well then after avoiding this show for so many years heck i've seen the movie more times then I have this show i've decided to set out on my biggest challenge yet and not just review the show as a whole but to review each season of Avatar: The Last Airbender so here we go with season 1.

When I normally do a review of anything I don't take notes and that's because most of the shows I've done a review of don't tend to have a story but since this show does have a story I had to make notes and the only two episodes I didn't make notes for was the two part finale it was that damn epic and it set up season 2 pretty damn perfect.

The plot for season 1 was young waterbender Katara and her brother Sokka find a yound boy Aang trapped in an Iceberg and when he's freed it turns out he is the avatar the one is destined to bring peace to the world but he hasn't mastered the elements of airbending those being Water , Fire and Earth and he's only mastered Wind so they set out to find both Aang and Katara a waterbending master. I think with this season it wasn't just the destination that mattered but also the journey it takes them a good eighteen episodes until they reach there destination where as if this show was made they would have reached it in ten minuets.

The first season starred an evil Jake long (look it up trust me you'll laugh) , Zach Tyler Eisen , Dee Bradley Baker , Mae Whitman , Mako and Jack DeSena. This is a sixty episode show so i'm not going to name every single actor but tho even tho Dante Basco is awesome in this show and why wouldn't he be his uncle is freaking Mako all I could here was Jake Long so in my eyes Jake turned evil.

The rest of the voice cast did a really great and that's in part because they are really good in this series every actor is truly believable but also because the voice director for this was the legendary Andrea Romano who's worked on freaking everything from Batman: The Animated series to the recent Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles show and if anyone can get a great performance out of any actor it's her.

When I first started the show I thought that the story and the story telling was just going to be for little kids but my oh my was I wrong yes it does start out like that in the first few episodes but as the show goes on the story telling because more and more mature the audience isn't being talked down to instead we are being talked to on the same level and I never expected that.

Now what you might have noticed is that this show kinda looks like an anime and by kinda I mean it's anime in everything except the name but to this show's credit I think this kind of style helps with it's mature story telling and I think that having that anime look also lets you know that the comedy moments will be funnier due to the facial expressions.

The animation it self is truly stunning and is beyond what I was expecting from a show made in 2005 all of the characters even the ones that just appear in one episode have some great movements to them and in the action scenes the movements are really fluid and fast paced thud helping sell the fact that these fights are life and death.

I've been praising this season alot but I do have to say that I did notice some animation errors where people suddenly have no face and the fact that alot of the episodes just wasn't that good like for example The Waterbending Scroll episode while it does a good job of expanding the world it's not this seasons best episode and it teaches kids that it's ok to steal.

Now I have no idea how much research the writers did on this show but I found that Bumi in Hindi actually means Earth and one of the four elements that Aang has to learn is Earthbending so either that's a clever bit foreshadowing or it's a nice little easter egg for nerds either I thought it was bringing up here.

The amount of great actors who play villains in this season is truly breath taking it reads like a who's who of geek culture i've already mentioned Rafio from Hook and Mako are in this but The Fire Lord is played by The Joker / Luke Freaking Skywalker himself Mark Hamill and flipping over to another franchise with the word star in it's title original series Star Trek actor George Takei is in this show altho for the life of me I can't recall who he played and Harry Potter actor Jason Isaacs plays Admiral Zhao.

I freaking loved the fight scenes not because they were well executed altho that was part of the reason but because of how beautiful they were look at like I said before the animation is really faced paced in those scenes so it helps sell the scene and I hope to god these awesome looking fight scenes continue in seasons 2 and 3.

This show really knows how to balance between comedy and drama you get most of the comedy done with within the first five minutes of the episode while at the same time dealing out alot of story information and then you'll maybe get some jokes at the end and I have to say Sokka is easily the funniest character in this show nine times out of ten everything he says is funny as hell and I cannot believe they got away with using the word floozie on a kids show if you don't know what it means look it up but when I heard that I must have laughed for a good twenty minuets just because I didn't expect it.

Overall this was a solid first season i'm shocked that it didn't take me as long as I thought it would to finish it and I cannot wait to start season 2 Earth in a few days so for me this season gets a 8.5 out of 10.