3-2-1 Penguins Save The Planets! Out tomorrow. (***3/10)
Alliance Films releases 3-2-1 Penguins: Save The Planets on October 14th. While 3-2-1 Penguins is done by the same people who do VeggieTales, this series does not make it to the level of VeggieTales in terms of humour and fun. The fun in this series seems to be derived simply from the fact that there are penguins. And they’re in space. Whee! Simply having a ridiculous premise seems to be enough for 3-2-1 Penguins. The characters are all the standard ones you find in cartoons all over the world, especially the leader of the penguins, a big dude with Elvis hair who is a complete idiot. So…he makes the wrong decisions, and the rest of the crew have to compensate. Nothing we (or our kids) haven’t seen hundreds of times before.
This particular DVD features three episodes of the show, and the humour in each individual episode comes from more ludicrous ideas. So…they’re on a planet, and it’s populated by talking sheep! Hilarious, no? They throw peanut butter at their computer! This is about all the funny they can manage. And it isn’t that much. And then at the end of each episode, the human characters, Jason and Michelle, learn some kind of moral. Like, the grass isn’t greener on the other side of the fence. It’s a pretty irritating show, and it’s no VeggieTales.