Ah, Video game cartoons... they were classics, like the super Mario cartoons, the adventures of Sonic the hedgehog, and so on. Not all of them were winners though, like Captain N, The Donkey king cartoon, and this. At first, I was really interested when this was on, but once I heard the theme song I knew it was gonna be a trainwreck. The voice acting in general in awful (Jim was voiced by someone from the Simpsons, he could at least try!)
First of all, the grasp of the source material is off, as the games has Earthworm Jim in space and not living in a set location. But In the show, he lives in a regular old house! Wouldn't a talking, human sized earthworm raise his neighbors eyebrows? The second game gets no recognition throughout this show, except snot. Most of the villains are nowhere to be seen. Where's Doc duodenum, Chuck, Billy Bin, Major Mucus, Rusty, Flaming yawn, or Bruty!?
Do you what villains they do have? Some fat crow(which looks more like a fuzzy wrench) in a space suit, a skeleton termite hybrid, a fish, a buff cat, a buff mouse, a not buff cat, and a monkey conjoined with an angry dude.
The heroes are incredibly out of character, Jim is now a dumb guy who just lets everyone step all over him. You have a blaster, you worm! Shoot the bad guys instead of falling into their traps! And when he does shoot someone, it's always some helpless person and almost NEVER someone being evil! Peter is not this cute dog with a short temper, but a generic sidekick with no personality. And finally, what's-her-name somehow has LESS personality than she does in the games!
So yeah, The earthworm Jim show is a disgrace to the worm's legacy, And if I were you, I'd avoid this like a tapeworm. There's another show like this coming sometime, and it looks much more fun than this.
First of all, the grasp of the source material is off, as the games has Earthworm Jim in space and not living in a set location. But In the show, he lives in a regular old house! Wouldn't a talking, human sized earthworm raise his neighbors eyebrows? The second game gets no recognition throughout this show, except snot. Most of the villains are nowhere to be seen. Where's Doc duodenum, Chuck, Billy Bin, Major Mucus, Rusty, Flaming yawn, or Bruty!?
Do you what villains they do have? Some fat crow(which looks more like a fuzzy wrench) in a space suit, a skeleton termite hybrid, a fish, a buff cat, a buff mouse, a not buff cat, and a monkey conjoined with an angry dude.
The heroes are incredibly out of character, Jim is now a dumb guy who just lets everyone step all over him. You have a blaster, you worm! Shoot the bad guys instead of falling into their traps! And when he does shoot someone, it's always some helpless person and almost NEVER someone being evil! Peter is not this cute dog with a short temper, but a generic sidekick with no personality. And finally, what's-her-name somehow has LESS personality than she does in the games!
So yeah, The earthworm Jim show is a disgrace to the worm's legacy, And if I were you, I'd avoid this like a tapeworm. There's another show like this coming sometime, and it looks much more fun than this.