The Powerpuff Girls 1998 Review

Cartoon fans I was a kid of the nineties and that means the show that i'm about to review for you all is a show that I grew up watching. I'll admit that I didn't watch this show all the time mostly because I was busy watching other shows but other time this show has started to grow on me and well I thought that since i've reviewed both the reboot and the movie it only makes sense for me to review the original so here is my review of the 98 version of The Powerpuff Girls.

The premise of the series is basically three girls with superpowers fight crime and protect the town and people of Townsville. As my summery will suggest this show is episodic so you don't really need to watch episode one to understand say episode ten you can watch any of the episodes and get the personality of each of the girls and while I do think having this be an episodic show works for this show I still would have liked it to have a long running story just to make things a bit more interesting.

Starring in the show was Catherine Cavadini as Blossom , Tara Strong as Bubbles and E. G. Daily as Buttercup. Since there are quite a few characters in the show i'm not going to name who played every single so I chose just to name who played the three girls because it would save me alot of time and because let's be real that's all you really wanted to know. I will say tho that there are alot of great voice actors in this series so it's worth watching just to hear who pops up as what character.

In terms of what i thought about the voice acting in general it's alot better the acting in the reboot mostly because every actor in this feels like there actually trying where as in the reboot all of the returning actors just feel like there putting in the minimum amount of effort. It goes without saying that the actresses playing the three girls do a great job since all of the actresses are voice acting legends and all three are perfectly cast in this show.

The show had two animation studios working on it during it's run with the animation for the first four seasons being done by Hanna-Barbera Cartoons and the final two seasons being done by Cartoon Network Studios. Your guess is as good as mine as to why they switched studios halfway through maybe Cartoon Network wanted more control over the series or HB wanted more money per-episode regardless the animation remains top notch all throughout the series run.

Now there was no way I could review this series and not talk about the design of the girls while the designs are indeed iconic. That's not to say that the designs aren't creepy as hell because trust me they are but this show makes them work and it somehow makes them adorable and that's not something that many shows pull off. I will say tho that the thick lines can be quite distracting but given that this was a late nineties show thick lines are to expected.

This show had a total of six seasons , three specials one of which was a christmas special and a theatrical movie. In total there were seventy eight episodes of the show made which given the premise to me is really shocking since at most this should have been a two or three season show but the fact they managed to get as much out of it as they did is true testament to the creative team and really everyone involved.

Now there's a chance that this could be wrong but during production of the show there was a hiatus which I think happened in season 4 and that was because the crew stopped working on the show to work on the movie. In my opinion I really don't see why they couldn't have hired more people to work on both that way they could have had the show airing as the movie came out but I guess that they wanted to make the movie feel more like the show.

One of the many things that this show does better then the reboot is the fact that it actually includes strong female characters and not just say there about female empowerment. To me and I think many others one of those characters is Miss Bellum here is a character that is beautiful but she's also smart and skilled fighter among many other things. So why she was not included in the reboot is beyond me since she is everything the makers of that show wanted there version to be.

Now I will admit that this series had one episode which to me felt like it was trying to hard to push a feminist agenda and that's the episode "The Boys Are Back in Town" where the girls learn that in order to defeat the Rowdyruff Boys they have to make there masculinity feel threatened. To me that seemed like it was trying to hard to push a feminist agenda onto people and if every other episode of the show was like that I wouldn't mind it since it would feel out of place but this is the only episode that really does it and it stands out by a mile.

Another thing that this show did better then the original was the fact that it actually has action scenes in it. I know that's hard to believe an action cartoon actually having action scenes who would have thought of it all joking aside tho the action in this series is honestly really well done you can tell that the team put alot of effort into these scenes and it's because of that that I have to wonder if this was a storyboard driven show or not. Also I will admit there are a few action scenes which go to far even for my tastes like in episode one where the girls are transformed into dogs and they have a fight with other dogs and we see every punch and kick thrown but as someone who's a dog lover that was just to much for me.

I have to say tho that not all is good with the show since there are alot of episodes that just go know where and that did start to get really frustrating for me personally just because they seemed like really fun episodes but then without any reason they'd just end. If i'm being honest this is one of the few things that the reboot does better then the original show just because in the reboot they at least tell complete stories.

To get back to the positives tho this show does have a great sense of honour and I did find myself laughing alot of the time. Alot of the jokes in the show aren't just from what the characters there from what's seen in the background like for the fact the registration plate on the Professors car is pretty good joke and who honestly doesn't love evil Bubbles that whole concept is just freaking funny at least in my opinion.

Overall this show is miles better then the reboot and is honestly everything the reboot should have been. It's not a perfect show tho by any means in fact I think i've listed all of the problems with the show but if there's anymore then please let me know and it's those problems that keep the show from being a perfect ten so it gets a 7.5 out of 10 from me.

    

Love, Death & Robots "Sonnie's Edge" Review

Animation fans I know that i've already talked about this show (at least I have depending on where your seeing this review)  but it was after watching it and writing the review of it that something hit me I came to the realisation that I could should I choose review any episode of the show. So that's what i've done well at least for the first episode I don't know if this will be a weekly thing or not but it gives me a chance to talk about Love, Death & Robots some more so here is my review of episode one Sonnie's Edge.

The plot of this short is a girl and her beast enter this contest where the aim is to stay alive but what happens when the contests owner offers the girl alot of money to loose. I'll admit that plot wise it's not that good since all you get is the basic set up but for something that's only seventeen minuets long that's kind of what you'd expect but given how rich the world building is here I would have loved the story to have been a bit stronger.

Now when I wrote my review of the whole series there was no cast list to be found however that has since changed so starring in this episode is Helen Sadler as Sonnie , Hayley McLaughlin , Jennifer , Time Winters as Dicko , Omid Abtahi as Wes and Christine Adams as Ivrina. Before I talk about what I thought about the acting i'm going to tell you know that just because IMDB has finally added the cast doesn't mean i'm going to re-write my review of the series it just means that whenever I review an episode i'll list the cast.

As for what I thought about the acting given that the actors don't really have that much dialog in the whole short it's honestly pretty good. I say pretty good because I did my research and alot of the actors in this short really haven't been in anything noteworthy outside of a few random TV episodes and some short films so this short in my opinion was there chance to fully show of what they can do and I hope that it leads to them getting more work down the line.

This is one of four shorts that was animated by Blur Studio with the others being episode 2 "Three Robots" episode 4 "suits" and episode 10 "Shape-Shifters". Since the show uses different styles of animation for each episode I have to say that this episodes uses CGI and it looks freaking fantastic like I saw this show on Saturday and I was blown away by how good the CGI looked and even now when I went to load the episode up I was still blown away.

Given that this is the same studio that did the fantastic opening for the 2011 remake of my favourite film The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo it really doesn't surprise me that the CGI was good. It surprises me tho in the way that they pulled it off on basically a web series budget and that's now got me hopeful that they'll one day work on an animated feature film since if this the kind of animation they can do with a small budget then picture what they could do with a few hundred million dollars.

If I ever do more reviews on this series this is something that you'll hear me say alot but I really hope that they give this short it's own series. I say that because the world building was good in this episode that it made me want to find out more not only about the world and it's rules but the characters that live within it. I know that the chances of this short getting it's own series is most likely not that good since it would cost a lot just to do the animation but we can dream.

It was also while watching this short that I came to the realisation that Sonnie is this show's version of Lisbeth Salander from The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo there both bada*s strong women who have been both physically and mentally tortured by men and our now doing something about it. I hope that i'm not the only one who's made those connections but at the same time I could just be looking way deep into something that isn't there.

Now i've thrown up the old warning sign because there's alot of nudity and alot of gore in this episode and there was no way I could do a review on it and not feature images of it mostly because there the only images Google has of the episode. Yeah this episode is gory as hell and when I say gory I really mean it like you see people's heads getting stomped on and monsters getting their arms ripped of it's awesome. 

I will admit that both the nudity and the gore is just there for the sake of it like you could remove both of those aspects from the short and you'd loose nothing plot wise or character wise. One of the things that really interested me and I think many others judging from the comments i've seen of this episode online was just how good the twist ending is i'm not going to give it away but I will say that it's something you don't see coming and that's what I good twist should be.

This short has a monster fight and that means we have to talk about the fight itself and for me personally the fight in this short is freaking insane. Heck i'd have been happy if the whole episode was just this fight but at the same time im glad it's not because I honestly love sonnie but tho what I think makes this fight standout from other monster fight scenes is that it appears that this one is advancing the story being told and with that twist helps with the great world building and that's something that i've not seen before now.

Overall this isn't my favourite short of the series if you want to know what this you'll either have to wait or read my review of the show but let's just say it's not one your expecting. This short tho is a great start to the series and so it gets an 8.5 out of 10 from me.

Love , Death & Robots Review

Wow it's been along time since I did a full series review but my god what a series to return with this is a series that i've been so looking forward to seeing and it doesn't disappoint. This is a series that I can very easily see alot of animation fans talking about heck i'm shocked that alot of them haven't already started talking about this show it's that good and it's one of the few Netflix shows that I want to get a second season so here is my review of Love , Death & Robots.

Now I would normally tell you what the plot of the show is and give you my thoughts on it but like Batman: Gotham Knight this is an anthology show. Each of the shorts has a different story with nothing that connects them so you can really watch any episode and get an idea of themes of each short. I will admit that the pacing for each episode can feel off since sometimes it goes by way to fast but sometimes it goes by far to slowly.

Now this is a first for any of my reviews because I can't list any of the actors that appear in this show and the reason why is because there's not a set cast list available anywhere. Also not helping as to why I can't list any of the actors is because they change the cast list literally every single episode so it would be impossible for me to say who's in the show and who isn't so I apologise for not mentioning who's in the show.

Just because I can't name who's in the show doesn't mean that I can't talk about the acting that's in it. That for me is a very mixed bag since in one episode you'll get pretty acting but then in the very next episode the acting might suck so it's really hard for me to fully judge the acting since it's such a mixed bag and in all honesty that's fine with me because that's the same for alot of TV shows be they on Netflix or not.

The animation for this show was handled around by fifteen different companies with perhaps the most note worthy name being that of Sony Pictures Imageworks. As well as alot of different companies working on each short the animation also came in from all over the world so while you will see companies that are based in America working on this show you'll also see companies from for example the UK and Spain.

I have to say that the overall quality of the animation is shockingly good i'm not even kidding and these guys aren't working with a feature film budget either there working with a small budget and most likely a small crew. So if there able to pull of this level of animation with little to no budget and a small crew then imagine what they could do with the budget of a feature film and the fact that there using animation companies from all over the world is great because it gives them a chance to shine and that can only be a good thing for the animation industry.

Now i'm not going to lie and say all of them are animated because there not but they all include animation of some kind and that helps the show stand out even more in my opinion. Netflix to me is one of those companies which is creator driven and by that I mean they allow the people who are making stuff for them to really do what ever the hell they want and that makes them the perfect place for this kind of show because it's something that so of the wall that it's actually on another wall.

I cannot give this show enough praise yes there is the odd one or two bad episode but that's something that your going to get with any show anyway. I honestly feel that the only note that producers David Fincher and Tim Miller gave the people creating the shorts is that there short has to have something to do with either love , death or robots or possibly all three because that's the thing that really connects all of the shorts it's those themes.

I have to say that if you have little kids and you think that this might be a show that they'll enjoy don't show it to them. This is very mature show and when I say very mature I freaking mean it there's blood , gore , sex and nudity and that's just in the first episode and trust me it gets alot more strange and alot more adult from there so this will have to be one animated show that they'll have to go without seeing.

Now i've seen sites like IMDB throw around that some of the shorts could be considered horror in my opinion the whole thing should be considered horror. Not because of the fact that there's alot of blood and gore in alot of the episodes but because of it's ideas and themes which to me make the series far more scary then blood and gore ever could even tho one of the common ideas thrown around is that mankind is doomed to kill itself it's still a scary idea.

I have to say not all of the episodes in this show fall under horror in fact all of the eighteen shorts made fall under a wide range of sub-genres ranging from horror to fantasy to comedy so there's really something for everyone here. The best episodes tho for me personally are the ones that have a great twist ending that you don't see coming for example episodes one and three have a freaking great pairs twists which have to be seen to be believed.

I can't believe i've gotten this far into the review and not really gave you that much information about the episodes themselves. There are eighteen episodes in total and each episode will last no longer then twenty minuets but they really range in length with some episodes lasting seventeen minuets and others lasting around seven minuets. So you you could honestly watch the whole series and in a few hours and still have time to write a blog post about the show.

Overall go and watch this show right now like stop whatever it is your doing and go and watch it because trust me you will not regret it. It's not a perfect show as i've explained but in my opinion it's damn freaking close so it gets a 9.5 out of 10 from me.

  

How I'd Adapt Saga For TV

Now then boys and girls we live in a world where anything that's a comic book is getting some sort of adaptation mostly it's comic books getting turned into movies. So I thought for this post i'd not only look at something that would be difficult to adapt but i'd choose a different medium and so I thought that i'd tell you how i'd adapt the great comic book series Saga not for film but for TV because let's face it this series would work best as a TV show.

For those of you who don't know what the plot of the comic book is well it's about a couple who in the first issue give birth to a baby girl and the mother and father are of different races who were once at war and they have to find ways to survive. I'll admit i've not read the whole thing so that summery is mostly based of the first six issues and so there's a very high chance that the plot might change in further issues.

For me this plot is perfect as it is so you really don't need to change that much of it really the only thing i'd do to the plot is make more like the James Bond films and by that i mean make more unpredictable so then even if your a fan of the comic book you'll have no idea of what's going to happen next. In terms of the plot like I said there's really nothing wrong with it as it is but I would add in more scenes with the Robot Prince and his girlfriend and even show some of the war that they mention.

In my eyes i'd make this as a TV show (hence the title) just because if something has the word saga in the title then you just know it would get butchered as all heck if it was turned into a movie. I even have an idea of how many seasons it should be in my opinion this should be at least ten seasons long with maybe ten to twenty two episodes per season. it goes without saying that each episode should be near enough an hour long just because that time length would work best for the plot of the overall show.

When things are being adapted for TV not many people give alot of thought of which network should air it. I'm not most people because i've given this alot of thought and I think that the best place for this to go is Netflix because the Saga comics hook you in so you have to read the next issue right away. That fits perfectly with Netflix releasing the whole series in one go since you can just load up the next episode.

Also going with Netflix would mean that you could get away with the more adult stuff seen in the comics that you perhaps wouldn't be able to get away with if you were on a more well known network. You could very well make the argument that the show would be at it's best on HBO but but then you'd have to wait a week for the next episode which if the show is good can be a very hard thing to do.

I'll full on admit I havn't thought of the full cast list infact the only actor that i've thought of before writing this was Hannah John-Kamen for the role of Alana. I honestly thought of her because when I pictured this show being in live action the person who came to mind for that role was her she might not be the best pick but to me that's who I see when I picture a live action version of this epic tale.

Now given that one of the main characters starts of as a baby then you would run into the issue of having to recast the role every few years. Which I can see as a big reason for this show not being made because it would be expensive to that every few years but given how good the story is and if you have the right people working on it you could be looking at the live action equivalent of the Batman Animated Series.

In terms of who should be the showrunner for this adaptation it should be someone who understands the world and it's characters and who's better at that then it's creator Brian K. Vaughan. Yeah I honestly think that the creator of the comic book should be the show runner because he would understand it's characters and the story much better then anyone else in hollywood but given that he's got a few films to work on as well as working on Runaways this would only be a pipe dream.

I'm not going to lie this show would need a huge budget in order to pull it of and when I say huge I mean one season would need around 50 to a 100 million dollars. Which again is something that would put alot of people of wanting to produce it but given that you'd be making more money from merchandise it would be a risk worth taking.

Now i'll admit I have no idea who should do the music for the show or even what the theme for the show should be. I do however think that the theme should be something that sounds weird because let's be real this is a weird show and so the theme should reflect on that as for what artists should be featured i'd personally prefer none to be featured the whole thing should be treated like a movie score where the artists only appear on the soundtrack album but if I had to choose i'd go with Hey Violet who are this punk rock band and I think that there music would fit in well with some of the action scenes.

If this show is a hit which it very well could be since the comics then you could very easily so sequels and spin offs. You could do several sequels all set after the events of the series heck you could even do a show set at the same time as this series but instead of doing it as a drama it could be a comedy. Or if you wanted to go the Game Of Thrones / Star Wars route then you could make a prequel to the show which could be interesting.

Overall this is how i'd adapt Saga for the small screen of course tho chances of this happening aren't that good since Brian himself said that the point of doing it as a comic is to get away with things that he couldn't do as a TV show or movie but we can only hope that one day this would happen.

Debunking The Cartoons Are For Kids Myth

If your a cartoon you've at some point came across someone be it a friend or a family member or even a complete stranger use some combination of these words "cartoons aren't they just for little kids" or my personal favourite "it's ok it's just for kids". Now I was just going to talk about the first one but now that I think about it i'm going to take on both of these because honestly they can both be annoying at times so let's crack on with it shall we.

Cartoons first started as we know them first started in the 1920's and were shown before a movie these shorts would most likely be silent cartoons until the release of the classic Mickey Mouse short Steamboat Willie. Most of these shorts where mostly made for audiences of all ages since you'd also see cartoons featuring highly intense action as well as goofy comedy so it made sense to market them for all the family.

Now in my opinion this would all change in the 60's with the release of The Bugs Bunny Show this to me is the case because adults dont have the time to go and watch cartoons anymore but kids do and the fact that this was on TV meant that they could watch these classic shorts for nothing. This right here is in my opinion the debut of the whole cartoons is for kids mind set because parents suddenly realised that they could stick there kids in front of the TV for thirty minuets and get some piece and quite.

To me the whole mind set that i've just briefly explained the beginning of doesn't work these days and that's because everything surrounding cartoons has gotten much better. In the past you could get away with having lazy writing and lazy animation because we didn't know any better all we had in terms of TV animation was terrible parring the odd one or two great shows and in terms of movies again outside of one or two great one's we didn't have that much great ones.

If you want an example of a cartoon which is aimed at and made for little kids but has alot of adult humour then I highly recommend you check out Animaniacs in fact if you guys see anyone who still thinks cartoons is just for kids then show them this cartoon. I say that because there's alot of stuff in here which isn't for little kids (finger prince anyone) and yet still for some unknown reason parents still think that cartoons are just for little kids.

We all remember Saturday Morning Cartoons it was that one day a week where we got to see all of our favourite characters. While alot of those shows have stood the test of time and some could even be used in this argument alot of them really don't help the cause and that's not there fault because they were made in a time where kids cartoons weren't taken as seriously and that's not something the makers of those shows can help that's all us but for every Bonkers we got a Batman: The Animated Series a show which not only took it's source material seriously but treated is audience as equals and guess what it's become the best adaptation of the character because of that fact.

I'm one of the unlucky few who's seen the new Peter Rabbit movie more then once and honestly from what I recall it was bad but every single parent who saw the movie said the exact same thing which was "it's a kids movie what do you expect". That right there is the problem you should tare a movie apart even if it is a kids movie and why because kids deserve better they deserve better movies and shows your just going to excuse a movie for being bad then your just as worse as the the people who made the film because you accepting a terrible movie and not demanding better.

Now i'm not going to say that all kids shows and movies should be aimed at the whole family indeed people should at times expect some kids movies to be pretty bad. That however doesn't mean that you should say that all cartoons are for little kids because to say that without even watching them makes you come across as ill-informed it would be so easy for me to say that Steven Universe is a show for little kids but the more you go into it the more you realise it's more adult then you first realised.

To me if you want a perfect example of something that is clearly made for little kids then look at Top Cat: The Movie and the Cars franchise these two are so obviously made for little kids so no one would blame you for saying that there just for little kids. However again I have to hit this point that doesn't excuse them from being bad movies if somethings bad then you should say so because if not then your going to be seeing more terrible movies like the first Cars movie and Top Cat: The Movie.

I don't mean this post to cause any hate so if you don't agree with anything then please be respectful i'm also not saying that you can't enjoy any of the movies or shows that i've mentioned but if you look at them you know that they were really are just for little kids. I'm saying al of this just to cover myself because you just know that someone somewhere is typing that i'm telling them they can't like there favourite show or movie when that's never going to be the case.

I will for forever and a day say that Batman: The Animated Series is one of the best cartoons out there and that's taking into account cartoons from today as well. I say that because of how good the writing is this is show that's made for little kids and yet it treats them as smart people this is the kind of stuff that should be in cartoons and yet whenever a parent says that cartoons are just for little kids they are lumping not only this great show but Steven Universe , Gravity Falls and Star Vs The Forces Of Evil together with shows that air on Disney Junior or shows that are straight up bad.

Also by saying that cartoons be they in movies or TV shows are just for kids your kind of also disrespecting those involved with whatever it is your saying is just for kids. I know that people aren't going to care about a total stranger and that makes sense but imagine if someone walked up to you in the street and said that whatever it is you did for a living was something a little kid could do how would that make you feel i'm willing to bet that it would make you feel pretty bad in some cases.

Also really debunking that whole mind set are shows like Steven Universe , Star Vs The Forces Of Evil and The Legend Of Korra among many others which push the boundaries of what's expected from a kids show. One of the ways they do that is by including same sex couples that's something that alot of shows that alot of us grew up with wouldn't even try to do and yet when people say that those shows are just for little kids it kind of feels like a step backwards at least in my opinion it does.

Now I can see why adults would say this because they only look at what's popular and assume it's the same thing all round. That does make sense because let's be real they don't have the time to check out every single animated show or movie so they only look at what's popular and like it or not the kind of shows and movies that are popular are stuff made for and who's target demographic is little kids I know that sucks but it's true and the sad part is there's nothing we can do about it.

 

Boys and girls I know that this post seems all over the place and that's because I came up with this idea and started writing this post in like ten minuets. However the heart of the post is still there and I know there are alot of people on certain apps who agree with the statement that cartoons aren't just for little kids however tho there's nothing we can do to change people's minds because there only going to look at what's popular and nothing more.

  

  

Batman: Assault On Arkham Review

Batman fans this is a review that's been on my list of things to re-review for a while but I was saving it for a rainy day well it just starting pooring. I honestly couldn't have picked a better day to re-review this movie since there's just been a trailer released for the next animated Batman movie it has nothing to do with this movie but it's something that I thought i'd mention anyways. Alot of people myself included say that Suicide Squad: Hell To Pay is the first animated SS movie which is technically true but the team was also used in the movie i'm re-reviewing so here is my review of Batman: Assault On Arkham.

The plot of the movie is Batman works desperately to find a bomb planted by the Joker while Amanda Waller hires her newly formed Suicide Squad to break into Arkham Asylum to recover vital information stolen by the Riddler. Honestly the plot of the movie is perhaps it's weakest aspect since while it is a fun story it's a story that doesn't feel like it fits in the world of the Arkham games which isn't a good thing since this film is meant to be set in that world.

Starring in this film is Kevin Conroy as Batman / Bruce Wayne , Neal McDonough as Deadshot / Floyd Lawton , Hynden Walch as Harley Quinn / Harleen Quinzel , Matthew Gray Gubler as Riddler / Edward Nygma , Troy Baker as The Joker , C. C. H. Pounder as Amanda Waller , Giancarlo Esposito as Black Spider / Eric Needham , John DiMaggio as King Shark / Nanaue , Jennifer Hale as Killer Frost / Louise Lincoln and Nolan North as KGBeast / Anatoli Knyazev and Oswald Cobblepot / Penguin.

DC animated films usually have great casting and the same is true for this film every character is cast perfectly altho i;m not going to lie I prefer Tara Strong as Harley. What adds to the great performances at least in my opinion is that they got alot alot of actors from the Arkham games to reprise there roles in this film and to me that shows because those actors know those versions of the characters and can thus give a performance that is truly fitting.

The animation was done by MOI Animation who have worked on alot of DC animated films in the past and there usually a good choice for good looking direct to DVD animated films. The same thing is true here since the animation is honestly really top notch i'm not going to say that it's the best animated DC film out there because anyone with half a brain will know that honour goes to Mask of The Phantasm.

Like I said this film takes place in the world of the Arkham games so everything that happens in this movie is canon. Just that thought alone creates some issues with continuity with those games since alot of the characters seen in the movie don't look like there game counterparts but that aside it was while watching the film that I came up with a cool idea that would connect this film to the first game what if the start of the first game also served as the ending to this movie that to me is a really cool idea. 

If you thought that a certain scene in The Killing Joke was weird then you should really see this movie because the same thing happens only with Deadshot and Harley you all know the scene that I mean. In this movie tho the scene in question isn't as bad since there criminals so of course this scene would happen between them that said tho it's still weird seeing the whole thing play out but it's not as bad as the one in The Killing Joke.

This film isn't R rated but it really should have been since they get away with alot of stuff for a PG-13 film. There's alot of blood , alot of gore , alot of nudity and of course there's the scene with Deadshot and Harley which pretty much speaks for it self how this film was not rated R is beyond me but if I was to guess i'd say that the MPAA doesn't really care about direct to DVD films since that's the only reason I can think of for this film not being rated R.

I have to admit that I liked how this film introduces the squad and I honestly think that they did it better then the live action film. In this film were introduced to the squad by seeing them in action so that right there tells us all we need to know about the team and you could also argue that they give you some of the personalities of each of the characters. Where is in the live action we do get something similar but we don't get to find out about the characters but rather we're told about them which doesn't work at all.

Now this was something that I didn't notice when I first watched the movie but the cartoon Harley is watching on her phone at the start of the movie is the awesome Looney Tunes Show from 2011. That right there says that Harley is the best character because that show is a great show and the fact that she's watching it makes her awesome. I honestly can't believe that I didn't notice it before because i'm a Looney Tunes fan.

Now since this is a superhero movie we have to talk about the action in the movie and in my opinion that's where the movie excels both in terms of the animation and in kicking a*s. I don't know why this is but for some reason animation companies always put alot of effort into making the action scenes really well animated but hey it works in this film at least in my opinion. The action scenes are also really fun to watch since we get to see what alot of the characters bring to the team when it comes to fighting.

Overall this isn't that good of a movie but it's easily better then the live action Suicide Squad movie I only wish that they could have a better job of connecting it to the Arkham games. That said it is still a fun movie with all of the craziness that you'd expect from a Suicide Squad movie so it gets a 6.5 out of 10 from me. 

Dc Super Hero Girls "#SweetJustice" Review

DC fans the day has finally come i've been waiting so long to watch the first few episodes of the the DC Super Hero Girls TV show. To tide me over until the series officially premiered i've been watching all of the shorts which while fun are never going to top the full thing and well on Friday the show officially premiered with a four part special which i'm not going to be reviewing for you all and you can also count this as my first impressions for the series as whole so here is my review of Dc Super Hero Girls "#SweetJustice",

The plot of the episode is Barbara Gordon has just moved from Gotham to Metropolis and on her first day makes friends with five other girls  Diana Prince , Kara Danvers , Zatanna Zatara , Jessica Cruz and Karen Beecher they must learn to not only be friends but also work as a team in order to defeat someone who is taking over Metropolis. In terms of first episodes this is pretty basic it's the kind of first episode you'd expect from a new show but I think that this works to the specials advantage because no one knew what to expect going into it.

Starring in the special is Grey Griffin as Diana Prince/Wonder Woman , Tara Strong as Barbara Gordon/Batgirl and Harley Quinn , Nicole Sullivan as Kara Danvers/Supergirl , Kari Wahlgren as Zatanna "Zee" Zatara/Zatanna , Myrna Velasco as Jessica Cruz/Green Lantern , Kimberly Brooks as Karen Beecher/Bumblebee , Cassandra Lee Morris as Spoiler Alert , Will Friedle as Lex Luthor. Now i'm a fan of the original web series so I have to wonder why didn't they just bring over the voice cast from that show because to me that makes alot of sense and if you follow the show you'll notice that alot of actors do reprise there roles in this special.

As for what I thought about the acting does it even need to be said because alot of these actors are legends so of course for the most part it'll be great. All of the actors that you expect to deliver a great performance really do deliver and I honestly had no idea that Will Friedle was even in this series and I can guarantee now that you know he's in the show you'll either just hear his character from batman Beyond or Ron Stoppable because that was me when I found out the original Shego was playing Supergirl.

Now since I do plan on reviewing the show at some point i'm not going to list who's done the animation just because i'd be repeating myself when it came to the series review. I will say tho that when the designs for the show were first revealed I wasn't the biggest of fan of them but now after seeing the designs in action threw not only this special but also the shorts I do like them but I still prefer the designs from the web show.

As for the actual animation I have no idea what the budget is for this show but it's money well spent in my opinion because my god is the animation in this special truly something to behold. Every movement leaps of the screen with the kind of energy that you'd expect in a show from  Lauren Faust and heck half of the jokes in this special are made funny because of how well the facial expressions are.

As I mentioned earlier in this review the show and this special are based of the web series also called Dc Super Hero Girls and so you'd expect certain things to carry over. Get ready to be let down alot on that front because while the show does take place in a high school it's not super hero high it's Metropolis High and all of the character act very differently from there web series counterparts so it would be best to view this show as something that's set somewhere else in the DC Multi-verse.

 Now my big issue with the web series is that even the villains are acting like superheroes and so far just by going of this special that doesn't look like it's going to be the case in this series. That for me is a good thing because it's how those characters would act in those situations of course tho I can't say if that's going to always be the case but there's once scene that hints at that and even tho it's a scene that doesn't effect the plot of the special to me it says the characters that are usually villains act like actual villains.

This review isn't that long because of the fact that this special is only like forty five minuets long so it's just the first four episodes edited together. To be honest im ok with Cartoon Network airing premier episodes as these hour long episodes since it's a great way to tell these epic stories and to get across who each character is and what there like in a more natural way which is something that you wouldn't be able to do if it was just eleven minuets long since everything would need to be rushed.

I touched on this before but this special is actually really funny there's a lot of great jokes and alot of what makes them funny comes down to the great facial expressions. I've honestly lost count at how many times I laughed during this special and that for me is a very rare thing to do and now that I think about it the character that actually got the most laughs out of me was Barbara herself and that's due to I think just how much energy she has.

In terms of the actual action seen in this special there's alot more of it then what I thought there would be and that's not to say that I wasn't expecting there to be any action scenes it's just there was alot more then what I thought there was going to be. To me that's a good thing because it was something that caught me of guard and the action that we do say if really good for a kids show you get to see all of the main girls use there powers in all of the fights so there for you get to see why they should be on that team.

Overall this wasn't a bad premier it sets up something which I hope they follow up on as the series progresses and if your excited to watch the series from next week they'll be airing new episodes. This is by no means a perfect set of episodes but it's alot better then what I thought it was going to be so it gets a 7 out of 10 from me.