LIGHT SPOILERS.
I came into this fro ma Youtube video praising the animated series and how it tapped into the humor of the original film and recommended the viewer check it out.
The pilot is boring. It's predictable.
It's writing is mediocre; none of the humor is even remotely on the same level of the film. At one point the pilot rehashes what we already knew from the original film: the tabloid drags are the hot sheets. And things from the film were oddly different in the series (including the noisy cricket firing a green ball of energy).
The animation is surprisingly bad, especially compared to other animated series of the time.
The musical score is anonymous and does not even approach the same vein as Danny Elfman's score for the film.
For something that is based heavily on the original film, it's so poor and shoddy. Just look at other animated series from around that time: "Batman: The Animated Series", "Superman: The Animated Series", "Tiny Toons", "Animaniacs" and others. Even at their worst animation moments, they're still superior to this series. The writing is far better and the musical scores are some of the finest to come out of live-action or animated series ever in the history of television. And what's more, while made for Saturday mornings when kids were watching, clearly they were heavily written to appeal to adults with the ideas, subtext, and humor. This animated show is quite frankly a major misfire.
I got to say, I felt not only let down, but insulted by this. I highly recommend skipping it. In my opinion, we don't have a good animated "Men in Black" series yet.
I came into this fro ma Youtube video praising the animated series and how it tapped into the humor of the original film and recommended the viewer check it out.
The pilot is boring. It's predictable.
It's writing is mediocre; none of the humor is even remotely on the same level of the film. At one point the pilot rehashes what we already knew from the original film: the tabloid drags are the hot sheets. And things from the film were oddly different in the series (including the noisy cricket firing a green ball of energy).
The animation is surprisingly bad, especially compared to other animated series of the time.
The musical score is anonymous and does not even approach the same vein as Danny Elfman's score for the film.
For something that is based heavily on the original film, it's so poor and shoddy. Just look at other animated series from around that time: "Batman: The Animated Series", "Superman: The Animated Series", "Tiny Toons", "Animaniacs" and others. Even at their worst animation moments, they're still superior to this series. The writing is far better and the musical scores are some of the finest to come out of live-action or animated series ever in the history of television. And what's more, while made for Saturday mornings when kids were watching, clearly they were heavily written to appeal to adults with the ideas, subtext, and humor. This animated show is quite frankly a major misfire.
I got to say, I felt not only let down, but insulted by this. I highly recommend skipping it. In my opinion, we don't have a good animated "Men in Black" series yet.
