I usually dont review things, but this time i felt as if it was needed. Lets start with the base-review, then explain my reasonings on why its a 1 star.
The Character Design A VERY Hard 1-10.
ALL i have to say... The main characters name is Tom, and he has Mary-Sue sickness.
Ontop of that, as a Pagan, Jun is genuinely offensive. Not even in a- "childhood show" kind of ignorant way. She is deliberately offensive and it makes my stomach lurch watching it. Misreading the tarot cards, giving them away, talking about things "not" being magic, (when deliberately talking about wicca/magick practice) and then constantly making almost- ignorant and false jabs and stereotypes with pagans. Along with her dragon, Something does NOT sit well with me about the name... ALOT of things are wrong with this part and I think ALOT of people can agree with me on that,
The Animation -100/10 Please, reference the old shows from early 2010. The animation there is SCARILY better. In this you can see literal points where the mothers hair fuses into her arm, and at some points her hair is still- some it bugs out and almost jolts. Her eyes seem to be loose in her head as at some points they seem to move awkwardly. Tom- he literally has points where his expressions are ok! Then- most of the time- im sorry but this looks like it was animated by 50 different people of different skill levels, and there was ZERO proof checking to make sure it looked consistent. It is HORRIBLE. Genuinely,
I will just say this so there isnt spoilers... The dragons, change size every scene. One scene thunder is the size of Tom, the next? 10x bigger. Its genuinely bad.
The Storytelling 0-10 When i say its too fast-pace... I mean, Toothless and hiccup bonded over 30 minutes in movie 1 and it brought tears to our eyes, TOM FED THE DRAGON SPAGHETTI AND CALLED IT A DAY-
The dragons seem to have ZERO fear of humans, and its genuinely unnerving to see..
My overall review- It saddens me to see my childhood series make this spinoff, I have heard of a prequal coming out 2024-2025 for HTTYD, which is followed by hiccup and toothless reuiniting since it was "temporary" that they split, (which is confirmed in snoggletog log which shows them all living together again) and that this is just some "test run" since Universal bought up Dreamworks- and i genuinely hope thats true, I would wait until that movie comes out and they continue onto hiccups life, Because this... Jun is offensive, and misrepresents Pagans with alot of her comments, and her carelessnes with tarot. Tom is horribly written, And the other two- are the only ones with OK design but... for a show supposed to be based around our beloved series. Its sad. Thank you though for reading my review, and I hope you all had an amazing Snoggletog! (christmas)
The Character Design A VERY Hard 1-10.
ALL i have to say... The main characters name is Tom, and he has Mary-Sue sickness.
Ontop of that, as a Pagan, Jun is genuinely offensive. Not even in a- "childhood show" kind of ignorant way. She is deliberately offensive and it makes my stomach lurch watching it. Misreading the tarot cards, giving them away, talking about things "not" being magic, (when deliberately talking about wicca/magick practice) and then constantly making almost- ignorant and false jabs and stereotypes with pagans. Along with her dragon, Something does NOT sit well with me about the name... ALOT of things are wrong with this part and I think ALOT of people can agree with me on that,
The Animation -100/10 Please, reference the old shows from early 2010. The animation there is SCARILY better. In this you can see literal points where the mothers hair fuses into her arm, and at some points her hair is still- some it bugs out and almost jolts. Her eyes seem to be loose in her head as at some points they seem to move awkwardly. Tom- he literally has points where his expressions are ok! Then- most of the time- im sorry but this looks like it was animated by 50 different people of different skill levels, and there was ZERO proof checking to make sure it looked consistent. It is HORRIBLE. Genuinely,
I will just say this so there isnt spoilers... The dragons, change size every scene. One scene thunder is the size of Tom, the next? 10x bigger. Its genuinely bad.
The Storytelling 0-10 When i say its too fast-pace... I mean, Toothless and hiccup bonded over 30 minutes in movie 1 and it brought tears to our eyes, TOM FED THE DRAGON SPAGHETTI AND CALLED IT A DAY-
The dragons seem to have ZERO fear of humans, and its genuinely unnerving to see..
My overall review- It saddens me to see my childhood series make this spinoff, I have heard of a prequal coming out 2024-2025 for HTTYD, which is followed by hiccup and toothless reuiniting since it was "temporary" that they split, (which is confirmed in snoggletog log which shows them all living together again) and that this is just some "test run" since Universal bought up Dreamworks- and i genuinely hope thats true, I would wait until that movie comes out and they continue onto hiccups life, Because this... Jun is offensive, and misrepresents Pagans with alot of her comments, and her carelessnes with tarot. Tom is horribly written, And the other two- are the only ones with OK design but... for a show supposed to be based around our beloved series. Its sad. Thank you though for reading my review, and I hope you all had an amazing Snoggletog! (christmas)