Recent content by Matt Grisham

In my opinion, this series is okay. It may not be as memorable as the 80s cartoon, but it does manage to stand on its own. This series is a continuation of the Lost Village movie, while taking more cues from the original source material (technically the comic books). However, there is one thing...

One particular fact I find is the reboot being produced in its native Belgium. In fact, other projects before it were produced in their native Belgium, too. Such as Les Aventures des Schtroumpfs (The Adventures of The Smurfs), premiered in 1965, and "The Magic Flute" movie (La Flute a Six...

After watching the reboot, I may have noticed a handful of flaws regarding it in general. Brainy and Clumsy are no longer best friends in the series. Characters, such as Dreamy and Tailor, were reduced to being one-dimensional and generic. Most of the adult Smurf characters sound like kids...

From what I heard, Season 5 was when the Smurfs started to jump the shark. But unlike Scooby-Doo, where Fred, Velma and Daphne were written out to focus on Scooby, Shaggy and Scrappy, the other Smurfs were still here to stay and occasionally helped the Smurflings when needed. Speaking of the...

Aside from no further evidence of critics panning the series for its obvious flaws and the recent rediscoveries of the American dubbed soundtracks in general, there was also an existing promo for the series.

"Mr. Grumble Boils Over" is an example of voices being poorly directed in the American dub. For example, both the wizard and Mr. Worry sound rather flamboyant and whiny. You're supposed to accept that they sound like this, but it gets rather annoying after a while. The only voice I don't have a...

Sure, the show may have new music from composers of Rave Music, such as John Loeffler and Manny Corallo. But they used Canadian voice talent rather than the NY voice talent that 4Kids was known for. From what I can tell, critics were not impressed. I can imagine them panning the series for its...

I'd imagine if the American dub would rerun on Boomerang in the early 2000s, rather than abandoning the master tapes altogether. This would also predate reruns of the 2008 series.

The strangest of this American dub is the differences between the intro and outro of the series. In America, the theme had a good set of lyrics explaining the characters and their variety of personality traits. But in Canada, the theme is just a hip-hop group of singers singing "Mr. Men" over...

Now, back to the 1997 show. The intro, for one, was initially thought to be the only thing existing on YouTube. It was until most of the American dubbed segments were found by XJ-Icequeen's friend, John.

That's just it. The import to Canada and US for the 1995 series was nowhere near as successful as the original British dub. The reason why the 2008 version is more popular, because of two reasons: it didn't have live action segments padding the runtime and most of the characters were casted...

Thanks for clearing that up for me. I've forgotten to point out the SFX when I made this thread. My apologies, it's my first time doing so. Both Mr. Skinny and Mr. Perfect have the exact same voice, actually. And Mr. Grumpy, to a lesser extent.

I thought that show was hilarious when I saw it on Cartoon Network at school one day. I didn't know who they were, until I saw the title and name of the characters. Ever since then, I got interested in the series and continued to watch it up to its second season. On top of that, I haven't seen...

I just watched the 1997 American dub of each episode that was found from the VHS tapes recorded from its broadcast in the United States. It was back early in the summer this year on YouTube and there was something odd about this "dub". The addition of live action segments had nothing to do...

Thank you.