Banana Cabana

This show is absolutely disgusting. I would never recommended this abomination.

I'm going to review a Canadian cartoon called "Almost Naked Animals." This show is about a group of shaved animals (including a narwhal and an octopus for some reason) wearing their underwear. While running a hotel called the Banana Cabana. I'll tell you this I watch ytv, and when this came on when I was a kid, I didn't watch it. But since now I watched a couple of episodes, for this review. Its awful, and I will go on depth from here on.

So first lets look at the animation. Its bad flash animation. Probably not the worst I have seen, but still. But the animation can also get pretty gross. Like in the episode, "The Ear Wax Elf, "when Howie (the dog) makes a pile of ear wax, and then boogers. Now lets look at the writing. The stories are either way too nonsensical (I'm a fan of Spongebob you know) or too gross, like I mentioned earlier. An example of a nonsensical episode is when Howie gets a remote stuck in his head. Which then causes misery to the other characters. The jokes are the same thing as well.

Now lets look at the characters. The main character Howie is just an idiot. Not a charming one at that. Who makes bad decisions to the other characters. The rest of the characters are just bland. Although I think the rabbit, and octopus are likable characters. Due to how sensible they are. Although the Poodle who is the main antagonist of the show, and is Howie's sister. Is also a Plankton ripoff. The theme song is also pretty obnoxious. Not as bad as Scaredy Squirrel's theme song (which I plan to review). But it still is a pain to the ears.

So overall you wouldn't get a good cartoon from here. The animation is bad. The stories are nonsensical. The jokes are gross. Most of the characters are not likable. But the plus side are that some of the characters are likable. Mainly the rabbit, and octopus. Is it the worst Canadian cartoon. It's close. But it's still a thousand times better than Megababies. (Which I would not review). My overall score is a 2.5/10.

This is disgusting, what the hell did I just watched?! The animal character designs, looks at them! They look gross and uncomfortable for us to look at! Almost Naked Animals is a show about a dog named Howie (A silly almost naked dog, and the character who I honestly liked because he's silly) runs at a hotel. That's the story we got, folks. His sister Poodle (The show's main antagonist) is honestly a generic villain, come on, she is like a generic version of Plankton from Spongebob Squarepants. Not only is this show gross to look at, but it's SUPER UNFUNNY and the some of the writing is dull, bland and lazy. Say what you about Fish Hooks, but that show was originally funny and charming unlike this and Pickle and Peanut. The voice acting is not that bad also. Give Almost Naked Animals a 4.1/10

The first time I heard about this show coming to Cartoon Network I said "Oh, S--t! More junk is coming to cartoon network! This time its an effed up show about animals in there underwears! What is this the kids version of Playboy???". But when I actually watched it for the first time, the theme song was a blast! I couldn't get enough of it! The theme song gets stuck in my head while I watch the show, but that's okay though its aweomse! My favorite characters on the show is the duck and the bunny. By the way the duck actually reminds me a little bit of "Goofy". The bunny I must ambit but she is a little cute, I do like her pink undies though. LOL! I think you should be a least eight to watch this show because if you are under eight there are some stuff in it that might freak the little ones out. By the way the poodle on the show for some reason looks like the animal version of "Lady gaga". The cartoon is pretty entertaining if you are over 10 actually. I know there might be haters but just ignore them after a few days they will like it, like me at first I thought it was going to garbage but its not! Its hilarious! Oh and has anyone see the episode where they lose the banana for there tvs? Its pretty entertaining. Good show! You probably might hate it at first but you will get used to it.

Absolutely adore animation (something that most people know already) and have done as a child. Have always aimed to at least appreciate all kinds of humour, and have seen crude and gross out humour done well (the early seasons of 'Rick and Morty' for instances) and animated shows that broke boundaries and were ahead of their time (i.e. 'South Park'). Have though seen quite a number of bad and worse animated shows and too many instances of crude humour done terribly ('Breadwinners').

The lowest possible rating is a very rare rating for me these days, actually don't like giving it out, as somebody who tries to be as encouraging as possible and tries to see some good in the bad. Which has mostly not been an issue. There have been times where something is so awful to an offensive degree that it is impossible to do that. 'Almost Naked Animals' is one of those instances. Actually tried to see it when younger and hated it even then, back when this reviewer had a number of contrarian opinions, it's even worse through adult eyes.

First and foremost, the animation is at no time of appealing quality. There is no colour vibrancy, everything just looks flat and garish, editing is not tight enough and is often dizzying, the backgrounds lack imagination or smoothness, almost always looking static. The character designs fare the worst, some of the ugliest easily of any animated show (with heads too big for their bodies, which in themselves are ridiculously and jarringly out of proportion) and they just look rough and animated with little care. The music has very little memorable about it, it's loud lazy, and often over-obvious and not particularly well-placed (too random) complete with an instantly forgettable theme tune that annoys rather than charms.

One of the biggest problems is that it is not well written at all, that's being generous, and it is just not funny. It's very crude, random and weirdly absurdist, but also like those shows executes it very poorly, going well overboard with the toilet humour and childish-ness, often disgusting even, than funny. This viewer has no problem with this type of humour, but here it constantly felt lazy and like it was trying too hard, which made every obnoxiously cheesy and witless line of dialogue, puns that a vast majority of the time were so lazily obvious and lacking in taste it was groan-worthy and every increasingly predictable sight gag even more forced and contrived. It also depends whether any weirdness has a reason for being weird, but it came over very randomly more often than not and increasing in tastelessness.

Moreover, the target audience is constantly in question, because the constantly chaotic feel will see kids finding it too hard to take, and that it's embarrassingly juvenile and lacks any kind of edge or smart writing will irritate adults. The story lines, when they are ever distinguishable (the overload of childish and overly gross out humour too often completely override the story), are also heavy in contrivance, randomness and predictability and incredibly light in emotional resonance, fun or sense to the point all three are practically non-existent, with constantly uneven pacing, with some episodes in serious need of more breathing time and others feeling lazy as a result of the comic timing not being as sharp as it could have been. The characters are all extremely irritating and the voice acting is ear bleeding and like there was no effort being put into it.

Summing up, absolutely terrible. 1/10.