Sunday, November 29, 2009

Ruby-Spears: The Incredible Shrinking Mega Man

Guest Starring: Dust Man

Every single cartoon in the world has done an episode like this. Every cartoon.

Plot Synopsis
Wily's bots are smashing up the Smithsonian museum one night when Mega Man shows up to stop them. He's too late however, as they find some special gems which they can use with a shrink ray to shrink Mega Man. Mega Man, now the size of a mouse has to figure out a way to stop Wily, who is now using the shrink ray to shrink entire cities. Why is he shrinking them? To sell them to illegal art collectors so he can use the money to build new cities for robots.

Um... two questions. If Dr. Wily shrinks all the cities in the world, who will he be buying the materials from anyway, and if he wants a lot of money, why doesn't he just take the federal reserve out of New York City, which he shrinks in the episode?

Well luckily Mega Man gets a hold of Dr. Light, stops Wily, and turns big again. It's about as simple as that, with everything in between being Mega Man chasing down Wily.

Critique
Besides Wily's plot which makes absolutely no sense considering his weaponry, the episode is completely unoriginal, and anyone whose seen a cartoon has already seen this story. Mega Man is particularly painful with the puns this episode too, although there is something funny about seeing Guts Man driving a mini van.

Rating: Thumbs Down.

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