Review and Media by Stu
Episode 11 - Mole Man
Original Airdate 3rd December 1994
The Mole Man, a villain from the bottom of the world, sinks the Rockerfeller
centre below group to kill The Fantastic Four, fearing only they are capable of
stopping him from taking over the world.
Credits
Screenplay By Elwin Ranson
Music By: Giorgio Moroder
Guest Starring: Gregg Berger as The Moleman
Based on Fantastic Four # 1
Review:
There are some very exceptional times in a cartoon when you can’t believe what you’ve just seen. Mary Jane turning to water, Robin shooting The Joker and Aquaman cutting his own hand off to save his son.None of these incidents will prepare you for the horror of hearing Johnny Storm rap. It’s not supposed to be funny. It’s supposed to b serious, which makes it all the more awful. The Thing’s performed raps before, but nothing to this degree of torture. Ugh.
The rest of the episode (providing you can sit through it) is of typical season one calibre, and the ending is high up there on the really stupid list. The Mole Man in particular was an especially lame villain, who once again had an awful design. Considering he’s one of the FF’s most popular foes, it’s a shame they didn’t attempt to do something good with him.
Friedman once again tried to use celebrities to make his show sound cool. It didn’t work with Liz Hurley on Iron Man, and didn’t work with Prince Charles here.
The animation for this particular episode wasn’t bad, but with a story like this, it simply couldn’t be saved. At this point in the series, it was foolish to expect a good episode. However, no man could’ve been prepared for the flame on rap.
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