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Ugh. Terrible show, just awful and unfunny. The worst of the Children of Kricfalusi, who are under the mistaken impression that offense is amusing, that abuse is a suitable substitute for wit, and that esoteric references are funny in themselves. They're wrong. So wrong. And we all pay the price.
The animation is piss-poor, the character design is slapdash when compared the unified aesthetic of something like THE FAIRLY ODDPARENTS, the voice acting is both lazy and annoying. The characters are all dull and hateful and unfunny: all the real nine-year-old girls I know are far smarter and funnier and scarier than Mandy.
And the writing... well.
Check this, hipsters! The goddess Eris—dude, ERIS!—is a recurring character, as is the demon Nergal—yeah, him out of Delano's Hellblazer, pat yourself on the back for catching that one!
Not that they actually, y'know, do anything interesting with those characters. But, hey, w00t—Eris.
The episode that Tuna Ghost cites above perefectly encapsulates the pointlessness of the show. It's an episode-long recap—not even a riff on, just a recap—of God Emperor Of Dune. That's it. That's the joke. The only joke. Twenty seconds into the episode, after you pull your pie-hole away from the bong for long enough to cry, "Dude, no way! They're doin' God Emperor Of Dune!" the cartoon is effectively over. And yet it isn't: it continues for eleven more minutes, a grim plod to the finish. And even on those joyless terms, the episode only "works" if you've read God Emperor of Dune. If not, it's simply mystifying, as well as painfully unfunny.
(This is the same problem I have with FAMILY GUY, by the way. It's not enough that, say, Chris meets an Oompa-Loompa; it's got to be funny. Gene Wolfe says ideas are like lions—you can go to the public zoo for free and see lions just sitting around, but you'll pay good money to go to the circus and see them jump through hoops.)
So, yeah. Horrible lazy smug mean-spirited little show. |
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