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In an attempt to revamp Spider-man yet again because the awsome movie directed by Sam Rami (Xena: Warrior Princess), Spider-man the new animated series: Season 1 was created. Its not bad I've watched it while it was one MTV. its supposedly takes place after the first movie; the characters seem to be the same (as much as the same a revamped character can remain) Peters still brooding over Mary Jane while getting every other girl in between, Harry's protrayed as a playboy (much to my dismay), and Mary Jane is still brooding over Peter's inablility to commit to her. The orignal comic book villians: The Kingpin, the Lizard (whom is only shown for a few minutes at best) and The Shocker manage to stay in almost-complete character surprisingly. But like in every other Superhero-revamp TV show there are stupid uncessary villains I've never even heard of in the comic book like the Japanese samurai woman, the Twins with physic powers, the nerd obsessed with Spiderman, and the white-haired assassin chick among others.
The plots for each episode aren't bad and run smoothly at times save for the first episode. However, it cannot be un-adressed that the animation in this show really needs working on: For example, when Peter runs off to save the day at times he looks as though he's about to ram you with his head. In other words he's sorta bent over. The facial animations are almost identical right down to the "what gives?" expression.
Lastly the motion animations are still as stiff and unrealistic as a video-game characters are. Plus I couldn't shake the feeling that MTV's putting Well-known celebrities voices (Eve, Rob Zombie, etc.) in the show was some kind of selling-point. Lastly the voice acting isn't bad however its not great either. The voice actors are lacking in some serious talent here (including Eve and Rob Zombie).
Peter, Mary Jane, and Harry all sound like and have dialouge that sounds like something out of "Everwood" or "Gilmore girls" or better yet the late "Buffy: the vampire slayer/Angel." There is also implied sexual content, swearing and volince. All in all Spider-man: The new animated series isn't bad, just don't expect anything great here. Go and watch the out of order "Spider-man: the animated series" DVDS for really good action, story-lines, and top-notch entertaiment.
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When this series first came out and I saw it was on MTV and Bendis helped out on it, I was not going to watch it, which for a life-long Spidey die-hard like myself, was surprising. But I gave it a chance and I really liked it. When you see who does the voices (Neil Patrick Harris, Lisa Loeb, Ian Ziering, Eve, Cathy Griffen, etc) you think it's going to suck, but it works really well. And the animation is really good....a lot better than I thought it'd be for completely CG. If you are a huge Spidey fan, you should get this, the awesome '67 Collection, and help petition for the release of the entire 65 episode run of the awesome 1990's series that ran on Fox.
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I have been watching Spiderman cartoons and shows in various forms for 30 some years. This is a nice update to the series.
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The animation is horrible ... the voices are terrible ... and it was on MTV. Three strikes and YOU'RE OUT!
The early 90s series that aired on Fox was far superior in every conceivable way. Too bad that series (along with the same era X-Men) may never been released on DVD in its entirety.
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As a Spiderman Fan, I had to buy this DVD, the price is right.
I belive Spider man of the 90's was much better over all, even that this one is computer animated, it is poor on animation and very unnatoral movment!
What I must say is I love that fact that this one is on an adult level.
Buy this DVD set, much better and cheeper than the individual DVD's
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