La Carica dei 101

Although the original Disney cartoon for the 101 Dalmations was, in my very humble opinion, an awesome show, the series left much to be desired.

Instead of being cute, or old fashioned, or even great storytelling, the series focused on several of the puppies themselves as they were growing up on a farm. The recurring characters are mostly the puppies along with a few other animals thrown in for some diversity.

I think that perhaps if I were much younger, and this was one of my choices for a morning viewing, I would most certainly review my options to see if anything else caught my fancy. Considering this as a choice only if nothing else suited my early morning cartoon desires.

I do like the fact that most every episode teaches some sort of lesson, and it does so without the requirement of going the gross path that some modern cartoons are going, but then I would expect little else of Disney and thus I place them a little higher on the expectation pedestal.

Just my opinion. I hope that you give the show a shot for yourself and then make your own opinion.

Thanks.

Dan

Just for the record, this is not as good as the 1961 animated film, which is a classic, but I think it is better than the sequel, which I was disappointed by. However, this series while having some good moments wasn't particularly good, in my opinion that is.

I liked some of the characters, especially the brave Lucky and the lovely Two-Tone, and the voice acting on the whole is very well done bringing some energy and spirit. Plus every episode moves briskly and the theme tune is pretty funky.

However, there are things I don't like. The animation is not great to me, lacking in colour and too scratchy- before you point the gun at me I know people say that the 1961 film has a scratchy animation style, maybe so, but in an elegant and sophisticated way, whereas the animation here is rushed and lacks finesse, not to mention straight-to- video quality. The stories can be very predictable as well, and the writing while it has its funny and cool moments was uninspired. Then there is Spot, I cannot begin to describe how infuriated I was by Spot, such an unnecessary and annoying character. And I was disappointed by how Cruella was like here, Cruella was truly evil and just a wonderful villainess, here she has lost her class and elegance and her motives get tiresome.

Overall, it has its moments but it should have been better. 5/10 Bethany Cox

This series of the 101 Dalmatians franchise answers the question of what actually happened after the 101 Dalmatian puppies freed from Cruella came into the life of Roger and Anita to sweeten it a little more. The puppies are housed on a farm and experience great and exciting adventures with a lot of fun and humor. The drawings are also very good, if not in the same cozy style of the original film from 1961. All in all, a really very good series that easily puts you in a good mood and a great addition to the already very good franchise.

Wow this was so wack. Little to no effort was put into this Disney show. Purely for children or people that want to connect with their 6 year old. I only ended up watching the first season and some of the second season only because I was "attempting" to finish the 101 Dalmatian franchise but there's no way I'm going to actually watch40+ episodes of this mediocre entertainment. I might come back eventually and finish the series just to be a completionist but I really don't see the point other than I sometimes like to succumb myself to garbage.

Edit: So I did end up coming back to this months later to finish the rest of the series (around 45 episodes). I started to loosen up to the child humor and terrible writing, with some of the episodes being somewhat good, surprisingly, most notably the Invasion of the doggy Snatchers episode. Spot really started stealing the show for me, mostly because of her jokes. The three puppies were kind of boring, except Cadpig, as she had a few funny parts too. In all, I still didn't enjoy the show overall but I did enjoy moments, and even enjoyed a couple episodes.

Ah, a show that is very nice indeed. Has all that a show could want, comedy, family oriented...stuff... Though, finding the show on TV is basically impossible now with the addition of the whole Jetix block (I myself haven't seen it, but have heard of it) replacing this show and a few others. You wont find it on DVD either though, as the series hasn't even been around to being produced for DVD, whether Disney wants to or not.

Basically, if you are a fan of the series, you can wait for it to come to DVD, but me, if it does, it does, if it doesn't, it doesn't, simple as that really. I'm not worried one bit, however, it was nice to have it on when it was on.

My rating for this show is...an average one, probably.... 6/10 (SpongeBob out does this series either way)