Revue Reviews: Animaniacs (2020)

 

If you thought Soulless Reboots couldn't get worse here's the Classic Animanics with the Turd colored lens applied. After watch a crisp rehash of the 90's cartoon with Animation so strained I could FEEL the contempt on the screen, I finally get why PC gamers see Consoles as inferior (Everything is frames slower than it should). Almost 2 minutes is wasted with the Trio trying to capitalize off the first line of the show where not once has that every been a thing in ANY show. So...they head back to their Water Tower home which has bee rigged with a laser trap and a gross out gag (Gross out was Ren and Stimpy) and obviously it gets set off.

I'm with this lady this is BAD

After a brief encounter with Ralph the Guard who looks half dead on the inside he is STILL working here after all these years, the show becomes the Ultimate Boomer Segment to end all Boomer segments where the trio wonders what everything is (Remember their Lore is they were created in the 1930's but were TOO Zany to be used a regular characters and locked away with their various cartoons segments...they didn't question anything they saw in their hiatus). We meet a new CEO or whathaveyou who replaces the short pudgy guy from the original and of course they got to point out it's a woman now.

Yakko (Not Wakko) Eats her Tablet and gains 20+ years of back knowledge of what they missed leaving out that one time they were resurrected as Porky's relatives. Then he breaks out in song with all of the happenings of today. And they wonder why their money burns...

Next up is the Pinky and the Brain Segment and while they came up with an interesting visuals for duo, it like the Warners are fighting an uphill battle. It opens with pinky watching a America's Funniest Home Videos knockoff based around pet/animals in the late 90's when Brain decides to either invent the internet or assist in it's creation. This all takes about 22 YEARS. 

This was an L 22 years in the making

So..Now if you are familiar with the Pinky and the Brain bit THIS is the most time Brain has put into a plan to have it fail. He tries to become a viral sensation in 2020 while using an hypnosis app/filter to gain control of the viewers. This works but Pinky (get this...) shares another video from an unknown source with the SAME filter Brain used and it ruins the plan. I'm pretty sure you can't modify a video you don't have direct access to but then you'll tell me Pinky was running interference since the beginning...Okay "that" back then was better than right now.

How do you make these guys (and gal) NOT funny?

Somehow there is a part 2 to opening bit and I stopped and thought for a second "What could YOU do to make this episode Completely Suck?" and boom, they stop the show dead to validate this show's existence with a song. Going back to the point earlier about the whole lore of Animaniacs the reason why they were a thing back in the 90's is that they were locked away back in the 1930's but nothing like that was the case in the 22 years they were "Gone". They just showed up out of nowhere and didn't pay attention to ANYTHING while they were in Hiatus. And I know they are cartoon characters but the showrunners wanted to BE Meta, let's get Meta. For a big super Important "Reboot" like Rocko's Modern Life they did nothing with their step forward. 

A Perfect Visual for this Reboot

The Title characters froze directly after the Last frame of Yakko's Wish (The True ending of these Characters) and didn't move until a massive circle jerk occurred and some sweatshop animators got whipped into making this. They made an Episode where Pinky and the Brain did more than the Warner Trio and they expect fans to pay Hulu to watch? Good Job, I mean it. When this fails, I want to see these guys go out like Real champs and blow their brains out.

This worked back then because it was a JOKE they were Sellouts