Worzel Gummidge "A Cup O' Tea And A Slice O' Cake" Review

 

The christmas season is now upon us and that means that alot of TV shows are gearing up to release their christmas specials. As such it was only about right that as i've been taking a look back at the classic Worzel Gummidge TV series that I now take a look at the shows only christmas special which also has the honor of being the final time that a few side characters appear in the show and so then join me as I review the episode that is the franchises only hour long episode with the episode in question being called simply just "A Cup O' Tea And A Slice O' Cake" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when Worzel goes to ask Aunt Sally out to a scarecrow ball he gets more then he bargained for after getting on The Crowman's last nerve. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really fun and was a good example of just how fun a Worzel Gummidge plot can be whilst also being a nice and very well written christmas special that doesn't take itself far to seriously with this episodes plot also being really rather entertaining , fun and engaging as well which made the episode feel all the more epic in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is Jon Pertwee as Worzel Gummidge , Una Stubbs as Aunt Sally and Jeremy Austin as John Peters. Also starring in this episode is Geoffrey Bayldon as The Crowman , Mike Berry as Mr. Peters , Norman Bird as Mr. Braithwaite , Charlotte Coleman as Sue Peters , Billy Connolly as Bogle McNeep , Laurence Harrington as Cyril , Megs Jenkins as Mrs. Braithwaite , Frank Marlborough as Atkins , Bill Maynard as Sgt Beetroot , Norman Mitchell as P.C. Parsons , Wayne Norman as Pickles Brambles , Bill Pertwee as A Lorry Driver , Michael Ripper as Mr. Shepherd , Thorley Walters as Colonel Bloodstock and Dame Barbara Windsor as Saucy Nancy.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well the in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought '/ felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. Which for this show isn't really all that new as this show has always had good acting in it with the same thing also being true for the series lesser episodes and alot of that comes down to the fact that the makers of this show treated this show as if they were working on a film and that means getting good acting out of your cast members and it's also due to the fact that the shows cast are bunch of really good actors and it's also due to the fact that the script for this episode is also really well written and so all the cast have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them really naturally.

What was shocking to find out is the fact that this special had a scene filmed when filming for the shows second series as the special was meant to air after the shows second series. With this special for some strange reason being held back a year with the only scene that was filmed during that time being the first scene in the barn with Worzel and children and even then you can't really tell that it was filed a year before the rest of the episode was even shot as the kids don't look like that they've aged at all and the makeup for Worzel is still good the only telling piece of evidence is the fact that the scarf that Jon's wearing goes from long to short and that's really it as it really does look like it was all filmed at the exact same time with both of the scenes blending together really well and matching up together really well as well.

Speaking of Jon there is one part of a scene in this episode was a pure accident and that's the fact that we do see Jon really fall when running to Worzel near the end of the episode. However director and producer James Hill liked it so much that it was kept it and it's easy to see why as it does make the scene more lighthearted and it makes the scene in question feel more human on top of giving us a more natural reaction from both Charlotte Coleman and Jeremy Austin which is just something that you can't replicate and it just goes to show you that sometimes you can get gold not by planning it all out to the very last accident but sometimes it happens just by accident as is the case with the scene in this episode and it's scene that really does work well but what would have made the scene even more special would have been if either Worzel Gummidge , Aunt Sally or Sue ad-libbed a,line mentioning the fact that Jon just fell over.

While you can quite clearly tell from the first shot of the episode that this episode had a much more bigger budget then the rest of the series. The show also doesn't use it's many more guest stars all that well with them just popping in for one scene with Jon Pertwee and then leaving which does make the episode feel like that it's on repeat mode alot of the time as all we see is Worzel bumbling his way from situation to the next with the loose story thread of him trying to get Aunt Sally but always getting distracting along the way which does make the episode feel a tad bit boring as alot of those scenes could have cut down quite alot or just straight up cut put of the episode as they really add nothing to the overall plot of the episode and while the added budget does give us some more amazing looking scarecrows to look at for the guest stars alot of them just don't really add anything to the plot episode despite there designs having a tone of character to them.

Despite looking everywhere on both the episodes end title credits and on various IMDB pages I cannot find out whom wrote the sings for this episode. As for some strange reason this episode is the only one that's a musical which is a shame as alot of the shows cast can sing and this episode does have some really good songs for the must part with Worzel's opening song "Christmas Isn't Christmas" being a nice slow ballad song but while it is a nice song it's not the type of song that you'd want to be the first musical number in your episode as it's a bit two slow to really get people excited for the rest of the episode and Aunt Sally's song while funny doesn't really advance the plot of the episode with the same thing kind of also being true for Saucy Nancy's song as well with the best song in the whole entire episode being "A Cup O'Tea And A Slice O' Cake" as that song really is just a fun filled song that is the perfect song to end the episode on.

Now then while I cannot for the absolutely life of me remember whatever this episodes running time even was I do know for a fact that this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of roughly fifty two minuets. Which does make this episode the longest episode of the classic Worzel Gummidge series and to this episodes it does have more then enough interms of plot to really cover that large amount of running and while the episodes story does feel a little bit thin at times there's not really much padding to the story to make it stretch for this extra long running time which they very easily could have done and while I would have liked it if the songs where a bit more spaced out it's understandable that they had to fit them all in before they got to the big finale song but alot of them are played so close to each other that we the audience don't really get a chanced to catch our breathes before the next song has already started playing and to this episode credit tho it really does have some really good pacing to it. 

So now then as this is a comedy that means that I gave to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. With this episode having some really cute and funny moments however the main focus of this episode isn't the comedy it's giving us a really solid Christmas message about how sometimes it's the simple things that are the best things and how Christmas is all about family and friends but with that that said it would have been better if we did get some more jokes in it just to make the message hit home even harder as what little jokes we do get are really funny and are a good example of just how funny that this episode can be when it's at it's absolutely best in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall not only do I highly recommend this episode to everyone but I also recommend this series as well as both this episode and this series are just really that good in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the god and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that means that this very episode earns itself a grand old score of exactly a 9 out of 10 from me.

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Lady Death: The Movie Film Review

 

For every well know comic book movie out their there are going to be a lot more little known or unknown comic book films out their. With the film that i'm about to review for you all today being one that's very unknown as it's based of off a very unknown character and judging by this film I can see why this film isn't that well known and so then join me as I review the film that tries to be cool just really isn't cool in the slightest with the film in question being called simply just "Lady Death: The Movie" enjoy.

The plot of this film is when she is tricked into going to hell by her own father Hope swears revenge on him and will do whatever it takes to free the souls of her loved ones. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty one of the worst parts of the film as the films plot was very weak at est with it at times being very hard to work just what the actual plot of the film is as this films plot just comes and goes whenever it chooses which makes it seem like that this film really doesn't have plot however when the plot is there it is a fairly entertaining and as well as being a really engaging plot in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is Christine Auten as Lady Death / Hope , Mike Kleinhenz as Lucifer / Matthias and Andy McAvin as Pagan. Also starring in this film is  , Rob Mungle as Cremator , Mike MacRae as Asmodeus and A Large Torture Troll , Chris Patton as Niccolo , Dwight Clark as Father Orbec , Maureen McCullough as Marion , John Swasey as General Ahriman , Torture Guards and A Demon Priest and James Faulkner as General Utuk Xul.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting tat's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not hat but that's also the issue. As this films acting isn't all that good either none of which is the fault of the actors as there only being told what to do and can only be do the best job that they can do with the script that's being given to them and sadly this films script just isn't that good as the script doesn't give the cast alot to work with interms of what their respective characters personalities even are which means that this films cast just can't turn in that good of a performance as this films script just won't allow for it as it really just that bad of a script.

Doing the animation for this film is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Summin Image Pictures Co., LTD.. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad with this films animation being the highlight of the film as it really is alot better then what it really had any right to be as nobody expects a direct to DVD movie about a very unknown comic book character to have good animation in it and yet that's exactly what this film has and while it's not better then alot of other direct to DVD movies it really is alot better then what it really had any right to be.

For those of you that might not know about this character this film is based of off the comic book character Lady Death who made her debut back in Evil Ernie number one in December 1991. With the character actually still going to do this very day which is truly shocking as the characters original publisher Chaos! Comics went bankrupt whilst this film was in development with the character now having stores published by Coffin Comics the character having been there since 2012 and is still going strong with new releases almost every single year with all of her stories having been written by her original creator Brian Pulido who also came up with the story for this film as well and is pretty much the main creative driving force behind the Lady Death character having written most if not all of her comic book stories.

While I cannot say for sure if this film is true representation of the comic books what I can say is that this film is based of The Reckoning storyline from the comic books. With this film being a very mature story which if that's true to how the character is and how her stories are in the comic books then that would make this film a fairly well done representation of the comic books but if not then it would make this a fairly bad representation of the source material with this film from what I can gather cutting out stuff from The Reckoning storyline but it's hard to say if those omissions would harm the story in any way but as they are in the film they don't harm the story in any way shape or form as the film pretty much has no story to harm in the first place which does also make those omissions seem rather pointless as well.

Just like every single mid 2000's comic book film this one also features a rather lackluster villain with this films villain just being boring. Which really shouldn't be the case at all as this films main villain is Lucifer and as such it should have been really easy to make him a cool villain with a cool scheme and end goal in mind and yet for some strange reason this film doesn't do either of those things as while he does look somewhat cool he has no scheme and no end goal in mind and as such he just comes across as being because of the fact that he's The Devil and that doesn't make him an interesting villain as all it does is make him come across as being a rather flat and boring villain which has the knock on effect of making Lady Death herself seem rather flat and boring as the villain should be just as interesting if not more so then the hero and as such if the villain is rather flat boring and rather uninteresting then it also makes the hero rather flat , boring an uninteresting as well.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and sixteen minuets and twenty three seconds. Which is a bit on the long side form this film as while the film does have alot of story to cover that amount of running time the films story is just so weak that and so thinly drawn out that the film adds alot of scenes that add nothing to the overall plot with those scenes feeling alot more like padding as those are scenes that could be removed from the film and nothing of importance would actually be lost yes it would mean a shorter running time but it would also mean having a much more tighter film that flows alot better which is sadly not the case with the film as it is as the film does jump around the timeline with no warning nor does it let you know how much time has passed inbetween scenes which really does make things a tad bit confusing but I really will admit that this film really does have some truly wonderful pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is an action film that means that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. With the action in this film being really cool to look but at the same time it's not as cool as it perhaps could have or even should have been as the film really doesn't take full advantage of it's setting and as a result of that this films action feels like that they could be taking place in any setting which robs them of being some really cool action which really is a shame as an action film set in hell really does open itself up to a lot of really cool and and really awesome action scenes in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall this while this film is a pretty much forgotten about comic book movie it's also one that should be seen and talked about especially now when everybody is trying to make a female focused comic book movie in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very film in this very review and as such that means that means that this very film earns itself a grand old score of exactly a 5 out of 10 from me.

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House Of The Dragon "The Princess And The Queen" Review

It's been roughly eleven months since I last reviewed an episode of House Of The Dragon and well with the trailer for season quite literally dropping before sitting down to write this review. I thought that now was the absolutely right time to delve back into the show by watching an episode that I never got to watch upon it's first airing and so then join me as I review the episode that features the franchises biggest time skip to date with the episode in question being called simply just "The Princess And The Queen" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is with the birth of her third son Princess Rhaenyra continues to field allegations about her children from Queen Alicent while Daemon receives an offer that he might not be able to refuse. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad with this episodes plot being alot better then what it really had any right to be as on paper a plot like this one shouldn't have worked and yet because we've had alot of time to really to get to know these characters this plot does somehow work and is also really entertaining ad really engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is Paddy Considine as King Viserys I Targaryen and Matt Smith as Prince Daemon Targaryen. Also starring in this episode is Olivia Cooke as Queen Alicent Hightower , Emma D'Arcy as Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen , Fabien Frankel as Ser Criston Cole , Graham McTavish as Ser Harrold Westerling, Matthew Needham as Larys Strong , Jefferson Hall as Ser Tyland Lannister , Gavin Spokes as Lord Lyonel Strong , Bill Paterson as Lord Lyman Beesbury , Ryan Corr as Ser Harwin Strong , Leo Hart as Prince Jacaerys Velaryon , Harvey Sadler as Prince Lucerys Velaryon , Ty Tennant as Prince Aegon Targaryen , Leo Ashton as Prince Aemond Targaryen , Evie Allen as Princess Helaena Targaryen , Shani Smethurst as Lady Baela Targaryen , Eva Ossei-Gerning as Lady Rhaena Targaryen , John Macmillan as Ser Laenor Velaryon , Nanna Blondell as Lady Laena Velaryon , Kurt Egyiawan as Grand Maester Orwyle , Paul Kennedy as Lord Jasper Wylde , Luke Tittensor as Ser Arryk Cargyll , Alexis Raben as Talya and Arty Froushan as Ser Qarl Correy.

Now then interms of what  personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well the in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty  really good. Which is really nothing as the acting from this franchise has always been really good and so to expect anything but good acting from this episode would be foolish and part of what makes the acting in this episode really good is not only the fact that the episodes cast are a bunch of really good actors but it's also due to the fact that the episodes director and the shows co=producer Miguel Sapochnik really does know how to direct his cast and how to get a bunch of really good performances out of all of his cast and it's also due to the fact that the script for this episode is really good and as such all the cast have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them really naturally.

Doing the CGI for this episode is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Incessant Rain Studios. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty ,personally thought / felt that the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good with this episodes CGI being movie quality as it was really that good which just like the acting isn't really all that surprising as this franchise has always had some really good CGI in all of their with this episode just going to show you that if you give something enough money you will always get some really good looking CGI that will stand the test of time.

The key theme running all throughout this episode is family with Daemon ignoring his family and his family trying to get him to notice them and Princess Rhaenyra Targaryen trying to project her family from that of Queen Alicent. Thus was key to making the episode work as the Targaryens are all about family and as such showing one of therm doing anything that they can do to protect her family does oddly make sense what doesn't make is Daemon ignoring his family as all they are trying to do is help him and to find some place permanent to stay something which Daemon should be willing to help them out with as he's all about family and yet he's ignoring his own family and their own wants and needs for seemingly no reason which doesn't make sense interms of his character and all it does is make him look like a really terrible father and family man.

Seeing both Rhaenyra and Alicent continue going from the absolute best of friends to bitter enemies is really interesting. As it does show that anyone can be drawn into playing the Game Of Thrones weather they know it or not and seeing just how far one of them will go to embarrass the other just hits home that right now there is no going to being just friends and this show does the smart by resenting neither of them of being in the right ad neither of them as being in the wrong as as we see in this very episode both characters are both show that can be in the right and yet both in the wrong at the exact same time which only makes there falling out all the more tragic as they were both pretty much doomed to be friends turned deadly enemies and while Rhaenyra does try to extend an olive branch to Alicent it doesn't come from a place of love it comes from out of desperation of trying to keep the secret of who is really her kids father just that a secret and while Alicent does try to get Rhaenyra to tell the truth about who her kids father really is it doesn't really come out of a place of love as it really comes out of a place of trying to get one up on Rhaenyra. 

There are some things that I didn't like about this episode like for example the fact Alicent has so far been this rather smart person who knows how to get what she wants. She allows herself to get played by Larys Strong. As while he gets a higher position in his own family she is left with guilt for his actions and her actions which is something that the Alicent of previous episodes would never have done no matter how desperate she is as she would have always have done the smart thing and not acted on impulse but on the flip side of this is the fact that it now adds a time bomb to the friendly relationship between Alicent and Larys as it's now only a matter of time before she tells the king what's happened and what her involvement in it was.

Now then while I cannot for the absolutely life of me remember whatever this episodes running time even was I do know that for a father that this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of roughly one hour and four minuets. Which to this episodes really is the perfect running time for this episode to have as it really does have alot of story to really cover that large amount of running time and given just how much it has to set up for the rest of the first season and how much it had to explain where these characters are in their lives ten years after the events of episode five it really did need a larger running time in order to do all of that and still tell a really good story which thankfully it managed to do really well and I will very much that this episode really does gave some really good pacing to it as well.

So now then as this is an action show that means that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually feature /presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. As the only kind of action that we get to see in this episode was just two people hitting each other but it was something that was so well done as it was built up not really well not only in this episode but in the previous episodes and as such it makes sense that these two would bare knuckle fight each other and to this episodes credit the action in this episode looked really goo in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall this was a really solid episode of a really great show and while it's not as good as other episodes in this show it's still a really good episodes that alot of people will enjoy watching in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as well of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that means that this very episode earns itself a grand old score of exactly an 8.5 out of 10 from me.

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Doctor Who: The Chase Review

 

There's no denying the fact that when Doctor Who was just starting to get popular there was one set of villains that also started to get really popular. With those villain of course being The Daleks and well with the characters seen fast approaching their very own sixtieth anniversary I thought that now was the absolutely right time to check out another dalek serial from when they were in their heyday and so then join me as I review the episode that sees two companions leave the TARDIS and one companion join it with the episode in question being called sim ply just "The Chase" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when it's discovered that The Daleks are after the TARDIS it's up to The Doctor , Ian , Barbera and Vicki to find out why they want the TARDIS and stop them before it's far to late. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty one of the more weaker dalek plots as it's just not as captivating as alot of the other Dalek stories but what this episodes plot dos have going for it s the fact that the plot can be really quite entertaining at times with the plot of the episode also being rather engaging at times as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is William Hartnell as The Doctor , William Russell as Ian Chesterton and Jacqueline Hill as Barbara Wright. Also starring in this episode is Maureen O'Brien as Vicki , Robert Marsden as Abraham Lincoln , Roger Hammond as Francis Bacon , Vivienne Bennett as Queen Elizabeth I , Hugh Walters as William Shakespeare , Hywel Bennett as Rynian , Al Raymond as Prondyn , Arne Gordon as Guide , Peter Purves as Morton Dill / Steven Taylor , Dennis Chinnery as Albert C Richardson , David Blake Kelly as Capt. Benjamin Briggs , Patrick Carter as Bosun , Douglas Ditta as Willoughby , John Maxim as Frankenstein , Malcolm Rogers as Count Dracula , Roslyn De Winter as Grey Lady , Edmund Warwick as Robot Dr. Who Jack Pitt as Mire Beast , A Cabin Steward , Fungoid and A Mechonoid , Peter Hawkins as The Voice Of The Daleks and Thunderbirds star David Graham as The Voice Of The Daleks and The Voice Of The Mechonoid.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. However with that being said this episodes script doesn't do the cast any kind of favors as it really doesn't give the cast much to work with which means that even tho the cast do turn in some really good performances which is to be expected from this cast as they a bunch of really good actors they can''t turn in as good of a performance that we all know that they can do as this episodes script just won't allow for it.

This is the first episode to feature new companion Steven Taylor who really doesn't get alot of screen time in this episode. Which is a big issue as it doesn't give us the audience a chance to form an opinion on the character as he only just appears in the final episode of the story and given that he's a character that's going to be travelling with The Doctor he really should have been introduced alot earlier in the story so that we could get the chance to form an opinion of his character and give us a reason to want to care about him as a character and yet by introducing him this late into the episodes plot it makes him feel like an afterthought and like he was only added in at the very last minuet in order to set up a possible companion for The Doctor as he really does play no major role in the vast majority of this story.

There are some things that will always be creepy and seeing the Daleks surrounding the TARDIS will always be one of them. As the very idea of these unstoppable killing machines surrounding the one place that we the audience are told is the safest place in the world and the only place were are heroes will always be safe and yet by showing the Daleks surrounding the TARDIS it makes it suddenly feel unsafe as they could find away to break into the TARDIS and in the best case scenario steal it and in the worst case scenario kill whomever is inside it at the time and there's nothing that are heroes would be able to do to stop them with the only thing creepier then seeing the Daleks surrounding the TARDIS  being seeing a bunch of Daleks actually in the TARDIS itself which is something that will always be creepy.

For those of you that are old enough to remember when Twitch live streamed every single episode of classic Doctor Who. This is the episode that has the classic "London 1965" meme that only became a meme as it was featured in literally every single advert that Twitch aired during episodes so much so that it became laughable and it became a meme and it was nice to finally have some context to that scene as it was kind of sad seeing Ian and Barbera leave The Doctor as they were not only one of the very first ever companions in the shows history but they were also partly responsible in making The Doctor the character that we really all know and love today as before he met them he was this cold hearted person who was closed of and had closed himself of to the opportunity of having human friends and yet because of Ian and Barbera the kind and warm hearted man that we all really know and love was really able to come back to the forefront.

The biggest issue that I have with this story is it's tone as the tone of the story is all over the place with the first two episodes being very serious and yet episode three is more comedic and episodes four through six tries and fails to be a mixture of the two. Which just doesn't work as the tone for the first two episodes is what should have been the tone for the whole story as the Daleks are monsters that command a more serious tone and don't really work well with a more lighthearted tone yes a more lighthearted Dalek story could work just look at the film Dr. Who And The Daleks as a prime example of that but what makes the tone in that film work compared to the tone in this story is the fact that from the very first scene that film lets you know that it's going to be a little bit more comedic where as in this story we get alot of serious scenes from the very first scene in the episode one and as such it clashes when we get to episode three and suddenly we are now in a comedy.

Now then while I cannot for the absolutely life of me remember whatever running time this episode has I do know that this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of roughly two hours. Which is such a long time for this episode to have as the plot is so thin that it really does feel like two different stories glued together with the first two episodes being an actually good story and every episode after that feeling like a lesser story and such that this episode really should have been two or three episodes as that's the only amount of plot that the episode has enough episodes to cover and with that shorter episode count it would make the plot really alot more tighter and would have every scene be about advancing the overall plot of the overall story and it would get rid of the terrible comedy tone of episodes three through six as well but I will admit that the episodes really does have some truly wonderful pacing to it.

So now then as this is an action show that means that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us un this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. As we do get to see a rather solid fight scene between The Doctor and his robot self which for the time that this episode was made wasn't that bad altho I do wish that they didn't make it obvious when they used a stunt double and the fight scene between the Daleks and the Mechonoids is good and it would have been better if they they didn't put animated explosions over the top of the scene as that was really distracting and it really did bring down the quality of what was a really good and a really rather solid final fight scene in this episode in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall this a rather weak Dalek story from their creator Terry Nation which is a shame because it had all of the potential to be a good Dalek story and I can see why this story was chosen to be the next Dalek as it would have made for a rather solid in my freaking opinions anyways / at ,least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that means that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 7 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and  gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from  Amazon . Co  . Uk , the official Doctor Who fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from these very episode that I used in this very review being Google Images simply just due to the fact that alot of the images that are on Google Images  are all really fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Dexter's Laboratory "DeeDeemensional" . "Dial M For Monkey: Magmanamus" and "Maternal Combat" Review

 

We all have cartoon shows that we have very fond memories of watching when we was kid with alot of these shows mostly likely still holding up to this very day. Well when I was looking for images for my The Powerpuff Girls review I suddenly remembered another show that I used to like growing up and well I thought that i'd check out the very first episode just to see if it really was still a good show and so then join me as I review the episode that really introduced did the world to a boy genius and his kid sister with the episode in question having segments that are called simply just "DeeDeemensional" . "Dial M For Monkey: Magmanamus" and "Maternal Combat" enjoy.

The plot of "DeeDeemensional" is Deedee is set back in time by Dexter to warn him of a giant monster that he himself sets loose whereas the plot of "Dial M For Monkey: Magmanamus" is when a giant lava monster attacks the town it's up to Monkey to save the day before it's far to late with the plot of "Maternal Combat" being when Mom is ill Dexter builds a robot to do all of the cooking and clean but things start to get our of control when Deedee steals the controls for the robot. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plots that's actually featured / presented to us  in this very episode well then  in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought/ felt that the actual plots that are actually featured / resented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad with the plot of the first segment "DeeDeemensional" being the stronger and really the most fun plot of all three segments in in this episode my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is Rugrats star Christine Cavanaugh as Dexter and Woman and Allison Moore as Dee Dee, Also starring in this episode is voice acting legend Frank Welker as Monkey, Man 3 and Pilot , Everybody Loves Raymond star Brad Garrett as Magmanamus, Man 1 and Driver , Spongebob Squarepants star Tom Kenny as Man 2 , Man 4 and Man 5 , Kath Soucie as Mom and Jeff Bennett as Dad.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very  episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. This isn't really all that surprising as the episodes cast are a bunch of really known voice actors who we know for a fact can turn in a good performance with this really being helped by that the scripts for each of the segments are just so good and the fact that each of the segments co-directors really do know how to direct their cast and so all the cast for this episode have to do is just the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them really naturally.

Doing the animation for this episode is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Rough Draft Korea. Now the interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all  honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With the animation in this episode being alot better then what it really had any right yo be as this is show that was made and released in the nineties and as such nobody was expecting the animation to really hold up an yet it's the opposite that's true as the animation really does hold up really well almost to the point where the show looks like that it was made in the early to mid two thousands and not the early to mid nineteen nineties.

If your wondering if this show was as fun to watch now as it was back then the answer is firmly yes as this episode was so much fun to watch. With the characters having some really great and fun interactions all of which go along way to make the episode feel as fun as it was back in the nineties with the same thing also being true for the set up for each segment which was really simple for each of the three segments with them being noting more then an excuse for the segment just to be fun and to have some wild ideas and when you add in the fact that the characters in all three segments coming across as being very likable characters it's no wonder that this show was always fun tom watch as we always wanted to see these characters get into these crazy situations and see just how they would get of them and how they would interact with each other.

As a comedy this show hasn't aged all that well with alot of the jokes in all three segments not really having aged all that well. This is n't of the fault of anybody involved with the making of the show as they of course don't know that jokes will age badly and yet that is very sadly the case with alot of the jokes in those episode as there are alot of jokes that were funny back in the nineties but now they just aren't that funny which is a shame because the set up of the first episode "DeeDeemensional" does allow itself to be open for some really good jokes and yet outside of one joke near the end of the episode this segment has really nothing funny in it with the same thing also being true for the episodes third segment "Maternal Combat" which despite it's funny set up and premise doesn't really have any funny jokes in it at all.

For some reason instead of having either one single segment or two eleven minuet segment this show has three segments per-episode. Which just doesn't work as it means that a segment that could have worked out really well as a full length episode now gets rushed as it has to fit in two other segments which might not be as a good as that one segment whilst having multiple segments per episode might work for a show like Animanaics the difference is tho is that show was made to host multiple segments per-episode where as with this show as it;s not in a verity show format it doesn't really make sense to have multiple segments in just one episode and it's not something that will always work as one story or even all three stories will suffer because of it and that is the very case with this episode as all three episodes do suffer from the short running time that all three segments are forced to have due to the fact that they have to fit in two other episodes.

Now then this episode has / had a grand total running time of exactly twenty one minuets and thirty six seconds. Which would be a running time that would work f this show was telling one story per=episode and yet because this episode is telling three stories in every single episode this running time comes across as being rather short as it means that all of the stories don't have the time that they need to be fully developed and in the case of both "Maternal Combat" and "DeeDeemensional" don't even have proper conclusions to them with them just ending without actually concluding the story that they were telling and while that might work for other shows it's not really something that works for this show as the stories that there telling are so good and yet because they can't be fully developed it's hard to fully get behind all three of the stories that are in this episode but I will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is a comedy that means that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very review well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad. However as was stated in this very review alot of the episodes jokes were very dated and while the story of a Monkey fighting evil does lend itself to alot of god jokes the episode sadly doesn't take advantage of that set up but I will admit that when this episode tells a good joke you really do know about it but there alot mire bad jokes then there are good ones which given who was involved with the making of this show really shouldn't have the case in the slightest in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall while this episode was still a really fun to really fun and great show it's also a good example of the show having not really aged all that well in the ways that truly matter in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the goo ad as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that means that this very episode earns itself a grand old score of exactly a 7.5 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Dexter's Laboratory fandom wiki page and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from these very episodes that I used in this very review being the official Dexter's Laboratory fandom wiki page simply just due to the fact that alot of the images that are on the official Dexter's Laboratory fandom wiki page are all really fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

The Powerpuff Girls 1998 TV Series "Monkey See, Doggie Do" and "Mommy Fearest" Review

 

The nineties was a great time for cartoons on TV with there being alot of shows being made that would go on to become truly iconic shows i their own right. Well thr show that i'm about to talk about today is one such a show with this show having a an a list team of people working on it from great voice actors and to really great writers and directors all of which came to together to make this show the hit that it was and so then join me as I review the episodes that introduced the world to The Powerpuff Girls with the episodes in question being called simply just "Monkey See, Doggie Do" and "Mommy Fearest" enjoy.

The plot of "Monkey See, Doggie Do" is the people of townsville are being turned into dogs and it's up to The Powerpuff Girls to find who is doing this evil crime and stop them once and for all and the plot of "Mommy Fearest" is when The Professor falls in love it's up to The Powerpuff Girls to convince him that his new girlfriend is truly evil. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was n all honesty really good with "Monkey See, Doggie Do" having the stronger plot whilst the plot for "Mommy Fearest" was quite easily the weaker of the two segments in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this very episode is Catherine Cavadini as Blossom , E.G. Daily as Buttercup and Tara Strong as Bubbles and Woman Neighbor. Also starring in this episode is Tom Kane as Professor Utonium , Puppet Pal Clem and Talking Dog , Roger L. Jackson as Mojo Jojo , Tom Kenny as The Narrator and The Mayor , Rob Paulsen as Puppet Pal Mitch and Jennifer Hale as Ima Goodelady and Sequsa.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that/'s actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very  episode was in all honesty really good. Which given who is involved with this show shouldn't really be all that surprising as the show has some really legendary voice actors working on show and a really good creative team writing and directing the show with the acting in this episode really being helped by the fact that the script for this episode is really good and so all the cast have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them really naturally.

Doing the animation for this episode is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Rough Draft Korea. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us n this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual animation that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad as the animation in this episode does look really good but at the same time it does also look really dated this is of course no fault of those making the show but it is something that dates both the episode and the show itself as it just looks like that it was made in the nineties and as such the shows animation really doesn't come across as really being timeless unlike the animation in say Tiny Toon Adventures for example.

In the first half of this shows first episode we do get to meet The Powerpuff Girls most iconic villain that being Mojo Jojo. With the villain just being as entertaining as he was back in the nineties which is nothing new for this show as the makers of this show did put in alot of effort intro creating memorable villains be it for there right reasons or for the wrong reasons and they also put in alot of time and effort into making the villains in not only this episode but the show as a whole as entertaining as the shows main heroes as well with Mojo being a prime example of this as why he's not the most creepiest villain in the shows history he is one of if not the most well known villain in the shows history and alot of that comes down to the fact that he is both really well written and really well acted as well both of which help to really make him a really entertaining villain.

Sadly the comedy is where this episode falters as the comedy in this episode just isn't that funny in the lightest. Which is odd because we have a bunch or directors in Craig McCracken , John McIntyre and Genndy Tartakovsky al of whom know how to make funny animation and how to make things funny in the world of animation and yet for some strange reason they just didn't do it in this episode with the jokes here just coming across as lazy at best and unfunny at worst and when you add in the fact that we get a shall we say adult type of joke with a straight up naked person appearing in this episode and yet it's just not that funny and all it does is make you wonder how in the heck they manged to get that scene past all of the censors.

Out of the two segments the first one is the better of the two just because it was a good example of what the show was like when it was at it's best. However with that being said episode two was also rather enjoyable as it gives us some insight as to what the girls are like at home which just reminds us that outside of their superhero duties these girls are still just little girls and so they do things that kids there age would like to do only because they have superpowers they now have alot more pressure of going to save the town as and when they are needed and seeing their home life was also really entertaining in it's own right as it made the segment feel more personal as it's just mostly confined to the girls house for most of the segment.

Now then the first segment has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly eleven minuets and twenty nine seconds whilst the second segment has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly ten minuets and one second. With the first first segment having the better running time as the first segment has more then enough their interms f plot ti cover that large amount of story where as the second second segment really doesn't have alot of story there and so alot of the segment comes across as being filler but both segments don't really to take the time to fully develop their respective villains which does make it hard to route for the hero as we're not really given a reason to but I will admit that both segments have some really good pacing to both of them.

So now then as this is an action show that means that I have to actually talk abut the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With both segments having some really good action in them as we get to see alot of the girls powers in the second segment and we get to see just how creative the girls can be in a fight in the first segment both of which make the segments respective action scenes look really good and look alot better then the action that we get in mist modern day action cartoon TV shows n my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall both of these segments were really entertaining in their way as they both show of just how entertaining this show was and could be when it was at it's best in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that means that the first segment earns itself a grand old score of exactly a 7.5 out of 10 whilst the second segment earns itself a grand old score of exactly a 6 out and the episode as a whole earns itself a grand old score of a 7 out 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the image that I personally used in this very review well then boy sand girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official The Powerpuff Girls fandom wiki page, IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from these very episodes that I used in this very review being the official The Powerpuff Girls fandom wiki page simply just due to the fact that alot of the images that are on the official The Powerpuff Girls fandom wiki page are all really fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.