Sorry it's a couple of days late but here is the Cartoon Vault review for Angela Anaconda.
Angela Anaconda started as a short on Nickelodeon's Kablam, a series featuring numerous cartoons much in the same vein as Cartoon Networks Cartoon Cartoons production.
Despite the fact that Action League Now was the best series, only Angela Anaconda actually became a full on cartoon when it got picked up by Fox.
Yes this hideous cut out cartoon managed a 65 episode series but god knows why, it's awful.
Let me explain how this was made, basically a number of photos were taken of willing models and the faces were animated onto cartoon bodies, problem is it's not just creepy but makes everything look cheap in terms of production.
So the show is about Angela who kindly reminds us in the opening theme song that it's her show, much in the same way Doug does. In fact there are many similarities between the two; both enjoy self indulgent fantasies, both are social outcasts apart from a small group of equally weird friends and both can't shake off an annoying bully but while Doug at the very least is likeable to a certain extend, Angela on the other hand is very obnoxious and pretty much all her fantasies revolve around getting revenge and you have to wonder if they deserve it sometimes, even Nanette Manoir, little Miss "I can't speak French but it makes me look better if I fake it anyway"
Actually that's another thing, I find it odd that a Canadian show would put in a fake French character for laughs, which comes across as slightly uncomfortable but it's not nearly as bad as Angela gets particularly when in one episode she fakes Agoraphobia to avoid school which to real sufferers is very awkward and offensive.
Like I said before, this is bad, Johnny Test bad. While it is a neat animation technique to use cut out pictures it's not such a good idea to form the basis of a full on cartoon using said method. Flash animation and Robot Chicken suit this style better; but still were stuck with the haunting memory of this show ruining Digimon.
Now as I have some days off and lots of free time so more entries will come thick and fast.
Before I start I should explain Angela Anaconda.
Angela Anaconda was a Canadian Cartoon that used Cutout animation which is essentially a mesh up of flat images cut out from sources such as kids drawings or black and white photos in the case of Angela Anaconda. It's basically reverse gender Doug but Angela is a lot more obnoxious, ironically this was first made for Nickelodeon before Fox took it up for US audiences.
Now for this pile of shame; you see Fox had the rights to the Digimon Movie and decided to try and promote it with a shameless self promotion for Angela Anaconda.
The basic plot is Angela and friends are going to see the movie and all rush to get seats until local stuck up fake French girl Nanette and her teacher Mrs Brinks block the view of the screen, then using her imagination she digivolves into Angelamon and defeats Nanette. After her little self indulgent fantasy they realize they're in the wrong movie screen and all rush away leaving Nanette and Brinks in a mess.
Yes that was real and here is the evidence to prove it complete with my own personal reaction to it.
This is pretty much how Anime haters pictured Digimon and that's a sad thing to comment on; it certainly didn't set us up well for the film, if anything we all felt put off by it. Not that the film is any better, it was a huge mess of a story anyway but that's for another review.
However if you want me to expand on the abomination that is Angela Anaconda, then post your comments below and she'll go into the vault.
