Monday, November 07, 2005
The Boondocks: Better than Baby Blues, but...
still not very good. I hesitate to judge so swiftly, but after one episode I get the impression that The Boondocks tv show won't be nearly as good as the strip used to be. I say "used to be" because even the comic hasn't been that great for three or four years now. But so last night's episode was only sporadically funny, and far too transparent in its attempts to shock. With the strip McGruder occasionally fails to make his politics funny, whereas last night's show made the same mistake with its so-called outrageousness. After South Park, I don't know if it's even possible for a cartoon to be shocking anymore. I do like the voices for Huey and Riley, though, and, as with the strip, the grandfather remains reliably funny. Uncle Ruckus's song, "Don't Trust Them New Niggers Over There", was pretty damn hilarious, too. But, for the most part, the show simply wasn't very funny. Oh, and the anime-style art that looks so great and distinctive next to Ziggy and Drabble loses all its charm once animated. It looks like any random Fox Kids Saturday morning cartoon, but with even worse animation. So, yes, I give this first episode one-and-a-half out of five.
still not very good. I hesitate to judge so swiftly, but after one episode I get the impression that The Boondocks tv show won't be nearly as good as the strip used to be. I say "used to be" because even the comic hasn't been that great for three or four years now. But so last night's episode was only sporadically funny, and far too transparent in its attempts to shock. With the strip McGruder occasionally fails to make his politics funny, whereas last night's show made the same mistake with its so-called outrageousness. After South Park, I don't know if it's even possible for a cartoon to be shocking anymore. I do like the voices for Huey and Riley, though, and, as with the strip, the grandfather remains reliably funny. Uncle Ruckus's song, "Don't Trust Them New Niggers Over There", was pretty damn hilarious, too. But, for the most part, the show simply wasn't very funny. Oh, and the anime-style art that looks so great and distinctive next to Ziggy and Drabble loses all its charm once animated. It looks like any random Fox Kids Saturday morning cartoon, but with even worse animation. So, yes, I give this first episode one-and-a-half out of five.
