Oh Yeah! Cartoons : #8: Youngstar 3

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       Previously, A boy and his dog, a classic story   [HERE] 

  #8 Youngstar3

Season 1, Episode 10b 

         Another superhero theme huh?  A timeless idea. Youngstar3 was created by Miles Thompson. There are three superheroes Youngstar, a little boy,  Shero, a robot woman, and Old Man, an old man.  There's a giant monster causing havoc and our heroes have to go out and hero.  

   

           That's really what I can say about it from that point. It's 3 odd heroes fighting a giant fish monster. It's fun, I  like the three heroes they have their own unique characteristics and seem like an interesting team. The ideas they use to stop fight the monster are creative and really gives a really fun viewing expirence.

    

      I love the animation style too, it does fell very 90's (because duh) but it seems like it would fit on Nick or Cartoon Network at the time It feels like alternate world "Powerpuff Girls" by the simpe background designs and the character designs feel very Dexter's Lab/ Powerpuff Girls.   

   

         I think this would have been a fun series, there are so many ideas that could have been done for episodes, different monsters and villains. Giving the characters a little more personality through the episodes would have been fun to see. 

    There is something very charming about it, the jokes don't always land but they all feel earnest. And bonus points to having a grandpa be a superhero that's kind of fun, you don't see that really.  Give this one  a watch, it's fun.  

   That's it for now, tune in next time, when say a boy, an old  man , and a robot woman walk into a bar, I ducked. 

2022 Oscar Nominations announced

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                 The 94th Oscars  nominations were announced Tuesday. The best picture category has been expanded  to allow for 10 movies to vy for the top spot.  Netflix gets a 2 out of 10 chance of winning with Don't Look Up and Power of the Dog  ,  Dune from Warner Brothers did get a nod, and showing how the awards had to be flexible towards movies that didn't either have a theater launch or a hybrid model, especially in the animated category.    The Award show is set to air on March 27 at 8pet/5pt on ABC.

Here's the full list 

Best Picture

Belfast

Laura Berwick, Kenneth Branagh, Becca Kovacik and Tamar Thomas, Producers

CODA

Philippe Rousselet, Fabrice Gianfermi and Patrick Wachsberger, Producers

Don’t Look Up

Adam McKay and Kevin Messick, Producers

Drive My Car

Teruhisa Yamamoto, Producer

Dune

Mary Parent, Denis Villeneuve and Cale Boyter, Producers

King Richard

Tim White, Trevor White and Will Smith, Producers

Licorice Pizza

Sara Murphy, Adam Somner and Paul Thomas Anderson, Producers

Nightmare Alley

Guillermo del Toro, J. Miles Dale and Bradley Cooper, Producers

The Power of the Dog

Jane Campion, Tanya Seghatchian, Emile Sherman, Iain Canning and Roger Frappier, Producers

West Side Story

Steven Spielberg and Kristie Macosko Krieger, Producers

Actor in a Leading Role

Javier Bardem

Being the Ricardos

Benedict Cumberbatch

The Power of the Dog

Andrew Garfield

Tick, Tick…Boom!

Will Smith

King Richard

Denzel Washington

The Tragedy of Macbeth

Actress in a Leading Role

Jessica Chastain

The Eyes of Tammy Faye

Olivia Colman

The Lost Daughter

Penélope Cruz

Parallel Mothers

Nicole Kidman

Being the Ricardos

Kristen Stewart

Spencer

Actor in a Supporting Role

Ciarán Hinds

Belfast

Troy Kotsur

CODA

Jesse Plemons

The Power of the Dog

J.K. Simmons

Being the Ricardos

Kodi Smit-McPhee

The Power of the Dog

Actress in a Supporting Role

Jessie Buckley

The Lost Daughter

Ariana DeBose

West Side Story

Judi Dench

Belfast

Kirsten Dunst

The Power of the Dog

Aunjanue Ellis

King Richard

Directing

Belfast

Kenneth Branagh

Drive My Car

Ryusuke Hamaguchi

Licorice Pizza

Paul Thomas Anderson

The Power of the Dog

Jane Campion

West Side Story

Steven Spielberg

Writing (Adapted Screenplay)

CODA

Screenplay by Siân Heder

Drive My Car

Screenplay by Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Takamasa Oe

Dune

Screenplay by Jon Spaihts and Denis Villeneuve and Eric Roth

The Lost Daughter

Written by Maggie Gyllenhaal

The Power of the Dog

Written by Jane Campion

Writing (Original Screenplay)

Belfast

Written by Kenneth Branagh

Don’t Look Up

Screenplay by Adam McKay; Story by Adam McKay & David Sirota

King Richard

Written by Zach Baylin

Licorice Pizza

Written by Paul Thomas Anderson

The Worst Person in the World

Written by Eskil Vogt, Joachim Trier

Documentary Feature

Ascension

Jessica Kingdon, Kira Simon-Kennedy and Nathan Truesdell

Attica

Stanley Nelson and Traci A. Curry

Flee

Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Monica Hellström, Signe Byrge Sørensen and Charlotte De La Gournerie

Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised)

Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson, Joseph Patel, Robert Fyvolent and David Dinerstein

Writing with Fire

Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh

Animated Feature Film

Encanto

Jared Bush, Byron Howard, Yvett Merino and Clark Spencer

Flee

Jonas Poher Rasmussen, Monica Hellström, Signe Byrge Sørensen and Charlotte De La Gournerie

Luca

Enrico Casarosa and Andrea Warren

The Mitchells vs. the Machines

Mike Rianda, Phil Lord, Christopher Miller and Kurt Albrecht

Raya and the Last Dragon

Don Hall, Carlos López Estrada, Osnat Shurer and Peter Del Vecho

International Feature Film

Drive My Car (Japan)

A C&I Entertainment/Culture Entertainment/Bitters End Production

Flee (Denmark)

A Final Cut for Real/Sun Creature/Vivement Lundi !/MostFilm/Mer Film/VICE/Left HandFilms Production

The Hand of God (Italy)

A The Apartment Production

Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom (Bhutan)

A Dangphu Dingphu: a 3 pigs Production

The Worst Person in the World (Norway)

An Oslo Pictures/MK Productions/Film iVäst/Snowglobe/B-Reel/Arte France Cinéma Production

Cinematography

Dune

Greig Fraser

Nightmare Alley

Dan Laustsen

The Power of the Dog

Ari Wegner

The Tragedy of Macbeth

Bruno Delbonnel

West Side Story

Janusz Kaminski

Film Editing

Don’t Look Up

Hank Corwin

Dune

Joe Walker

King Richard

Pamela Martin

The Power of the Dog

Peter Sciberras

Tick, Tick…Boom!

Myron Kerstein and Andrew Weisblum

Live Action Short Film

Ala Kachuu – Take and Run

Maria Brendle and Nadine Lüchinger

The Dress

Tadeusz Łysiak and Maciej Ślesicki

The Long Goodbye

Aneil Karia and Riz Ahmed

On My Mind

Martin Strange-Hansen and Kim Magnusson

Please Hold

K.D. Dávila and Levin Menekse

Animated Short Film

Affairs of the Art

Joanna Quinn and Les Mills

Bestia

Hugo Covarrubias and Tevo Díaz

Boxballet

Anton Dyakov

Robin Robin

Dan Ojari and Mikey Please

The Windshield Wiper

Alberto Mielgo and Leo Sanchez

Documentary Short Subject

Audible

Matt Ogens and Geoff McLean

Lead Me Home

Pedro Kos and Jon Shenk

The Queen of Basketball

Ben Proudfoot

Three Songs for Benazir

Elizabeth Mirzaei and Gulistan Mirzaei

When We Were Bullies

Jay Rosenblatt

Music (Original Score)

Don’t Look Up

Nicholas Britell

Dune

Hans Zimmer

Encanto

Germaine Franco

Parallel Mothers

Alberto Iglesias

The Power of the Dog

Jonny Greenwood

Music (Original Song)

“Be Alive” from King Richard

Music and Lyric by DIXSON and Beyoncé Knowles-Carter

“Dos Oruguitas” from Encanto

Music and Lyric by Lin-Manuel Miranda

“Down To Joy” from Belfast

Music and Lyric by Van Morrison

“No Time To Die” from No Time to Die

Music and Lyric by Billie Eilish and Finneas O’Connell

“Somehow You Do” from Four Good Days

Music and Lyric by Diane Warren

Production Design

Dune

Production Design: Patrice Vermette; Set Decoration: Zsuzsanna Sipos

Nightmare Alley

Production Design: Tamara Deverell; Set Decoration: Shane Vieau

The Power of the Dog

Production Design: Grant Major; Set Decoration: Amber Richards

The Tragedy of Macbeth

Production Design: Stefan Dechant; Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh

West Side Story

Production Design: Adam Stockhausen; Set Decoration: Rena DeAngelo

Costume Design

Cruella

Jenny Beavan

Cyrano

Massimo Cantini Parrini and Jacqueline Durran

Dune

Jacqueline West and Robert Morgan

Nightmare Alley

Luis Sequeira

West Side Story

Paul Tazewell

Makeup and Hairstyling

Coming 2 America

Mike Marino, Stacey Morris and Carla Farmer

Cruella

Nadia Stacey, Naomi Donne and Julia Vernon

Dune

Donald Mowat, Love Larson and Eva von Bahr

The Eyes of Tammy Faye

Linda Dowds, Stephanie Ingram and Justin Raleigh

House of Gucci

Göran Lundström, Anna Carin Lock and Frederic Aspiras

Sound

Belfast

Denise Yarde, Simon Chase, James Mather and Niv Adiri

Dune

Mac Ruth, Mark Mangini, Theo Green, Doug Hemphill and Ron Bartlett

No Time to Die

Simon Hayes, Oliver Tarney, James Harrison, Paul Massey and Mark Taylor

The Power of the Dog

Richard Flynn, Robert Mackenzie and Tara Webb

West Side Story

Tod A. Maitland, Gary Rydstrom, Brian Chumney, Andy Nelson and Shawn Murphy

Visual Effects

Dune

Paul Lambert, Tristan Myles, Brian Connor and Gerd Nefzer

Free Guy

Swen Gillberg, Bryan Grill, Nikos Kalaitzidis and Dan Sudick

No Time to Die

Charlie Noble, Joel Green, Jonathan Fawkner and Chris Corbould

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings

Christopher Townsend, Joe Farrell, Sean Noel Walker and Dan Oliver

Spider-Man: No Way Home

Kelly Port, Chris Waegner, Scott Edelstein and Dan Sudick

Oh Yeah! Cartoons #7: Olly and Frank

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            Previously, Twins turn robots into saving the jungle. [HERE]

     #7 Olly and Frank

From Season 1, Episode 6

   Olly and Frank  is from  Bob Doyle who has a prolific  career, he has worked on "Fairly Odd Parents" , "ChalkZone", "Danny Phantom";  he also created "Yin Yang Yo!"  and "Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!"  

       Olly is a boy smart boy who wants to impress a girl named Daisy-May and stop a bully named Bratwurst (can't imagine why he would be mean). After his science project fails, he decides a new idea is take part of his dog's brain and put inside Frankenstein like monster. Dog brain means it acts likes a dog. 

      It's like Frankenweenie but weirder. He brings the dog monster to school which wasn't the best idea.  There is some chaos and Olly gets suspended. He yells at Frank to go away, meanwhile Olly sees Bratwurst harassing Daisy and stands up for her, which kind of works. 

     

       Olly and Daisy end up in danger and Frank goes to save them. Daisy asks Olly to go the dance with her.   

    

       Olly and Frank is pretty interesting. I do like the idea of a Frankenstein's monster dog.  I do like how Daisy isn't impressed by the sausage named bully and  it's sweet how she was open to talking to Olly in the start and asks him to the dance at the end, making it much more rewarding and interesting than the boy being afraid to talk to the girl and other bog standard things you'd see.  

   Since I do this part where I think about it being a series, here's that. I'm not sure, the short wraps things up pretty well. I guess an expanded idea could be like Olly and Frank go through different adventures, maybe Daisy is a friend. (Better than resetting and having Olly go through trying to get Daisy to notice him and having the bully be reset)  I think it might have been an interesting series. but the short is alright.  

   

   It also gives me a "Dexter's Lab" vibe by the designs and maybe the strange science, like just screwing off the dogs head to get a piece of it's brain. I kind of miss that fun absurdity in cartoons. There's some fun to be had watching cartoon.

  That's it for now, tune in next time when we put a cat's brain in a robot. 

Oh Yeah! Cartoons: #6: Twins Crimson and Those Amazing Robots

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   Previously, I'm an ink boy in an ink world, made of Papermate Ink   [HERE]

       #6 Twins Crimson and
Those Amazing Robots 

Season 1, Episode 6b 

     Long title, aright, Twins Crimson and Those Amazing Robots was created by Carlos Ramos who later on created the short lived Nicktoon, "The X's".  

       

    Twin siblings, Bene and Beck,  are destroying the house by existing and their 50's mother kicks them out the house to play. Apparently, their house leads into the jungle where they go play for awhile until they find a new town called Metroplex, a town of the future.  Robots are destroying trees and stuff when Bene kicks one and starts yelling at it , she's taunting a robot.  (Power move) 

         That works and the robots start cleaning up the mess for the animals, and fixing the trees. A faceless man sees this and wants it stopped and sends out more robots to destroy stuff, and this becomes a robot fighting show. Bene and Beck  get the animals to come in and join the fight. Never thought I'd see a rhino take down a robot, but cool.   They do stop the bad robots from destroying the jungle and the evil guy accepts this and decides to build somewhere else. (huh, alright then) 

   The good robots take them back home and the parents faint. (or die hmmm)

     

     Beck's voice sounds like Ralph Wiggum a little, and that might because both twins are voiced by Nancy Cartwright. Cheryl Chase is the voice of the mom.  It's kind of funny that Cartwright uses hints of her Wiggum voice in this. There's some sounds like Nelson in this too.

    

         The art style is nice, they made Beck blue and Bene Pink, you'll see parents in those colors at the end.  They do the classic you don't see the parents' faces.  The world is interesting, there's whole jungle in the back of their otherwise normal suburban house.  I liked how the story kind of becomes a robot battle with animals to save the jungle, pretty creative.  The robots have some fun designs each one is different. 

      

      It might have been fun if it had become a series, I don't see it lasting long, but it would have been a fun ride.  The characters don't seem interesting at first , but  you see some characterization and have pretty interesting dynamic.  I had fun watching this one.  

   

        That's it for now, tune in next time, when Bene yells at Bart Simpson.    

Oh Yeah ! Cartoons : #5 Blotto

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  Previously, Robot gives me feelings   [HERE]

       #5 Blotto

 Season 1, Episode 5c

 Blotto is created by Bryon Vaughns, and  this one goes for a fun idea.  It starts showing an artist's room and it shows ink blots and the ink blots on the paper start moving and this begins the story.  

                   This one has a fun art style using retro styled character designs for Blotto and Dotto. The ink world is pretty fun, still giving the space of being mostly white and empty to show that it's still paper. There's also a comic book world that gives it's own retro pop art vibe.   The entire 7 minutes are also sung. That's right this whole thing is music which makes it stand out and feels like an old cartoon where everything is music. 

     Wayne Brady sings Blotto's lines  while Kenna J Ramsey sings Dotto's lines. The story is simple Blotto loves the ink world while Dotto, doesn't she wants something more.  A comic book villain notices that Dotto doesn't like the ink world and thinks he has a chance for her to be with him. Thankfully, for him, his song works.  

    Blotto gets jealous and tries to see if he can get Dotto back but the villain able to do things in the comic book world to stop him. The cartoon here gets really cartoonish, and embraces the comic book world very well.  

      Then a director stops things and starts saying that Blotto is a star.  Also doesn't doesn't end well for Blotto.

    This one was very fun and energetic. I like the concept a lot. I don't think this one feels intended to be a series, and it probably wouldn't have worked as one, but it was really fun too see it. It makes sue of the fun of the animation medium quite well and harkens back to classic cartoons as well. The music aspect of it makes it really pop.  

            Say the line , alright, do go check this one out !

   That's it for now, tune in next time when we enter a world inside of notebooks!   

     

Oh Yeah! Cartoons : #4: Protecto 5000

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    Previously, the real villains are the girlfriends we make a long the way... (tugs collar) [HERE]

 

       #4 Protecto 5000

                                                                  Season 1, Episode 4a 

           Oh a robot!  Protecto 5000 was created John Eng ,whom also worked on "Jimmy Neutron" and "The How to Train your Dragon" series. (Unless IMDB was wrong)  Anyway, this short takes us through different time periods showing us different destructive things going.  To take us the short's present time.  

    There's a girl named Nadya she's moved a few times and has social anxiety problems  and her mother hopes that she'll be able to make friends at this new school.  She meets a robot named Kenny, who is disguised as a school janitor.  This school has some kids that bother her and lock her in a room that she's stuck in until the night.  

     Kenny finds her and helps and she's wonders what kind of robot he is, he eventually tells her that he's a protection android from a different galaxy.  He mentions how his boss, one of the beings we saw in the time sequence at the start; the one that went away after the atomic bomb test, is gone and he feels that he's bad luck.  

   

         A power line is knocked over by driver who fell sleep and he goes to save a party, Kenny is knocked out by the shock, but he's not death. They have become friends. 

       This one is great,  I love the concept, a girl who has no friends and is socially awkward and an android who feels guilt about not doing his primary function working together.  I think it would have been a fun series to have on TV. It would really be an interesting idea to have this progress to see how Kenny and Nadya help each other along the way, while also maybe help save people. 

       It's not comedic, and that's what works for it, it's heartwarming and little sad.  I don't know the reason why this didn't make it as a series, but I kind of wish we lived in the world where this was. 

   I like the character designs, Kenny is retro looking robot showing his age.  Nadya being so small compared to the bullies and Kenny is a nice contrast , showing how she might feel in the world. Teh character designs use nice basic shapes, Nadya's hands are not shown with fingers and her legs are point at the end. The biggest bully has a big body and little legs.  Very distinct art style design.  The voice acting is top notch, including, Grey Griffin, Joe Alaksey, and Mary Kay Bergman.  The short uses nice simple backgrounds that give their own characteristic  making characters pop.  

     

          I'm going to say this alot for these shorts, but here really do check this one out, I really found this one to be something special.  

   That's it for now, tune in next time, when I wipe the tears away. 

Oh Yeah! Cartoons: #3: ThattaBoy

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   Previously:  what if   The Three little pigs were in X-Files? [HERE]

  

                               #3  ThattaBoy

                                  Season 1 Episode 3b

          Thattaboy  was created by Alex Kirwan who was hired to work at Frederator studios (the studio working on this series) right after leaving High School.  He worked drawing plots for "Johnny Bravo" and worked later on "My Life as Teenage Robot" , but he did submit one short for "Oh Yeah!" this one!

             

        This one has a vibe of classic cartoons to it, Thattaboy is superhero  who is tired of fighting robots.  Meanwhile there's an alien who wants to kidnap a popular TV dog to then invade the world.(That's a plan)  Also, there's a girl named Georgette who has Medusa snake hair who's birthday is coming up and wants Thattaboy so she can destroy him. 

   

    There's some teenage girls stealing things and they crash into Georgette's supervillain father where Thattaboy comes up and stops them.  His girlfriend, Polly, wants to be a supervillain. (What a twist!)  She let's the villains go and Thattaboy wonders if he should give, then the Martians show up and he goes maybe not .

    It's quick paced  and packing a lot in it's  almost 7 minutes.  The animation style has a retro almost art deco future style, giving the 30's vibe of what the future could look like.  The character designs are interesting. They are very distinctive, Thattaboy's eyes come together taking up most of his face, his costume is distinct, with a mix of yellow, blue, and red. His robot dog is very interesting too. The villains all have their own nice looks too, very creative Martians. Polly has a very retro cartoon woman design. 

          I think the  stories would have worked as eleven minute stories or a show having 3 7minute segments.  I do think this could have been interesting as a series, it's a fun superhero styled show with creative ideas, I liked that Polly is bored and decides to become evil, such a funny way to make a new villain.  Thattaboy is  a very focused on fighting crime character there are a lot of things that could be done with that. 

    The comedy is fun and past paced as well.  The  plans are creatively silly.  There's a really fun aesthetic  to this . Though, I will say some parts of it do feel like a little too fast and so, like you might not want to try to absorb it too fast.   There's some fun to be had watching this, so do go that. 

     

   That's it for now, tune in next time, when we turn evil. oooh 

         

   

           

       

        

       

         

       

Oh Yeah! Cartoons: #2 : F-Tales

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                 Oh Yeah! Previously, Jelly's Day was fun we spent a day had fun, saw plant -human love come in action.  [HERE] 

 

 

#2 F-Tales

                                                              From Season 1, episode 2a

       No, we aren't covering up the F-word, that's the name of the short. This is one going as parody of  "The X-Files" because this is the 1990's and of course there is going to be a parody. 

   

   It even has "X-Files" tile theme intro, just enough to be different so they don't get sued, but close enough to make sure you notice it.  This one was created by Rob Renzetti. he worked on a few Hanna-Barbera/Cartoon Network shows before doing things for Nick and we'll be seeing his name a few times during our journey.  He did get a Nick series that being "My Life as Teenage Robot".  

      The F in F-Tales is based on fairy tales stories and doing fairy tale stories as mysteries to be solved.  A Fox woman and Chicken Little are our two lead investigators our Muller and Scully if you will. They are investigating the story of the "Three Little Pigs"

      You can tell where this story goes, mostly but the twist is fun and like how the wolf is defeated. The ending is funny too. I like how the Chicken Little's madness is set up from the start. 

  

               This was fun, but I can tell why this was wise not to make it a series. The thing that hurts it is the "X-Files" parodying, that wouldn't really hold the show as much, the only thing that works for maybe is the X Files. That's fun for an episode, but I can see where it would wear thin as a series. Also fairly tales, the subverting Fairy tales thing could have worked though as this was right before "Shrek" would scratch that itch. 

    For what it is though, it's a pretty fun short, the humor is well done. It was all fun to see.  The character designs and personalities were fun. The nervous chicken-little who worried about the sky falling and thinking everything is a conspiracy (so he's Facebook?) , the cool fox who's more grounded, the pigs have their own designs and personalities.   Give this one a look. 

     Oh yeah! Some of these posts are going to be short, I'm giving each short their own little post, instead of doubling them up. 

    Anyway that's it for now, tune in next time when we investigate why the little mermaid melted into foam.