Rocko's Modern Life: Static Cling

If you liked the show, watch it. Maybe my expectations were too high, but it was nice to see the characters again.

Great effort but I was expecting more satire on modern life not just a narrative to not question change? Come on Joe , Rockos modern life was never about mindlessly going with the flow!

Rocko's Modern Life was an amazing show back in the 90's that many people including myself loved. The show has never aired on TV for over 20 years and fans have been begging the Network to bring back the show with it's original creator. Eventually the Network decided to do just that, by releasing a TV special made by the creator.

Now replace the title Rocko's Modern Life with The Fatheads (Rocko's favorite show) and you pretty much get the plot of Static Cling, and where the creator got his inspiration from.

This TV Special is pretty much about change, and how we must always embrace it and we must accept it and for the most part I feel this TV Special does a decent job at giving that message in it's short 45 minutes. And it's quite fitting cause there is no doubt a ton of Rocko's fans going into this TV Special made by the original creator thinking its gonna be exactingly like the 90's Classic only to be confronted by the truth that blind fantasy is impossible (unless time travel). Because much like in the TV Special even the original creators never stay the same.

I do wish the special was much longer (90 minutes maybe), but as a fan of Rocko's Modern Life, this TV Special was great and I'm happy to see one of my favorite 90's cartoon return from a 20 year absents even if it might just be this one little special. In the end I accept the change.

This was my favorite show as a kid. when I heard about the reboot, I honestly was dreading it. I wasn't one of the people desperately wanting this show to be re booted in the least, I thought it would turn out awful. But it wasn't bad and definitely better than I anticipated. I appreciated the references to older shows and was glad to see all the names from the original cast and crew in the credits, especially Joe Murray. Was a little disappointed they didn't even acknowledge Steven Hilenburg who has since deceased (rip), as a means of respect. I also would've liked to have seen more of the hippo lady, and more time with more of the other characters on the show in general. I think most people watching this are those who actually did watch it on TV when it was on so I think more time on various other characters and quirky references would have been appreciated by most.

I think it would have been a bit better if it were longer by like 10 or 15 minutes. That way you have more time to appease those looking for nostalgia and also more time for the storyline without both of them seeming a bit mismatched and rushed. It also would've made the message being brought across seem less blunt and preachy. I don't disagree with the message in the least but I do see where people who didn't rate this special too highly are coming from. They didn't want a lecture or to be preached to or to have a particular message thrown in their face. They just wanted to have some laughs and remember a show they enjoyed.

I liked how it worked out in a way, kind of like a funhouse mirror to reality. But I think that was always the point of the show to kind of mock the audience, either that or to be so ridiculous they got thrown off the air.

There were parts of this special that really had me laughing and almost forget it was just made within the last couple years, but there were also parts that made it painfully obvious it was made within the last couple of years.

All in all however I enjoyed it. It was true to itself and it did have a new storyline, wish there was more time to spend with the characters and the story however.

This 45 minute flick exceeded my expectations and then some. First of all, it still looked like Rocko's Modern Life. It wasn't some remodeled version, essentially just looked like a clearer version of the old show. The writing was very well done; it didn't feel like a desperate attempt to be like the old Rocko, it just was. The voices were also spot on, i knew it was Tom Kenny as soon as i heard him but he did great with Heffer. The best part of this short was the characters. Of course the main characters were great to see but they managed to fit quite a few minor but memorable characters from the original show, whether it be a part of this story or just someone spotted in the background. The entire thing was very well done and brought me way back. Thanks again, Netflix.