Thomas & Friends TV Series "The Flying Kipper" Review

When we think of Thomas & Friends we don't usually think of episodes that feature the character of Henry. As why would we the show isn't named after him yet he has been apart some of the more darker and more thrilling storylines in the show such as the episode that i'm going to be talking to you all about today and so then join me as I review the episode that sees Henry gain a new shape with the episode in question being called simply just "The Flying Kipper" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when Henry gets told he is pull a train full of fish he is all excited as it could mean one day pulling The Express that is until there is a major accident on the line. 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 good. With the episodes plot being one that does conclude a somewhat arc as Henry does gain a new shape that means that he will no longer be needing his special coal as the episodes plot does explain this is in a way that does make alot of sense with this being something that makes these early series Thomas episodes stand out as they treated it's target kid audience with respect as they take the time to explain things to them about not only how trains work but also why these changes are taking place in the first place with this being something that is all over this episodes plot and while yes granted this episodes plot could have been alot more stronger then what it was as there are times where it was hard to tell just what the amin plot of the episode was meant to be alot of the time but when the episode does focus on it's plot that's when we get to see just how strong of an episode that this episode really is as while the plot is simple as is often the case with these Thomas episodes it's also one that is fun to watch with the plot of this episode also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is Sir Ringo Starr as The Narrator with him doing a really good of telling this story. With this being something that couldn't have been easy to do due to the fact that he does have spout alot of technical things in this episode about why the train is called "The Flying Kipper" and what it's main purpose is and he has to do all of that whilst also making it easy for little kids to understand. As we do often forget that Thomas & Friends is first and foremost a kids show with the main target audience essentially being toddlers and there not going to understand things that are told in a really complicated way with that meaning that without dumbing the episode down the makers of this episode had to explain things in a way that kids would understand with both them and Sir Ringo doing a really good job of doing that as by keeping the episode as close to the book that's its based off of it does mean that the episode can be somethin that doesn't talk down to kids and nor does it talk up to them either as it talks them on the same level as it would do any adult watching the show with this being something that Sir Ringo Starr has to get across using only his voice and while the visuals will of course help in this matter it's his voice that's got to get your attention and has got to keep your attention. With him once again proving why he has a good voice for this show as his voice is silky smooth with him having the kind of voice that you could very easily picture yourself falling asleep to as it has an almost dream like quality to it as his voice is just that relaxing to listen to and while that might be odds with what happens later on in the episode it is still something that should be discussed due to the fact that he wasn't that well known for his voice when this episode was first being made.

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. The fact that this episodes acting is as good as it is isn't really something that's all that surprising due to the fact that alot of the acting in these early Thomas episodes is generally really good and while people will often argue about which dub is better the American or the UK given the fact that this show was made with UK kids in mind it does make sense that the UK dub would be the better one in this case as the makers of the show went out of there way to not only cast a big name in Sir Ringo Starr but also cast someone who has a great voice that perfectly matches the tone of this first season of the show and while he would get replaced in series 3 by the much more better Michael Angelis Sir Ringo gave the makers of this show a good starting off point with the best actor in this episode of course being Sir Ringo Starr as while he doesn't give any of the characters any unique voices as he wouldn't start doing that until series 2 he is really charming in this episode with it being clear as day that he is having a blast in making this show with the acting that's in this very episode really being helped by the fact that the script for this episode is just so good that all this episodes actor has to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will out of him naturally which s something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode.

Henry in this episode is perhaps done as well as he could have been done in this first series of the show as a whole. As while the CGI series would turn the character into someone who is nearly always worried about something here in the model era he was someone that was on par with Gordon with the amount of big jobs that he would do with there only being one episode in this entire first series where he was worried about something with the episode being "The Sad Story Of Henry" and even then he was punished or how over the top he was acting. With him in this episode kind of being worried about what The Fat Controller will say to him but here it's more understandable due to the fact that he's just been in a major accident which unbeknownst to Henry wasn't his fault with the character being just as lovable as he is in the rest of the show with the only thing that does kind of let him down in this episode being the fact that we don't get to see him interacting with any of the other engines in this episode as there's no scene at the start or the end of the episode. Where we get to see Henry talking to let's say Gordon for example this is of course due to the fact that the episode mainly takes place at night with there only being the one scene at the end of the episode that takes place in the day light and that is a shame as it would have given us a chance to explore some of Henry's personality a bit more like maybe he's really excited about pulling The Flying Kipper or maybe he doesn't want to do it at first but gets talked into it by his driver both 0f those things are things that would have added something to Henry's character and while the episode isn't harmed by not including these things they are things that if they were added would hade made this already really good episode be all the more better because of it. 

For those of you that perhaps don't know this is the episode where Henry gets the shape that would stay with him for the rest of the show. With there not really being differences that I personally can ever see but what we do know from the episodes dialog is that he now has a larger smoke box which does mean that he won't be needing the coal that they spent the entire last episode building up which now makes the entire last episode pointless in the grand scheme of things as they don't do anything with the special coal idea and disregard it the very first chance that they get. Granted this is something that could have also have been true in the book that that both this episode , the previous episode and the next episode which if that is the case then fair enough as it means that there being true to the books but at the same time tho given the fact the show does make small changes to the books it makes you wonder why they didn't do the same thing here as they spent the whole of the last episode building up the fact that Henry needs this special coal in order to run properly and yet here in this episode after Henry has his accident they get rid of it. The episode does explain why Henry needed a new shape as he got into a pretty nasty accident with a break van and some trucks which caused him to derail which was a smart thing to do as even tho that crash was again in the book that this episodes takes it story from it goes along way in showing that Rev. W. Awdry did treat his audience with respect as yes his stories involved talking trains but there stories were all based in some form of reality albeit a very loose one which does mean that the episodes in these first few series did have episodes where they treated there audience with respect by explaining things like why a character now looking different in a way that does make sense in the context of how this world works.

This episode is based of the based of the story of the same name from the book Henry The Green Engine. After glancing at the books page on the Thomas wiki it doesn't appear as if there was alot changed in this adaptation of the story altho given just how short the wiki page entry is for that story there very well could have been changes made to the story either way this does seem like a really good story to adapt as while there's not really all that much there interms of plot in this story there is alot of atmosphere something which the episodes take as full advantage of as it possibly could have done as the episode does feature alot of snow and some light fog all of which are enough to make us the audience somewhat aware that this isn't a normal episode of the show. With it even acting as foreshadowing as well as now we know that there's snow in play it does mean that the odds of Henry getting into an accident are quite high. This episode even has something that alot of the first series episodes also have and it's something that is very sadly missing from the rest of these model seasons and that's the fact that this episode does have alot of attention to detail as while we don't get to see all that much happening in the foreground if you look in the background forever of certain we do get to see workmen just going about there day to day lives helping to load up The Flying Kipper and getting it ready for Henry to pull which was a nice little touch and was something that the makers of this episode really doesn't have to include as we would have been able to piece together from all of the sounds that we here during that part of the episode what the workmen are doing and yet the makers of this episode went ahead and included it anyway.    

As this episode does feature a pretty big crash it does make sense to talk about it as the crash is both the best and worst thing about the episode. It's the worst thing in that the episode does drop video quality when showing the crash thus pretty much confirming that either they did a reshoot of the crash on a different camera or the makers of the episode used a camera that would have allowed them to make the crash look more cinematic either one isn't the issue as the issue is the drop in noticeable drop in picture quality with the crash becoming so fuzzy that it's hard to see what's just happened which is something that does take us the audience out of the episode when at that point in the episode they should have been keeping us in. Yet it's also the best thing about the episode as it's the very thing that the episode and Henry's arc for this season had been building towards with the crash itself looking just as good as it could have been with all of the models looking very very highly detailed and while yes it would have been nice if they used the same cameras that they used to film the rest of the episode as then we'd be able to see the action unfolding the fact that they try for this more cinematic looking moment does show us the audience that the makers of this show were more then ready to give us the slightly more high octene action that we would get in later series of this show with it being clear as day that they learned alot from this episode and then applied it to those other action packed episodes and while we are barely able to see alot of the crash in this episode what we do get to see is something that does look really good.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running tie of exactly five minuets and thirty three seconds. Which is pretty much the bogstanderd running time for this show during the early model era episodes of the show with the episode even having just about the right amount of plot there to cover that amount of running time as while this episode doesn't really need a long running time in order to do it's plot justice it still would have been nice if this episode was slightly longer due to the fact that it is paying of a character arc. Yet the episode really doesn't use it's running time all that wisely due to the fact that the episode really doesn't fully develop it's plot which granted is something that would have been hard to do given the fact that it's a little over five minuet and thirty seconds long but if the Paddington show could have more fully developed plots in a very similar time frame then this episode could have done the same as we don't even get to find out why it has to be Henry that has to pull The Flying Kipper in the first place he just gets told it by his driver at the start of the episode and that's it and while the episode also doesn't fully develop it's characters this is something that is kind of excusable due to the fact that it both could be argued that Henry got his character development in other episodes and therefor it wasn't needed all that much in this episode and the fact that this episode is closing of his character arc for this series. However it still would have been nice if we did get to see some character development even if it's just something small like Henry learning that it doesn't matter what your job is on the railway as along as you do it well which yes is a generic thing but it's something that would have worked for his character but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now the as this is a comedy that really does mean that I have 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. While the episode doesn't have alot of jokes in it with this being more due to the episodes more serious tone yet at the same time that doesn't mean that the episode is devoid of humor as the episode does sneak in some jokes here and there like for example The Narrator says that Gordon is jealous of Henry when he gets to pull the express which is not only a funny line but does also serve as good foreshadowing for the next episode. With the best joke in the whole entire episode being when a member of the other engines crew says that he won't leave the break van due to the fact that the coco that he's drinking is really good with this being where the book and episode does somewhat diverge as in the book they openly show the same member of the crew yelling at Henry for spilling his drink after he's crashed which is something that would have been a really funny addition to have in this episode but it is also something that would taken away from the more serious nature of the episode this is despite the fat that the joke itself is one that does work really well as it's a joke that's just silly enough for it to be funny without taking away from the more serious nature of the episode and if the episode did add in that extra bit then it would have made the episode be a bit more cartoonish in a sense. Therefor having just the one side of the joke is one that does work all the more better due to the fact that it is something that we could see the railway staff doing alot of the time with the joke itself being really good in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall whilst it's hard to say on if this episode is a fan favorite episode or not what can be said is that this episode is a good example of just good a Henry led episode of the show could be as it has all of the charm that you expect from this show with good does of kind hearted humor and lots of action all of which are things that combine to make a really fun episode of this show 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 this that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that really does mean 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 and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very episode that I used in this very post being the really great Google Images really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very episode with alot of them really being really better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on Google Images really are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Suicide Squad: Hell To Pay Film Review

While DC is mainly known for producing animated shows and movies for at best teenagers they sometimes venture into doing adult animated movies and shows. With a good example of this being the film that i'm going to be talking to you all about today as while Task Force X haven't had the best of runs when it comes to live action when it comes to there animated output and in the case of Suicide Squad: Isekai there anime out put they are usually done alot more better and I wanted to give you guys a good example of this film with the film that i'm going to be talking to you all about today so then join me as I review the film that really should have been what the 2016 Suicide Squad movie should have been with the film in question being called simply just "Suicide Squad: Hell To Pay" enjoy.

The plot of this film is Task Force X is tasked with finding a card that grants it's holder the ability to get out of hell the only issue being alot of other people including both Zoom and Vandal Savage also want the card for their devious ends. 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 really good. With this films plot being the perfect plot for these characters to be in as at it's heart this films plot is a road trip movie only it's a road trip movie where all of the characters are villains and could turn on each other at any moment with that being the thing that does drive the plot of this film forward and it's something that does work in this film as these are characters that would turn on each other the first chance that they get and while the plot of this film is one that could be considered very weak due to the fact that the film doesn't really focus on it's plot all that much which is something that would be fair case to make you could also make that claim about several other better DC animated movies as well with the thing that sets this films plot apart from all of the other direct to DVD DC animated movies being the fact that it's plot is one that is a really fun plot with the plot really having as much fun as it could possibly don given the fact that all of the characters in this film are characters that you would normally hate with the plot of this film also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this film is Christian Slater as Floyd Lawton / Deadshot and Vanessa Williams as Amanda Waller. Also starring in this film is Billy Brown as Ben Turner / Bronze Tiger , Liam McIntyre as George Harkness / Captain Boomerang , Tara Strong as Harleen Quinzel / Harley Quinn , Kristin Bauer Van Straten as Crystal Frost / Killer Frost , Gideon Emery as Sameer Park / Copperhead , C. Thomas Howell as Eobard Thawne / Professor Zoom / Reverse-Flash , Jim Pirri as Vandal Savage and Werner Zytle / Count Vertigo , Dania Ramirez as Scandal Savage , Dave Fennoy as Blockbuster ,  Tobias Whale , Black Manta and A Police Officer , Greg Grunberg as Steel Maxum / Doctor Fate , Dave Boat as Harvey Dent / Two-Face and Punk 2 , Trevor Devall as Punch and Punk 1 , Cissy Jones as Knockout and Female Announcer , Julie Nathanson as Siobhan Smythe / Silver Banshee and Jewelee , James Urbaniak as Lazlo Valentin / Professor Pyg , Natalie Lander as Dharma and Matthew Mercer as A Savage Gunman , A Argus Scientist and A Belle Reve Doctor.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting 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 acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty really good. The fact that this films acting is as good as it is isn't really something that's shouldn't be all that surprising as the film does have a alot of really good voice actors in this film and heck even Tara Strong had been playing Harley Quinn for quite literally years at this point in time with her being the official voice actor for the character and yet at the same time given the fact alot of this films actors are either not really that well known or have very spotty records at best when it comes to there acting it was still surprising to see alot of really good performances in this film with even the likes of Christian Slater who wouldn't be in anyone's top ten to play the role of Deadshot is pretty decent as the character. With the best actor in the whole entire film being Billy Brown as Ben Turner / Bronze Tiger as while alot of the films other actors can be these goofy characters and have these more goofy moments he has to play every straight and it is something that does work as it does allow him to turn in a really good performance due to the fact that his character is one of the most serious characters in the team with that being something that does shine through in his performance with the acting that's in this film really being helped but the fact that this films script is just so good that all this films actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them actually which is something that really does harm the overall quality of the acting that's in this very film. 

Doing the animation for this film is the legends and the really greats that are currently over at DR Movie. 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 the films animation not being up the standard that DR Movie had when they were doing say for example the animated Hellboy movies or the Guardians Of The Galaxy TV show as here everything from an animation point of view did look a little flat with all of the colors in thew day time shots being really blown out and over exaggerated alot of the time this is despite the fact that the characters do have some really nice fluid movements to them that help the action in this film really feel more alive. Yet at the same time tho the film does make great of CGI animation as well with the only thing that's really done in this format being the teams camper van which is understandable as it would be hard to do that in any other form of animation with it being something that is blended in really well as you can't really tell that's CGI animated alot of the time and when the film does want to have good quality animation like for example on the films gore then it is something that does stand out and it's something that makes you wonder why the rest of the film doesn't look that good and yet the few frames of gore that we get in every single action scene looks as surely the makers of this film would want it to be the other around.

As was said near the start of this review this film is everything that that 2016 film should have been as that film so desperate to be DC's answer to Guardians Of The Galaxy that it forgot to be a movie about Task Force X. With that film straight up making all of the characters that are bad guys into good people when that's not who these people are with the only one who you could argue is a good person being Harley Quinn and that's really it with things not really being helped by the fact that the plot of that film was just s bad as it didn't feel like a Suicide Squad plot rather it felt like a generic superhero plot thankfully these are things that both this film and it's sequel The Suicide Squad went out of there to fix as this film does feel like the kind of the film that you want to see this group in with the characters being how you would want them to be as they do spend alot of the time trying to backstab and double cross each other. As there bad guys it's what they do and yet in the 2016 film there's none of that with them spending alot of that film acting as friends to each other which would be fine if they were heroes as then it's kind of expected for them to act that way around other heroes but these are meant to be villains so there not going to spend alot of the time working as a team there rather going to be spending alot of the tike looking out for number one and while yes this film does have moments where they are working as team but it's only when they have no other choice but to work together or when there fighting a literal immortal person that they then work together as then it would make sense for them to do something like that.

This film is something that alot of the films that have Task Force X as the main characters should be and that's fun. With the character cracking alot of jokes all of which feel very true to there characters and yet few of them are actually funny when given that this film is essentially an action comedy not in the vain of Batman And Harley Quinn was for example where that film was an actin comedy but it was enough to make you wonder why the makers of this film didn't make this a full blown action comedy as they could have gotten some good mileage out of the more straight laced Bronze Tiger dealing with the more wacky and looney Copperhead for example as the two of them could have made for a great comedic duo and while we know that Harley Quinn can be funny due to her appearances in Batman: The Animated Series it would have been interesting to see her try and bounce of someone like Killer Frost as we've already seen try and fail to bounce off Deadshot in the 2016 and yet it felt like the makers of this film only went half way with the main idea of making this film a road trip movie. With that main idea feeling underbaked and wasted as there is room for a lot of jokes there and while the film does milk the jokes it could make when the characters an adult club with Harley Quinn going nuts at every male that she sees so much so that Killer Frost quite literally has to cool her down which is a funny idea and is a good idea of just how well that those characters could work in a more comedic film and while the fact that this film isn't as comedic as it should have been doesn't stop the film from being any less it is something that does hold the film from being as completely nuts and balls to the wall as these characters really should be.

While the film does explain why Zoom wants to get this card as he wants it to prevent his death in another timeline from happening. The film never really explains why both Vandal Savage and Amanda Waller want it with the film only hinting that Vandal wants it as a way to keep himself alive they never really say why Amanda wants it as outside of one scene at the start of the film where we see her getting some kind of treatment we get nothing from her which makes it odd that she would force Task Force X onto going on this mission as she gains nothing from it either way whereas if the film explained that she wanted this card because of the fact that she was dying and was fearful of what will happen to her then it would make sense for her to get the team to get the card for her as that is something that she would do. With this film involving three teams all trying to get this card it then makes that whole idea start to fall in on itself when one of three leaders doesn't have a motive that's explained to us in the film and while both Zoom and Savage basically have the same motive for wanting to get this card with the film even hinting that something is wrong with Zoom due to the fact that he's not moving as fast as Deadshot knows that he can which is a really good way to tell us that the character is dying without actually telling us that he's dying and heck it could even be argued that he's the most thought out villain in the film as we get several scenes with him all of which show us just how far he's willing to go to get this card and yet with Savage he doesn't really play that big of a role in the film until the films third act which does make it a bit to late for him to make any real impact on the film as a whole whereas Zoom is in the film from the very beginning.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and twenty six minuets and three seconds. Which is pretty much the bogstanderd running time for these direct to DVD DC animated films and to be fair to this film this film really does have the right amount of plot there to cover that amount of running time in the first place and yet even with this in mind this film really doesn't use it's running time all that wisely as the film really doesn't take the time to fully develop its plot as the films plot as good as it is is one that does feel like it's quite underbaked almost as if the film had spend a bit more longer on its running time rather hitting home the fact that it's an adult animated comic book film then it would have been a much more better film that would have been able to be one of the more better recently released direct to DVD DC animated. With the same thing also being true for the films characters as well as none of them get any kind of character development whatsoever as while the films characters do act like how you expect them to act like from the comic books we don't get to find anything about this films characters as we the audience know as much about all of this films characters coming out of the film then we do coming into the film whereas if the film did spend some time of developing both it's plot and characters not always in major ways but in smaller ways as well then the film could have ended up being alot more better then what it already is as the idea alone is more the enough to make the film it just needed to be more thought and developed and that's it but I really will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho. 

So now then as this is an action film that really does mean 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 I 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 this being where the 2016 film actually tops this film as the action in that film is alot more better then the actin in this film even tho you can barely see the action in that film what little you can see tho is more then enough to make you know that the action in that film is the best of the film. With the things that makes the action in this film really good being the fact that the animation really does come alive in those scenes with each hit and kick leaping of the screen with us even getting some unique looking location at least for Task Force X films with the the best action scene in the whole entire film being the films third act fight as we get to see Task Force X take on Vandal Savage and his guards plus Zoom and all of his followers as well in an epic three way fight with all of the members of the team getting to showcase just what it is that they bring to the team and while the films main character is Deadshot with him getting alot of the cool moments during the action scenes that doesn't stop any of the films other characters from having moments that are for  lack of a better word cool to watch. The film even gives us a decent amount of gore in all of it's action scenes with us outright seeing the characters really getting there heads blown of and blood go everywhere which is a small thing but it is something that really does make the action in this film feel alot more real with all of this films action being as good as it could have possibly been in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Overall while it's debatable on if this is the best Suicide Squad film one this is for sure tho and that's the fact that this film is the best animate Suicide Squad project as it does get the team down perfectly whilst also being a fun fill film that more then holds almost ten years later 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 this film in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very film really does earn 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 IMP Awards . Com and Google images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very film that I used in this very post being the really great Google Images really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very film with alot of them really being really better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on Google Images really are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

The Invincible Iron Man Film Review

While many people remember DC Comic's line of direct to DVD animated films not alot of people no off or even remember the fact that Marvel also had a line a direct to DVD animated films. With the line not being that long and being very short lived with it starting not with the film that i'm going to be talking to you all about today but odd enough with a pair of Avengers movies with the film that i'm going to be talking to you all about today being the third film that they released this is despite the fact that it features a characters that was in both of the Avengers movies and is played by the same actor and so then join me as I review the film that basically tells the exactly same as the 2008 Iron Man with the film in question being called simply just "The Invincible Iron Man" enjoy.

The plot of this film is after he is kidnapped and nearly killed by his own weapon Tony Stark goes on a mission to stop the evil villain The Mandarin from coming back to life. 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 not that bad with this films plot for the most part being a really well done plot that does try to tell a good a story but then you take into account that they squeeze in the origin story for Tony Stark as well as Tony having a subplot with his father all of which does make this film feel a bit over stuffed with the films main plot being left to fight for screen time and feeling like that it wasn't strong enough to support the film on it's own when the idea of Tony having to travel around the world to find these magical rings before these monsters representing the four elements find them is something that could have made for a more interesting plot line and yet due to he fact that the film does have two other subplots in it which OK fair enough you do kind of have to do the origin story and to the films credit they do tie the origin story into the main plot of the film but we didn't the plot with Tony and Howard having a more fractured relationship as all that does is take away focus from the films main plot which does leave the main of plot of the film feel really undercooked ad not all that well thought out with the plot of this film not really being really rather entertaining and as well as not really being really rather engaging either in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Starring in this film is Marc Worden as Tony Stark / Iron Man , Rodney Saulsberry as James Rhodes and  Hulk And The Agents Of S.M.A.S.H. and Avengers Assemble star Fred Tatasciore as The Mandarin. Also starring in this film is Gwendoline Yeo as Li Mei , Elisa Gabrielli as Virginia "Pepper" Potts , John McCook as Howard Stark , James Sie as Wong-Chu , Stephen Mendillo as Boyer and John DeMita as Agent Drake.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting 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 acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad. With this films acting being nothing more then OK at best which is kind of understandable as out of all of this films actors only one of them is reprising their role with that being Marc Worden who played the role of Tony Stark in the two Ultimate Avengers movies and therefor it does make sense that he would turn in a good performance in this film as he would have gotten the chance to know what his version of the character would say or do and could adjust his performance accordingly and while people do expect a good performance from Fred Tatasciore with him being just that good of an actor he and Marc are the only good performances in this film as the rest pf this films just feel oddly miscast with Elisa even giving Pepper what could be a British accent for some weird and unknown reason with the best actor in the whole film being Fred Tatasciore as even tho he doesn't say much in the film and doesn't have alot of screen time he really does make it count even single time that he has a line of dialog with him giving this The Mandarin this big and booming voice which is something is something that does suit this version of the character with the acting that's in this film not really being helped by the fact that this films script is just so bad as it gives none of this films actors absolutely nothing to work interms of what it is that there characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does harm the overall quality of the acting that it's in this very film.

Doing the animation for this film is the legends and the greats that are currently over at Starburst Animation. 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 average at best with the films characters having some really nice designs to them and the films backgrounds looking very nice to look but the thing that lets down the animation in really all of these direct to DVD Marvel films is the fact that they give the characters all of these shadows all over there body which just looks so off putting  with it feeling like the makers of this film cared more about the shadows on the characters then they did about anything else just due to how much shadow that there is n all of these characters and while yes the films action scenes do look pretty good with the film using a mixture of handdrawn 2D animation and early 3D CGI animation the shadows on the characters is something that does stick out like a sore thumb as it comes across as the makers of this film wanting to make this film look cinematic without having the budget to do and therefor alot of the animation especially when it comes to the characters movements does come across as looking stilted and yet when you look at what DC was doing around the same time with there line of direct to DVD films the difference is night as day as DC was putting in alot of thought and effort into there animated outputs where as here with Marvel it feels like that there doing the bare minimum with this films cheap looking animation being a good example of that. 

This film basically copies the exact same story that we would get in the 2008 Iron Man film even down to having The Mandarin play apart in both films. With his group the ten rings being who kidnaps Tony in the live action film where as here in this film he's the main villain and yet its the 2008 film that did this story alot more better as that film knew to set up the characters first and show them how they all were before the events of the film changed them either for the better or for the worse and therefor when Tony says " I am Iron Man" at the end of the film it means alot more in that film due to the fact that we've seen his character start t grow and change for the better where as here in this film we don't get to see anything like that as he just decides to be Iron Man for no reason and heck he apparently spent months if not years creating a bunch of suits for every possible situation thus hinting that he's already changed as a character and has become this perfect character who can do no wrong this is despite the fact that we see him lie to Rhodey at the start of the film and yet in the 2008 film we see how Tony's actions effect not only himself when he's kidnaped by The Ten Rings but also those around him as well and yet when the same thing happens in this film we don't get to see how Tony's actions effect those around him outside of the fact that it's due to Tony wanting to rise this ancient Chinese city that kick starts the events of the whole film with this going to show that if the makers of this film wanted to truly make a good Iron Man film then they shouldn't have done the bare minimum rather they should have gone the extra mile to understand why these characters work so well in the first place.

To be kind of fair to this film this film does feel like one of the many direct to DVD Lego Batman movies that DC used to put out. In that all of the characters are going to be very clear cut good guys and bad guys with them all basically being how you expect them to be in the comics with nothing new added to them and that's great as this is a film that it could be argued was there just to sell the toys given the amount of suits that we see Tony already has in the film but at the same time tho if that was the case then you have to wonder why there wasn't more effort put into the film in the first place as even cartoons from the eighties alot of which were quite literally made to sell the toys still had alot of thought and effort put into them and yet here in this film everything just felt very cookie cutter as the film has this awkward dialog where the characters have to explain their relationship to each other which is something that does make some form of sense due to the fact that Iron Man wasn't that big of a character at the time of this films release and while that kind of dialog does make sense in a way that this film is clearly meant for little kids badly done dialog will always be badly done dialog no matter who the target audience is and even then due to the fact that this film earned itself a PG-13 rating it's debatable on if this film was even made for kids as there is a scene where a female characters appears nude with the film censoring it with some steam with that being something that does make the film feel more adult and yet all that does is clash with the films overall more kid friendly nature as the rest of the film is like those Lego DC films only here it doesn't have the charm or the wit to pull it of with it coming across as being half baked as a result of that.

As was stated earlier on in this review this films main villain is The Mandarin with him actually being better in this film then he was in Iron Man 3. Due to the fact that in this film he is a former Chinese emperor who has these mystical powers which are tied to his rings and while he doesn't really appear until the very end of the film and therefor can't leave much on impact on the film itself this is something that does work in the films favor as it now means that the film can spend more time in building him up as this truly terrifying figure and one that we all should fear and while the film doesn't really do that as this after all a cheaply made direct to DVD movie the fact that he has this cult like group that are dedicated to stopping him from coming back is something that does help to sell you on just how feared that he was when he was alive with the only thing that lets the character down is the fact that he doesn't really have an end goal in mind with him just being evil and brought back to live purely for the sake of it which doesn't make him an interesting character especially when there is quite alot of that you could do with this character given his backstory for this film like maybe he wants to reclaim his place as the leader of China or maybe just wants to take over the world which yes is a generic villain plot but give that this film is one that's made with kids in mind it still works with another thing that works for the character is the fact that he has the four western earth elements all working to try and bring him back with it being only Iron Man who can stop them which is a really cool idea and to the films credit it does do the best that it could have done with that idea as we do get to see Iron Man take on all four of those elements in really creative looking environments.

Now then this film has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and twenty three minuets and three seconds. With that being a pretty solid running time for this film to have even taking into account that it does gave to tell the whole Iron Man origin story and still a decent plot at the same time with this film having the right amount of plot there to really cover that amount of running time with the thing that does let this film down from a running time point of view being the fact that the film does feel like that it's trying to tell to many stories as we have the main plot , the Iron Man origin story and the plot with Tony and his dad and the film can't do all three of those stories with the running time that it has as it would mean that that all three stories are left fighting with screen time with this meaning that the film can't use it's running time all that wisely as it can't develop any of its plots due to the fact that the film now has to rush along to the next plot point and while yes of course you do need to have the origin story in there you don't need the plot with Tony and his dad as all that does is eat up screen time that would have been better used giving plot development to the films main plot as the origin story doesn't eat up that much screen time in the place and therefor doesn't really need that much development where as the main plot is left feeling wafer thin with it feeling like that there are no stakes to the films plot as the film doesn't tell us what the stakes are with the film not even bothering to give the characters any kind of character development as they all come across as being very one dimensional due to the fact that the film doesn't take the time that it could have had to give us more well thought out and developed characters but I really will admit that this film really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is an action film that really does mean 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 I 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 this films action being as good as it was every going to be taking into account this film was quite clearly made both cheaply and quickly with the film taking full advantage of the fact that Iron Man has to essentially go up against the four elements by having hm take them on in some really creative backgrounds that force him to think outside of the box something which does make sense given that these are meant to be his first foes as a hero and therefor it would make sense that he would struggle to beat them with the best action scene in the whole entire film being the third act fight as we see Tony back in his original Iron Man suit now being forced to take on not only The Mandarin but also a horde of creatures outside of The Mandarins temple all of whom want Tony dead with this action scene working because of the fact that we get to see Tony be forced to used his brains and not just rely on his more modern Iron Man suits to do all of the work for him and while it's sadly not Iron Man that delivers the final blow to The Mandarin as that honor goes to Li Mei for some odd reason the whole with The Mandarin the fight leading up to that moment is one that does work really well as we get to see just how strong that The Mandarin is as a villain with him quite easily beating up Tony in the original Iron Man suit with the rest of this films action scenes being just as good in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall the best way to describe this film is that it's an average film and if you go into this film with those kind of expectations then you might come out of it liking the film a whole lot but at the same time given the fact that the film copied the main story beats of the 2008 Iron Man film but did them worse you might as well as just stick to that film as you'd be getting a much more better expirence with the exact same story beats in it in my freaking opinions anyways / anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad thigs that are in this very film in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very film really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 5 out of 10 from me.

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Mystery Science Theater 3000 "The Wild Wild World Of Batwoman" Review

It's been well over a year since anything from the Mystery Science Theater 3000 TV show was reviewed and well I thought that with the guys from Rifftrax making four new episodes to be released later this year and the fact that we are close to the thirtieth anniversary of Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie now would be the best time to talk about another episode. With this episode actually being the first classic era episode that i've talked about and so then join me as I review the episode that sees Mike and The Bots learn all about the horrid dangers of cheating with the episode in question being called simply just "The Wild Wild World Of Batwoman" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is when Mike and The Bots decide to write essay's about one of the shorts that they've just watched they discover Crow has cheated on his and have to find a way to punish him whilst also watching a terrible Batman 1966 knock off movie. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot thats actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I 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 as while this episodes plot does get alot more focus then what the typical plots for this show has as nine times out of ten this shows plots are barely there at best with the thin plots just being used as a way to loosely connect the shows host segments here tho there was alot more focus on plot with the plot of the episode technically starting when the characters are watching the short "Discussion Problems In Group Living: Cheating" as it's the questions that the narrator of that show poses to people that helps to inspire the plot of this episode which was a really good idea as it does mean that we get to see the characters live out there own comedic version of what was an oddly serious short and yet while it would have been nice if the episode did have more scenes in it that focused on it's plot that is something that might have stopped the episode from being as enjoyable as it is as there would have been no way to do that without cutting out key scenes from the movie that there meant to be watching in the first place with the episodes plot working just fine as it is with the plot of this episode also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Starring in this episode is one of this episodes writers Michael J. Nelson as Mike Nelson and Trace Beaulieu as the voice of Crow T. Robot and Dr. Clayton Forrester. Also starring in this episode is one of episodes writers Kevin Murphy as the voice of Tom Servo , one of this episodes writers Frank Conniff as the voice of TV's Frank and this episodes producer , one of this episodes writers and director Jim Mallon as the voice of Gypsy.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting thats actually featured / presented to us in this very film well then in all honesty I 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 not that bad. Which for this show is something that's to be expected as not alot of the actors that are in this episode are trained actors with alot of them just being writers and that's it and therefor it would have been foolish of anyone to expect good or great acting out of this episodes actors as there all they are their for is to tell jokes and make fun of a movie with that being something that doesn't require good acting in it and yet at the same time we do get some really passable acting in this episode with the episodes best actor being Trace Beaulieu as the voice of Crow T. Robot and Dr. Clayton Forrester as he's been playing both of his characters since quite literally the very episode of the show bac when the show was just being broadcast on a local network and played both roles up until season 7 of this thirteen season show and therefor he would of course know how best to perform both of these characters and what kind of performance would best suite both of these characters and while he doesn't get alot of screen time as Dr. Clayton Forrester with him only appearing near the start and at the end of the episode he's pretty much in every single scene as Crow and yet you can't tell that the series main villain is also playing one of the series main heroes with the acting that's in this episode not really being helped by the fact that the script for this episode really doesn't give this episodes actors anything to work with interms of what it is that there actual characters personalities are even meant to be in the first place which is something that really does harm the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode.

This is a case where it would be pointless to talk about the episodes character as the show by it's very nature doesn't spend alot of time with it's characters as they have to fit in an entire film and in this case a short film for the episodes main characters to riff on. With the short itself being something that is ripe for being made for fun off as to put it bluntly it's a short that shows us the downside of cheating which isn't what makes it bad as what makes it bad s the fact that the main character is caught cheating on one math's exam with all of the characters treating it like it's the end of the world even down the point where the characters math's teachers visits him in his dreams to give him a nightmare look fair enough that short film was made in the fifties and was more then likely made to be shown in schools and therefor it does in that sense make sense that the characters would treat as this very big deal but at the same time tho no one in real life would treat cheating on a random math's exam as being that big of a deal as while yes cheating is wrong and is something that should always be discouraged but at the same time the film does go over board with how it effects the main characters personal life and that is something that is not only hilarious to see but it's also something that makes the short film stand out just for how bad it is with this episode mostly playing the entire short film with the only real thing being cut out being the fact they don't show a character taking a minuet to pick up the phone and that's really it and even then that could be argued was mor due to the fact that the short might have have been damaged over the years but otherwise this episode does what this episode always does and that's let the whole thing play out from start to finish with not cuts made to the short itself.

As you can tell by the name of this review this episode had the characters riffing on the 1966 film The Wild World Of Batwoman. With this film technically having THREE titles as according to the films poster it's called The Wild World Of Batwoman yet according to this episode which shows the films title card it's called The Wild Wild World Of Batwoman and then there's the re-release title of the film which is "She Was A Hippy Vampire" with it being pretty obvious not only from the title of the film but also the films poster that this film was only made due to how popular that the 1966 Batman TV show was with this film not even being made with co-operation of DC Comics who sued this films writer , producer and director Jerry Warren copyright infringement with it being made crystal clear that there was behind the scenes issues with the film something which the star of the film herself Katherine Victor confirmed to be true with her saying that if any actor rubbed Jerry Warren the wrong way then he would either cut their lines entirely or give them to other actors with her confirming that the girl who gets kidnapped at the start of the film was going to be the main character of the film something which is pretty obvious that the film was setting up to be true and yet because he thought that she getting to big for her britches he made the call to change it. This episode does deserve alot of credit as it did dhow the entire film in full as the film in only a little over an hour long and even that seemed to much for this film as even tho this episode was mocking the film you can tell that the film was struggling to reach even that running time with the film being one of those films that is best left forgotten as even tho this episode is really good the film itself is frequently called one of the worst films ever made and quite frankly for a good reason.

Whilst the episode is on the whole really good there are some things about it that don't work as well as they could have done. Like for example we only focus on the main heroes this episode which is fine as they do get to do some pretty entertaining stuff but at the same time the villains of this show are more often then not the more entertaining characters and yet they only appear in two of the episodes multiple host segments which does seem odd as given that the crew are meant to be making fun of a very poorly done superhero film it would have made sense for the makers of this episode to do a more worse version of that film rather then a version of the short film as then they could have used there evil characters in more entertaining ways as while showing Dr. Clayton Forrester get a haircut via a nuclear powered hairdryer is funny to see and it does give is a really funny visual it would have been more entertaining if the episode kept on cutting back to them and making that sort of like a subplot for the episode with him trying to get Frank to reveal just what his new hair cut looks like only for Frank to find new and creative ways to avoid showing him something which they then could tie up at the end of the episode yes it's not much but it doesn't need to be as it would only need to be subplot anyway and therefor it could be this more fun and goofy little plot that doesn't effect the main plot of the episode and while the main plot of the episode with Mike , Tom and Gypsy trying to essentially teach Crow about cheating is a sold plot it's also not as fun and as goofy as it could have been either as those characters are characters that work there best when there in these more fun and goofy plots and having them be in a plot that is alot of the time played straight just doesn't work and while that might be the point as it's meant to be a parody it still needs to be something that work for those characters.

The host segments in this episode worked fine for what they were as there always meant to be silly little sketches that sometimes continue on a plot or that are sometimes just there to make us laugh and nothing more then that. With the ones in this episode trying to do both and while they do succeed in advancing a plot that plot is one that didn't need to have multiple sketches dedicated to it as you could have had one or two sketches spread out throughout the episode and it would have worked just as well and yet for one reason or another the makers of hie episode thought that they needed to have all but the opening sketch for this episode be about this cheating plot line and while yes that plot line is meant to be a parody of the short film it's also one that does hold the episode back from being this fun and wacky show that alot of us know that it can be due to the fact that the characters are playing it all straight when this show is one that should have these more wacky plot lines as this is a show that doesn't take itself far to seriously and shouldn't take it self far to seriously as it's meant to be a comedy and that's really all there is to it and while yes the show on the whole does have scenes that they do take seriously they only happen when the plot of the show is being advanced like when a host leaves or joins the show for example and yet here the whole cheating plot line is given that same amount of grandeur and while that does help to make those segments be all the more funny as we the audience know exactly what it is there spoofing and can therefor get behind it a little bit more it does cause the episode to loose some of that extra special something that has made the show be as fondly remembered as it is.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly one hour and thirty three minuets and fifteen seconds. With this being the bogstandard running time for the rest of the show as well which is something that dis make sense when you take into account that they have to fit in an entire film and in this case an entire short film plus the host segments into the episode as well with the episode itself having just about the right amount of plot there to cover that amount of running time in the first place and while the fact that the episode doesn't take the time to fully develop it's plot this is something that does make sense in this episode as the episode can't of course devote alot of it's time to it's plot due to the fact that it is has to fit in a film and short film with both of those things being the things that people come to this show to watch be made fun of and therefor of course the film is going to devote as much as time as is humanly possible to getting as many jokes about those two in the episode with this also meaning that the characters can't get any kind of character development with this also being something that could be argued happens in both the later seasons of the show and the shows only movie and yet the episode doesn't feel like it's being short changed because of it as it's something that you notice is missing from the episode due to how to fun that the episode is and while yes it would have been nice if the plot and characters got some development that would take away screen time from one of the episodes jokes and would thus make the episode be alot less fun to watch but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho. 

So now then as this is a comedy that really does mean that I have 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 really good. With the characters making some really good jokes about both the short and the film itself like for example when the teacher shows up in the kids bedroom in the short film the characters comment on how creepy it is that she would do that or there's the opening scenes with the episodes villains where every single time that Frank gets near Dr. Clayton Forrester het gets scared because of the fact that he gave him a bad haircut only for it to be revealed that he actually likes his new haircut which is a funny joke in it's own right and yet the best joke in the whole entire episode is when Tom is just yelling for the movie to end with him slowly loosing his mind each time that he says it as you can feel his frustration due to the fact that we the audience are also watching the film and possibly also begging for the film to end as well with the episode making lots of really funny jokes about the film like for example that make fun of the fact that this film was really only made because of how popular that the 1966 Batman TV show was just by saying to one of the movies stars that the film also stars Adam West and even if the episode does tell a bad joke it doesn't really matter as by the time you've heard it they've already told two of three really good jokes with the bad joke being long forgotten about in the process with the episode giving us alot more funny jokes then it does bad ones as that's just how funny that this episodes jokes really are in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Overall while this episode might not be one of the best episodes that this show has done it is a good example of just how good that this show could be something which the movie itself would also do as this is show is one that should be remembered and this episode is one that should be watched due to how funny that it can be 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 really does mean that his very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 7 out of 10 from me.

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