"Voltron: Legendary Defender" Some Assembly Required (TV Episode 2016) Poster

User Reviews

Review this title
4 Reviews
Sort by:
Filter by Rating:
7/10
Forming and bonding
Fluke_Skywalker17 August 2016
Plot; The newly formed Voltron Force struggle to find cohesion in the wake of their first victory.

Solid, character focused follow up eschews action and pyrotechnics in favor of character and team building. The humor-heavy tone still feels a tad too forced at times, but the general storytelling is good, the characters likable, and the animation attractive.

I can't help but wish they had (or been able to) used the themes from the 80s Americanized 'toon (updated, of course), as they're both iconic and awesome, but as long as the other elements continue to work it's a small matter.
0 out of 0 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote.
Permalink
7/10
Team-building 2.0
Mr-Fusion22 September 2017
I had Nick Fury's words in my head while watching this: they just needed a push in the right direction. Our heroes were able to form Voltron under duress in the pilot, but can they recapture lightning?

Not a whole lotta surprises here, but it does spend time letting the characters live and breathe. And once they do come together, the sight of a fully-formed robot is a welcome one.

7/10

You have to listen for it, but there's a sound effect from the original series that's thrown in here on a couple of occasions. It's nothing big, but hearing it made me smile.
0 out of 0 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote.
Permalink
10/10
Some funny stumbling and the birth of an amazing team
firedragonrem5 May 2019
Warning: Spoilers
Always fun to see a group of heroes showing their flaws, that they have to go through learning to work as a team before saving everyone. This episode shows us a side of the humour VLD will bring from time to time and with every characters, even the more serious ones. We get to learn a bit more about how the lions work and what they can do. Also we get to see the dynamic of the team build up in a nice way. It's a lot courageous to have one of the main character to show ptsd, such an amazing good representation of something we do not see often in medias and in a character we grow to love and identify with and even the leader of the team. The paladins are still young and green and this is an interesting dynamic.
0 out of 0 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote.
Permalink
1/10
An Hour of Crap in Half an Hour
fcabanski27 July 2019
Warning: Spoilers
This episode surpasses the first episode in that this one squeezes an hour of bad into less than 30 minutes.

Nothing happens in this episode - absolutely nothing.

The heroes formed Voltron in the first episode, but now they can't form Voltron. It takes a food fight to push them to forming Voltron.

In one scene, Princess Generic Euro Ahhhhcent says the bad guys have conquered the entire known universe. As she says it, she's showing a map of the known universe with conquered planets in red. Half the known universe, including Earth, isn't red.

The bad guys send a monster on its way to attack Voltron.

At one point, Princess Generic Euro Ahhhhcent says the Paladins of old could form Voltron and had years of experience fighting evil. Yup, they were so good that last time the bad guys attacked, the good guys had to hide Voltron rather than have the battle tested Paladins pilot Voltron to face the bad guys.

This episode was what should have been a 5 minute sub plot in an episode.
1 out of 2 found this helpful. Was this review helpful? Sign in to vote.
Permalink

See also

Awards | FAQ | User Ratings | External Reviews | Metacritic Reviews


Recently Viewed