That lowest possible rating (and to be honest in my mind 'Mega Babies' deserves lower) and the most negative review this reviewer has given in like three years is not being said with pleasure. Have always aimed to be encouraging and generous writing reviews and the lowest possible rating here is very rarely given by me these days and am a massive fan of animation. It even took a lot for me to hate anything as a child, but this and 'Angela Anaconda' were the only two shows that did absolutely nothing for me as a child.
'Mega Babies' to me deserves everything bad that has been said about it and actually manages to be worse now than it did through child eyes. There are very few animated shows that this reviewer would consider abominable, but 'Mega Babies' is one of those. There is very good reason as to why it lasted 52 episodes and quite frankly it is actually surprising that it even lasted that long, considering how quickly it got truly, truly obnoxious. There is a cheaper version of 'Rugrats' (a near-classic) mixed with 'Breadwinners' (another terrible show), but calling 'Mega Babies' that is being generous.
First and foremost, the animation is at no time of appealing quality. There is no colour vibrancy, everything just looks flat and garish, editing is not tight enough and is often dizzying, the backgrounds lack imagination or smoothness, almost always looking static. The character designs fare the worst, some of the ugliest easily of any animated show (with heads too big for their bodies, which in themselves are ridiculously and jarringly out of proportion) and they just look rough and animated with little care.
The music has very little memorable about it, it's loud lazy, and often over-obvious and not particularly well-placed (too random) complete with an instantly forgettable theme tune that annoys rather than charms.
One of the biggest problems is that it is not well written at all, that's being generous, and it is just not funny. It's very crude, random and weirdly absurdist, but also like those shows executes it very poorly, going well overboard with the toilet humor that are more cheap and childish, often disgusting even, than funny. This viewer has no problem with this type of humor, but here it constantly felt lazy and like it was trying too hard.
Which made every obnoxiously cheesy and witless line of dialogue, puns that a vast majority of the time were so lazily obvious and lacking in taste it was groan-worthy and every increasingly predictable sight gag even more forced and contrived. It also depends whether any weirdness has a reason for being weird, but it came over very randomly more often than not and increasing in tastelessness.
Moreover, the target audience is constantly in question, because the constantly chaotic feel will see kids finding it too hard to take, and that it's embarrassingly juvenile and lacks any kind of edge or smart writing will irritate adults. The story lines, when they are ever distinguishable (the overload of bad puns, butt jokes and toilet humour too often completely override the story), are also heavy in contrivance, randomness and predictability. Also incredibly light in emotional resonance, fun or sense to the point all three are practically non-existent.
Complete with constantly uneven pacing, with some episodes in serious need of more breathing time and others feeling lazy as a result of the comic timing not being as sharp as it could have been. The characters are all extremely irritating, even Nurse Lazlo though she is not as grating as the Mega Babies themselves. The voice acting is ear bleeding.
Summing up, absolutely terrible. 1/10 (an extremely rare rating these days)
