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Smallfoot is desperate to entertain its audience with musical numbers, visual gags, and rapid-fire dialogue without paying that same attention to character or stakes.
Feeling quite like a standalone episode, “The Unicorn in Captivity” the focuses the action on the villainous end of the cast while Dr. Venture has a plot that offers up silliness.
It’s not often that a Venture Bros. episode feels like filler, but “The Unicorn in Captivity” definitely felt like the creators were moving pieces into place for the endgame.
It’s easy to call this season “more of the same”, but for a show as good as BoJack Horseman, that’s a compliment.
The Venture Bros., “The Bellicose Proxy” is the first purely comedic episode we’ve had this season as the two failures at the centre of the show turn things around.
Delivering another fantastic episode, The Venture Bros. has amassed a deep bench of incredible supporting characters that guarantee any scene is gold.
It almost feels as though “The High Cost of Loathing” should have been The Venture Bros.’ season premiere, with the previous three episodes being a self contained trilogy.
Don Hertzfeldt’s 2012 animation is an authentic depiction of depression, mental illness and mankind’s relationship with the universe.
The Venture Bros. has really become something much more mature and nuanced as it has gone on and episodes like “Arrears in Science” really show the shows range and capacity to still surprise us.
Welcome back. Following the premiere’s cliffhanger, I went into this episode expecting to find out…
The Venture Bros is back for its long awaited seventh season. Film Inquiry’s Sean Fallon recaps the season premiere.
Teen Titans Go! To The Movies will be overlooked by many because of its kid-centric charms, but it delivers laughs in a pretty significant way.
Liz and the Blue Bird is an indepth and stylistic chracter study that explores the details and hidden emotional gravity of seemingly unremarkable situations.
Fireworks is both stunningly animated, and stunningly disappointing, hampered by a predictable love story that is neither compelling or insightful.
Stephanie Archer reviews Post No Bills, an animated short about taking risks, and spoke with with director Robin Hays.