Reviews

There's a strong video game vibe here, like whoever wrote this was heavy into video games. Most stories are the kill-theonster-or-be-killed type. People with guns walking around shooting scary stuff type, and when they kill one bad guy--uh oh, another even badder guy pops up, and now they have to kill the boss for this new level.

(One of the better stories of this type, I think, is Bad Traveling, which had a And Then there Were None arc which was nice)

They're not all like this, I admit, there's some variety, but even then you have to put up with sci-fi cliches and the dialogue which is pretty crude and uninspired.

I'm not sure why people seem to enjoy this as much as they do.

Arthurian legend telenovela so bad that it's awkward to watch.

As I was watching this movie I kept thinking "who the hell made this terrible Guy Ritchie spoof" until I finally looked it up and realized that it was Guy Ritchie himself, and now I'm an atheist.

Despite its name, /Bleak House/ is one of the few Dickens novels that's not about squalor and misery and poverty and misery and squalor. Its main enjoyment is in its satire and comedy. This adaptations, however, chooses to underline the "bleak" in /Bleak House/, and the result is bleak indeed. It isn't until episode six that we see an interior scene not shot at night.

The novel's great humorous characters have been replaced by faint impostors (Turveydrop) or evil psychopaths (Smallweed).

I had to stop watching when I could no longer take the way in which every single blessed shot is framed with some extreme closeup of an object or character, so as to create a blurred outline in a corner of the screen--a visual effect which loses its novelty sooner than the makers of this series might have anticipated.

This show starts out promising, but within the span of its opening episode it quickly loses the charm and the spirit of Dr. Seuss stories, eventually settling into a humdrum rhythm of sitcom gags and trite cliches: the overprotective parent and the spirited child (see Finding Nemo), the taciturn bad guy and the uninhibited sidekick (see every bag guy in every Disney movie), the odd couple (see buddy cop movies, see anything between I Love Lucy and Stanley and Laurel and probably others before them).

This is not a modern adaptation of Dr. Seuss, but rather an uninspired children's show cleverly capitalizing on an a gullible audience's inability to see past cute, colorful animation.