![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It has a loud, colourful feel of an anime, with the kinetic energy one expects from a Saturday morning cartoon. Characters falling down as a joke seems to be taken from The Simpsons’ rule book, but sometimes the timing is a bit too fast – compressed into 10-minute episodes, it feels off and loses its punch. However, there’s also a lot of joke/explain joke/recite joke again so that the back three rows get it too that kind of patronising to an audience is tedious, and incredibly odd given this is also a show where the not Sam Jackson character recreates the infamous line from Snakes on a Plane, but for kids. The plots don’t really inspire much, but the writing sometimes rises above the call of duty, with some laughs and animated beats aiming for classic animated comedy shows, and sometimes even achieving moments of out and out insane brilliance. That’s the message of this show: work with your friends to beat everyone else. The series is all about alpha males, so, while most of the time it’s centred around any character other than Turbo, it all feels samey in each snail’s goal only being to win and be the best. Thankfully, though, the show settles into a specially-built city for Turbo and pals, which includes bug antics such as racing against insects and reptiles, destruction derbies, dungball-football matches and the like. The idea of competition is the basis for most of the first five episodes on Netflix, four of which are two 10-minute tales, while the first one is a 20-minute, over-stretched story.īeyond Bell, there’s only one returning voice talent from the original movie: Ken Jeong’s horrendous Asian female nail salon owner pops up briefly, to remind us of some of Turbo’s most egregious script choices. Jackson, not Snoop Dogg, not Maya Rudolph, not Ben Schwartz and Michael Patrick Bell as White Shadow, reprising his role from the film, to face foes, race, hang out and compete. The show fleshes out the snail side of the characters, as Turbo (not Ryan Reynolds, nor even sounding close) and brother Chet (not Paul Giamatti, but a really good impersonator) join forces with not Samuel L. (Fast Action Stunt Team), the Internet TV company’s first original series for kids. But Netflix and DreamWorks’ deal has led to Turbo F.A.S.T. With all this in mind, I can safely call this a pretty good episode in my eyes.When Turbo underwhelmed earlier this year, both critically and at the box office, the notion of a spin-off animated show was one that no one really screamed out for: Turbo was a rather sluggish story full of racial stereotypes, messy plotting and way too many characters barely given any time on screen. I guess the overall moral of the episode is how there's always excitement to be found outside your house, so to speak. Turbo's plot is also pretty nice since it shows how something mundane like laundry can have the quite the impact. The twenty three minute runtime definitely helps out. Despite showing off like a hundred characters, everyone gets a chance to shine due to how paced the plot is, whether it's Thora being an action queen or two nerds waiting in line for a movie. This episode gets major points due to its overall zaniness and spotlighting of the characters. Through the "eyes" of the coin, we see what everyone in Turbo Town does on a daily basis. This episode involves Turbo doing laundry when he accidentally loses one of his coins as it rolls outside. You can call Turbo Fast a "day in the limelight" because it manages to give more personality to the movie characters and the characters introduced in this series, and this episode would be the epitome of that. ![]()
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