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This show is... weird, to say the least.
Being half-Filipino, I do have cousins who live there. Thus, I know about the fast food place Jollibee and have eaten there numerous times before. Little did I know that it had even gotten a show. Obviously this show is meant for very young children and has a very limited budget (as many shows made in the Philippines do) but that doesn't mean do the bare minimum for the show.
I can't really critique the costumes for Jollibee, Hetty, Twirlie, Popo, and Yum here as they are also used for events and stuff outside the show but they are a bit unsettling. Especially Hetty. Her eyes are way too small and far apart, making her look even more uncanny than the other three human-like mascots. I've seen her official art and it doesn't look that bad, but clearly it does not translate well to a 3D model for a mascot suit.
There are some inconsistencies with animation and character designs I've noticed in the show. Firstly, Ding Dang Dong (the clock tower) is animated using CGI in the first season, but in Season 4, he's animated in 2D with something like Flash. Pipoy Puno's (the talking tree) design is rather inconsistent too, and in the first season Twirlie has sunglasses and her coat is longer (even though the 2008 official character reveal video shows her present-day design).
There's also the acting. When Jollibee sees a falling star, the way he exclaims "Woah" sounds more like excitement than fear because of how flat it was delivered, unlike what he was doing. The voice acting in general is rather hit-or-miss, but of course, the standards likely were pretty loose. Plus I don't really think Jollibee's voice fits him at all. He's better off with a falsetto voice a la Mickey Mouse, not only because he looks like him.
Not only this but several features of this show seem rather derivative from earlier works. The red car Jollibee and his friends use looks a lot like Noddy's car, albeit the colors inverted. And the whole flying gimmick seems to makes it inspired by Rocket from Little Einsteins too. The show also seems to be very similar to LazyTown in more ways than one, and not to mention that Jollibee wasn't the first fast food place to have a show air on television.
So overall, Jollitown is a pretty strange show for several reasons that I have mentioned above.
I can't really critique the costumes for Jollibee, Hetty, Twirlie, Popo, and Yum here as they are also used for events and stuff outside the show but they are a bit unsettling. Especially Hetty. Her eyes are way too small and far apart, making her look even more uncanny than the other three human-like mascots. I've seen her official art and it doesn't look that bad, but clearly it does not translate well to a 3D model for a mascot suit.
There are some inconsistencies with animation and character designs I've noticed in the show. Firstly, Ding Dang Dong (the clock tower) is animated using CGI in the first season, but in Season 4, he's animated in 2D with something like Flash. Pipoy Puno's (the talking tree) design is rather inconsistent too, and in the first season Twirlie has sunglasses and her coat is longer (even though the 2008 official character reveal video shows her present-day design).
There's also the acting. When Jollibee sees a falling star, the way he exclaims "Woah" sounds more like excitement than fear because of how flat it was delivered, unlike what he was doing. The voice acting in general is rather hit-or-miss, but of course, the standards likely were pretty loose. Plus I don't really think Jollibee's voice fits him at all. He's better off with a falsetto voice a la Mickey Mouse, not only because he looks like him.
Not only this but several features of this show seem rather derivative from earlier works. The red car Jollibee and his friends use looks a lot like Noddy's car, albeit the colors inverted. And the whole flying gimmick seems to makes it inspired by Rocket from Little Einsteins too. The show also seems to be very similar to LazyTown in more ways than one, and not to mention that Jollibee wasn't the first fast food place to have a show air on television.
So overall, Jollitown is a pretty strange show for several reasons that I have mentioned above.
- BlossomingCorgi
- Jun 21, 2023
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