A couple things I've been watching:
Fantastic Four (2006) - 5/10 - I've never much cared for the Fantastic Four, and this series didn't make me like them any more. The plots are dull when they aren't cliched, and this series' Dr. Doom is laughably bad (I think Megatron in the original Transformers was more successful in his plans, as well as more threatening). The animation is notably worse than both the series it replaced on Cartoon Network (Justice League Unlimited) and its chief competitor on Nickelodeon (Avatar: the Last Airbender). This could have been a good series if the writing weren't so bad, but as it is it's pretty average.
You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown - 7/10 - Yeah, more a TV special than a TV series, but whatever. The more I buy these Peanut Specials that I supposedly loved when I was a child, the more I wonder why I keep buying them because they're pretty damn depressing (aside from Snoopy's antics, which are still amusing). That isn't so much an issue here, through, as the chief culprit this time was casting children to sing songs written for adults. The songs are mostly fun and often catchy, but when will filmmakers ever learn this cardinal rule of life: CHILDREN CAN'T SING HIGH NOTES. They will ALWAYS sing off-key when you do that. There are also some real stinkers in this special (Lucy's Song about marrying Shroeder and both of Snoopy's songs), though they are counterbalanced somewhat by the clever "Book Report" and "Home on the Range" pieces. The real gem, though, is "Happiness" which concludes the special. I do wish this special had something approaching a story, though, as it's very disjointed with these random dialogue sequences between the songs.
And no second Special alongside the main feature this time is ridiculous given the rate that these DVDs are being released (4-5 a year).
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