The Lego Star Wars Holiday Special Review

 

As alot of you Star Wars knw there has only been one Star Wars holiday special and to say that it was pretty bad would be a huge understatement. Well now the folkes over at Lego and Disney have teamed up in order to bring us another one because the world was just begging for another Star Wars holiday special and not you know an actually GOOD Star Wars movie and so here is my review of "The Lego Star Wars Holiday Special" enjoy.

The plot of this special is Rey somehow finds the key to time travel and so with BB8 by her side goes travelling through the Star Wars timeline while trying to learn to be a good master to Finn for some reason. I will admit that the plot to thing special is alot better then the one for the first Star Wars holiday special just because this one actually has a plot but at the same time the plot for this special makes no sense very little sense since at the end of The Rise Of Skywalker Rey was on her own and not with her friends and certainly wasn't training Finn to be a jedi but as a thing meant for little kids the plot is decent enough but that's really it.

Starring in this special is Helen Sadler as Rey , James Arnold Taylor as Obi-Wan Kenobi and Billy Dee Williams as Lando Calrissian. Also starring in the special is  A.J. LoCascio as Han Solo and a Jawa , Anthony Daniels asC-3PO , Ben Prendergast as Darth Maul and General Hux , Dee Bradley Baker as Clone Trooper and Max Rebo , Eric Bauza as Luke Skywalker and Stormtrooper , one of the only actors from the films to reprise their role for this special we have Kelly Marie Tran as Rose Tico and Matt Sloan as Darth Vader.

As for what I thought about the acting in the special it was honestly a lot better then it had any right to be if i'm being honest. No one would have blamed these actors if they chose to phone in their performances but no all of the actors in this special do a really good at playing their respective characters and Helen Sadler does such a good impression of Daisy Ridley that I legit thought that they brought Daisy Ridley back to play Rey.

Doing the animation for this special  is Atomic Cartoons or at least I assume so since the special only has them listed as doing production services but they are the closest company I could find in terms of who did the animation. As for what I thought about the animation in this special it wasn't that bad the issue is tho it wasn't that good either it was at best passable which for a Lego special or direct to DVD film makes sense but not for something related to Star Wars.

For any of you that don't know this special takes place after The Rise Of Skywalker which honestly a few inconsistencies. The first of which being when that film ended Rey was on Tatooine and wasn't a jedi master the second of which is the fact that Finn wasn't training to be a jedi and Rey hadn't said that she would take him on and be his jedi master these are basic continuity issues that could have been addressed in the special and it just goes to show you that the makers behind this special never even saw The Rise Of Skywalker.

While what I just said about the continuity might seem like nitpicking to a die hard Star Wars fan ignoring the continuity of any film regardless of weather or not the film is bad is always going to be an issue. The other thing that I have an issue with is even tho this special might be non canon if it is canon then they've just introduced time travel into the world of Star Wars is just freaking stupid because Star Wars was always space fantasy and not science fiction.

I will admit this Star Wars holiday special is alot better then the first one simply because of two reason the first one being you can actually understand what the main characters are saying and secondly this one actually has a plot. Both of these reasons make this special alot better then the first Star Wars holiday special which I know isn't a high bar to achieve it is still something that's worth pointing out in my opinion.

This special has a running time of forty four minuets and fifty seven seconds so let's round that up nicely to forty five minuets. This running time for me personally was a bit long simply because the film simply doesn't have the running time to cover that length of time and so scenes shouldn't take that long now take nearly ten times as long because they have to stretch a twenty two minuet plot into an almost forty five minuet plot which simply doesn't work in my opinion.

Now then there is some action in this special and so that means that I have to talk about the action that's in the special itself. Which I have to admit was honestly really good and the action for me is where the special is the most fun just because you get to see people from different eras of Star Wars media fighting either with or against each other which for me at least was really fun to see since if you have alot of Star Wars Lego then you might have say Rey and Darth Maul fight each for example the only limitations when it comes to lego is your own imagination and that's something that's carried through to this special in my opinion.

Overall yeah this Star Wars holiday special is alot better then the first Star Wars holiday special like I said that's not exactly a high bar to reach. That said this special has many issues with it a number of which i've covered in this review and some of which i've covered in this review and one of which is just so dumb that honestly it's not even worth talking about and so this Star Wars holiday special gets a 6 out of 10 from me.

All of the images that I used in this review were gathered from either the official Star Wars fandom wiki page (called Wookieepedia) and Google Images. Honestly out of the two websites that I used i'd say that Wookieepedia aka the official Star Wars fandom wiki page is the better website for images just because the images on there are very high definition but Google Images has more of a verity of images so i'd say use either website if you want images from this special but that's just me and you can watch this special right now on Disney+.

 

 

The Mandalorian "Chapter 11: The Heiress" SPOILER FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Review

 

Star Wars fans it's that time of the week again and I have to say that this is the episode that made me want to cover this show on a weekly basis just because i'm a huge fan of one of this episodes guest stars. As with all of these Mandalorian reviews this review is SPOILER FREE and the reason why I chose to wait a day after the episode premiered to review the episode is because there simply wasn't enough images available and so here is my review of The Mandalorian season 2 episode 3 with the episode being called "Chapter 11: The Heiress" enjoy.

The plot of this weeks episode is The Mandalorian has to help a group of unexpected allies acquire some weapons from The Empire. Plot wise I feel that this is a step up from the previous episode just because this episode also advances the plot of the show which for me at least is a huge plus plus it helps that the plot of this episode doesn't like it's a video game level nor does it feel like it's a filler episode either.

Starring in this episode is of course Pedro Pascal as The Mandalorian but we also have Misty Rosas as Frog Lady, Also starring in the episode is current WWE Smackdown Women's Champion as well former five time WWE Raw Women's champion and former two time WWE Women's Tag Team Champion Sasha Banks (Mercedes Varnado) as Koska Reeves , Katee Sackhoff as Bo-Katan , Simon Kassianides as Axe Woves , Titus Welliver as Captain and the legend that is Giancarlo Esposito as Moff Gideon.

As you can no doubt tell i'm a huge fan of Sasha Banks (Mercedes Varnado) so you just know that I had to give her the best intro for a guest star ever plus i'm a WWE / wrestling fan as well hence why I credited her under her ring name and not her actual name. As for what I thought about the acting in this episode it was honestly a bit of a let down which is hard to say but for a TV show it's to be expected since no TV show has great acting in every episode but even so the acting in this episode is much of a let down as it is it's still better then the acting in alot of other TV shows.

The CGI in this episode while for the most part it was up to the shows very high standard there are still some CGI effects that didn't look as good in my opinion. I'm not going to spoil what the shot in question is because it is just one effect but to me that effect looked like it hadn't been fully rendered and so it looked like something that you would see in a behind the scene featurette where the film makers or effects artists are planning a shot and that's me being very freaking kind.

I honestly wasn't expecting this episode to delve deep into the lore of Mandalore which I honestly see as both a good and bad thing. It's a good thing because it shows that the show is respecting the lore of the Star Wars universe and the backstory of certain characters but it's bad thing because if your like me then you didn't watch that much of either Star Wars The Clone Wars or Star Wars Rebels or even read any of the books or comics and so the lore can be a bit hard to follow or even make sense of but that's just what I think tho.

Again without giving anything away either next weeks episode or an episode within the next few weeks is going to feature a huge Star Wars character. I'm trying not to give anything away because of two reasons number one being it might not be next week's episode this character appears in and number two there might be some people who don't follow the news surrounding the making of this show and so it's wouldn't be fair to any of them if I spoiled which huge Star Wars animated TV show character might be popping up in the next episode. 

This episode has a total running time of thirty three minuets and one second which I honestly feel is the perfect running time for this episode. This is something that i'm noticing quite alot of the time because all of the episodes for The Mandalorian season 2 have the right amount of running time for whatever story there telling that week and I have to say that I like that fact because it means that every scene is about moving the plot of that weeks episode along and so there are no or very little filler scenes or at least that's what I think anyways.

Now then boys and girls since there was action in this episode and this is an action show that means that I have to talk about the action that's in the episode. I honestly found the action in this episode to be rather enjoyable there are alot of cool moments that happen in those action sequences which for me at least made the action alot more fun to watch and it helps that the action doesn't boil down to who can hit who the hardest.

Overall this is honestly a really good episode in my opinion as it does a good job of advancing the main plot of the show as well as being generally quite entertaining. The episode however does feature some issues all of which i've mentioned in this review but those issues don't stop the episode from being a good episode as such this episode gets a 8 out of 10 from me. All of the images that I used in this review were gathered from either the official The Mandalorian fandom wiki page , the official Pro Wrestling fandom wiki page or the official Clone Wars fandom wiki page. 

I honestly have no idea which website would be best to use so I say any of the websites I mentioned since your going to get really high quality images from any of them but only the official The Mandalorian and the official Clone Wars fandom wiki page are relevant to Star Wars tho so please keep that in mind when looking for images from this episode on any of those websites and I might leave it a day or two next week as well just incase there aren't that many images from the episode out when the episode drops on Friday.

 

 

The Flintstones "The Flintstone Flyer" Review

 

Animation fans this is a review that i've been putting of for a few days now mostly because something else has come up on the days I planned to do this review. However i've finally got the chance to take a look at something that is kind of historic in the world of animation since without this one episode there would be no Flintstones and without The Flintstones TV series there would be no The Simpsons or no Family Guy and so here is my review of the first episode of The Flintstones TV series with the episode being called "The Flintstone Flyer" enjoy.

The plot of the episode is Barney invents a flying machine which he and Fred want to use to go bowling with Wilma and Betty finding out since both couples have tickets for the opera the very same night that Fred and barney want to go bowling. In all honesty the plot of the episode is average at best which is honestly something that I expected to be the case since this show isn't known for having deep plots or even great plots for that matter but I still would liked the story to have been a bit better then what it actually was.

Starring in the episode is Alan Reed as Fred Flintstone and Jean Vander Pyl as Wilma Flintstone and The Paper Boy. Also starring in the episode is the late and great Mel Blanc as Barney Rubble and Bea Benaderet as Betty Rubble. I really have nothing to say about the cast for this episode since pretty much all of the actors in this episode are voice acting legends and the fact that the show managed to get this much talent in the show and this episode.

As for what I thought about the acting in this episode it was honestly a lot better then what I remember it being. I say this because I haven't seen this episode in a long time and so I couldn't recall what the acting was like and so you can imagine my surprise when I saw that the acting in the episode was really good which to be honest given who's in the episode really shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone in my opinion.

The animation in this episode was done by Hanna-Barbera Productions and I don't think that I need to say what shows they've worked on since there a really well known company and there shows are really well known. Hanna-Barbera Productions is known for being cheap when it comes to there animation and the same is true with this episode since there are alot of repeated backgrounds and alot of the movements from the characters can be pretty stiff at times.

I personally only noticed one animation error in this episode and it's the fact that for alot of the episode Barney's are coloured black but for some reason near the end of the episode his eyes are colourless. If this was just in one quick shot i'd be alot more forgiving but since it's in the entire finale of the episode and so I have to wonder why didn't anybody bother to fix this issue since more then enough people would have had enough chance to see the mistake and yet no one bothered to do so.

This episode made me realise how violent Wilma and Betty are since we see them hit there husbands quite hard a few times in this episode. Not only that but Wilma hits Fred who she knows has a head and arm injury and she hits him at least once maybe twice on the head  , i'm honestly shocked that it's taken me thins long to realise how violent Wilma and Betty are and i'm surprised that no one else has picked up on it.

This episode is twenty six minuets long which feels about right since the episode doesn't have enough story to cover anything longer then that in my opinion. Helping things is the fact that the pacing of the episode is honestly quite good with nearly all of the scenes focusing on advancing the plot which is what an episode of this length should really be doing and it's something that I feel's be lost since alot of shows these days don't bother with the plot they instead focus on the comedy and nothing more which isn't really a good thing since without a story it doesn't matter what the jokes are because your audience just won't be interested.

This is I believe the only episode of the show where they show that Barney is an inventor which is a shame because with Barney as an inventor you then open the show up to alot of funny plot lines. I honestly have to wonder why they chose to drop this idea because it can be a really funny idea and like I said it does open the door to alot of plots and alot of funny jokes but for some reason the idea of Barney Rubble being an inventor was dropped after this one episode.

Now then boys and girls since this is a comedy that means that I have to talk about the jokes that are in this episode. I honestly that the jokes in this episode are very hit and miss since alot of the jokes are in my opinion very dated and that doesn't make them that funny but the jokes that are funny are honestly pretty freaking funny but I honestly feel that the episode has alot more bad / dated jokes then it does good / funny jokes.

Overall this was a really good episode in my opinion and I can honestly see how the show became as popular as it did. I say that because as i've said in this very review there are alot of good things that are in the episode but at the same time there are a lot of bad things in the episode as well which i've also talked about in this review and so while I don't think this was the best episode for the show to start with I do think that this still was a good episode and so the episode gets a 7.5 out of 10 from this fan of The Flintstones.

All of the images that I used in this review were gathered either Amazon UK , Google Images or the official the Flintstones fandom wiki page. For once i;m not going to recommend that you use Google Images if you want images from either this show or this episode since even tho they have alot more verity the official the Flintstones fandom wiki page has images that are alot more higher quality and higher definition which is something that I always look for when making a review that and the official The Flintstones has an episode by episode cast list which is always handy.

 

The Mandalorian "Chapter 10: The Passenger" SPOILER FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Review

 

I want to kick this review of by saying that this review will be spoiler free and so if there's anybody out there who hasn't seen this episode that you can check out this review and not have anything spoiled in terms of plot or characters or anything about the episode. This is honestly something that i'm seriously giving alot of thought into making a weekly thing just because this show is so good and I want to keep on watching it but weather or not i'll watch the episode and write the review the day of the episodes release I don't know yet and so yeah here is my SPOILER FREE of The Mandalorian Chapter 10 which us called "The Passenger" enjoy.

The plot of the episode is The Mandalorian must ferry a passenger with precious cargo on a risky journey. Yes I did use the synopsis that was on the official The Mandalorian fandom wiki page but honestly it's the best description of what happens in this episode as for what I thought about the plot of this episode to me it felt like it was huge step down from last weeks episode the plot for this weeks episode was still pretty fun and the story as a whole was really well told in my opinion.

Starring in the episode is of course Pedro Pascal as The Mandalorian , Amy Sedaris as Peli Motto and Misty Rosas as Frog Lady. Also starring in this episode is Richard Ayoade as Zero (Q9-0) , Paul Sun-Hyung Lee as Captain Carson Teva , creator of Star Wars: The Clone Wars and Star Wars Rebels Dave Filoni as Trapper Wolf and Dee Bradley Baker  as The Voice Of Frog Lady. I will say that given the synopsis for this episode I did expect a certain celebrity who is confirmed to be in season two of The Mandalorian to be in this episode but alas it sadly wasn't to be.

As for what I thought about the acting in this episode given that there aren't alot of actors in this episode. The acting in the episode is honestly up to the shows very high quality which given that this episode only have one main character who can talk English is honestly a pretty huge accomplishment in my opinion and I really do hope that the show keeps up with this high quality of acting in the rest of season 2.

Now I won't mention whose doing the CGI anymore because if i'm doing these reviews as a weekly thing that it would become boring for me to list who is doing the CGI for the episode every single week. However I will say that the effects in this episode honestly look so freaking good i'm not going to say that the the effects in this episode are as good as the effects in last weeks episode but there are still really freaking good.

Now i'm not giving anything away here but if I say Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets the film version that and this episode episode have something in common hopefully you'll start to connect the dots a little bit. I will say that how they did that connection was honestly fairly good but at the same time I feel that it could and more importantly should have been done better for reasons that I cannot say because of spoilers and so you'll just have to trust me on this.

This really isn't a spoiler since it doesn't have anything to do with the plot of the episode but I didn't like the look of the planet that The Mandalorian , baby Yoda and Frog Lady visit. Just because it looked very bland which for a planet in the Star Wars universe is not a good thing at all since even there most repeated types of planet always look visually interesting but here there's just nothing going on at all which makes the planet dull to look at.

This episode is only thirty nine minuets long which actually feels about right since there's not alot of story to cover anything close to an hour or even forty five minuets for that matter. I'm honestly surprised that in those thirty nine minuets that managed to pack in as much story as they did since it would have been very easy for them to have nothing advancing the plot for thirty minuets and then have everything advancing the plot in the last nine minuets but no here every scene is all about advancing the plot of the episode.

To me this episode felt more of like a horror comedy then it did a straight up action science fiction show. Since there are alot of scenes in this episode that had me laughing just like there are some scenes that looked like they were ripped straight out of a horror film which for me is a good thing because i freaking love horror films and because of how well those scenes were done in this episode I now want to see a horror film set in the Star Wars universe.

There really isn't that much action in this episode which is a shame because whenever we do get an action sequence the action can be pretty fun.I'm not giving anything away here but I feel that the first of two action scenes in this episode is perhaps the better one of the two just because it's the more fun of the two action sequences even tho the second one to me felt more personal but that's just what I think on the action in this episode.

Overall this was a really good episode and to me this episode felt more personal then the previous episode did. There are a few band things in this episode tho all of which i've mentioned in this review and while these issues aren't really that important they are still issues none the less but on the flip side of that there are alot of good things to be found in this episode which again i've covered those good things in this review as such this episode gets an 8 out of 10 from me.

All of the images that I used in this review were gathered from either the official The Mandalorian fandom wiki page and the official Harry Potter fandom wiki page. Guys and girls i've kept this review as spoiler free as possible and trust me it wasn't easy and since I got the vast majority of the images in this review from the official The Mandalorian fandom wiki page I have no choice but recommend that you guys use the official The Mandalorian fandom wiki page just because the images are very high quality as well as high definition.

 

Tiny Toons' Night Ghoulery Review

 

Ladies and gents with the announcement that Tiny Toon Adventures is getting a revival within the next for years. I thought that i'd take a look at one of the shows many episodes and well given that i'm writing this on halloween and Tiny Toon Adventures just so happened to produce a halloween special which for some reason didn't air in October and so here is my review of the shows only halloween special "Tiny Toons' Night Ghoulery" enjoy.

There is no plot to this episode with the episode instead taking on anthology approach with each segment being hosted by Babs Bunny. I have to admit that I kind of want to see what a Tiny Toon Adventures halloween special would be like if it had one single plot line but at the same taking an anthology approach seems oddly on brand for the show and because of the fact that this episode is taking an anthology approach it does mean that more Tiny Ton characters can appear and that does make the episode more fun to watch in my opinion.

Starring in the episode is Joe Alaskey as Plucky Duck , Tress MacNeille as Babs Bunny and John Kassir as Buster Bunny. Also starring in the episode is Don Messick as Hamton J. Pig and a TV Executive , Cree Summer as Elmyra Duff and Uhura , Maurice LaMarche as Dizzy Devil / The Brain and Gossamer , Gail Matthius as Shirley the Loon , Kath Soucie as Li'l Sneezer and Fifi La Fume , Danny Cooksey as Montana Max , Frank Welker as Furrball /Gogo Dodo /Byron Basset /Calamity Coyote/ Little Beeper and Gremlin , Ron Perlman as Mr. Scratch , Jim Cummings as Paddy /Villager and an Announcer , Jeff Bennett as Shamus / Pumpkin Guy and The World's Biggest Tiny Toon Fan and June Foray as Witch Hazel.

As for what I thought about the acting in this special it was alot better then what I remember it being and bare in mind i've seen this special a few times now. However on this most recent viewing of the special I found the acting to be really good with all of the actors putting in a good performance and for me it helps that alot of the actors have been playing these roles since the very start of the the Tiny Toon Adventures and so they know there characters very well and as for John Kassir who is taking over the role of Buster Bunny from Charlie Adler he does a passable job but he really doesn't have that many lines in this special and so I can't really judge his performance.

The animation for this special was handled by TMS Entertainment otherwise known as Tokyo Movie Shinsha. The animation I thought was really good which given how high the animation quality is for this show really shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone , helping things in my opinion is the fact that the backgrounds look visually stunning as well as the fact that all of the characters get these really fluid movements which help give the characters alot of life.

I will say that doing a Halloween special with the character of Elmya is to me a really good choice since you can do a lot of things with that character and it would not only work but would be really funny. I'm not going to say what role they have in in this special but you'll just have to trust me when I say that it's not only fitting for her character but is in my opinion one of the characters most funniest roles.

In a rather odd move for a Halloween special this episode they didn't have this episode air in October which was the original plan instead that had the episode air in May. Which to me defeats the entire purpose of a Halloween and it makes me wonder why the choice was made to have the episode air in May rather then in October since we associate October with Halloween and so it would have made alot more sense to air the special in October rather then in May.

This special is forty four minuets and fifty five seconds long so let's round that up to forty five minuets which either way is still to short for this special. I say that because they have so many cartoons in this one special that only last a few minuets and so you can't really get into the story because by the time everything in the cartoon has been set up they have to end it as such I feel that the special as a whole should have been a bit longer maybe make it closer to an hour without commercials and each cartoon should have been longer as well.

Since I just watched The Nightmare Before Christmas a few days ago I was shocked that Tiny Toon Adventures spoofed Nightmare Before Christmas. I say that I was shocked because it has been a while since I last watched this special and so seeing it again it was like I was watching it for the first time but even so im surprised that Tim Burton didn't get on the phone to the Tiny Toon Adventures team and threaten to sue them since it's so obvious what it is there spoofing.

Now then boys and girls this is comedy and so that means that we have to talk about the jokes that are in this episode / special. Which me to the jokes were very hit and miss since for very joke that worked and every spoof that worked there be a joke and spoof that didn't work which is a shame because when this episode / special does tell a good joke then it is really funny and the same goes for what ever they spoof as well since whenever they do spoof something really well it can be funny but then there are times where I was left thinking "What The Hell Are They Spoofing" because whatever it was they were spoofing just wasn't that good or that funny.

Overall this was a really funny episode and it's one that I can see alot of people espically fans of Tiny Toon Adventures enjoying. That being said tho the episode / special does have some issues which do sadly keep this episode / special from being a perfect ten out of ten and sadly those issues have been covered in this review as such Tiny Toons' Night Ghoulery gets a 7.5 out of 10 from this Tiny Toon Adventures fan.

All and I do mean all of the images that I used in this review were gathered from the official Tiny Toon Adventures fandom wiki page. Since I only went to one website for all of the images that I used in this review I have no choice but to recommend that you guys use the official Tiny Toon Adventures fandom wiki page if you want to get images from either this special / episode or anything to do with Tiny Toon Adventures.

 

 

The Mandalorian "Chapter 9: The Marshal" Review

 

Star wars fans when I made my first post on The Mandalorian TV show nearly two months ago I had no intention of reviewing any other episodes. However season 2 has just started and well I know what alot of people are going to be talking about for the next few months and well I like getting alot attention (that's a joke by the way) and so here is my review of the season two premier of The Mandalorian with the episode being called "Chapter 9: The Marshal" enjoy the review everyone.

The plot of this episode is everyone's new favourite Mandalorian finds himself on a very familiar planet and has to help a someone get rid of giant something to protect a town of people. I'm being as vague as I can here just because alot of what happens in the episode is so freaking cool that you just have to see the episode for yourselves and as for what I thought about the plot of the episode it was fairly decent it was nothing spectacular but it did it's job of keeping me entertained really well and that for me is always a good thing.

Starring in this episode is Pedro Pascal as The Mandalorian , Timothy Olyphant as Cobb Vanth and Amy Sedaris as Peli Motto. Also starring in the episode is John Leguizamo as Gor Koresh , Isaac C. Singleton as Twi'lek Doorman , David Choe as Ringside Spectator , Miguel A. Lopez as Tusken Raider #1 , Xavier Jimenez as Tusken Raider #2 , Leilani Shui as Jawa , W. Earl Brown as Weequay Proprietor , Dietrich Gray as Mos Pelgo Villager , Karisma Gideon as Jo and Dylan Curtis as Mos Pelgo Boy.

This show from the few episodes of the show that i've seen has a very high bar when it comes to the acting in any given episode and i'm glad to say that that streak continues with this episode. Since the acting from all of the cast members including the extras is so freaking good all of the actors in this episode really do a good job with this episode and to me it helps that the script and the writing is so freaking good and so all the actors have to do is just say the lines as there written and a good performance will come naturally.

After doing a lot of looking around Google Images I finally found the picture I wanted to represent the CGI in this episode because yeah the CGI in this episode is so freaking good it's unreal. Which shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone since Industrial Light & Magic , Image Engine Design and Base FX all did the CGI work for this episode and the rest of the show and yeah the CGI in this episode is so freaking good these are the kind of effects that you'd expect to see in a theatrically released movie and not a TV show that's how good the effects are in this episode in my opinion.

I'm just going to come right out and say it there are alot of cool as hell moments in this episode and I loved each and every one of them. Sadly tho I cannot say what those moments are because they are spoilers and so your just going to have to trust me when I say that there are alot of cool moments in this episode and to me what makes those cool moments work is the fact that we've gotten to know The Mandalorian character and so when those moments do happen they feel in character for that character and not something the show makers did for the freaking hell of it.

Now I do have some bad things to say about this episode the first of which is a very underwhelming reveal of a certain character. Again i'm trying to be vague here just because there might be some people who like myself didn't know that this character would be in this episode hence why I didn't credit the actor earlier on in the review. The reveal that they gave this character to me was underwhelming and it just felt like a huge let down even more when you take into account that this character us a fan favourite character.

This episode has a running time of fifty four minuets long which I do feel was a bit on the long side just because not alot happens story. As such the episode can get a little bit boring at times which for a show this could should never be the case however given that this show has it's main two characters (Baby Yoda and The Mandalorian) meeting a new set of characters every single week there will of course be episodes that do feel a bit boring in places.

To me this episode felt like it was a western with The Mandalorian character taking on the role of a stranger who has just wondered into town and ends up helping save the town from a bully or in this case an intergalactic monster. That to me is one of this shows strongest suits because it can take on any genre it wants and yet it would still be a good show because it has the writing and everything else to back it up and plus this means that no two episodes are the same episode two is different from episode one and episode three is different from episode four because they all take on different kind of genre's of film and TV.

Now then boys and girls since this is an action show that does mean that we have to talk about the action that's in this episode. Which i'm not going to lie is where alot of the episodes coolest moments come with the entire third act just being one cool as hell action scene and it's because of that fact that I cannot name what my favourite action scene because well all of them are and hell i'd recommend this episode just for the action alone since all of the action scenes in this episode are plain and simply cool as all hell in my opinion.

Overall this was a very welcome return episode for this show and if this episode is anything to go by then season two is going to be getting better and better with each episode. That being said there are a few bad things in the episode at least from what I found there are at least to me those bad things didn't always take away from the episode as such this episode gets a 9 out of 10 from me and let me know in the comments below if you want to see me cover more episodes from either the second or even the first season of The Mandalorian TV show.

All of the images that I used in this review were gathered from either Google Images or the official The Mandalorian fandom wiki page. Since I got the overall majority of images that I used in this review from the official The Mandalorian fandom wiki page I have no choice but to recommend that you guys use the official The Mandalorian fandom wiki page if you want high quality images from either this show or this episode.

 

Once Upon A Snowman Disney + Short Film Review

 

The never ending franchise that is Frozen is back with another short film but unlike Frozen Fever or even Olaf's Frozen Adventure this film isn't set after the first film but is set during the first film. I fully admit I was skeptical about the premise behind this short film just because there's not alot they can really do in terms of story or suspense but none the less I was looking forward to seeing what the makers behind this short film would pull off and so here is my review of the new Disney + Frozen short film called "Once Upon A Snowman" enjoy the review.

There is no real plot to this short film with the basic premise for the film being just after Olaf is created during the "Let It Go" musical number from the first film Olaf then sets out to find his true meaning. That's honestly it in terms of plot which I kind of suspected would be the case since this is only a short film but even so the story is at best weak but it is still a fun little story to see being played out even if the story and this short film are pointless since we already know how things are going to end due to this short film being set during the first film.

Now this goes without saying but all of the main actors from the first two Frozen films are reprising their roles in this short film. As such I won't bother to separate any new actors from the returning actors since there are no new actors in this short film and so starring in this short film is Josh Gad as Olaf , Kristen Bell as Anna , Idina Menzel as Elsa , Jonathan Groff as Kristoff , Frank Welker as Sven and Chris Williams as Oaken.

Since every actor apart from Josh Gad and Chris Williams appear pretty in archive audio from the first film in the Frozen franchise which is called Frozen (duh) it would be pointless for me to judge those performances. However I can judge the performances of both Josh Gad and Chris Williams since they appear in new scenes and there acting is honestly pretty much what I expected which was passable since it's clear that both actors are having fun playing these characters in this short film the script still doesn't give them alot to work with and so they can only turn in a passable performance to due to the script being pretty bad.

Now I cannot find who did the animation for this short film but the closest company I could was for obvious reasons Walt Disney Animation Studios. Walt Disney Animation Studios might not be the company did the animation for this short film tho but they are the closest company I could find so make of it what you will. As for what I thought about the animation it was honestly a lot better then it had any right to be no one would have blamed Walt Disney Animation Studios slightly OK animation since it's only a short film that will be forgotten about ten minuets after it's watched but nope they actually gave this short film some really good animation which I honestly wasn't expecting to be the case at all and i'm glad that they did give this film good animation since the Frozen feature films are known for having great looking animation and so that should also be the case for any Frozen short film at least in my opinion it should be the case anyways.

As mentioned this short film takes place during and slightly after the "Let It Go" musical number from Frozen. Which to me is a pointless thing to do because we already know how the story is going to end because of the fact that all of the characters debut in Frozen if anything it would have worked to this short film's advantage if it was set after Frozen 2 since then anything could happen and nothing would be predictable but that makes to much sense.

This short film does answer some questions like why does Olaf like summer and how he remembered his name. Which I have to admit is a great reason to make this short film but if that was the only reason to make this short film then I have to ask why bother making it since those two things could have been included in either of the first two Frozen films ort Frozen Fever or Olaf's Frozen Adventure they didn't need a whole short film just dedicated to answering those two questions.

Honestly there's no point in me making this a spoiler free review since like i've said this takes place during the "Let It Go"musical sequence from the first film. As such it should come as no surprise that the film ends with Olaf seeing Anna and Kristoff while they are on there way to save Elsa which honestly isn't how I personally would have ended the film I would have ended this short film with Olaf meeting Anna and Kristoff and joining them to save Elsa but the ending here works as well since it's a kind of sweet moment.

When I say this is a short film I mean it it's only seven minuets and thirty five seconds long so you could watch this short film and still have plenty of time wot write up your opinions on the short film (hrmm that sounds familiar nah lol) that's if you want to of course. I personally liked this running time since there's not really alot that they can do in terms of the story since we already know how it's going to end and so making it a short film honestly makes the most sense to me plus this short film doesn't have alot of story for anything longer then the seven and a half minuet running time anyways and so anything longer then that would just be filled with scenes that are filler and nothing more.

Now then boys and girls since this is still a comedy that does mean that we have to talk about the jokes that are in this short film. Which is honestly where this short film succeeds the most since Josh Gad is freaking hilarious in this short film as Olaf the character of Olaf gets so many funny lines and Josh Gad just makes them work yes alot of the jokes in this short film are aimed at little kids but that doesn't mean that adult fans won't find some of these jokes funny either.

Overall this is a passable short film but at the same time it's something that little kids will find both enjoyable and entertaining. I really can't be to hard on this short film since it is made with little kids in mind but at the same time the issues that I had with the film are very fundamental issues and are ones that the makers of this short film should have taken into account when making this short film as such this short film gets a 6 out of 10 from me. As for where I got the images that I used in this review well I got them from both the official Disney fandom wiki page and Google Image with my preferred choice of website to use for images being the official Disney fandom wiki page just because the images there are more higher quality then the ones found in Google Images.