I'm NEARLY a month late, but I was finally able to sit down and drink in all of Netflix's highly anticipated 'The Cuphead Show!' based on the video game created by Chad and Jared Moldenhauer.
The series, developed by Dave Wasson (who also developed Disney's current quirky incarnation of Mickey Mouse shorts) follows Cuphead (voiced by Tru Valentino) and Mugman (Frank Todaro) and their adventures of Inkwell Isle along with a cast of other unique characters, like the charming King Dice (Wayne Brady), the adorable Ms. Chalice (Grey Delise) and the Devil himself (Luke Millington-Drake) to name a few...
I was pleasantly surprised by the series' originally, it could have easily borrowed more heavily from the game, with each episode centering around each level and its villains, but the series exists in a very full, developed world, inhabited by all the game's characters, and I'm sure we'll meet them all when the time is right.
The art and comedy style of this series is right up my alley, strongly inspired by Max Fleisher and Disney shorts of the 20s and 30s, with sequences set to classical music (a la Silly Symphonies) and fun original tunes sprinkled throughout. Pair that with the (relatively) unknown voice cast, making sure the series doesn't sound like anything you've heard before.
There was clearly a lot of love and talent put into this series, the hand-painted backgrounds are beautiful and really make the goofy "rubber-hose" animation feel like something from the Golden Age of animation that we somehow all missed.
My only compliant is having to wait for a Season 2...
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