Review: Animaniacs (2020)

 

Animaniacs (2020) is a reboot of the original Animaniacs from the 1990's.  I grew up watching the original run of the show.  It was one of my favorite animated shows back then.  I believe I didn't miss one episode if I'm not mistaken!  I loved it that much growing up.  Now it's back for 2 seasons.  It is on Hulu and I highly recommend all fans to get Hulu (it's cheaper than Netflix) in order to watch it.  So far it's the Warner brothers (and the Warner sister Dot) and Pinky & the Brain that are back.  Will they have any other characters (like Chicken Boo, Slappy Squirrel, Rita, etc.) come back?  I don't know.  Maybe they will in the second season.

 

So far I only watched one episode.  What are my thoughts?  I thought it was extremely good.  They slightly redesigned things and the color is different from the original run of the show.  There's a few minor details they changed for the 2020 version.  You'll need to watch it in order to see.  I've also noticed the voice actors' voices have aged a bit.  You can tell with Rob Paulsen, his Yakko voice has aged.  However, his Pinky voice has not changed at all.  Dot's voice sounds the same from the original run.  Wakko sounds very aged.   Brain's voice sounds very aged as well.  Is that a bad thing?  No, of course not.  I expected them to sound aged.

It's an excellent reboot.  I highly recommend it.  It will appeal to old fans and new fans.  I was pleasantly surprised.  I was happy that it did recapture some of the magic of the original run.  That was awesome.  Watch the official trailer above and I hope it'll encourage to you watch it!  You will not be disappointed!  Unless you're my friend Brian, he couldn't get through the first episode!  Ah well!

Rating: 5/5