Adventures Of Sonic The Hedgehog Revisited

Hello, this is Cartoon Corner, your place for animation analysis. If you remember, one of my first reviews was of the cartoon made by Dic, Adventures of Sonic The Hedgehog. I was actually too hard on it and I have some different opinions now. So lets spin back to the cartoons of the 90s, and look at Adventures of Sonic The Hedgehog. I won't talk about the plot again because I don't feel like doing that. But let me say something about it. It's so darn stupid! I know the game had the same plot, a blue hedgehog tries to save the world from a fat, evil scientist with a two tailed fox, but it's idiotic. The plot is something a kid who think of for a 1st grade story project. ASH did try to add some plot in the later episodes, but by then we were too confused to care. It has no continuity between episodes, except in two-parters. The Tiny Toon like slapstick does some justice, but it makes things way too stupid. Take for example a scene where Dr. Robotnik talks about how he hates Sonic so much. He bares his teeth, that have the word hate on them, and they break in half. That makes no sense, and even in the cartoon world it's impossible. Next, the voice acting. Jaleel White is better in the SATAM show and not this one. Tails is annoying, Robotnik is okay, and the robts are messed up and dumb. Grounder is like an android Patrick from Spongebob, Coconuts is the monkey version of a high pitched guy from Brooklyn, and Scratch is your elementary teacher who won't shut up! All the other cast is hit or miss, with varying degrees of lame. Then the animation is mediocre. Characters are colored wrong, sometimes they freeze, and other times it's alright. The art is different from other things I've seen, and not too bad. Some of the jokes they make are actually funny. Sonic's one liners are terrible, and when he disguises himself it fails, but there are good laughs here and there. Like when sonic tells a robot, "I'm over there" and he gets confused. Plus when Scratch tells Grounder, "Robotnik made me persistent, he made you too stupid to quite." Those are two of the best ones I've heard. Finally, there's Sonic Says. I hate this segment, because it fails at being a PSA. I mean, come on! We just saw robots blow up and fast speeding animals, and now you're trying to tell us a life lesson? Come on! And they fail at every lesson they try to tell us. Share with friends, don't go into washing machines, and people shouldn't touch your body. Ew. This may shock you, but I actually enjoyed this show. I was a fan of Sonic when I watched this, so naturally I liked it. It deserves a 2.5 out of 5, for at least being entertaining and easy to watch.

My First Ever Full Length Review! Part 7

This is it, the final part. The monorail ends and the guys get off. Plucky tries to get on more rides, but the family stops him. The dad says they shouldn't ride all the rides on the first visit. So they leave the park as they drag Plucky away. He goes insane and the car drives back to Acme Acres. We cut back to the steamboat and they are beginning a big show with Buster and Babs. Babs tries to sing about their river trip, but Buster knocks her out of it. The male bunny tries to continue, you know, the plot, but Babs can't contain herself. She pretends to be one female singer or another, irritating Buster even more. She finally tell the audience about their trip, until Buster shoots her! Oh no, bunny who will eventually be the voice for Dot is down! Just joking, he shoots her with water. For some odd reason, the audience thinks this is reasonable entertainment. The lights turn on, and every bad guy they saw on the trip is there. The alligator girls, the opossums, and people used for filler. They have a chase around the boat, until Babs and Buster get cornered. Byron is on the boat's top and he sees the bunnies. Using the incredible strength of fat dogs, he flies down and picks up his friends.Who knew he could do that? The banjo opossum follows Buster, Babs, and Byron and they enter the swamp of running gags. The evil animals continue to hunt the bunnies, even showing how cannibalistic they are. As they run away, Babs and Buster meet the hitchhiker with a saw. Again they're cornered, but are saved by the banjo opossum. He starts to talk for the first time, saying he's a nice guy. Also saying he's not like his simple backwood cousin. Not safe, the animals jump off the tree and run. They hope on a mine cart (Coincidence?) and ride off. The chainsaw man rides after them, resulting in a scene so epic, even Lord of The Ring would be sad. Babs, Buster, opossum, and Byron nearly get hacked in half by Hannibal Lector many times. Eventually we fade to Plucky on the drive back home. He starts to get happy when they finally get their and rushes out. He starts to kiss the ground, but realizes it's been fertilized. He starts to actually grow plants on his tongue, but I have an idea. I bet Swamp Thing became himself by doing that too. Plucky tries to run away, but gets brought back in to watch a slideshow that takes away the rest of his vacation. Back to Babs and Buster, they're still avoiding the killer. They suddenly reach a drop off and begin to fall to their doom. But then, they fall into a conveniently placed plot hole, It carries them back to Acme Acres, just as school starts back. Banjo kid walks off to find his fortune, while Babs fusses over no more vacation. He finally confesses that he loved spending time with her, and the video ends. Actually there is more to the film. They just sing another rendition of the theme song, and it ends with Babs finally soaking Buster. Well, that was Tiny Toon Adventures: How I Spent My Summer Vacation. I loved it, and it really brought me back to my childhood. I can't find any fault in this, and it makes you want to watch it over and over again. Is it a pure 5 out of 5, no. But I'm giving it 4.9 out of 5, for being just fantastic. This should have been released theatrically, but it's alright. I hope it one day gets a DVD release, and I also hope this show can be brought back. I may not review anything for a bit, since I'm pretty tired from this. Oh well, seeyah.

My First Ever Full Length Review! Part 6

Fowl Mouth runs into a bunch of people in their seats, some looking like people from other cinema. I saw Peewee Herman. The rooster sits down next to Shirley, and starts randomly yelling. Man, I hope he becomes Mcnuggets one day. The commercials roll and we begin a huge joke. The screen suddenly turns as bright as the sun and as loud as an opera singer who got glass in her foot. Tons of people go flying into the air and wind up either dying or being injured. First the Hindenburg, then 9/11, now a movie inside a cartoon. These are the greatest disasters of all times. Oh yeah, turns out it was a THX parody. But enough of that, lets go to the two skunks in the theater. They sit down next to a kid with no clothes and Johnny acts like a jerk again. We get fooled into thinking that the film is starting, but nope, it's a "moronic commercial". Plus Buster and Babs are in it screaming for help. Bet the commercial editors didn't see that when they we're watching it. That ends, and a deep voice yells, "No smoking in the theater!" When I first rewatched this film, I thought maybe Johnny was actually smoking. But nope, a gigantic cigarette on fire is actually in the theater. Oh dear, PSAs!!! This film has been Rated F, not suitable for Fowl Mouth. Wow my friend, you're famous. This film in a film is titled Skunknophobia, a parody of Arachnophobia. Which makes me wonder, isn't that film rated Pg-13? How can kids go to see it? Well anyway, the film parodies that one cut for cut, so I won't bother with it. Soon everyone make a huge shush at Fowl Mouth to SHUT UP! Even Death is there, I guess the devil gives him weekends off. They all toss him into the screen, literally making him go into the movie. He annoys all the cast and they soon kick him out of the movie and out of the theater. Sorry Skunknophobia cast, you're getting an F for breaking the fourth wall. The camera goes over to Johnny, who meets a red colored skunk lady. She basically looks like Marilyn Monroe and J.F.K really did have a child, except it was a skunk. Wow, two jokes like that in one review. I need new material. He grabs a picture of him Fifi had and signs it for the skunkette. By the way, she never makes another appearance. I can only assume Fifi wound up killing her, I wouldn't blame her. Anyway, Le Fume kicks her crush to the curb and he flies into the hands of Elmyra. She thinks he's a kitty and carries him off. Oh skunk, we hardly knew ye. The calender turns to September, with help from Sweety Canary, and we go to the two rabbits. By the way, how long is their vacation? I usually go back at early August. Anyway, Babs is rowing their boat and getting wet in the rain. Buster begins to compliment her, only to say she looks like a drowned rat. Who knew? She calls their adventure, "Downright Twainian in a Hitchcock sort of way." Babs also tries to convey a dramatic moment, but instead tries to kill Buster. They run into a steamboat, literally, and they manage to stowaway. The ship is ran by toads and frogs, who try to toss the rabbits off. Instead they wind up having Babs be part of their big show, and the captain eats the camera. Great, now we're gonna watch Osmosis Jones all day. Nope, we instead cut to Plucky and Hampton (We were just there!). They still have the crazy man with them, wearing a Jason mask. He reveals that he wants to eat duck and pulls out a stinkin' chainsaw! He tries to kill Plucky, and still the parents don't notice! The hitchhiker is tossed out of the car by Father Pig, and gets angry. He chops a phone pole in half, and it smashes his head in. They finally reach Happy World Land, which is supposedly the next best thing to heaven. After getting a dumb, acne infested man to take a picture, they run into the theme park. Happy World Land, where the fun stops at 80 bucks a pop. They get on the monorails and look at the great rides. There's the Happy Go Pukey, Happy Feet, Gargle, Happy Crasher, Happy Centrifuge, Slap Wappy, the Stair Way To Heaven, and the Bullet Train To Heck.

My First Ever Full Length Review! Part 5

We cut to Elmyra tying up all the animals and making a basic classroom. Oh great, I wanted Tiny Toons, not Bad Teacher: The Cartoon. The girl reads a book about carnivorous animals that her parents read to her as a bedtime story. Yeah, I bet her dad is the Tarzan villain. We now get a cutesy scene showing the three lion cubs trying to devour a zebra. No please don't! He's supposed to star in the Madagascar film! OK, after that Elmyra tries to give a gazelle a concussion. We then find out that the most dangerous animal in the jungle is.....her (Dramatic music plays)! All the animals run away after having a spasm, and Elmyra walks off. Then she sings a song so terrifying, it makes the Freddy rhyme seem kid friendly! But little does she know, Bagheera is stalking her. Hey get your own film. I know Jungle Book 2 stunk, but there's always a remake. So this tiger/panther begins to hunt down Elmyra, but instead gets hit by a rock. Uh...fatality? All the animals go to King Simba....hey wait a minute! First Little Mermaid, then Jungle Book, and now Lion King. Red alert, this is a Disney invasion! Simba learns that Elmyra is causing everyone pain, so decides to eat her. She walks up to him and immediately starts to torture him. Yes, she tries to make him look like Bart Simpson if he was a furry! Curse you insane people! By the way, this brings up some questions. Why is every cartoon trying to invade this one? I know Disney is less the fantastic, and everything after Simpson season 8 was terrible, but why? Get your own animated movie that goes straight to T.V. and DVD. The animals hijack Elmyra's car, making me wonder what her parents were doing. I mean did they not notice their only daughter go missing? Wow, bad parenting. They drive off in the car and nearly crash into Hampton's car. Wait a minute, there are animals driving a car like drunks and nearly crashing into other animals in cars? Did I teleport into Crash Racing? Plucky recommends they stop at a gas station, and they do. The pigs put on biohazard suits and head into the bathrooms. It'd be pretty hard to relieve yourself in quarantine suits, guys. As they do their business, Plucky sees a water fountain. Pluck runs to it, but discovers his butt is Velcro and sticks to the seat. Using the 'Tex Avery Rule Of Cartoon Stretching', Plucky nearly reaches the water. Then the pigs come out without their suits and stop Plucky from drinking. He tries to get one sip, but can't seem to do it. They drive off and Plucky pulls out a road map. Apparently Happy World Land is in Florida or South Carolina. Huh, who knew. After a scene cut, we wind up in the middle of a dark and stormy night. We see a hitchhiker who signals for the pigs to pull over. Oh yeah, forgot to mention, this guy is a stereotype. He's a dark, crazy hitchhiker who is prone to becoming Jason every so often. Turns out this guy is actually an escaped prisoner, and only Plucky can tell that. Come on you pigs. He's pale white, jet black haired, and has a ghostly expression. Plus he laughs more evilly than Dr. Insano. Wow, dumb pigs. I bet their house is made out of straw. He puts on a hockey mask and starts to scare the heck out of the duck. Plucky decides to send a letter to Shirley in order for her to help him. Yeah, this was back before cell phones caught on. These mail men are so fast, they literally run over Road Runner. Yeah, all Wile E. needed to do was drive a mail truck over his prey to kill him. A mail dog gets to Shirley and hands her the letter. Before she can read it, Fowl Mouth grabs her and runs towards the movie theater. The line is huge, so we get a cameo of Elymra for a second. She screams and runs off camera to get her paycheck. Then we see Fifi and Johnny, who's acting like JBL and Wilhelmina Slater mated and some how got a skunk child. Fowl Mouth has supposedly seen this flick a hundred times, since his bank account is of course overflowing. Shirley go gets them seat, as the rooster gets snacks. Since all citizens are jerks in television, he ends up getting knocked into the movie room. He find Shirley and walks to her row.

Win Or Lose, This Ends Tonight

Although this isn't a cartoon, I must say goodbye to Harry Potter. Deathly Hallows Part 2 comes out today and ends this legacy. J.K. Rowling's masterpiece will always live in the minds of fantasy fans like myself. Farewell Harry Potter, I tip my wizard hat to you.

My First Ever Full Length Review! Part 4

The film starts to follow Plucky and Hampton, who are still on the road (Spoiler alert! They're riding the entire film!). Hampton's parents stop at a drive thru after Plucky recommends it. Oddly enough, they bring their own food. "Mayo and cheese on white with the crust cut off," Hampton says hungrily. Sorry I just threw up in my mouth a little bit. They leave the drive thru after just getting some small waters. Plucky decides to read comic books in the car, shoving them into his pal's face. If your a fan of Tiny Toons, you'll notice that the comic is Immature Radioactive Samurai Slugs. This little parody is the basis of an episode in the series, before this aired. Well anyway, the Mom tells Plucky that Hampton can't read comic books on family trips. The duck thinks she's stupid, but it turns out Hampton gets car sick really bad. He barfs all over the comic, off screen of course, this isn't Problem Child. The camera fades back to Babs and Buster, on a moonlight ride across the river. Good old Babs is steering the boat like a gondola and signing about different kinds of Italian foods. Wow, she's more hungry than Garfield the Cat. And oh yeah, in the moonlight Babs seems to resemble Morry Amsterdam. Who know? Buster spots a southern mansion and they decide to go and knock. Now lets see who the owners of the home are. Hmm, turns out it's the home of big lipped alligators. Wow, who knew. These three alligator mississippiensis (Look it up!) are Big Boo (Make your own joke out of it), Sissy Boo, and Little Boo. Apparently these three sisters are basic southern stereotypes of romantic people. They believe Buster is here to court them (Why someone who allow different species marriage is anyone guess), and fight over him. And for every romantic group of southern sisters, there is the old father. Meet Big Daddy Boo, a man who wants to do nothing but conduct unofficial marriages. Oh, and he also seems to like bigamy. Is this what Tom Ruegger thinks of southern people? Because he's right. So as the dad sets up a wedding, Babs finally decides to go help Buster. She dresses up a man selling fireworks (Why not a woman? I don't know) and manages to blow up the gators. Wow, I never Babs would resort to killing. She and Buster run off and start their river voyage again. They go off screen and we begin another plot, this one with Elmyra. Apparently she lost Furrball by divine intervention (They never explain how the cat got away, so that guess is as good as any), and is now very sad. To calm her down, her parents take her to a Wild Safari Zoo. A man never shown tells people to never exit the car, or Warner Brothers will be sued. Thank you Jamaican voiced man. Elmyra sees a kitty, "or to be precise, a cheetah", and immediately gets out of the car. Yeah, her parents are the worse. She's says she'll die if she doesn't have a kitty, though she'll die if she gets one too. By the way, this girl is so string, she tears animals out of their skin! Plus, showing a cheetah nude for three seconds in worse than showing Dizzy Devil for five. Odd, since like in all cartoons, all the toons show no sign of any gender. Elmyra catches three little kitties, and does terrible things to them. She hugs them so much the camera fades to another scene!

I Have The Power!!

I've taken a break from the Tiny Toon review to do a regular one for once. Does anyone remember the series, He Man And The Masters Of The Universe? Of course you do, and it rocked! Boys clamored for the shows and toys, and even girls were wanted She Ra toys. Still, does this hold up today? Well, let me tell you. First I'll explain a little backstory. He Man started as a comic strip, but evolved into a cartoon show. It featured Prince Adam who, once holding the Power Sword, could shout, "By the power of Greyskull!, I have the power!" He would turn into He Man, the guardian of Eternia. He Man fought the evil Skeletor, a blue skeleton who tries to control the world. Skeletor used tons on minions and magic to fight He Man, but always failed. To help Adam, there is a green (?) tiger named Cringer. The animal would turn into Battle Cat when He Man transformed. Adam also has Man At Arms, an old inventor and Royal Family friend. He develops weapons for He Man and often helps him out. Then there's Orko, a flying creature that looks like a Final Fantasy mage. He's good friends with Adam and uses his magic against Skeletor. Now let me tell you how good this show is really. Well, the animation can be good or bad at certain times. The backstory and characters are rich and full of history. Some certain people may call this show, "awkward". I disagree, and find this show great. I give He Man a 4 out of 5, for having great plot and history, but mediocre animation.

My First Ever Full Length Review! Part 3

We cut back to Babs and Buster, who are floating down a bayou river. For whatever reason the river is made of orange juice. Buster's enjoying himself, but Babs is wanting to turn around and go home. They come across a opossum playing a banjo (What? haven't you seen one before?). Babs goes into seductive mode, but it's cut short when they reach a waterfall. As they fall, who should come and save but the Man Of Steel, Super Man!! Yes, faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to reach tall buildings in a single bound! Clark Kent does make a quick cameo (This is Warner Brothers.), saving the toons. However Buster tell him to beat it and they continue falling. Buster and Byron catch a branch, but Babs plunges into the ocean blue. She runs into a Little Mermaid parody and is knocked onto the surface. Now on the ground, Buster tries to save her, splashing her face with water. The three are then surrounded by more opossums and taken away to their house. The opossums start trying to cook Babs, while ever aware Buster plays music with the opossum with before. If you pay attention, the song they play is the Tiny Toons theme song, just through other instruments. The song plays as Babs runs away from the cannbial opossums. Babs finally gets away and she and Buster leaves the opossums. The movie fades to Acme Acres where Furrball runs way from Elmyra. She chases him as we go to Fifi at the Acme Resort Hotel. The skunk enters and tries to find Johnny Pew, but is kicked out of the building. So Fifi tries to disguise herself as Pew's client, but that doesn't work. Fifi yells, "Zhis is not ovar, will zhe fat lady sings!", and it leads to one of the funniest part in this film. Roseanne Barr sings America and falls on top of Fifi, squishing her flat. Le Fume finds herself hiding under a food platter to get back inside the hotel. Instead of finding Johnny, she winds up on a television set. Looking around, you can see Oprah, Conan O'Brien, and others I don't recognize. She rushes out of the hotel and suddenly comes across Johnny Pew. You can tell immediately that he's a brat, and a mean one at that. Fifi says, "I would die for you." Johnny retorts, "I know, but that won't be necessary." He offers her a day with him if she just carriers his stuff. Fifi agrees, and they go off.

My First Ever Full Length Review! Part 2

The water war between Buster and Babs starts to get out of hand, when Babs lets loose a dam. It floods the town, carrying them off on an adventure to last the whole film. With them is Byron Basset, a lazy, fat dog that actually will help them. This is all being witnessed by Shirley the Loon, through her magic glass ball. She's got a summer job as a fortune teller, so can't go off and save the two rabbits. Shirley is constantly pestered by Fowl Mouth, who tries to ask her on a date. Many fans of Tiny Toons do not like this plot, do to the fact of how Shirley is portrayed as cruel. I like it, as it allows for much more slapstick. Near her stand is the French skunk who drives me to awkwardness, Fifi Le Fume. She's trying to find Johnny Pew (not related to Pepe of course), a famous skunk actor. He's played by Rob Paulsen, who I guess is talking in either his normal or fake voice. Shirley tells Le Fume that Johnny's staying at the Acme Resort Hotel, which happens to right next to them. Fifi runs off, and Fowl Mouth comes back into eye sight. He once again asks the Loon on a date, and she refuses again. O.K., let me wrap up that part, Fowl Mouth pesters her again, and she says yes. Plus Dizzy Devil reveals he has a summer shedding problem, and in a second turns fully naked. He puts on a box, and a bunch of people start thinking boxes are the next big look. Yeah, you'll believe a purple Tasmanian Devil, but when I wear a box, I get thrown in jail! We cut back to Plucky, who's busy trying to survive the most annoying thing in the world: car trips where parents won't shut up! But these parents are only 500 times more annoying than that. They sing songs, play spot the car (?), and just act more annoying than they should be.

My First Ever Full Length Review! Part 1

First off, big thank you to mongoloido for putting this on YouTube in such good condition. You've really helped me out. Okay, so we start out with the instrumental version of the Tiny Toon theme song as the credits roll. The camera goes to Acme Looniversity where all the toons are being taught by Bugs Bunny. P.S. Make sure to watch the seating arrangement of the toons, they change all through out this sequence. Anyway, Buster and Babs start singing about summer almost being here. Soon, near all the toons start singing, and it shows how the many plots are gonna go. Buster wants a fun summer, Babs wants to relax, Hampton wants to travel, Plucky wants to go with him (Goodnight Everybody!), Fifi wants to find love, and Elmyra wants a kitty. These are going to be the main plots, so you better like 'em! If you take a look around the room, you'll spot some toons that oddly got left out. Montana Max, Calamity, Lil' Beeper, and Furrball have little to no role at all. Well, it's o.k. I guess. If they had had a sequel, they probably would've included them. Soon, Gogo Dodo, as a clock, lets them all out for vacation. As they run home, all the toons start singing a new version of the theme song fit for summer. After that musical number, we finally start getting somewhere. Plucky and Hampton are walking home talking about what there going to do this summer. Hampton tells the duck he's going to Happy World Land (A joke about Disney World/Land of course).As always, Plucky wants to come along, leading to some funny moments. But of course, Plucky gets to go with them. And on this basic highway to heck (get to that later), Plucky and Hampton are accompanied by Hammy's Dad, Mom, and Uncle Stinky. They drive off, and we visit our other plot, Buster and Babs. Babs is trying to having a nice time relaxing, but Buster won't have it. He starts a huge water fight war between the two, leading to some hilarious moments.

My First Ever Full Length Review! Prolouge

That's right, after a brief hiatus, I'm back and doing a full length movie review! I thought to myself, what better movie to review in the summer than my favorite summer movie? Today I'll be reviewing the made for TV special, Tiny Toons: How I Spent My Summer Vacation. This film was made in 1991, but released in 1992. Yeah, it was near the end of Tiny Toon production, but it kicks butt! The film features many of the main Tiny Toon characters, Buster, Babs, Plucky, Hampton, and Fifi have the main plots. It has, and even jokes, about having more than enough sub plots. Now before I start the review, let me tell you about my relation to this film. When I was a little cancer ravished boy, I would always visit our library and check out films (VHS mind you!). One of the films I would always love to rent is actually this film. I loved every bit of it, and clips of the film were burned into brain and I never would forget them. Fast forward to around a year ago, when I discover how much stuff there really is on YouTube. I put in a random search for Warner Bros stuff, and rediscovered Tiny Toons, and found Animaniacs. That motivated me to starting this blog, and now I'm reviewing this film. Alright, enough history, lets get to the film.