First off, I am a big fan of the show Tiny Toon Adventures. It is smart, funny and somewhat cute with great animation, characters and music. I watched Tiny Toon Adventures:How I Spent My Vacation, expecting very little. To be honest I was expecting it to be of bad quality and to be predictable.
But what a wonderful surprise! This film was wonderful, and does complete justice to the show, which to me is a big rarity. Like the show it is funny and smart with some cute and touching moments, and keeps true to the spirit of the show, something some movies based off a show fail to do.
The animation is very good. It is crisp, colourful and vibrant. I well and truly marvelled at the beautiful backgrounds and colours and how the characters were drawn. Even the music was good, not just the incidental music which was very memorable and quirky but the starting song was upbeat with some hilarious lyrics.
And I was shocked by how good the writing and humour was. I have remarked more than once about how wonderful the writing and humour is in the show, and that it is one of the biggest reasons why the show works so brilliantly. But Tiny Toon Adventures:How I Spent My Vacation has some terrific dialogue especially with Fifi and Plucky and some funny sight gags too.
Then there is the story. I was expecting a story that was predictable, slow, clichéd and perhaps even non-existent. While the story is simple here, it worked to a big advantage, thanks to some really great scenes, such as Buster and Babs on the river, Plucky and Hamton travelling in the car and then having a psycho-guy sitting next to them, Fowlmouth ruining the movie for everone else in the theatre, the scene on the monorail, Elmyra in the safari and then the scenes with Fifi trying to get an autograph.
The characters are still likable and engaging. Buster's wit is still there, as is Fifi's spunk, Babs's imitations and Elmyra's slapstick. And to be honest, I felt really sorry for Plucky here, I am sure he didn't plan to have that type of vacation. Admittedly Elmyra can be bratty, but she does have her good moments and is funny. Plus I found her much more obnoxious in Pinky, Elmyra and the Brain. And the voice acting is very strong, especially Charles Adler, Joe Alaskey, Don Messick, Cree Summer and Tress MacNeille.
Overall, a terrific movie that does do justice to the show. 10/10 Bethany Cox
But what a wonderful surprise! This film was wonderful, and does complete justice to the show, which to me is a big rarity. Like the show it is funny and smart with some cute and touching moments, and keeps true to the spirit of the show, something some movies based off a show fail to do.
The animation is very good. It is crisp, colourful and vibrant. I well and truly marvelled at the beautiful backgrounds and colours and how the characters were drawn. Even the music was good, not just the incidental music which was very memorable and quirky but the starting song was upbeat with some hilarious lyrics.
And I was shocked by how good the writing and humour was. I have remarked more than once about how wonderful the writing and humour is in the show, and that it is one of the biggest reasons why the show works so brilliantly. But Tiny Toon Adventures:How I Spent My Vacation has some terrific dialogue especially with Fifi and Plucky and some funny sight gags too.
Then there is the story. I was expecting a story that was predictable, slow, clichéd and perhaps even non-existent. While the story is simple here, it worked to a big advantage, thanks to some really great scenes, such as Buster and Babs on the river, Plucky and Hamton travelling in the car and then having a psycho-guy sitting next to them, Fowlmouth ruining the movie for everone else in the theatre, the scene on the monorail, Elmyra in the safari and then the scenes with Fifi trying to get an autograph.
The characters are still likable and engaging. Buster's wit is still there, as is Fifi's spunk, Babs's imitations and Elmyra's slapstick. And to be honest, I felt really sorry for Plucky here, I am sure he didn't plan to have that type of vacation. Admittedly Elmyra can be bratty, but she does have her good moments and is funny. Plus I found her much more obnoxious in Pinky, Elmyra and the Brain. And the voice acting is very strong, especially Charles Adler, Joe Alaskey, Don Messick, Cree Summer and Tress MacNeille.
Overall, a terrific movie that does do justice to the show. 10/10 Bethany Cox