Viewtiful Joe Vol. 1
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The concept for this show is based on a video game of the same name. It seems that cartoons based on video games contain the same quality most of the films do. The DVD contains 3 episodes of the show about a guy and his girlfriend that are sucked into a celluloid land while watching his favorite film about a character called Captain Blue. Joe gets Captain Blue’s powers when he enters Movieland and knows how to use them based on his memory of all the films he’s watched numerous times. The bad guys are all half man half beasts like Street Sharks, that cartoon from the ’80’s, or the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The animation is weird, with really small bodies and really big heads, I don’t much care for it. There is also a lot of duplication parts, like “I Have The Power” from He Man or when Voltron would assemble from the Lion’s. They use the same footage in every episode to save time or money, or both. All of the characters are ridiculous, and they are all really stupid (not conceptually, they’re actually stupid). It’s kind of like all the character’s are based on the mental capacity of the 3 Stooges. I realize that when I was a kid, cartoons were long ad’s for toys, so they dumbed down the plot a bit. This just isn’t really all that well written, even compared to what I used to watch. There is so much better stuff out there, and why can’t someone just start animating like people again? Why does everything have to be deformed and weird? (Geneon, 2265 East 220 th ST, POB 22782, Long Beach, CA 90801) - Myk
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