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Jonni Valentayn

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Tom and Jerry - is an American animated series of short films created in 1940, by William Hanna and...

Fairy Tail

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Following the adventures Natsu Dragneel, a member of the the popular wizarding guild Fairy Tail, and...

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The Simpsons

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This long-running animated comedy focuses on the eponymous family in the town of Springfield in an...

Rick and Morty - Season 3

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Rick and Morty's adventures continue into the much-anticipated 3rd season, with "The Rickshank...

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Rick and Morty - Season 2

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The second season of the animated television series Rick and Morty originally aired in the United...

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Kevin Phillipson (10072 KP) rated Doctor who planet of giants in TV

Jan 12, 2023

Watched last night its okay for doctor who decent plot good sets the main cast are on form but what hurts it the editing to get it down from four episodes down to three episodes for some reason they thought it would be better as three parter in my opinion 4 episodes would have been better. On the blu ray disc they managed to recreate the 4th episode partial animation and editing it works in away. The best part of the disc is the interview with William Russell who played Ian Chesterton remarkable he's almost 100 but he's still got it when it comes to who

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Static Shock

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Virgil Hawkins, a 14-year-old African-American boy, becomes Static after being exposed to a gas...

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Fred (860 KP) rated Love, Death & Robots in TV

Mar 24, 2019

Love, Death & Robots

2019 | Action, Animation, Comedy

8.5

(37 Ratings)

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A Heavy Metal reboot? I'm in!

This is an anthology series, airing on Netflix. Originally, it was going to be a theatrical reboot of the Heavy Metal animated movies, but became a series instead. It's split into 18 animated shorts (well, 17 & one mostly live-action) with an average length of about 10 minutes or so each. Unlike the original Heavy Metal movie, there is nothing tying the shorts together, like the Loc-nar.

I want to say, overall, the series is great. Most of the animation is great. Some of it, like in the short "The Witness" is so realistic, you'll think you're watching actual film. However, there are some shorts where the animation is done in the choppy, crappy CGI-drawn animation & this takes away from them. Just like the original Heavy Metal, some shorts work, some don't. Fortunately, most of them work, overall. Some have problems with their endings. They seem to either have no ending, or they're just not satisfying enough. I kind of wish they were 20 minutes each. But there are also some where the ending is the best part.

My favorite short is probably "Three Robots", which is about...3 robots. They're "taking a vacation" through an apocalyptic wasteland. It's funny & smart. My least favorite is probably "When the Yogurt Took Over", which is about...sentient yogurt. Fortunately, this one is also the shortest of them. Funny enough, both of these shorts were written by the same writer.

I see people complaining about the show's sexism towards women. Yes, this is a problem. But a minor one. The show does have fan service, especially in the short "The Witness" I mentioned. There's nudity just for the sake of having nudity. I feel that although in this day & age, in America, this is frowned upon, it fits with these shorts. It's not like it's non-stop nudity, it's just here & there. It also fits with the Heavy Metal series & I'm happy that it's there.

I could talk about each short separately, but I don't think they need to be. You can watch the entire series in a few hours & it's worth it. So what you waiting for?