I watched the cartoon a lot when I was a kid. I thought the movie did a remarkably good job capturing the bizarre tone of the show. It was a “weirdly campy, but serious at the same time” kind of tone. The film captured the strangeness too well, and I think that’s part of the reason critics didn’t like it. They just didn’t get it, and to be honest, I can’t totally blame them for that.
I watched the cartoon a lot when I was a kid. I thought the movie did a remarkably good job capturing the bizarre tone of the show. It was a “weirdly campy, but serious at the same time” kind of tone. The film captured the strangeness too well, and I think that’s part of the reason critics didn’t like it. They just didn’t get it, and to be honest, I can’t totally blame them for that.