Another Stupid movie to Overreact to...

[CensoredAlso]

It's no secret I didn't share your enthusiasm for MMW, hehe. However, that does mean I can understand your frustration about other reboots.

 

[fozzieisfunny]

Anyways, I would like to pay my deepest condolences to any of the franchises ( there are a lot) that have died in the past 20 years.

 

[CensoredAlso]

Anyways, I would like to pay my deepest condolences to any of the franchises ( there are a lot) that have died in the past 20 years.

As long as their best work still exists, it never really dies. Now if they're continually forced back to life in some terrifying zombie reboot form, that's another story!

 

[fozzieisfunny]

That's what I was talking about!! In particular, I really meant R.I.P Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

 

[fozzieisfunny]

I saw that Super Mario Bros. cartoon show, and I dropped my sandwich that I was eating, and I was all like, " Wha???? But.... what the.... wha.... but....?????????" It just got really sad. Thanks for ruining Mario!!

 

[Drtooth]

I saw that Super Mario Bros. cartoon show, and I dropped my sandwich that I was eating, and I was all like, " Wha???? But.... what the.... wha.... but....?????????" It just got really sad. Thanks for ruining Mario!!

You know what ticks me the heck off? Kids born after the 90's who have no appreciation for what cartoons were like in the 1980's. Jeez. We had a Hulk Hogan cartoon about Wrestling where they couldn't actually wrestle. And while there were cartoons that were kinda dark and had story arcs and continuity, those were few and far between. Sure, G.I. Joe was surprisingly adult a lot of the time (Shipwreck cough cough), but for the most part, cartoons were getting it from studios that only wanted to make money and parental yutz groups. And thankfully, the studios did minorly work around them since they were at their worst in the 70's.

Suffice to say, anyone born after the 90's who grew up on just the video games will find these cartoons an abomination, while 80's kids can appreciate, at least, the great chemistry of Danny Wells and Lou Albano in the live action bits. They're actually quite fun. Meanwhile, 90's kids think Pokemon, with it's soulless, formulaic, repetitiveness, not to mention freely "borrowing" from better anime is like the greatest video game cartoon ever. Stupid as the Super Show was, it was a lot more fun in it's camp.

And besides... at least it wasn't... ugh Care Bears.

 

[CensoredAlso]

I saw that Super Mario Bros. cartoon show, and I dropped my sandwich that I was eating, and I was all like, " Wha???? But.... what the.... wha.... but....?????????" It just got really sad. Thanks for ruining Mario!!

Well the Mario cartoon bits were kinda underwhelming, but as a kid I ADORED the live action Mario and Luigi segments, lol. Plus the Zelda cartoon was enjoyable, but you really have to be a fan of "will they or won't they" love stories to appreciate.

 

[Drtooth]

Legend of Zelda fans will always whine about the cartoon show, but it was surprisingly good for it's day. I like that they made Zelda as unprincessy as possible. Heck, she was good enough to be her own action hero. Too bad that concept was wasted, and all we got out of it in game form was CD-I related.

The Mario cartoon was a little stupid, but nothing really worse than some of the stuff at the time. Mario 3 was actually a better Mario cartoon, but the animation on that was some of the most horrible I've ever seen. Plus there's no denying the voice cast. John Stocker, Harvey Atkin... some of the best talent Canada had in the 80's. I even give props to the Donkey Kong cartoon from Saturday Supercade, though I wasn't really expecting Peter Cullen's Eddie Spencer voice for Mario... it doesn't really fit, actually. I'd say 1990's video game cartoons were just as dopey (with the exception of Sonic SatAm and Earthworm Jim), if not worse. They took darker games and gave them goofy adaptions. At least Mario was always fun.

Mario deserves a new cartoon series with game related story arcs that will please the younger fanbase. But, again, Nintendo refuses. This from the company that gave us the amazing F-Zero cartoon that everyone remembers and people actually liked.

 

[CensoredAlso]

I like that they made Zelda as unprincessy as possible. Heck, she was good enough to be her own action hero.

I adored her. She wasn't all princessy, but she also wasn't just a bland kung fu warrior, like most of the so-called "strong" women action heroes today.

 

[fozzieisfunny]

I loved the live-action bits as well. I just hated the cartoons. ( Blech!!)