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Mighty Ducks: The Animated Series - Jurassic Puck
Reviewed: 08/09/2014
Which Is As Old As Hockey Itself!
All right; it's time to return back to Mighty Ducks again after an 16 episode marathon session with Dave The Barbarian, and for some odd reason; I feel dirty. Anyhow; back to seeing David Wise sabotage yet another episode as the ducks are now facing Dragonous with dinosaurs and lava. Oh; and apparently, Tanya develops a fear of dinosaurs; for no reason. Let's rant on shall we...?!
This episode was written by Garfield & Judith Reeves-Steven; with the story edited by David Wise. The animation is done by Sunwoo Animation.
We begin this one with a shot of a gate with a sign that reads "Nelson Air Force Base" which has spotlights on them to accent the banana yellow lettering used here. Pan northwest to the ground control tower and then inside to a shot of sonar radar. We hear a woman voice (who is a blond haired woman in what appears to be civial police gear) inform us that someone is coming and it's not related to them. There are about four people and a general inside the tower and the general sounds like Frank Welker who is on the red phone. He is talking to the "president" and has gotten orders to begin something called "Operation: First Contact". So he puts a key (which looks like regular car keys to me; only better) into the computer console; and we have sirens blaring over the PA speakers. Red police lights and spotlights ensue which cause the entire air force base to look like a Hollywood primere. Then we have the rocket launchers coming out and a large missile like device popping out of the ground. So the general comes out of the tower to a look off and uses the binoculars as the phallic symbol rocket opens to reveal a message saying "Welcome Space Brothers". Who is funding this project? And why should we care about it? So then the general panics because a green pterodactyl swoops down to annoy the poor general and then grab a rocket from the rocket launchers. It then flies away and then we get the CGI puck scene changer of doom; and head to the Arrowhead Pond as there is confetti flying around with the crowd popping for said confetti as Nosedive shoots and scores on net during this; as the writers clearly have given up trying to make this game make sense; because after Nosedive scores; the game is over with the ducks winning of course. Roy is annoying me now as Wildwing tells Nosedive to take a victory lap and then we get the four beeps of doom from the wrist communicator years before Kim Possible used it as a catchphrase. Nosedive is not liking this at all as apparently; Drake One has an alert which is categorized as a F1-12 alert. Tanya mocks Nosedive for being stupid because it just means it's a dinosaur attack; which Mallory ponders which is dumber. Whatever.
Nosedive blows this all off because this is Anaheim and there are no dinosaurs in this timeframe nor world. By the way; Mallory asked which is worse: a dinosaur attack or Drake One listing it as it's own special alert. Then we get a scene changer as we head to Drake One with Tanya being on the computer. Why? If these ducks have such advanced technology, you would think that they would have the technology to communicate with Drake One on the ice; and then spring into action instantly. Nope; they have to go to Drake One to check out the signal. Anyway; Tanya proclaims that Nosedive is right that it's not one dinosaur attacking Anaheim. It's actually TWO dinosaurs attacking Anaheim. Phil is so giddy about this that he is going to allow the ducks to fight the dinosaurs. Since when has Phil been effective in stopping the ducks? Besides Phil In The Blank...Phil likes the idea since it's instant MONEY, MONEY, YEAH, YEAH. My heart always melts when Phil is being a scummy lawyer as Mallory blows him off for acting like a greedy, scummy lawyer. Mallory is the one this time accusing Dragonous of being behind this; because the Saurians are apparently dinosaurs. That was very insulting of you to say Mallory. Sure; the Saurians track record is god awful; but they are not dinosaurs. They are dragons and lizards with a dash of Chameleon. Duke is confused about this; so Tanya basically believes that he used his DNA accelerator and genes to create them. How would she know this and why didn't they destroy this accelerator when they had the chance? At least it wasn't Wildwing jumping to conclusions this time; in fact, Mallory jumping to conclusion is more her character anyway, so I'm fine with that. Nosedive of course has to cut a KFC promo; only it's doing the "secret blend of 11 herbs and spices". Okay. So we head outside to the skies AFTER HAPPY HOUR (after dark) with the pterodactyal carrying the missile with it's talons. It swoops down and places the missile on the back of a flat truck, which is driven by Chameleon. Thus Mallory was right all along that it was Dragonous; even though we aren't supposed to know this until much later. I shake my head.
So Chameleon cuts a moon landing promo which looked weak ass as he is on the halogram communicator with Dragonous as he wants to proceed to phase two of the plan as soon as the pterodactyal is fed by Chameleon. Chameleon doesn't like this at all and does another impression that I have no idea who he is inspired by, and tells him that Wraith should clean up. This scene did nothing for me nor this show. So we go to the sky shot and pant south to the streets of Anaheim as we see the Migrator cruising down the street at the actual speed limit for a change. We head inside the cockpit with Duke driving and saying that there are no readings which baffles him in some way. Grin claims that they are not fated to meet this creature; which of course he's lying because if they aren't then this episode would be over. What I would like to know is: Where's the second dinosaur? Tanya wants to go out on foot because the signal is scrambled. This makes no sense at all; and it only serves to have Tanya go out on foot like an idiot. So Tanya is walking around the corner and sees a longneck dinosaur; dropping the scanner and it breaks. Tanya backs up to the window of the electronic store as Duke asks what it is and then plays charades, during this entire time. So then the Migrator drives in and Duke realizes that it's a giant longneck dinosaur. Duke swears in dubbed anime style (holy mother of ducks) and then backs up the Migrator to prevent the dinosaur from stomping it flat; as it crashes into a steel mesh fence. Then we get a classic Mighty Ducks moment: The puck cannons come out and they shoot pucks at the dinosaur and hit the dinosaur several times in the neck; and the dinosaur no sells them. If you recall; in Paradise Lost; O'Roarke fired a bullet shooting steampunked rifle and it hit a pterodactyal in it's wing and it was sold as if the pterodactyal was on death's door later on. And TaleSpin is a fictional world while Anaheim is supposed to be a REAL city! DUMB! The dinosaur headbutts an apartment building wall and debris buries the Migrator as the dinosaur roars and bails stage right. Tanya proclaims that this is all her fault and April Winchell's acting was TERRIBLE here!
So we go to the rooftops as Siege and Wraith notice the dinosaur leaving. Siege walks to the middle of the roof and uses the wrist communicator to inform Dragonous that the ducks are dead as we cut to a shot of a petstore that is really the Raptorous in disguise. We go to the computer console as two aliens rise up inside glass capsules and Dragonous sells this as the ducks are vanquished as he admires the samples under glass. This is 13 episodes in and he still sells this as if they are really dead. This never works because if it did; the show is over. Siege then claims that all but two of the ducks are destroyed; and Dragonous simply shoots a laser and destroys the monitor Siege was using. Then Dragonous gets all cutesy with the aliens; which is the first funny moment of the episode almost six and a half minutes in. Siege uses the other monitor to ask if he said something wrong. Dragonous sezs yes because Siege didn't destroy all the ducks. So Dragonous proclaims that they need to prepare the launch site as he fires a green laser at the green aliens stating that they will finish off the remaining four Mighty Ducks. Which begs the question: How did Siege know that there were only three ducks in the Migrator? Anyhow; we head to the air force base next to the missile launchers as Mallory, Nosedive and Wildwing are exchanging notes with Chameleon...ERRRR...I mean; the general in a police uniform. Mallory then gets offended when the general asks why the babyface need the Aerowing; so much so that she wants to punch the general's lights out prompting Wildwing to get inbetween them to calm Mallory down. What was the point of this? So the pterodactyal arrives and everyone separates as it grabs Nosedive by the talons and lifts him up. Nosedive had a great moment here: He orders the pterodactyal to get a grip; and it did and he yells "not me". Even better; as Nosedive is in the air, he yells at the babyfaces saying to water his lawn (which he doesn't have), check his pets (which he doesn't have) and most of all; HELP (which he needs right now). That was funny. The beast flies away with Nosedive to end the segment 7 1/2 minutes in. Mostly a load of nothing.
After the commercial break; we go to the sky shot of the city in the clouds with Nosedive still in the talons of the pterodactyal. Nosedive orders it to put him down. How many times do I have to explain that saying "put me down" is stupid when you are an anthro? Even more so if you are a dog? The Aerowing has gone after him as Mallory is driving and wants to shoot the thing out of the sky. Wildwing's acting is much better than Tanya's in the regardless of blowing off Mallory for being such a stupid person. So there's nothing they can do until Nosedive is put down; and he acted like he was disappointed in someone. We get a shot of them flying towards the moon; and then we REPEAT THE SEQUENCE only with Nosedive asking about the pterodactyal. This show is so cheap that it's repeating animation for no reason at all. At least when animation is repeated in TaleSpin (which I counted about three instances in the entire show); there is no dialogue coming out of the character's mouth that exposes the stupidity. The pterodactyal blows him off and we fly off some more with Nosedive acting butthurt. Yawn. So we head back with Tanya taking the rocks out and her acting is actually getting better as she is apologizing profusely (why? Tanya was the SMART one in getting out on foot...); and wants them to fire the grappling hook if they are all right. So the Migrator grappling hook is fired right into the side wall of a building and it gets out of the rubble with ease as Tanya moves out of the way. Yes Tanya, Grin and Duke are fine. So in essence; only one of the babyfaces is truly in danger right now. So we head back in the skies; and Nosedive is flung onto the top of a building that is under construction, allowing ND to do some wussy bumps and a blow off. These heels are so ineffective; it's not funny anymore. So the pterodactyal runs in as Mallory cannot get the Aerowing through the building to rescue him; which Wildwing claims it is useless anyway since Nosedive brings out his puck gun and shoots pucks at the pterodactyal; who sells about three shots, but no damage whatsoever. Again; this makes no sense because this is supposed to be in the real world.
Nosedive thinks he has won and then he gets carried off by the pterodactyal yet again. So Wildwing puts the Aerowing on auto pilot just so the tailsection opens to reveal...Mini Aerowings! Seriously; they just introduced this gimmick, for no reason. This is on par with the front of the SeaDuck opening to show Katie Dodd using the bells of Tinabula in For Whom The Bell Klangs. So they go after Nosedive and we head to a street which is blocked off as the flatbed truck has stopped with the missile pointing straight down into a large hole in the ground. Out comes Chameleon and I just realized that the general of the air force base is in fact not Chameleon. I am just so used to Chameleon's convincing disguises that I wouldn't put it past the writers to have the general as Chameleon. I got Jedi mind tricked here. He does another impression of a police officer and then goes to the conveniently placed switch and throws the lever (JESUS~!) causing the missile to be lowered into the sewer onto some structure to hold it in place. It looks like an oilwell to me. Then we see Siege (with blueprints) with Wraith (with staff) as he proclaims that they did this all wrong. So we see the blueprints are for the missile to be pointed up instead of down; which Wraith turns the blueprints upside down and Siege gets it. I don't know who is more useless here: Siege with a map; or Wraith with giving us incentive to watch the damn show. So we head in the street with the Migrator as Duke is blowing off Tanya for being an idiot. I guess that they hated her for not telling them what the hell that thing was; which it would have made no difference if she did or not. Tanya claims that she has an "irrational" fear of a 40 ton dinosaur; to which Grin replies that you get stronger by facing your fear. This is REALLY STUPID on a number of level. Level number one: This is not an irrational fear. Having a 40 ton anything trying to squash you is a legit fear. It is rational. Level number 2: If anyone took Grin's advice, they would be killed because it's a 40 ton dinosaur that wouldn't exist otherwise! Hard to face a fear when the dinosaur isn't sentient enough to know right from wrong.
Level number 3: Guess who has no fear of anything except getting punished for being a psychopath? Johnny Test. Okay; that one doesn't really count, but I need someone to blame for this and Grin was RIGHT THERE waiting to be targetted. Tanya blows it off and then a Triceratops arrives and gores the Migrator from the driver's side. Ooookkkkaaayyyy. So they panic and a second Triceratops rushes in and gores the Migrator; causing it to flip over on it's side. Tanya wants to get out of there before they are killed; but Duke stays. Why? Because the dinosaurs have bailed to gore a warehouse on the docks, for no reason. They gore the wall of the warehouse open and then the longneck dinosaur arrives to grab some boxes and put them on a flatbed truck where Chameleon is doing more lame impressions to waste my time and his. He would make a perfect scummy scam artist on the level of Gary Null. So the roof of the Migrator is opened to allow Duke and Grin to come out and Duke notices that Chameleon is stealing a box of explosives (I wondered what the label on the boxes had read; so thanks Duke for once.). Grin follows him as they go after Chameleon; and then we head into the skies with Nosedive and the pterodactyal as they fly around the construction building which in the shot they use to begin; makes the place look like a large barrier gate. The Mini Aerowings are shooting pucks and missing; and Nosedive is complaining and panicky as usual. So the pterodactyal gets in behind the Mini Aerowings and they fly into the construction building as Wildwing uses the puck grappling gun on one of the beam supports; and this causes the Mini Aerowing he was using to crash and burst into flames. Wait; what? Nosedive is pissed off at the pterodactyal even though this was all on Wildwing! Then Wildwing swings in and grabs Nosedive and they land safely inside the building. Mallory then starts shooting the pterodactyal and forces him away from the building and out of sight. Mallory lands and I just realize that the Mini-Aerowings are basically a really cool jetpack. I hope someone was watching and has an idea to make this one possible, because it would be great.
So the trio get together as Mallory wrist communicator beeps like a Kim Possible call from Wade Load. It's an energy needing in which Wildwing accuses Dragonous like Freddy Jones accuses Red Herring of being a red herring. Nosedive is angry because he was in a life threatening situation TEN SECONDS ago! Which is in fact accurate. When the comedy geek is the one with the most sense; your show sucks. So we cut to Duke L'Orange using his banana yellow sword to clash sword to horn to the Triceratops; while Grin runs away from the longneck dinosaur. We see Chameleon in the driver's seat of the flatbed truck cutting another lame promo and doing another lame impression of someone that I have no idea who. The truck drives away as Tanya teases getting out of the Migrator and then recoils and bails back inside claiming that she'll give moral support. Okay; I'm finally getting that Tanya has a fear of dinosaurs. One question: HOW did she get this fear? Because; if you believe that the Saurians are in fact anthro dinosaurs, then how can Tanya be afraid of real dinosaurs? The writers are seriously not taking this into account here (what a shock?!) and it's not like her fear is not irrational or anything. If a 40 ton ANYTHING was stalking me; I would be scared to death too. Why? Because 40 tons can F'N KILL ME! It is impossible to face a fear that is rational; unless you are a scoiopath. Like Johnny Ass..ERR...I mean Johnny Test. Grin backs away and uses the grappling puck on the neck of the longneck. He gets snapped onto the back of the neck; and does another zen promo that goes nowhere. Then he notices a huge brainwashing device on the neck and tries to get it loose. However; he gets shocked and takes the stunt duck bump off the dinosaur; and takes a weak bump onto the pavement. Duke is still standing his ground and asks Grin for his approval and Grin can only say that he is past the point of jealousy right now. That is a lie! So Duke and Grin bail back to the Migrator as Tanya brings in the puck cannons; while the dinosaurs charge at the thing. Tanya panics while Duke and Grin push the Migrator back on it's wheels; and get in.
Tanya then starts driving away from the dinosaurs as Duke asks if everyone is safe; prompting Tanya to rightfully blow that suggestion off. Grin asks if the metal plates on their heads (despite clearly being on the neck of the longneck when he saw the device) has anything to do with it and Tanya then realizes that he's using an interface to control the dinosaurs via remote control. Huh; I figured that out when Chameleon and the pterodactyal were stealing a missile and putting it on a flatbed truck! So we head back to the large hole inside the sewers as a box of explosives is lowered into the hole and onto the ground as Siege is informing Dragonous via the communicator that everything is under control here. Dragonous is pleased as we see the two shattered glass capsules containing the dinosaurs earlier as he orders Siege to basically program the dinosaurs to run interference on the ducks for ten minutes; to which then there is no hope and he wins. So we head to..swell..the Petroyle which we saw in Power Play which was seven episodes ago! So the Migrator simply drives in and then stops. Everyone gets out as we see Chameleon change into a carnival barker and cutting an awesome promo complete with red suit, red boots and a cane. Like I said; if Chameleon does an impression that is generic, it is often funny. The lavender bowtie is so awesome that someone needs to dress up like that in real life; if only for Halloween. In comes two brown T-Rexs; who are the two dinosaurs that were in the glass capsule when Dragonous zapped them earlier. So this makes sense at least; but WHY NOW?! Tanya's eyes grow wide and she starts to bail as Duke looked stunned and is starting to in fact understand that this fear is RATIONAL! Good for the writers to realize how stupid Grin is. So we cut to a sky shot of the closed street (with barricades and deep hole) with Wraith and Siege topside. And Wraith finally speaks after over 15 minutes of just being window dressing. All he said was to begin the rocket launch; and Siege wants fireworks.
Then we get blue laser gunfire raining down; and it's the Aerowing landing with Nosedive and Wildwing somehow jumping off the front of it and onto the ground. They cut their usual "It's over" promo as Wildwing invokes the pointy finger of death and declares that the countdown is cancelled. Since this is episode #13 in terms of airdate; I ask this question: Why didn't Disney cancel this show right then? Answer: Because they were trying to promote the hockey game and the team. Siege brings out the laser cannon while Wraith brings out the fireballs and proclaims that they shouldn't count on it. Remind me never to call Wraith to give me winning lottery numbers; but a BBQ would be perfectly fine with me. So Wildwing fires pucks and Nosedive dodges to make it to the hole in the sewer and notices the missile being pointed straight down. His reaction to this is priceless because I have no idea what the point of this is. So the firefight goes on as the heels countdown to zero; and Siege proclaims that this is it for the day and both he and Wraith teleport out. Wildwing calls this way too easy as the other babyfaces look and notice the missile; which Nosedive tells them to calm down because they are so stupid since they are firing it straight down into the ground. Then we get the rumbling; to which Mallory channels Daisy Duck when she talked about Donald causing an international incident in A Recipe For Adventure. They knew what they were doing as we get explosions and there is lava flowing in the streets of Anaheim. Nosedive calls it a load of hot sauce and Wildwing swears in dubbed anime style (Hot sauce, my beak!) as Dragonous' plan is to turn Anaheim into Lake Toba. Yeah; I went there, so shoot me. That ends the segment 16 minutes in. Yawn.
After the commercial break; we see a lot of lava spewing in downtown Anaheim that will cause a lot of gridlock according to Nosedive. Nope; it will be a real lake of fire (Read: hell); but that won't stop Nosedive from being so lame. Mother nature has been trying to shut Darkwing Duck up for years with no success. At least now I can buy the third volume of TaleSpin in early 2015 at retail like it should have been from the start; at $10. I like that and I can get the Gargoyles volume 2 season 2 set along with Goof Troop Volume 2. Mallory wants to get to the glider; but the glider gets engulfed in lava and explodes. So Wildwing and Nosedive were on Mallory's back the entire time. WHAT?! So the babyfaces all bail for a nice jog. Wait; you have the Aerowing in the air, why not just...you know...SIGNAL FOR IT to come down NOW and then climb up into it. Idiots! So we head back to Petroyle with the T-Rexs stalking the babyfaces as Duke wants to bail back into the Migrator, causing Tanya to finally run off into the Migrator. Wait; I thought Tanya already bailed? Duke and Grin dodge dinosaurs for a while as Grin punches one in the mouth and the punch once again misses by eight inches; but the T-Rex still sells it anyway. It's clear that these misses are not animation screw ups and that BS&P is striking again. Stop throwing punches then! Book something else if BS&P is such an ass on you. Grin gets on the T-Rex's back as the other one gores the Migrator with Tanya in it; thus bailing was a stupid idea on her part. The Migrator is upside down and the T-Rex gets on top and stomps on the undercarriage over and over again. Tanya's acting is getting much better; but the dialogue is getting dumber as she proclaims that the Migrator will need a new suspension when this is over. That is fine in itself; except that she outright said "when this _episode_ is over.". For pete sake guys; STOP doing that! The fans are supposed to say that; not the actors! So that lava is now fake and I shouldn't care anymore.
So we see the trio running towards some fence which actually is where the Aerowing is parked. Now why did I call these three ducks idiots? Because if they had actually signalled for the Aerowing during the bailing; the Aerowing would not have been cut off by THREE dinosaurs readying to gore the living crap out of these ducks. So they bring out the puck guns and the firefight and dodging ensues as Wildwing is on the communicator with Tanya who is scared out of her wits as Wildwing is ordering her to get the controller ready to make them stop the dinosaur's rampage (This took about a minute to spit out); but Tanya claims that she cannot for some reason as Wildwing yells that yes, she can. Then for no reason; Tanya finally stops selling and proclaiming that the puck stops here and she's a Mighty Duck and not just a duck. Don't you mean chicken? Because that is the analogy they use to call you a coward. They are just using mangled analogy just for the hell of it now. So the tailsection opens and she comes out on the Duck Cycle as the T-Rex turn around and roar straight at Tanya who has the Duck Cycle pointed right at them. Tanya then cuts another stupid cliche promo and I ask: How? Dinosaurs don't usually talk; so the promo makes no sense at all. Now they are just killing time as Tanya burns rubber; and then they cut away to Nosedive, Mallory and Wildwing are sneaking around as the lava finally has made it near the Aerowing. So we cut back to Tanya dodging dinosaurs as Grin proclaims that Tanya is facing her fears; prompting Duke to say that she's crazy. I concur with Duke here; no one would be sober enough to pull off this crap. So Tanya manages to drive straight at Chameleon as I realize that the red device he has in his hand is the controller for the dinosaurs. Chameleon then does the best voice impression as he calls this a revolting development; as he sounds like the narrator from Frosty The Snowman the Rankin-Bass version. YAY! A pop culture reference I remember and like!
Then we get a classic Mighty Ducks logic break: So Chameleon teleports out; but Tanya manages to grab the controller before it can be teleported out. The problem is; he teleported about three seconds before Tanya grabbed the device; so the device should have been teleported out with him. Nope; Tanya grabs it anyway and pushes the left red button as the dinosaurs finally stop and look stupid. Cut back to the Aerowing as the dinosaur look dumbfounded at each other; and the babyfaces all get into the Aerowing while praising Tanya for being insane. The Aerowing rises up into the sky as we get a shot of the lava squirting out like a fountain. Then we get the most dumbest moment ever: The Aerowing flies in and shoots a exploding puck into the lava fountain; and the fountain simply goes back down into the ground, and the lava did no damage whatsoever in the end. There were no fires, no melting from direct contact from the lava. Now granted; no one died from the heat in Pizza Pie In The Sky, but at least it wasn't a real world setting. And even the Seaduck got charred so badly that they had to scrub it down at the end of the episode. Not here; only one Aero Glider exploded and there was a lot of lava and not much else. That lava was like the orange hot Jello in the Simpsons in that episode where the Simpsons went to Japan and were on a whacky reality show. And to think; this was slightly less stupid than Dances With Bigfoot when Drake walked in the lava! So we cut back to Grin, Duke and Tanya as Tanya is reprogramming the thing while Duke is still amazed by this controller thingy. So Tanya basically programs the dinosaurs to return to whence it came; and the dinosaurs sell and stomp away stage left. We then get the CGI puck scene changer of doom as we head back to inside the computer room of the Raptorous as there is a screen of hot lava on screen that is in a whirlpool. Dragonous is pissed off and blames all three henchmen for screwing it up. And who gave the controller to Tanya? Chameleon, DUH! Although the animators screwed it up completely and therefore it's their fault, but they don't exist in this world (they exist in OUR world).
So Dragonous is basically repeating Trader Moe's line of needing to find new goons as then the dinosaurs arrive and head towards the Raptorous in a rage. Dragonous panics because they will tear the Raptorous apart (how ironic eh?) so he orders Wraith to open a dimensional portal to Swampworld as they sell and the pet shop turns into the Raptorous (because the Raptorous is useless in cloak mode) and the top of it fires a green tractor beam to open a wormhole and a long sequence of the dinosaurs are being sucked up into the wormhole; and that is that. So we head to the living room with the babyfaces all wrapping this dumb episode up. Duke is telling Tanya to never question her courage again. I would question her sanity and soberity instead. Tanya is so humble that she fails at blushing as Nosedive turns on the television and we see the opening title for a television series called "Myth Or Legend: Dinosaurs"; which causes everyone but Tanya to get up and walk out of the room as Tanya wonder what the big deal is since it's only dinosaurs. She should have added "ON TELEVISION~!"; but she didn't as Wildwing doesn't want to see another dinosaur for six million years. So he doesn't want to see Dragonous and company anymore? I thought the point of the ducks being here was to capture Dragonous who is supposed to be a dinosaur in storyline. STUPID! The dinosaur roars which scares Tanya and so she clicks the television off with the remote control and proclaims that this is enough television for today. That clicking sound you hear is the remaining kids who finally got the hint finally changing the channel and never seeing this show again. This ends the episode at 21:05. This was another clustermuck that had bad booking, screwed up animation and is living proof that dinosaurs sometimes are not a win. I mean; after 13 episodes with Dragonous; you would think Disney would have taken the hint on that front? Call it * (20%).
THE REVIEW LINE
The Reeves-Stevens duo just cannot buy a break from the story editing "whiz kid" known as David Wise; as we have another bad episode with logic that makes no sense at all. The dinosaur fighting was okay; but the lava thing was only less stupid than Dances With Bigfoot. Tanya's phobia was completely out of nowhere and made no sense since in storyline; Dragonous is a dinosaur along with Siege. Not to mention that there are 40 ton animals trying to kill her. Even the most couragous person would have some fear that this thing would KILL them! We also got the usual unfunny stuff with Tanya trying way too hard to act like a joke machine and failing badly (even screwed up blushing when she was so humble at the end). Chameleon did have two awesome promos; and that was about it. The animation was off again which is par for the course with Sunwoo Animation; and the heels looked fine until Chameleon teleported out in which the animator screwed up the timing as well. Overall; this was a mess with a funny Frosty The Snowman promo which is the first pop culture reference that Chameleon did that was in fact funny. Him as a carnival barker was great too. Doesn't make up for the crap though. So....
Thumbs down for this episode and I'll see you all next time.