The Death Of Superman Review

When DC announced they were basically remaking Superman: Doomsday into a two part more comic accurate film I was wondering why they would do that since Superman: Doomsday is still a great freaking movie and well after someone leaked not only this movie but also Lego Aquaman I can now bring you my thoughts on this movie so here is my review of The Death Of Superman.

It took me a good while to come to this conclusion but this movie really has no plot outside of what happens to Superman and I know i'm going to get some hate for this but the actual book where he died also had no plot so in this case I would have been open to them making changes just so this film could have a story to tell.

Returning for this film are Christopher Gorham as The Flash , Matt Lanter as Aquaman , Rosario Dawson as Wonder Woman , Jerry O'Connell as Superman and Nathan Fillion as Hal Jordan among many others and I will say that out of the returning cast I really enjoyed Jerry O'Connell when the emotional moments come in this film that's when his performance really does shine through.

New cast members include Rebecca Romijn as Lois Lane , Rainn Wilson as Lex Luthor , Toks Olagundoye as Cat Grant , Paul Eiding and Jennifer Hale as Ma and Pa Kent and Erica Luttrell as Mercy Graves. Out of the new cast the only actor who I thought was really enjoying themselves was Rainn Wilson I honestly feel that he was born to play Lex Luthor and I had no idea that Rebecca Romijn was even in the movie.

The animation for the film was handled by Studio Mir who have handled the animation for the recent Voltron series as well as some of The Legend of Korra and the first season of Guardians Of The Galaxy and I have to say that the animation in this film for the most part was really good but every now and again there would be an odd drawing that made something feel off it's something that could have been fixed tho if they redrew that scene.

I'm going to come right out and say this but I will always prefer Superman: Doomsday to this film because like I said the film actually had a story which means it had a beginning , a middle and an end here there is a beginning but since this a two part film we have to wait until 2019 to see the end and so this film comes of as one big set up for the next one.

Even during the film I worked out a way in which you could do this story as one film and it's simple you open up with the big fight with doomsday that could take up say ten or twenty minuets and the rest of the film is how Superman came back and you can have dialog from characters to fill in all the blanks so that way the story is how did Superman come back which for me is a great story to tell.

In one of two cases where this film is actually better then Doomsday is the fact the emotional moments in this film both mean something and are actually emotional they mean something because we actually get to spend alot of time getting to know the characters even before Doomsday even shows up and that in turn makes it more emotional when *spoiler alert incase you didn't read the title* Superman dies. 

In Doomsday we didn't get to spend that much time getting to know the characters the film starts then about ten minuets later he's fighting Doomsday that really isn't enough time and it's one of the few cases where i'd say splitting the film into two parts actually makes sense and helps make the film feel more epic.

I know you all want to know this and yes the fight in this movie is really well done and i'm honestly finding it hard to decide which film did this fight better because while this film holds of the fight which lets us get to know the characters Doomsday kept the creature mostly hidden until it was time thus we have no idea what he looks like and that makes him more awesome but I can say that the fight in this movie is epic as heck and feel every single punch and kick that is dealt.

If your a fan of the 1970's Superman movie there is a line referenced in this movie and the way it's done and how it's delivered is so awkward I give the makers credit for choosing to reference one of the most iconic scenes in that movie but they didn't have to it as awkwardly as they did and it's meant to be a joke as well so it just comes of as cringy.

Overall while I applaud them for retelling this story splitting it up into two parts is both a good and bad thing but if you want to see a film that actually takes it's time before getting into any action then this is the film for you but for me Superman: doomsday is the better film and this film gets a 7 out of 10 from me.

X-Men: The Animated Series Review

Marvel we mock you for your animated shows but we forget that you did used to make great animated shows and like your current movies and live action shows they also lived in a shared universe and the show I want to talk about today is in my opinion the best version of these characters i'm of course talking about X-Men: The Animated Series.

This show really doesn't have a plot but it's basic premise is it's the adventures of Cyclops, Wolverine, Rogue, Storm, Beast, Gambit, Jubilee, Jean Grey and Professor X and that's really all the set up you need it's a superhero show so of course there will be bad guys to fight and for me this set up works so there's no need for a series long plot.

I just said that this series doesn't have a plot and that is true but the first two seasons of the show each have there own storyline the first season dealt with The Mutant Registration Act while the second season dealt with Magneto and Professor X lost in a place called the Savage Land. If I were pushed i'd say that season one had the better story but that said i'm glad that they stopped doing season long stories after season two.

Starring in the show are Norm Spencer as Cyclops , Cathal J. Dodd as Wolverine , Lenore Zann as Rouge , Iona Morris and Alison Sealy-Smith as Storm , George Buza as Beast , Chris Potter and Tony Daniels as Gambit , Alyson Court as Jubilee , Catherine Disher as Jean Grey and Cedric Smith as Professor X. Storm is listed as being played by two different actress because for the whole of the first season and the first seven episodes of season 2 she was played by Iona but for the rest of the show she was played by Alison and for the first four seasons Gambit was played Chris and for some unknown reason was replaced for the fifth and final season and Tony daniels I have no idea why they replaced two of the main characters in the show I can't find a single reason anywhere so we can only assume.

I will say tho that i loved the first voice actress for Storm since she made the character come alive and for me her second voice was a little distracting but tho I will say that the actors did a great job and it helps that they had great material to work off.

The show was animated by AKOM Production, Ltd and i'm reading what shows they've worked on and they pretty much worked on most shows of your childhood they did Animaniacs , Batman: The Animated Series , Tiny Toon Adventures , Jem and Earthworm Jim. So yeah they've worked on alot of solid shows and movies so imagine my surprise when I saw that the animation in this show wasn't that good and that's shocking because the animation in Batman is fantastic.

Speaking of AKOM after how they acted when animating the first season of this show i'm surprised that they continued to get work because they turned in the first episode not with one or two animation errors but with hundreds of them and they refused to fix them so Fox was forced to air the episode with all the errors and to make matters worse then turned in episode two was turned in just before a deadline with fifty scenes missing if I was producing this show I would have fired them because acting like that in unprofessional.

I think that it's safe to assume that any guy who watched this show as a kid had a huge crush on Rouge and quite frankly I don't blame them heck I was one of them and like a fine wine she has only gotten better with age but watching this series for this review I quickly realized that she was over powered as heck and I was just sat there wondering why she doesn't just touch the villain and boom mission over.

I really can't see a kid from today getting into this series just because it's a very nineties show just everything about this show screams nineties from how the tech looks in The X Mansion to the fact that Jubilee's foster parents mansion her destroying a VCR heck they even have Scott use the famous not put down all of these are things that you wouldn't see in a show today.

This show was still so popular when it ended in 1997 that the person that Avi Arad who was a fan of the show and who helped Lauren Shuler Donner get the film rights to the characters and the pair helped produce the first X-Men live action film so if you like those films it's this show that you've got to thank for them existing.

I don't think this really needs to be said since i've just mentioned the live action films but the animated series aired on Fox Kids between 1992 and 1997 and it was a smash hit from the get go and the person you have to thank for this show coming into being is a person called Margaret Loesch who thought hard for the series to be made.

I don't think i'm the only one that thinks this but for me the best multi-part episode is very easily "The Dark Phoenix Saga" those four episodes for me are the best episodes that the show ever made it had a bit of everything it had action , it had suspense and it had a bit of romance and unlike The Last Stand it didn't butcher the whole franchise.

I didn't notice this growing up but this show has a few Power Rangers guys working on the music the iconic theme song was written by Ron Wasserman who did the theme song to Power Rangers and the music was done by both Shuki Levy and Noam Kaniel Shuki co-wrote the very first episode of Power Rangers and well helped produce the show and Noam is the current composer for the show.

Overall this was a solid show I will admit that some parts of the episodes did bore me a little but that's not a major thing for me since your going to get episodes like that in any show but the show did also have some annoying characters and if you want to see more from this continuity then check out X-Men '92 a comic book that's set in the world of the show for me the show scores an 8.5 out of 10.

Comparing Wabbit To The Looney Tunes Show

The Looney Tunes have been around since the thirties and there characters have become house hold names but there are two TV shows out there which have given fans differing opinions and now i'm going to compare the two and to make things clear i'm comparing things like the animation , the characters , pacing and most importantly the jokes so here we go.

Animation

The animation in The Looney Tunes Show for me at least is truly stunning you can tell that there's alot of care and attention put into each and every frame but I will say that the blocky presentation of the first season could be off putting to some people.

The animation in Wabbit I think is slightly better then what's in The Looney Tunes Show but not by much but tho the characters look a little to child like for my liking whereas in The Looney Tunes they have more of a mature look to them.

Winner: Wabbit

Characters

Now the first season of Wabbit rarely had the other Looney Tunes characters instead pairing Bugs up with a new character called Squeaks the Squirrel to me Squeaks isn't looney which is important when your in a Looney Tunes show. 

Another problem with the characters for me comes with the fact that Bugs gets dumbed down alot in the first season and acts very out of character and the fact that Daffy acts like his Daffy self when he's in situations where his more cynical nature would be funnier to me just isn't right but apart from those gripes the characters act mostly in character.

I have to say that this show did the impossible they changed Lola from someone who was just so Bugs could have a love interest and made her into someone who's actually looney in The Looney Tunes Show she's a ditsy rich girl who may or may not be insane and for that show it works heck it worked so much that they might have kept that version of her in Wabbit where she does a parody of Daenerys Targaryen from HBO's Game Of Thrones.

Apart from the upheaval and makeover done to Lola i'd say that the makers of The Looney Tunes Show matured the characters and they made them more human and to me that makes the characters seem more relatable and that's also helped by the fact that Bugs doesn't always win all infact most times he looses.

Winner: The Looney Tunes Show

Jokes

The classic Looney Tunes shorts got most of there humor not from slapstick like Tom And Jerry but from there word play and this is something that The Looney Tunes Show got right because the jokes in this series don't or very rarely come from characters either getting hit or hitting each other it comes from whatever there saying but alot of the jokes in season two just weren't funny.

Now i'll admit that this show can at times be rather funny ok not laugh out loud funny at some of the jokes did put a smile on my face but here's the thing this show is meant to be the Looney Tunes going back to there roots so you'd think that would mean they would bring back the world play they do not instead the humor mostly comes from slapstick which was rarely present in the classic cartoons and when it was featured it was after a tone of word play which set it all up.

Winner: The Looney Tunes Show

Pacing

The classic Looney Tunes cartoons where around seven minuets in length and that worked for those shorts but with The Looney Tunes Show the time frame is stretched to twenty two minuets an episode and I think that honestly works since it allows the story and the jokes to flow at a more natural pace.

The time frame for Wabbit is really odd because some episodes are twenty two minuets while some or around the now standerd ten minuets but each of those ten minuet episodes contain two five minuet cartoons so having effectively five minuets to tell a story and pack in as many jokes as possible is impossible it worked back in the thirties because of the fact that even if they had a bad short they still had stellar animation but the pacing for Wabbit is far to fast.

Winner: The Looney Tunes Show

Ovcrall winner: The Looney Tunes Show

Guys don't hate on people who like Wabbit and if you do like Wabbit then hey great good for you but tho for me The Looney Tunes Show is far better and don't hate on people who like The Looney Tunes Show since the main purpose of this post isn't to spread hate but rather just to have some fun.

The Hollow Review

Netflix is back at it with another animated series and I think it's fair to say that this one cought everyone of guard since the first trailer only came online a day or two ago so here is my review of the new Netflix series The Hollow.

The plot of this show is 3 teen strangers awaken in a dangerous world and try to make sense of what connection they have to each other as they attempt to make it out alive. Unlike other shows out there this one actually has a story which means it has a beginning , middle and end and I have to say that the story is pretty interesting and the series is really paced.

Starring in the show are Adrian Petriw , Connor Parnall and and My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic star Ashleigh Ball. The acting in the show isn't really that good but the main cast do put in great performances what really shocked me tho was how many MLP actors do voices for the show so if your a fan of that show you'll have a good time spotting certain voice actors.

Until a few days ago there was pretty much nothing released for this show even know as i'm writing this there's only an IMDB page with only the actors that i've listed on there heck there's not even a Wikipedia page for the show so any information I can get for this show is mostly an educated guess but in this case not knowing is half of the fun.

The only production company I can find credited on IMDB is a company called Slap Happy Cartoons who have worked on a show called Nerds And Monsters and The Tom And Jerry Show but as far as I can tell those are the only things they've worked on prior to working on this show and I have to say that I really did enjoy the animation in this show is actually pretty good it reminded me alot of comic books but I will say that there are times when the animation isn't that great but they are few and far between.

I'm going to try and not spoil anything here but oh my gosh that ending it's something that I never saw coming and when it did happen the only thing I could say was "mind blown" that's how truly shocking it was and it's because of that ending that I want there to be a season two and it also makes me wonder how the heck they could do a season two.

I will say that for me the mystery aspect of the show kinda dragged on a little but that's more due to how long the series is but then again the mystery is also kinda weak in that it does give you clues here and there but not enough clues so you can't really work it out altho I did piece part of the mystery together but that's only because of something I cannot say because it's a spoiler and I don't want to spoil this series for you guys.

Another thing that I didn't really like about the series is the fact that it's two long for this kind of story and by that I mean this series is ten episodes long and I feel that this story would have been better served if it was say five episodes since with it being ten episodes it also made the mystery aspect suffer because they wouldn't have been able to reveal certain things right away.

This is where the review gets hard because of the fact there are things that I want to talk about but because of my own rules of only doing spoiler free reviews I can't but I can say that if you want to see a really interesting series then you should for sure check this series out but I can say the opening scene reminded me alot of the first Saw film so if you like those films then you'll be very happy indeed.

Overall like i've just said you should go and check this series out it's really freaking good but just be ready for a mystery that gets dragged out and for a series that really shouldn't be ten episodes long and I agree with the IMDB score and give this series an 8.5 out of 10.

Cloak & Dagger "Pilot" Review

Marvel fans the company that can do no wrong on the big screen hasn't had the same success on the small screen but will that all change with there latest show well let's find out with my review of the two part pilot episode of Cloak & Dagger.

The plot of these two episodes basically is Tandy Bowen and Tyrone Johnson lead complicated lives which only get more complicated when they meet each other and discover they have superpowers. That's really all I got from this two hour premier which was what I was expecting since this is only the pilot episode but even so I do like the set up. Altho if there is one compliant that I have it's that the first episode does go a little two slow for my liking and while the second episode does go a little quicker it still feels slow.

Starring as the titular duo are Aubrey Joseph and ex Disney Channel star Olivia Holt and they are joined by Gloria Reuben as Adina Johnson , Andrea Roth as Melissa Bowen , J. D. Evermore as Connors , Miles Mussenden as Otis Johnson , Carl Lundstedt as Liam Walsh and Jaime Zevallos as Delgado.

One of the things that I like about the Marvel TV shows is that they are very well cast and I think the same thing is true here the actors playing Cloak & Dagger are so good in these two episodes and I hope that they are good in the rest of the series i'm not really going to comment on the rest of the cast just because we don't really see that much of them in these two episodes so it won't be right.

I've not seen any of the Cloak & Dagger comic books so I have no idea if the characters are true to there comic book counterparts but based of these two episodes the main characters are fairly likable which for me is a bad thing because these are characters you want to be cheering for so I hope that by the end of episode ten they do become likable people.

I should clear something up when I say Marvel TV what i'm referring two is there shows on mainstream network television and not there shows on Netflix so if you love those Netflix shows you can put your pitchforks down but what I said about the casting for Marvel TV shows being perfect is true for there Netflix shows as well.

What I wasn't expecting was the fact that this show isn't your typical superhero show there's no big CGI fight at the end of every episode instead what's at the heart of the show is it's two main leads and for me that's really refreshing and it helps set this show apart from all of the other superhero shows out there.

On the downside there doesn't seem to be a story in sight for this show which is a shame since it's ten episodes long so every episode needs to be about advancing the story and advancing the characters and for a show that's ten episodes long that's not a good thing maybe they'll get to the story in episode three but this review is being based of the first two episodes maybe i'm coming at this from the point of view of other superhero shows but only time will tell.

Overall it wasn't a bad two hour premier and the series so far is offering something fresh and different and I do believe that this could be the best live action Marvel show on network television but based of these two episodes there are some faults that need to be fixed so since this is just the pilot i'm not going to give it a rating but I might give this a full series review when all ten episodes have aired.

The Powerpuff Girls 2016 Review

Well then cartoon fans I bet that this is a review that you didn't see coming but it's one that i've been planning for a little while now and I finally decided to stop putting it of and get to it so here is my review of The Powerpuff Girls 2016.

The premise of the show is fairly simple the show follows the exploits of Bubbles , Blossom and Buttercup as they fight crime inbetween trying to have a normal childhood. This premise worked for the original show so i'm glad that they didn't change it however since this is reboot I think that they should have changed it in order to make it there own.

One of the many , many , many , many things that this show got criticized for was the fact that the main three actors from the original show weren't brought back to do the reboot and considering the stuff that the returning actors had to say i'd say that's a freaking blessing in disguise but tho the makers of this reboot should understand that for many people myself included the original three actors truly are those characters.

Starring as the girls in this reboot are Amanda Leighton , Kristen Li and Natalie Palamides but the show also has alot of actors returning from the original show such as Tom Kane , Tom Kenny , Jennifer Hale , Roger L. Jackson , Jeff Bennett , the late Chuck McCann and the always great Jim Cummings. 

I have to say that while it's great that they brought back alot of returning actors the three that they got to play the girls just don't live up to the original three voices the actors are good in the show but no matter who they got they were never going to live up to the voices of Cathy Cavadini , Tara Strong and E.G. Daily and the returning actors just sound bored half of the time.

Unlike the original show which was produced by Hanna-Barbera Cartoons this show was produced solely by Cartoon Network Studios and I think that the character designs do suffer because of that fact all of the characters just look the same not one of them stands out and that's not really a good thing in my eyes.

I will say tho that I thought the animation wasn't that bad it's not good by any stretch of the imagination but it's not as bad as people make it out to be either it just falls somewhere in the middle which for this show being just ok is fantastic.

There is something else that I have to talk about and that's the removal of the character Ms. Bellum I don't really see why she was removed from the show at all according to Nick Jennings who works on the show the reason is "We felt like Ms. Bellum wasn't quite indicative of the kind of messaging we wanted to be giving out at this time, so we sort of had her move on and that was a good choice I think on our part" to that I just have to wonder if he or the rest of the people working on this show even watched the original series Ms. Bellum was a strong female character and considering this whole franchise is about female empowerment taking her out of the show goes against all of that. 

Now i'm sure you can tell by the above picture what else I have to talk about and let me just say that I agree with what most people have said about this scene it is so inappropriate to have girls who are meant to be I think eight years old twerking and like I said before this goes against the whole female empowerment message that this franchise is built on so whoever came up with this idea because they used it twice should no longer be working on this show at all.

It's not all doom and gloom tho as I thought that both the intro and the theme song are actually pretty good the theme song has a nice catchy beat to it and the opening has some nice looking visuals but nothing is ever going to top the original theme song and opening narration (which for some dumb reason they cut for the TV version but is in the extended version) I would like to talk about the action but there's barely any to talk about and the same goes for the jokes.

Overall i'd say that this is a pretty bad show and a bad reboot that disrespects what came before it but if you of any little kids like this show then great but know that there are better shows out there that you could be watching for me this show scores a 4 out of 10. 

    

Dallas & Robo Review

Animation fans i'm willing to bet not alot of you know about this series well now your going to know a little bit more because here is my review of the new Youtube Red series Dallas & Robo so let's get it on mother truckers.

The plot for this series is Dallas and self-proclaimed warrior-poet Robo who must navigate their way around cannibal bikers rival space truckers and vending machine burritos as they try to make a buck in the seedy world of interplanetary big-rigging. I'll admit that the premise of this show is really fun and yes the show is fairly episodic I say fairly because episodes do reference what happened in past episodes so you do kinda have to see episode one to understand certain things in episode two and the pacing for the show is pretty good.

Starring in the show are it's producer and executive producer John Cena and 2 Broke Girls stars Kat Dennings as the titular Dallas & Robo. Also in the show are Stephen Root as Uncle Danny , Tim Blake Nelson as The Woodsman , Milana Vayntrub as Ellie and Dana Snyder as Fat Paul. For a youtube series the guest list is pretty freaking impressive with the likes of Jane Lynch , Clancy Brown , Ted Raimi and Bob Bergen all providing voices for this series.

The acting for the show is shockingly good i'm not shocked that John Cena is turning in a good performance but I was surprised by Kat Dennings and how utterly perfect she is for this role i'm not even joking she is pitch perfect as Dallas all of the other actors also turn in a pretty solid performance as well but there not as good as Kat Dennings and that's something I thought i'd never ever say but it's true here.

The animation for this series was done by ShadowMachine who have worked on shows like Robot Chicken , TripTank and Bojack Horseman and I have to say that the animation in this series is actually fairly solid for what is basically a web series I mean but that said if this was to air on TV then the animation wouldn't be that good since alot of the movements aren't as fluid as they could be and you can tell when they use CGI in this show.

What really bugged me about the promotion for the show was the fact that the WWE released the trailer on there air Youtube channel there is nothing wrestling related about this show at all there not even producing the show so why the heck is a wrestling channel promoting something that has nothing to do with them it makes zero sense to me what so ever.

This show isn't airing on any network so that might be why people havn't heard of this show instead it's airing on Youtube Red and is eight episodes long but I wish it could have had more episodes since it really is a good show that's really entertaining.

If you like to binge shows well then I have some good news for you because like I said this series is only eight episodes long and each episode is only twenty two minuets long so that means you can easily binge the entire series in a single day if you wanted to but just know there are better shows out there to binge.

I'll admit then when I saw the trailer for this show I thought it would be nothing more then a bunch of adult jokes and to some degree yeah that's what it is but at the same time those jokes are really freaking funny but I will say that if you hate pop culture jokes then chances are your going to hate this series because half of the jokes in this series are pop culture jokes and as you can mostly likely tell by the fact I said there's adult themed jokes this is a series.

Overall i'd say that if you can then you should check this show out it is pretty freaking funny but at the same time it does have a lot of issues that simply cannot be ignored so with all of that in mind the show scores a 7.5 out of 10 from me.