![]() ![]() ![]() Not to mention the characters, who nearly single handedly sink 'Angela Anaconda'. The rivalry/hatred between Angela and Nannette is overplayed and so stereotypical, and made even worse by that Angela's fantasies go well overboard on the sadistic factor that it becomes distasteful. In that they were done in a funny and truthful way (never happened here), had more variation and weren't so reliant on stereotyping and when it did it was in a healthier way. The stories are also predictable and repetitious, every story has been done to death and a billion times better. It's just childish, unfunny and repetition-heavy. Nothing funny or smart here, nor intelligent or identifiable. 'Angela Anaconda' still is a really badly written show. ![]() The rest of the music is instantly forgettable and is more intrusively discordant with the action than fitting it let alone enhancing. It has a simplistic melody (too simplistic to be catchy, but it turns out memorable for all the wrong reasons), very poorly written and cheesy lyrics (that make one hate the titular character even before the story kicks in) and particularly the grating voice of the titular character that is enough to haunt nightmares of those not usually prone to them. No make that hideous, ugly feels more beautiful in comparison describing a show that just looks so drab in colour, stiff in movement and just so unappealing in every way, a visual eyesore if you will. Could have been an innovative technique, certainly sounded like it, sadly it was an innovative technique that was poorly done and looked ugly. Do appreciate more what the animation style was, having had over-time gained more knowledge of various styles and doing more research on them, and that the show was going for a mix of computer animation and photo-graphics (for the characters' faces mainly). ![]() Unfortunately, my childhood perspective memories of 'Angela Anaconda' are exactly the same as an adult. Decided to re-watch to see whether my view had changed (whether it was a case of not getting its style or something) or whether my memories of it being poorly animated, irritating, disturbing, negatively stereotypical and repetitive with terrible voice acting and an annoying theme song were the same. That never became the case with 'Angela Anaconda', it stayed consistently terrible and it is not hard to see why it was relatively short lived (despite high ratings and mixed critical reception at the time, now it's often considered one of the top 10 worst "scary" cartoons of all time) and has faded into relative obscurity. As said, there are a lot of shows that start off rocky but become much more settled and at their best they're really good or more. Have to concur with this, was halfway through primary school when 'Angela Anaconda' aired on Cartoon Network, often during summer holidays at odd times of the day, and disliked it intensely then from the start but kept watching to be fair on it and see if it get better. Another commentator has mentioned hating it as a child as well an adult. Oddly enough it takes a lot for me to be critical of animation, but it's far from been unheard of due to a lot of bad animations out there as well as a higher number of good and more ones. Also as a huge fan of animation, and mostly actually am easily pleased when it comes to watching it on a regular basis. Although a young adult, this negative review is actually coming from somebody who is a young adult but a child at heart and aims to be honest, encouraging and perceptive without being insulting or arrogant about how my opinions are expressed. This is not coming from an adult who takes pleasure in judging animated shows harshly, who makes up unfounded excuses as to why certain stuff should not be seen, who is jaded and who judging it too much through adult eyes and not from a childhood stand-point. ![]()
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