Hamtaro

This cartoon relies on cuteness, intuitive humor, and pretty good animation; and it does quite well.

While it may not be the most exciting, action-packed thing out there, it gets a smile and a laugh more than three times from myself and anyone else who is around watching it with me. If you sit around and watch mindless cartoons all day, like most of the stuff on Nickelodeon and the major networks, then you probably will not like this show. Because it does not rely on gross-out humor, stupid jokes, or idiotic-looking characters, I find it quite clever.

It *does* happen to be geared towards a younger audience -- what cartoon with little animals isn't? It's refreshing in the fact that it's innocent, much better than practically anything on TV today that's smothered with innuendo or lack of intelligence.

There's a wide variety of characters, and the animation is excellent compared to most of the drab and repetitive stuff I usually come across ('Sabrina the Animated Series' or 'DBZ'). It doesn't seem to skip details and effects are well done. Plus, there are plenty of good voice actors to round out the crew -- Ted Cole especially, in my opinion. The dubbing is well-done, and that's coming from me -- I HATE dubbed anime. While Hamtaro's voice does grate occasionally, it suits his character.

If you just want to watch a nice, clean, decent show that doesn't depend on stupidity for humor... watch this.

*4/5*

PS: You may get more of a kick out of it if you own a hamster.

I remember watching this show for the first time when I was about 12 years old. I had been home from school that day for a forgotten reason (I didn't like school past age 11 but I had been allowed to watch TV that morning when normally if avoiding school I would have been trapped in my bedroom all day, so maybe I was just sick but I can't remember), and at about 7:30 AM my mom was channel surfing, she hit YTV and we were both like "huh? what's this?" and as we watched it we learned what the show was about: a group of domestic hamsters who hang out in the burrow of Boss, a wild hamster, while the domesticated hamsters' owners are at school. The hamster "club", called the Ham-Hams, have fun adventures with Boss and when the other hamsters' owners are almost home, they scurry home before the owners knew anything unusual. I still wonder why Laura, Hamtaro's owner, had the family name of Haruna even though her first name was American. That just plain confuses me about some anime characters. I've always preferred the ending song over the opening theme (the latter of which is so distant to me that I've actually forgotten how it goes!) Hamtaro is actually one of the few shows I know of that actually has a song at the end, instead of an instrumental version of the opening theme. Overall, very cute, and I don't care if it's for 4-10 year olds. I am autistic, so stuff from that age group interests me more often than not anyway!

I really loved this show, did they cancel it? Yeah, it's a kid's show, so what? Anyways, it's about a bunch of hamsters and the adventures that they have. It's really cute. Anyone who doesn't like this is stupid, how can they not like it?

I first saw this show on cartoon network and I became hooked on it.It's so adorable, and it's different from a lot of other anime.I mean, who doesn't love little talking hamsters?!? Oh, I heard that the movie was supposed to come out in America in November of 2003, but they canceled it!!!!Why?!? Oh well, maybe it will come out this year.... The animation is great, and it makes up for it's shortness by it's cuteness!!! If you are one of those people who only like fighting anime, then you should look somewhere else. I think that kids and adults of all ages would like this anime. Overall, i give it a 5 out of 5... Actually, I'll give it 10 out of 5!!! You have got to see this show!

it is the cutest show on the planet. even though it is on the 3rd grade level of intelligence, the cute adventures that these hamsters go through will keep you watching. currently its on cartoonnetwork at 4:00 pm (eastern time). if you like pokemon, you will like this.