Saturday, July 30, 2011
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.
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