Warning: this review contains spoilers.
I hate this cartoon. I admit, it has an amazing production value and some good animations, but "The amazing world of Gumball" (Tawog) is a fine example of "great graphics don't make a great cartoon" just like from a great graphics you can't always get a great video game. I'm amazed to see how many people actually loved this piece of garbage and how many prises it got. They put this cartoon along with "Regular Show" and "Adventure Time" but this is a huge mistake (in my opinion). Now I'll give you my reasons why this cartoon sucks and why it shouldn't exists.
First of all the intro: it sucks. It's messy, confusing as hell and annoying, it makes me wanna throw up every time. The music is annoying, repetitive and poorly catchy. It reminds me the "Saria's song" and the "Epona's song" from "The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of time" and it always ends with an annoying sound of a flute.
The characters are the worst; they seem to be stereotypes of stereotypes (especially Richard Watterson). The show has a blue cat named Gumball (he's the only one in the family to have such ridiculous name, imagine if you could name your child "Cheese" or "Biscuit") as protagonist. He's blue because, as the creator said, no one saw a blue cat in a cartoon (or maybe he never saw Tom from "Tom & Jerry", Doraemon or Oggy). He's always followed by his "brother" Darwin, an evolved goldfish. These guys are supposed to be funny but, trust me, they aren't. They are so goofy and silly. Their attitude reminds me of the Jar Jar Binks from "Star Wars" (and that says a lot) and sometimes they act strangely in some situations (Rigby and Mordecai are much better than these two dorks). They are one of the few anthropomorphic animals in Elmore because all the other support/minor characters are anthropomorphic items or food. The are some other characters which I have no idea what the heck they are supposed to be (like Tobias Wilson) and they look creepy, so creepy that can be easily be every child's worst nightmare. Just like the main characters, even these support/minor character are annoying and unfunny. They just put everything and that's trivial. Some Characters (like Steve) are completely inappropriate for a kid's show (he's smoke from marijuana and he acts and talks like an addict).
The writing is the worst: it total lacks of originality, consistency and inventive. Some episodes (like "The laziest") have one of the worst concepts ever seen in a cartoon. There are 4-5 (8 in season 4) writers behind each episode and what you get is a boring cartoon. It's not boring because nothing happens, conversely, it happens everything. In each episodes happen so many random and unfocused things that will confuse and bore you. You'll always wait for the episode's end and though each episode is 10-11 minutes long it seems an eternity. The cartoon is too silly to be funny, too weird to be enjoyable. Some episodes are uninspired and some ideas plagiarized from other cartoons, and this is the work of 4-8 writers put together (that's incredible). Dialogues are the worst; looks like the writers wrote one of the worst dialogues that you'll ever hear in a kid's cartoon. Some dialogues completely make no sense, it looks like the characters are raving. Some dialogues hide potentially morally-harmful messages which are completely not suitable for kids. You just have to hear the very first dialogue from the first episode "The DVD" to realize how bad the dialogues are.
Humor: it's the worst. It's feeble, juvenile, silly and way too nonsense that makes the cartoon unfunny most of the time. Sometimes, the nonsense-easy-cheesy-slapstick-juvenile humor is so unfunny to be an insult to my intelligence. They are very few funny moments. I mean, it is possible that 8 writers can't find something funny? Even a kid can find Tawog's humor offensive and unfunny. I don't know how this show reached the fourth season. Fourtanely the fifth will be the last one, then we'll never hear about this cartoon and its creator anymore.
Final verdict: 3 out 10
If you're up for a funny and enjoyable cartoon please watch "Regular Show" and avoid this one. The Amazing world of Gumball is a poorly planned, horribly written and juvenile cartoon. It must be compared with "Uncle Grandpa" and, like this one, it must be forgotten.
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