Ollie's Pack

"Ollie's Pack" got off to a weak start. We didn't get proper introductions of the characters, their roles in the story and their personalities, as well as an explanation on how the Pack came to be and why a teenager has been chosen to protect it (or at least a hint of a further exploration of these topics). The series just took off as if we already knew what exactly is going on. For now, we've had generic, slice of life-y plots you'd see in many other pieces of media, but with the addition of interdimensional creatures. I believe the Monster Pack has mysteries to uncover, and that would make a great plot for the series. I don't mind auto conclusive, slice of life episodes, but, in this case, it's just bland. I've watched every single episode to date (04/16/2020), but if things remain uninteresting, not just me, but others might give up on watching.

To point out something positive, "Sorry to Father You" is my favorite episode as of now, because this one actually gives us a hint at a bigger thing going on behind the Pack and on why Ollie is The Chosen One. If we get an insight into mysteries like these more often, I would be completely hooked.

Before I start, if anyone likes the show, that's fine. But I find this show painfully average. I also used to like this show but rewatching it changed my opinion.

The story is about a 13 year old kid named Ollie who has a monster pack that has a portal to dimension.

First of all, let's talk about the characters: Ollie is mostly unlikable due to being horrible to his friends and family members in multiple episodes like in one episode he lets one of his monsters impersonate the police which is a felony or when he cheated on a test in The Take Over and he received no consequences for anything he does.

Cleo and Bernie are alright characters with nothing interesting going for them like one's a comic relief and one's a Lisa Simpson.

CW is pretty bland to be honest and has no reason to appear.

As for the comedy, it's pretty weak. I rarely laughed at anything and the only things I laughed at Cleo's insults to Courtney. But I got annoyed at the comedy being repetitive and unfunny.

The tone is extremely off-putting as it switches from a goofy show to a mean-spirited show very quickly. For example: Lord of The Caf is about this monster trying to be the principal because he won't give them recess and wants them to study, but this episode got cruel as the kids chase after Ollie and his friends and nearly got them killed and the episode had to make Cleo and Bernie unlikable as they abandoned Ollie and blamed him for everything.

The monsters are alright or bland. Most of them have little to no personality.

The animation is probably the strongest point about this show because how fluid everything looks and the character designs look decent at best

So I give Ollie's Pack a 5/10. It's not the worst cartoon ever but I think it's painfully average and I don't see myself watching it again.

So I first saw the commercials and I instantly thought, "WHAT??? THIS LOOKS HORRIBLE AND GROSS!!!!" Well, I wanted to watch the SpongeBob that was on right before it, so I was watching Nick not keeping track of the time. However, it became 3 before I knew it, and so then SB finshed and the theme song to this came on and I was intantly like "OH NO!!!!" But I couldn't find the remote in time. But now I'm hearing the theme song and I noticed the intresting off-beat ring to it. I was like, hm, this isn't so bad. so it eventually becomes the title picture and it has the pixally music part and a nice title and picture. "Okay, you have me, but just for now." That's what I thought until I saw the whole episode. and I am often not a liker of new shows due to them not being very filled with funny. Like the Loud House, The Casagrandes, and It's Pony. I liked the first episode and then I got bored. Well it's almost been 2 weeks and I am ABSOLUTLY HOOKED on this show. at 2:55 every day I turn on my TV so that way it can turn on, set up the sound bar, cable, and change the channel and I can still catch the whole theme song. I mean honestly Ollie is just the perfect cartoon expression. And if you don't mind some random stuff then you gotta say, he is kinda cute. My favorite so far has been Race to Sploosh Mountain, it is hilarious and really brings out all the emotions of Ollie and his friends. And to parents, so far there is no cartoon violence like gore, flirting, cussing, or sex like in SpongeBob Squarepants. But I mean, don't let week 1 fool you, but even if these themes are added then I would still watch it for the reactions of Ollie, Bernie, and Cleo as they deal with these monsters. Keep the deep tones in the theme song, for that's what made the Fairly OddParents worth watching early. P.S.: this is made my Nelvana for Nick, just like many other shows I liked when I was like 1-4, such as Max&Ruby, so if you or your kid liked that show as a young kid then this might be a great discovery.

Don't ever hault this show, the inoccent but determend smile of Ollie is what is allowing me to swallow. Until I saw this show I really couldn't swallow a thing, and as soon as I saw Ollie I had never felt better!

I am now slowly trying (as they are trying to load) to change all my profile pics to Ollie on many websites.

I love this show and Ollie so much, if you think it's to plain then try watching some of the newer SpongeBob episodes, I love that show for a reason because I like the dark themes, but that was getting me worked up sometimes during the big Covid outbreak, so Ollie came over and calmed me down. Anyone who is anyone should watch it.

Nickelodeon from 2019 to 2020. We've got The Casagrandes which is such a great spin-off series due to it's funniest moments and good morals. It's Pony, because it's good vibe of slices of life and Glitch Techs, because of it has action, great animation and wonderful morals. But this? Seriously? Ollie's Pack? I've heard that some people like this show but to keep in mind, this is my opinion so please respect it. Ollie's Pack is obviously a Canadian cartoon and let me tell you something about the show. The premise of this show is just cliché, in fact it has alot of pointless clichés. I honestly don't like Ollie (the main character himself) because no only that he's bland, it's also because he's cocky and somewhat annoying. Also the other characters are just cliché, boring and pointless. While the animation is fine, but the writing is such a bore and the comedy is weak. Yes, the morals are fine, but it didn't help enough that this show is such a cliché mess. Ollie's Pack is one of the stupidest cartoons I have ever seen, especially from Nickelodeon and Canada. I want to hate this show, but I don't hate it...I personally dislike it very much and I won't recommend it to anyone at all. I'm giving Ollie's Pack a 4.4/10

This show is just awful. I hated every single second of each episode so far. The characters are bland, obnoxious and Breadwinners-esque, especially Ollie. The art style looks generic, and, in a way, resembles "It's Pony" (another show I hate, but a little less than this show). The backgrounds look like a ten year-old drew them, not a professional artist. There are a few animation errors from time to time, which just adds to the "already awful" animation. The whole concept of a demon-looking kid gang using a backpack to capture and accumulate monsters just sounds lame and, in no way, makes any sort of logical sense. Who wrote this show, Dora the Explorer? I'm starting to give up on Nickelodeon and just watch Cartoon Network shows instead. Alright, let's see what's new on CN..... ThunderCats Roar? Hmmm.... I wonder if this reboot will be good.... *watches first two episodes of said reboot* OH. MY. GOD. Anyways, this show deserves all the hate it got and also deserves to be cancelled immediately after Season 1.

Nickelodeon needs to stop producing shows with a Canadian animation team. I have nothing against Canadian animation, in fact, I actually like some of their animated shows. But, Ollie's Pack is a very obvious exception. Pedro Ebola is doing a very poor job with this show, I'm very disappointed. One of the worst Nickelodeon shows I've ever watched. I don't care if this show just started, I'm not giving a chance to a show that doesn't deserve it.