Pryde of the X-Men (1989) (TV)

Director:

Ray Lee

Writers:

Jack Kirby (characters)
Stan Lee (characters)

Genre:

Adventure | Sci-Fi | Short | Animation | Drama

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Hero | Teenage Superhero | Hatred | Heroine | Based On Comic

Cast

Michael Bell	...	Cyclops (Scott Summers) / Additional Voices (voice)
Earl Boen	...	Colossus (voice) (as Earl Bowen)
Andi Chapman	...	Storm / Additional Voices (voice)
Pat Fraley	...	Pyro (voice)
Ron Gans	...	Additional Voices (voice) (as Ronald Gans)
Dan Gilvezan	...	Additional Voices (voice)
Alan Oppenheimer	...	The Blob / Additional Voices (voice)
Patrick Pinney	...	Juggernaut / Additional Voices (voice)
Neil Ross	...	Wolverine (Logan) (voice)
Susan Silo	...	The White Queen (voice)
Kath Soucie	...	Kitty Pryde (voice)
John Stephenson	...	Professor Charles Xavier (voice)
Alexandra Stoddart	...	Dazzler / Additional voices (voice)
Frank Welker	...	The Toad / Lockheed / Nightcrawler (voice)

Runtime:

30 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Company:

Marvel Productions

Quotes:

[first lines]
Stan Lee: Welcome. This is Stan Lee of Marvel Comics, warning you to look around you. Your classmates, your friends. You never know which one of them may be a mutant. A person born with strange and wonderous powers. Now, some mutants like the X-Men, use their special gifts for good. But, then there are the terrorist mutants, who plan to destroy the human race.

Movie Connections:

Version of "X-Men: Evolution" (2000)

Great X-men Pilot Episode With Awesome Animation That Didn't Get Picked Up.

This one shot X-men pilot episode had the best animation quality of any other Marvel cartoon then or since. Yes, the quality even rivals X-men Evolution. I prefer the mature look of Pryde's animation over Evolution's Disney look any day.

The Voice-Overs (Wolverine's Australian accent) have been panned quite a bit on this board. Wolverine's austrailian accent didn't bother me much at all and I collected the X-men comic for a while during the eighties. Even though Wolvie's accent was wrong, his temperment and intensity were captured perfectly by the Voice-Over. I'd Prefer Pryde's Austrailian Wolverine over Evolution's MUCH SOFTER Wolverine any day. Evolution's Wolvie just doesn't have the intensity or temperment; C'mon Wolverine as a teacher? Gimme a break. The other characters in Pryde were well portrayed.

The story line isn't that complex but it's not supposed to be. It's a pilot episode and therefore is meant to be more of an showcase of the format and characters of the cartoon than anything else. The plots surely would have gotten more complex had the series been picked up.

I can't help but think that Marvel missed an opportunity by not producing more episodes. Hmmmm... maybe the animation was too expensive because it was damn near movie quality. If the 90's series had Pryde's animation quality, we would have had a near perfect series. I've seen Pryde of the X-men several times and always wondered about what could have been. If you haven't seen Pryde of the X-men yet, don't listen to negative reviews and go check it out. It's definitely worth it.