Its awful. I should leave it at that, but that barely conveys the sheer boredom and embarrassment for those involved in this production that I felt while watching this charade of a show. I'll try to relate the sensation of losing 11 minutes of my life, but really the best thing to do is just watch the first episode yourself... I mean, they got John C. Reilley to voice Barry the police-duck, so it can't be that bad, right? Wrong, so, so wrong... The art is bad, of course that's my opinion as an artist, its possible you may find the sloppy backgrounds and bland, inconsistently rendered characters "charming," since they look like a child's drawings, but the real issue is they don't feel complete, like whoever was doing the storyboards got pranked into doing all the animation himself on a tight deadline. So visually its pretty lacking, which I could forgive if only the characters didn't seem like hollow masks, bereft of any trace of soul or personality. Being stupid and/or a douchebag is not in itself funny or entertaining, there needs to be some kind of reason or sense to it, some kind of motive or payoff, some extraordinary showmanship or spectacle at the very least... This is animation people you can do ANYTHING! (I could have shot a live action human version of the first episode shot for shot with a camera phone and a $50 budget in one afternoon if my brother were a policeman or EMT...) You can't just say, "these ducks are morons, ha ha ha" and expect people to care... There's really nothing much going on here, except maybe an indictment of the stoner youth culture. I'm astonished this has gotten such good reviews, its almost like the audience has somehow been convinced that this has all the elements of a "good" show, and must therefore be good, in spite of it being slow, boring and bland. 11 minutes felt like an hour.
