WondLa

This is a gem. Great for kids and adults. It's like watching a good Pixar movie in tv format. Visuals are fantastic. Go ahead and watch it. It's hard to complain without just nitpicking.

This is a gem. Great for kids and adults. It's like watching a good Pixar movie in tv format. Visuals are fantastic. Go ahead and watch it. It's hard to complain without just nitpicking. This is a gem. Great for kids and adults. It's like watching a good Pixar movie in tv format. Visuals are fantastic. Go ahead and watch it. It's hard to complain without just nitpicking. This is a gem. Great for kids and adults. It's like watching a good Pixar movie in tv format. Visuals are fantastic. Go ahead and watch it. It's hard to complain without just nitpicking.

There's nothing fundamentally wrong with Wondla - it's a perfectly serviceable show. The visuals are passable, the writing is OK, the characters... exist. If all you want is white noise to pad up some time, then by all means, give it a watch. But if you're actually looking for anything compelling, memorable, or even - dare one hope - actually good, then look elsewhere. Wondla ain't it.

I can't speak to the book series this was based on, but the show is yet another generic Hero's Journey. I've literally seen this show before, except then it was called Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts. And before that, it was She-Ra and the Princesses of Power. Hell, I can go as far back as Samurai Jack, and all of those shows did this concept better. And that's a problem.

The primary issue with Wondla is that it's entirely paint-by-numbers. Child is raised in a vault, leaves vault, finds world full of monsters and aliens. Along the way, she has the standard coming-of-age story of rebelling against parent figures, making new friends and learning to believe in herself. The power was inside us all along.

Muthur is... a mother figure without much substance to it. The show tries to have a dilemma about whether she's a real person or just a machine, but she acts like a person so that dilemma falls flat. The blue alien whose name I forget is Han Solo. Not much else to him. About the most memorable character is the giant telepathic tardigrade service the role of Appa from Avatar. He was quite charming.

The plot can best be summed up as: "Go to place, look for people. No people. Go to other place, look for people. No people. Go to other-other place, look for people. No people. Boss fight." We have Tatooine from the Phantom Menace where we have to gamble for money on plot device, there's the Last Jedi diversion that eats up half the runtime and changes nothing, there's the whiplash character development where people instantly rethink their entire lives and turn into different characters, etc. There wouldn't be much to spoil even if I wanted to, because there's not much to the story.

And then there's the antagonist of the story - Bastille - a giant four-armed yeti thing with a punt gun. He shows up every so often whenever the game... sorry, the show needs a chase sequence or a boss fight, then disappears entirely once more. It's like the show really wants to tell this amazing coming of age story, but is contractually obligated to have action scenes so it recycles the same boss multiple times.

The reason I keep framing the show within the context of a video game is because it really resembles one. The plot exists merely as a vehicle to move the characters between locations, where they get to have action setpieces and talking cutscenes. If there's greater depth than that, I couldn't find it. It feels like the quintessential loud, colourful kid's show with all he edges rounded out and all the characters simplified to the point of caricature.

I don't regret watching it, but I really can't recommend it.

The audience for this series must definitely be not too young as the plot is very profound and deals with complicated feelings. The quality of the animation is stunning in every detail and the locations are visually rich and detailed to the point where they almost seem real. The characters are unusual and unique in their own right. The pace is quite good though, occasionally, I would have loved some more background information about the apparent extinction of humanity. This first seeason is great but the audience is left with so many unanswered questions. I hope season 2 will shed some light on the obscure plot yet maintaining the same level of high quality. In terms of sci fi animation, this is indeed a masterpiece !

I read the original book series, and I've enjoyed Tony DiTerlizzi's art and stories. It's been a bit since I've read them, but they stuck with me. It was an eco sci-fi that sometimes felt like a fantasy. The art was detailed and engaging, the creature designs familiar yet otherworldly.

I saw this series pop up and was reminded about the books. Going into it I was neutral. The art style looked nothing like the original, but that was fine as long as it looked good and the story translated well.

First episode was very rough, and the rest was fine.

Art style - it looks generic. Not bad, but very passable. I'm fine with making changes visually, but this looks like a generic colorful kids cartoon. The animation was a bit stiff. Completely throws out the detailed watercolor-like art style of the original.

Designs - Everything was simplified and made to more colorful and cuddly. Eva is supposed to be 16, but she looks and sounds like a woman in her late 20's. Yet she acts very bombastic and child-like, which just feels at odds. Muthr was turned from an interesting machine, to a smooth green emoji. And the creature designs were drastically simplified and made colorful.

Overall - They kiddified and simplified it. Eva is a bit annoying and does not feel anything like her character. She is like every generic protagonist. It all makes sense because this is the same studio that made "Luck", and that movie was very bland in every way. Without its source material, this would have nothing to stand on. The only good parts, are the world originally built by the books.

They removed a lot of the maturity and thoughtfulness from the books. This one feels like it's jingling colorful keys to maintain your attention, and if you see something engaging, then they slam the keys back in your face.

Put this on for some little kids, but don't expect much otherwise. This was not the studio to adapt WondLa.

Although not a fan of the content on this streaming service, I came across this nugget during a free promo. Vibrant colors and interesting alien characters with an ample amount of action and excitement, the series was much better than I thought it was going to be. What surprised me probably the most is how dark some of the story was, but it is the story of the HOOMAN race. I enjoyed the dark aspect and I feel it gave this animated series an adult audience.

The star studded cast did an adequate job. Just not understanding why they didn't have Alan Tudyk use his enormous talent and play a more versatile roll.