Camp WWE

The first episode of this "cartoon for adults", masterminded by Robot Chicken's Seth Green, was a bit of a letdown for me. There's some good, but also some bad. Sadly, the bad is the part that should matter most.

The good: The adults - Rick Flair, Sgt. Slaughter, and even Vince ("A Bra? I can't wear this! Probably?") - were voiced by their real-life counterparts: a huge plus! The animation itself is also quite nice: For the most part it's pretty clear to see who's who, even with the juniors, and i.m.o. The style fits nicely with what this cartoon is trying to be.

The Bad: The episode itself came off pretty lackluster, not that funny, and nonsensical to me! Sure, it had 4 or 5 moments that mildly amused me, but at least twice that had me thinking "this is just plain stupid", most of those involving HHH and Stephanie... I think they completely missed the mark with the HHH-character.

Hope it picks up, because seriously; with the entire WWE-Universe to draw from, Seth&Co should be able to come up with some better jokes and story lines than this!*

*Edit, Oct 2023 - And basically, thats exactly what WWE did shortly after, with WWE: Story Time.

When astronauts go into space, their waste is collected and returns with them for disposal.

Apparently the WWE obtained enough of this excrement to make a show and, well, here it is. I suppose if you watch the WWE network then you probably think, 'Hey, this s**t is out of this world!' and I won't argue - you're half right.

Most of what I feel is necessary to say about this show in order to properly warn potential viewers would be grounds for not publishing this review so I can only encapsulate in the most mundane of terms:

Just... Plain... Bad...

It is a sad commentary on the state of humanity that a show like this can exist. It is a sadder commentary that the people at WWE are allowed to vote on their own tripe, as obviously anyone who considers this as entertainment worthy of a rating greater than 1 (a minimum too high for this show) could not possibly have the ability to use a computer for anything but porn and YouTube.

I can't say it's on par with most adult animated comedies but it's okay for wrestling fans. most of the stuff with the kids is mediocre, but the stuff with slaughter & flair is fun but Vince is by far the stand out of show. Again worth a watch if your a die hard wrestling fan but otherwise you can give it a miss.

It's funny at points, which It's supposed to be, just don't expect something spectacular. This should be in the wheelhouse of anybody who's watched wrestling in thier life. Especially 90s kids.

I've been watching wrestling for over 25 years, I've always seen Camp WWE on the Network and I just assumed it was a PG cartoon for little kiddies, until I saw it's actually an "adult cartoon". While nothing in the show will make you drop dead laughing, I have to say it's still pretty entertaining, I enjoyed binging through it for the first time last night, and the fact that Vince, Flair, Slaughter, and others do their own voices is pretty hilarious. Like all cartoons, it has its good episodes and not so good ones, but it's nowhere near as bad as some people are claiming, could it use some better writing? Definitely, more than often you actually feel like you're watching a "rated G" show, but then out of nowhere you have an F bomb dropped, and the kids pleasuring themselves in a swimming pool. That's the only thing that frustrated me, they seem to try really hard to not "over do it" probably because they fear parents will think their kids are just watching an innocent cartoon, and will be too stupid to restrict anything "rated mature" on the WWE Network. That's the only problem with this show, if they're going to make it a "mature rating" they need to go balls to the wall with it, not make cute little episodes like Brie Bella befriending a horse because she's mad at her sister. The only episode that really made me laugh was the last one when Vince is hallucinating, and Paul Bearers ghost is haunting & tormenting him.