People are Mad about this, and I really don't understand why. Thundercats is... a really fucking corny show, y'all. It's fine, it's not bad that it's corny, but Roar understands that it's working from some really corny material and does a lot of really fun things with it. It's some of the best animation that WB has put out, tremendously expressive and fluid, and with some incredible writing and really likeable characters. Dana Snyder is great on the cast, here, also. I can only see negative responses to this being in the vein of "The Sacred Texts!!!!"
ALSO? The incredible Thundercat track that came out of this for Grune? It absolutely shreds.
Don't watch this expecting the serious epic fantasy adventures of the original 1985 Thundercats. Instead, you should expect a silly and energetic comedy-focused remake, made to appeal to today's audience. I can tell from watching this that its directors and writers love Thundercats and wanted to make something that would get a new generation interested in Thundercats.
Good: Extremely high quality animation. Everything is always moving, something is always happening. Fights are spectacular to see. There are many genuinely epic moments and many good jokes and gags. It is sometimes faithful to the original series in terms of soundtrack, characters, story.
Bad: All the characters look like babies with such an oversimplified art design. For example Lion-O is just a blob with vaguely muscular shape, instead of a truly muscular and fierce cat-man with claws and cat eyes. Much of the humor is based on Lion-O and others behaving really, really stupid. It sort of makes sense for Lion-O because he is canonically 12 years old, but why does Cheetara behave so oblivious and dumb so often? She's an adult! In the original Thundercats there was plenty of lesson learning from wise adult characters, but there is not much of that in Roar because everyone is so dumb. You might feel dumber just from watching this show. The fast pace and comedic focus makes it unlikely for viewers to develop an attachment to the characters or to identify with them. It's hard to identify with blobs whose personality is "food is amazing! I'm amazing! you're amazing! bad guy dead because I killed bad guy! woooooo!" which is probably one reason why this show had such poor ratings; there is no reason to come back to watch the next episode if the show utterly fails to have any real substance for viewers to get attached to.
Can't believe the complete trash some reboots are coming these days. The original series where epic. This is absolute crap.
Shout by Mavrik316BlockedParent2020-05-03T15:00:15Z
Alsolute garbage. Cant believe the reboot, which was actually pretty decent, was cancelled and replaced by this shit