Review of Animaniacs

Animaniacs (2020–2023)
9/10
A bit jarring to see such a time capsule revived but awesome
21 January 2021
I grew up on this show and it personifies the 1990s for me. As a result, it's a bit jarring to see this show updated to have Dot reference having a crush on Chris Pine and having the theme song discuss being pronoun neutral, but I'm no purist. The theme song says "but we did meta first" but watching the series, one asks if there's a such thing as "too much meta."

Rebooting a good thing doesn't ruin the original and the show does a pretty darn good job of keeping the spirit of the original in tact. It's a little disappointing to see the lack of Slappy the Squirrel, Rita and Runt or the Goodfeathers. It's interesting that those sketches were based on then-recent hit films (Goodfellas, Rain Man) but those films have survived the test of time and one would hope they'd do some of their long-storied rejected characters.

The best thing I can appreciate is the way the animation supplements the comedy the way Mad Magazine or Futurama does. Everything from Easter egg gags in the background to the way faces are drawn to convey what we should expect from their personality sets the stage.
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