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Sonic Prime (2022)
Decently decent
I remember watching Sonic boom on Cartoon Network during my youth. I also remember the famous adventures of Sonic the hedgehog on Netflix. I enjoyed these shows, with Sonic and friends going on wacky hijinks to defeat dr. Eggman. There's this new show called Sonic Prime (Which, Ironically is on Netflix) which seemed nice, but I quickly lost interest.
The show starts with our favorite Hedgehog late to join up with his friends for the latest doctor bashing, Eggman finds a crystal (the paradox prism I think they called it?) that can let him rule the world. The thing I like the most about this show is the action scenes, they always feel satisfying when the heroes defeat the robots and move on to the next batch. Especially when it happens in the other dimensions when It doesn't look stale and repetitive.
Then the crystal breaks and Sonic is in a dystopian universe where Eggman has won and either enslaved, mechanized, or ran off everyone but Sonic (Oh, and Eggman has split himself into 5 for some reason), and here when things get a little iffy. They do this cool multiverse thing, but they only show one setting, Green hill zone. I would've killed to see what the other locations in Sonic's world (Marble zone, Labyrinth zone, etc.) would look like in the other dimensions; maybe if they had a bigger budget or more time, I don't know.
Ok, here's my biggest takeaway from this show: they do this thing where they show flashbacks of what happened before the events of the series, but they often show the same events whenever anyone brings it up. Wouldn't it be less time-consuming and monotonous if all the flashbacks were all in one big episode at the beginning? Why do we have to see these events we already know happened?
I gave up after the jungle episode (I don't know what the jungle episode was called though,) because I honestly was too bored to move on with the series. Overall, It's a decent show, but given the choice, I'd rather pick the adventures of Sonic the hedgehog.
Back at the Barnyard (2007)
Infinty times better than SpongeBob!
If you know anything about Nickelodeon, you should know how much they love SpongeBob, cancelling other show before they even give them a chance. They were good shows, but there was one show that was PHENOMENAL. It was called, "Back at the barnyard".
This show's origin goes back to 2006. There was this movie called barnyard. The movie had the characters from the show fighting off coyotes that killed the leader of the barnyard. The movie was a bomb, but it managed to spawn a show, this show was in a different tone than the movie, fancying slapstick humor over a coming-of-age story. On paper, this shouldn't have worked, but I'm so glad it did.
The show follows the adventures of Otis the bull and his friends. These adventures range from building a sphinx and babysitting a clam to shooting milk at aliens and throwing a birthday for their farmer. What My favorite part is about this series is that you'll never know what's going to happen next. One moment could be having the characters making a bucket of glue, the next they're getting that glue back so it doesn't explode all over the place. We need more shows like that with random humor!
Back at the barnyard is A MASTERPIECE! I'm so sad it only got two seasons, but that's probably a good thing because it wouldn't go into seasonal rot, unlike *cough* SpongeBob *cough*
Hamster & Gretel (2022)
I tried to like this show...
When I first saw the trailer for this, I was really excited. The two main characters were cute and the premise was funny. But as soon as I watched the 3rd episode, I knew it was gonna be mediocre.
First off, The Designs are VERY inconsistent. Take Kevin for example, he looks like a Milo Murphy reject. Now look at Hamster the hamster, he looks out of place whenever another animal is onscreen. However, the absolute worst design goes to Fred. Seriously! Why did they give her such cartoonishly huge lips!? Is she supposed to be a human or a frog!? The only design I don't have a problem with is Gretel, she's quite cute.
The songs in this are HORRENDOUS! I have to mute them whenever they start. Couldn't they just hire actors that can sing instead of just using their talking voices? Speaking of the talking voices, they're OK. The weakest voice has to be Gretel, though, she sounds like her voice actor is doing a Patrick star impression.
Finally, every single character is a MORON! For example, in one episode, The heroes have to freeze an eel to defeat him, so Gretel wastes 2 minutes waiting for a fridge to be fixed to do that. YOU IDIOT!!! YOU HAVE FREEZE BREATH! USE THAT TO FREEZE HIM!!!
Yeah, I tried to like this show, But it's still mediocre and made me face palm often. I only watched the first 10 episodes and never watching it again. It proves that Mr. Povenmire just made this for some quick bucks. Marvel it ain't.
Earthworm Jim (1995)
Play the games instead.
Ah, Video game cartoons... they were classics, like the super Mario cartoons, the adventures of Sonic the hedgehog, and so on. Not all of them were winners though, like Captain N, The Donkey king cartoon, and this. At first, I was really interested when this was on, but once I heard the theme song I knew it was gonna be a trainwreck. The voice acting in general in awful (Jim was voiced by someone from the Simpsons, he could at least try!)
First of all, the grasp of the source material is off, as the games has Earthworm Jim in space and not living in a set location. But In the show, he lives in a regular old house! Wouldn't a talking, human sized earthworm raise his neighbors eyebrows? The second game gets no recognition throughout this show, except snot. Most of the villains are nowhere to be seen. Where's Doc duodenum, Chuck, Billy Bin, Major Mucus, Rusty, Flaming yawn, or Bruty!?
Do you what villains they do have? Some fat crow(which looks more like a fuzzy wrench) in a space suit, a skeleton termite hybrid, a fish, a buff cat, a buff mouse, a not buff cat, and a monkey conjoined with an angry dude.
The heroes are incredibly out of character, Jim is now a dumb guy who just lets everyone step all over him. You have a blaster, you worm! Shoot the bad guys instead of falling into their traps! And when he does shoot someone, it's always some helpless person and almost NEVER someone being evil! Peter is not this cute dog with a short temper, but a generic sidekick with no personality. And finally, what's-her-name somehow has LESS personality than she does in the games!
So yeah, The earthworm Jim show is a disgrace to the worm's legacy, And if I were you, I'd avoid this like a tapeworm. There's another show like this coming sometime, and it looks much more fun than this.
The Bad Guys (2022)
The inoffensive yet boring and nonsensical guys
So, the movie starts with a wolf and snake (dressed like he's on a sunny vacation for some reason) talking to each other in a cafe. Seriously, this lasts for 2 minutes but it just. Drags. On. I honestly skipped their conversation just to meet the other three.
I actually liked Tarantula and Shark. They felt like funny characters and had pretty good impacts on the story. On the other hand, I don't know why Piranha exists, his impact in this movie? One fart joke and a musical number. Honestly, you could put a non-sentient potato with googly eyes in his place and I don't think any scene would change.
So after an unsuccessful heist, they meet up with this hamster named Marmalade who wants them to do good. The bad guys attempts to be good are actually quite funny, like the scene where they try to rescue a cat, but then they just roar at it.
Next there's a scene where they try to save a bunch of non-sentient hamsters from a lab. Why the hamsters are non-sentient and marmalade is is beyond me. So, surprise, surprise the act of good was a flop. And that's where I turned the movie off.
Yeah, as I said it's inoffensive, but it's just mediocre and I just wanted it to END. Go read the books instead.
Bump in the Night (1994)
In a love- hate relationship.
I have mixed feelings about this show (that's the definition of love-hate relationship). I'm not surprised that there are people who don't think this show exists, because it's so run of the mill and bland.
First off, the things I love:
The voices are... uh... decent I guess? I hated the voices for Squishington and the cute dolls, and those were the ones I had a problem with. The only one that could be considered great was the voice of Gail matthuis' character, Molly the doll.
Speaking of characters, they're all likable. Bumpy is just a fun energetic glutton, who brings his friends on crazy and funny adventures. Squishington is the polar opposite, he's a cowardly germaphobic blob of cleaning detergent (or at least I think he's cleaning detergent, oh and did you know that he was once gonna be BROWN? For context, he lives In a toilet... think about that.) who, unlike bumpy, thinks before he acts. Finally there's Molly the doll, who seems to be the brains of the trio, and doesn't mind taking (nose) blows from her owner, but she snaps when the other two disagree with her.
Now... for the things I hate:
HOW does the animation in this cartoon get so much praise? IT LOOKS HIDEOUS! Ironically, the "cute" doll characters make me want to throw up. Ok, it's nice to look at when it's not moving, but still. Also, there are some moments when the characters are shown in this really limited and choppy cel shaded animation which somehow manages to look worse than the actual animation.
The stories are way too extreme for a show about a monster just living in someone's bed. There's one episode where A random slice of bread chases bumpy and Squishington for no apparent reason. Think that's bad? There's another episode where Molly wants to BECOME A LITERAL DOCTOR AND APPARENTLY HAS A MEDICAL LICENSE BEFOREHAND! WHAT!? And finally, for the series finale, the gang flies to the North Pole for Santa just to take Bumpy off the naughty list. I'm DEAD SERIOUS.
I don't get why some characters exist. Take destructo, a giant robot. He's supposed to be the law enforcer in the bedroom and despises Bumpy. Why does he despise Bumpy? NEVER EXPLAINED! Then there's these two aliens that want to take over earth. Said aliens are about the size of a playing card. If they wanted to conquer just the bedroom, I could see they're motives working, but AN ENTIRE PLANET? (I don't know, maybe they're like that episode from SpongeBob where plankton gets all his relatives and almost destroys the Krusty Krab)
So yeah, Bump in the night is generic, I can see people liking it, but I wouldn't recommend it. Maybe when Disney makes a reboot I'll decide if it's good or bad.