Friday, February 29, 2008 |
11:57 - I can validate that opinion for you, sir
http://www.cartoonbrew.com/tv/superjail
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Hah! I guess I wasn't the only one who thought that the pilot of Superjail had something special going for it to warm the cockles of an old animation snob's feeble and embittered heart:
Superjail is one of those rare pieces of animation that reaffirms my faith in mainstream industry animation. (A clip from the pilot episode is posted below; the full series premieres later this year.) At first glance, it’s an unlikely candidate for greatness: it is, after all, a Flash-animated show for Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim. But Superjail defies all expectations, both for Flash and Adult Swim. Far from the typical Adult Swim fare of characters standing around with their lips flapping, this show takes advantage of the fact that it’s animated, packing every scene with outlandish visual gags, hilarious drawings, frenetic animation, bright colors and enough gratuitous cartoon violence to fill a thousand Popeye shorts.
Heady words. And I'm not saying I particularly like the show—it requires that you be in a certain mood, I guess, like how you have to be feeling the late-night blahs to get the most out of Home Movies, or stoned to watch Metalocalypse, or dissolved in White Man's Guilt to watch The Boondocks or Moral Orel. I can't quite imagine what a whole series based on the Superjail pilot will look like. But like Amid, I'm glad that if any of the pilots they aired that evening back in May are getting produced, it's this one.
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