It’s got to be the funniest cartoon I’ve seen in ages. Overall funny, with some gutsplitting moments.
Her dad’s a rocket scientist, her mom’s a brain surgeon, her best friend Ron Stoppable has a naked mole rat named Rufus. It’s a strange world they inhabit, with time-share supervillain lairs and Beanie Baby collectors/genetic engineers gone horribly awry.
The animation is good, the voice acting is good, and the writing is… well, the plot’s never much, but the gags remind me of first-season Buffy.
This show rocks! With Kim Possible and Lilo & Stitch, I’m starting to think that Disney is finally turning things around and I won’t have to be embarrassed to admit that I’m a huge Disney fan.
It does seem a lot like an animated Buffy, but replacing the “gothic horror” genre with the “super-secret-agent” genre. The big difference is that it’s not a secret at all; everybody knows that she does all this stuff. (In one episode, her rival on the cheerleading squad makes fun of her for having to save the world all the time and shirking her cheerleading captain duties.) So her character isn’t written so much as a super-hero than as an over-achiever. In a lot of ways, I think they handle the characters better than Buffy’s writers, just because they can take the set-ups even less seriously because it’s a cartoon.
You can find a little bit more about the show and its background at this Disney fan site.
My favorite character so far is Ricardo Montalban as Senor Senior Senior (with his son, Senor Senior Junior). As you said, the voice acting is excellent, and the character design is great. I’d say that the writing is excellent as well; it’s more subtle than you’d expect from a Disney channel show, and I really like how they manage to get heartwarming family comedy without making it all cloying. The “top-secret mission” part of the show always ties in with the “growing up and learning life lessons” part of the show, which really works.
Shego. And they’re “energy gloves,” from what I’ve heard. And yes, she most DEFINITELY is one of the high points of the show.
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