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Father of the Pride Reviews
There've Been Better
I watched this show when it was on the air. I don't honestly remember being highly impressed with it, just interested enough in it to keep watching every week.
Some have compared this to 'Family Guy' and 'Firefly' but to me there really is no comparison. 'Family Guy' i liked instantly, it was a can't miss after the first episode! Honestly, 'Firefly' took me a bit longer to get into and I really only did right before it got cancelled. But I was SURE after both of those series that I loved them. This one I'm just not as enthused about it.
That's why I plan on giving this show another chance. I missed some of the last episodes so I didn't see it all. I plan on renting this when it comes out and reeducate myself on it. If my idea changes I'll be sure to rereview it. But until then I remain not highly impressed.
Fails on ALL possible levels.
I don't know why they decided the characters in this show should be lions and other animals--they're really just typical network sitcom people disguised as animals. Emphasis on "typical". The show is not about comedy, either--from that point of view, it is very tired, trite, and completely without any sense of comic timing.
NBC tolds us the show is about computer-generated animation. Oh, boy, we should watch it for the technology. Sheesh. That's not a sufficient basis for a series, unless you are going to go all-out and dazzle people with what can be done on a computer. And they didn't.
At it's heart, good animation is about communication. In classic animation, you can tell a character's emotions, motives, and thoughts in an instant by the visuals: flying to pieces in excitement, turning beet red in embarrassment, or whatever. Have a look at master animator Bruno Bozzetto's online cartoons (http://www.infonegocio.com/xeron/bruno/italy.html is one example)--some of these feature simple circles and rectangles as the characters, but they are still very funny, because Bozzetto still knows how to create characterizations and his writing and timing are top notch.
The people who made Father of the Pride don't understand any of that. They made the equivalent of posable dolls for their show. There is no humor, no characterization in any of the visuals. Each image seems to be about, "Look! We can map hair all over their bodies!" The characters of Siegfried and Roy were downright scary looking, I guess because they didn't have any hair to keep the designers interested. Watching the characters move during the show was painful--some looked like refugees from a George Pal Puppetoon, others like plastic sacks of frozen jello that someone was trying to manipulate.
I did not find the show as repulsive as some negative newspaper reviews had reported it--maybe the prevalence of puerile sex humor on TV has jaded me. I didn't see one thing good in it, either. I was frankly bored by the whole thing. I could name a half-dozen web comics whose creators can draw a more interesting anthro-animal character than any in Father of the Pride (and I was far more impressed with the pencil sketches shown during the "making of" short [after the premiere show on NBC] than in the computer-generated final results).
It's just a sad show. In terms of being a comedy series, the writing and timing are never better than third-rate, on the occasions it gets that good. And on the point they keep harping on in the promos ("IT'S THE FIRST PRIME-TIME COMPUTER ANIMATED SERIES") it fails to rise above amateurish. Dreck like this just adds to the pile of bandwagon-jumping product being thrown at us that makes me want to run away from anything bearing the label "computer generated".
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