Title: The Venture Bros.
Starring The Voices Of: James
Urbaniak, Patrick Warburton, Michael Sinterniklaas, Chris McCulloch, Doc Hammer,
Steven Rattazzi, T. Ryder Smith, Paul Boocock, Mia Barron, and Lisa Hammer
Writers: Jackson Publick and Doc
Hammer:
Creator and Director: Jackson
Publick
Producer: David Lipson
Media: Cartoon Network Adult
Swim Original Animated Series (NTSC DVD Screener)
Premiere Saturday, August 7,
2004, at 11pm (ET/PT)
Network: Cartoon Network (Check
your local cable/satellite listings for channel)
TV Rating: Not Available At Time
Of Review
Reviewer: Mark A. Rivera
Combining elements of The
Hardy Boys and Johnny Quest with some mild adult humor, “The
Venture Bros” is an engaging comedic romp on the wild side with two as nerdy
as can be paternal twin brothers who along with their hapless genius scientist
dad and a big muscle bound brute of a bodyguard go on funny adventures through
space, the Bermuda Triangle, the bottom of the sea, and Mexico… The villains
tend to steal the show away from the heroes with such characters as the Monarch,
The Phantom Limb, Baron Underbheit, and the Orange County Liberation Front.
Episodes open with a letterboxed teaser that gives the 30-minute animated comedy
adventure series a slight theatrical feel before the shows open up in the
traditional (1.33:1) broadcast aspect ratio.
There is some very mild adult
humor here and there, but overall it is the twisted look at 1960s adventure
cartoons that makes “Venture Bros” entertaining to watch.
© Copyright 2004 By Mark A.
Rivera
All Rights Reserved.