I hate this show. This is the most mindless show I have had the misfortune of watching. The animation is stiff and lifeless, and the voice acting is more wooden than the desk my laptop is currently on. The voices were done by the legendary Jack Mercer, but sound just as stiff as the animation looks. This is in no small part due to the script. The script is mindless and boring, leaving me confused about what the hell just happened. Most of the budget was clearly spent on getting Popeye the Sailor Man to voice everyone, meaning they most likely didn't have the budget for literally everything else. The animation has tons of held frames, and reused animation everywhere. I don't like limited animation very much (except for Hanna Barbera), but this is bad, even for limited animation. It's really only better than syncro vox, which is at least unintentionally funny. There are times where Characters will be animating and just stop. Limited animation head bobs when talking? How about 3 mouth frames put onto a static character. Reused walk cycles are everywhere. Is this common in limited animation? Yes, but the walk cycles in Felix are 2-4 frames, as opposed to the 12 that make up Shaggy's walk cycle from Scooby Doo. None of the characters are expressive at all. Gone are the days of Felix's eyes changing shape based on what he's feeling. Instead, Felix's eyes are just lines and dots, almost like there's a Felix base with no mouth or pupils that have said facial details on different cels laid on top of the base Felix. I can never tell what emotion he's feeling. This isn't helped by the previously mentioned acting. The backgrounds basically have no detail. When the backgrounds do have detail, it's very lazy. One of the episodes literally has a street with a music school and 6 laundromats. 6 laundromats! That's just blatant background looping without even an attempt to hide it. As I previously mentioned, the script also sucks, not making up for the lack of visual gags. This is supposed to be a comedy show, it's supposed to be funny. I genuinely don't understand why so many people love this show, but I'm not going to judge. It shows none of the cleverness and creativity of the original Otto Messmer and Pat Sullivan shorts. I would recommend you stay away from this series.
Review of Felix the Cat
