Planet Sheen

For the record, I love Jimmy Neutron. It's like one of the best and coolest Nicktoons of the 2000s and one of my favorites. Planet Sheen, on the other hand, is downright pitiful. Why the Sam Hill did Nickelodeon ever come up with a spinoff this lame? It was disappointing when Jimmy Neutron ended in 2006, but I guess it's better off being stayed that way. Planet Sheen has no original Jimmy Neutron characters, except Sheen, but are replaced by freaks. Even the humor sucks. Meh.

Planet Sheen is not a good show. The main character is obnoxious, the plots are nonsensical in a bad way, and the show is physically and emotionally draining to watch.

Which is why it may surprise you that Planet Sheen gets my highest recommendations.

You might've heard someone describe something as being like a car crash, where it's terrible, but you can't look away. Planet Sheen isn't like a car crash. It's like a traffic jam where every car is still moving seventy miles an hour. No matter how assaulting it may be to the ears, eyes, and brain, as soon as you hop in, you just gotta see all fifty episodes. (Twenty-six twenty-two minute blocks, most are two segments, aside from the first and last episodes which are both specials.) Everything about this show is so bizarre, but in such a warped way that nothing else could give you the exact same experience. I'm not one of those people who goes "This must've been made on drugs!" when anything shows a slimmer of creativity, but I am legitimately not sure how humans could've made this.

One of my friends suggested it was God trying to communicate with us, and we couldn't understand his message, and I am slightly convinced that may be true.

Planet Sheen does have a few legitimate merits, sure, a couple of characters, particularly the main villains, are at least moderately entertaining, and for the standards of CG, the animation is pretty expressive, if not a smidge too bright. But if you're watching Planet Sheen for Dorkus and Pinter, you're watching it for all the wrong reasons. If you can find the time, I recommend you put on this show, and watch it with a friend, because it is absolutely nuts. If you aren't willing to do the whole show, however, I at least recommend "Torzilla," "ExpreSheenism," "Washing My Sheen," "Banana Quest," and "Gotta Go" for the true experience of it all. If my memory isn't bugged, I think "To Chill a Mocking Blurg" and "Stuck in the Riddle with You" were maybe the only episodes with an actual slimmer of quality, but that's a pretty strong "maybe."

I'd probably give this show a 3/10 on its own standards, but I gotta throw on at least one star for the experience it is. It's bad, yeah, but it's memorably bad.

Where to begin? Sure the animation is cheaply downgraded compared to Pixar and Dreamworks movies and some shows they offer, but even if that's what some say about Jimmy Neutron, at least that show has characters with depth that were not jokes and it has jokes that made it work, but here however, no one can see any charm in this cheap drug trip especially towards a once well likable and average smart character only to plunge into the most toned down ear piercing stereotype. After watching the trailer, I started getting the urge to stay away and I can clearly see why after a few episodes. It clearly shows that not a single heart was poured into this, just a bunch of decaying waste, and this alone is how I can sum this garbage fest up! As for the thumbs up lying "fans" who rated high this joke, you know it's not funny, and speaking of jokes, they are either forced (whether they work or not) or as weak as (out)dated ones and it only took 2 seasons for it to fall flat on its face (only to never see the light of day again) and thank god for that, yet you're clearly defending it like it should go on for no reason after showing that it doesn't care! The creators really need to erase this sour memory so that Jimmy Neutron can come back, so a true show like that with real characters and everything can live on!

Planet Sheen has got to be one of the worst shows from Nickelodeon since October 2nd 2010, this show ruined The Adventures Of Jimmy Neutron Boy Genious which is way better than this. Sheen becomes a very annoying character in the show and he was being a dumbass for pressing a button from a rocket that leads him to another planet. Thank god this show got cancelled in February 15th from 2013.

'Planet Sheen' (2010)

Opening thoughts: While 'Jimmy Neutron' is not one of my favourites or one of the best Nickelodeon has ever done, this reviewer has always found it a very enjoyable show. Expectations were mixed hearing there was a spin off, it didn't sound that appetising and has been near-universally poorly reviewed, but still wanted to give it a chance as Nickelodeon did do a lot of wonderful shows in its prime ('Rocko's Modern Life', 'Ren and Stimpy', 'The Angry Beavers' being particularly wonderful).

'Planet Sheen' just didn't work on any level and is a complete waste of a pretty decent premise. It is one of the worst spin off shows to exist and while not quite one of the worst shows Nickelodeon has ever done ('ChalkZone', 'Tak and the Power of Juju', 'Mega Babies', 'Breadwinners', 'Fanboy and Chum Chum') it is very close. Compared to 'Jimmy Neutron', 'Planet Sheen' is an absolute disgrace and shouldn't have any association with it. On its own terms, it is a terrible show with almost nothing to recommend it.

Good things: There are occasions where the colours are vibrant enough.

Bad things: A vast majority of the animation however is very cheap, with very blocky and ugly character designs that can look incomplete. The transitions are never seamless and the backgrounds completely lack imagination and are pretty simplistic. The voice acting is rather generic, didn't get the sense that the voice actors' hearts were in it, hence why the characters felt so vanilla.

Sheen doesn't have anywhere near enough personality to be convincing as a lead character and he is also incredibly irritating, his idiocy constantly overdone. The other characters are also bland and annoying.

Furthermore, there is nothing creative or smart about the writing, which is not funny or has any soul or emotion and any attempts at humour are more childish and juvenile than witty and sharp. The storylines lack energy, are thin and are not just predictable and have no imagination but the show really ran out of ideas in the later episodes and had a repetitive feel. The music is not very well placed and is not that infectious either, not much to be excited by. The theme song is less than infectious and is enough to make the ears bleed.

Closing thoughts: Concluding, terrible.

A generous 2/10.