Wednesday, June 7, 2017

Cartoon Corner- My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Legend of Everfree

Originally posted at the DL November 2016

I feel utterly out of practice on this.  But hey.  Fuck it.  Music time!

Monday, June 5, 2017

Cartoon Corner- Kubo and the Two Strings

Originally posted at the DL August 2016

Everything about this has such personality.  The puppets, the characters, the cast, the nature of the tale and the form gods and magic take.  It has this distinct feel of authenticity, in a way I don't think I've gotten out of many stories over the years, while still being unmistakably itself.

Sunday, June 4, 2017

Cartoon Corner- Sausage Party

Originally posted at the DL August 2016

In which Alan Menkin did the opening song number.

Friday, June 2, 2017

Cartoon Corner- Bob's Burgers (Season 1)

Originally posted at the DL August 2016

So I'm used to H. Jon Benjamin as Archer.  It's pretty amazing how he can use almost the same voice yet be so distinctly two characters.  And that's almost all down to how sharp this show is.  They don't really do anything in terms of visual gags or the like (anuses notwithstanding) but they still managed to just crack me up a few times each episode.  It's kinda stands out to me actually, they make this work entirely on the strength of the scripts and the actors.  I'm not sure anything else I've been doing lately has the confidence to do that.

Thursday, June 1, 2017

Cartoon Corner- Hotel Transylvania

Originally posted at the DL August 2016

I should probably start with the negative here.  Y'know all those old, tired nagging wife tropes where dudes hang out and bitch about how tired they are and how weird having kids is and just seem completely beaten down by not being able to hang out and do irresponsible bachelor stuff forever?  Yeah there's a lot of that here and it's annoying and distracting.