The Guardians of Justice

It uses the "80s VHS Sci-fi" angle as an excuse for cheap sets, bad acting and using animation in favour of live action. It's really bad. Andy Milonakis was the only thing good about this.

The first 90 minutes of Guardian are ADHD messes that flash hundreds of 1 second frames per episode. We are superficially introduced to the cast of jaded superheros, super villains, horrible politicians, and the dangerous world left by Marvelous Man's departure.

There is not enough initial character development to keep you focused, and I understand why so many viewers gave up. Acting is also intentionally cheesy with only a few capable of exhibiting real human emotions.

The mystery of a suicidal Asian superman was the only reason I didn't turn it off in episode 2.

It slows down to an enjoyable pace by episode 4. I really got into the story and character arcs. Give it a chance, but expect a dark dark parody with more head shakes than belly laughs. I am still snickering over the unexplained man in a glass cage and how Ravencroft stopped speaking Chinese that makes sense half way through his interrogation.

The show pays heavy homage to 8-bit video games like Mortal Combat, Japanese anime, Gumbi claymation, Adam West Batman, He-Man, Watchmen, the DCU, Terminator, and is easily as gory as The Boys. I am probably missing many other references, but these are the most obvious.

The last episode was more philosophical than I expected, but I agree with most reviewers, hate the ending.

If there is a season 2, please slow down the schizophrenic pacing so we can enjoy the animations. It feels like a lot was left on the cutting room floor to fit 30 minute episodes.

This series (season 1, 7 episodes) is a cluttered parody of superhero stories that fails as much as it succeeds. The failures include a very bad choice for the lead Hawk, who is uninteresting and silly while attempting to be the smart "Batman" leader, and the lack of humor that might've made a script like this work. The odd mishmash of graphics are part nostalgia, part video game and part animated superhero stuff which, again, lacked humor and ends up being an irrelevant hodgepodge of junk. The successes include intriguing social-political commentaries (despite including the tired theme of secretly-gay men hiding their love) and some brilliant editing work. Not much to redeem this one, but it's still a data point in the world of superhero stories so from that perspective, maybe it should be assimilated... while you wash the dishes or something.

This is a great series that delivers everything you'd ever want from an 80s style tv series.. using a mixture of live action, animation, stop motion, 8 but and cgi this has everything to keep me glued to the screen.. they've even managed to nail the dodgy acting of the 80s movies that my generation all grew up loving.. superb series.

..the scenes with actors are comically bad.

You can tell all the production money went into the animated parts, which are really good, lots of different styles of animation. The plot is good and intriguing too they even have some nice twists. The downfall really are the actors, sets and most importantly the costumes. I thought maybe they are intentionally bad as a parody but then they are not bad enough to make that obvious. It seems like they tried and failed and the plastic wigs.. well.. The idea on paper justice League, with computer game references in a dark setting with war knocking at humanity's door is a great concept the execution was lacking though...