Plot Synopsis
Dr. Light is showing off his brand new robotic dinosaurs at a friend, Auto Raptor's, Robosaur Theme park. Yes, this is going to be a Jurassic Park throwback, but wait until the halfway mark. Well tourists are enjoying the park, when Toad Man and more of Wily's bots show up and reprogram the dinosaurs to attack the tourists. We get a decent action packed sequence followed up by Auto Raptor's betrayal, it turns out he was setting up Dr. Light and working with Wily all along. His reason? "Man should have went extinct! Not the dinosaurs!" Well, that's something isn't it?
Dr. Light calls in the Robo-Commando's (a robotic armed forces squadron group thing) to come in and control the dinosaurs, JUST LIKE DR. WILY HAD PLANNED! Now here's where things get interesting, Dr. Wily releases a virus across all the Robo-Commando's, and Mega Man, Rush and Roll, which causes all robots to revert to their primitive forms... well... er... actually more primitive man forms than primitive robots. It causes their robot hair to grow long, their posture to slump over, and their speech to be reduced to "ooks" and grunts. I was pretty busy laughing with a nice "what the hell?" look on my face for a while.
With the Robo-Commando's under Wily's control, Dr. Light retreats Mega Man back to his lab where he gives him a serum that will temporarily slow the virus. Dr. Light will work on an antidote while Rush, Roll and Mega Man go fight Wily's robots who are using the robo dinosaurs to destroy the city.
Mega Man starts to run out of energy, and I was about to get irritated as it seemed to have come out of no where, but Dr. Light says his loss of energy was the cause of the virus, so I guess I'll buy that. I don't know why I decided to nit pick the details of a show where robots are turning into cave men.
Dr. Light has perfected the antidote, but Wily steals it. He jumps into his Skulker-mobile and flies away, and Mega Man is now reverting to a cave-bot. Luckily, Mega Man manages to steal Toad Man's weapon, and Rain Flush manages to melt through Wily's Skulker, releasing the antidote into the rain, curing all the robots. Wily and his bots escape, but Auto Raptor is captured.
Critique
How ridiculous does a cartoon show have to get before you won't buy it anymore? Here's a good episode to test your personal limits, as this one is incredibly stupid. The question is, is this episode bad because it's dumb? Actually not really, maybe if I was eight years old this would be good enough for me. There's quite a bit of action, and seeing Mega Man fight dinosaurs is pretty cool, albeit, ridiculous. It's not like any of the other Mega Man episodes are particularly smart anyway.
Proto Man has some strange lines in this one. "Whatever turns you on, Doc." "Look out for Bambi!" "My brother, a neander-bot!" God, I love Proto Man in this show, he compliments the stupidity of this show so well. What can I say, this episode made me laugh, I guess that's good enough.
Rating: Thumbs Up!
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