Maybe they have statistics that say children love it. Golden Age cartoons were often quite violent by today’s standards, and I’m not sure many children play Cuphead. Part of the problem might be that it’s rated TV-Y7, which is a bit baffling to me. What does The Cuphead Show offer? Stop motion backgrounds, I guess, which it uses sparingly. While I don’t necessarily expect The Cuphead Show to throw a muffled filter over its sound and remove frames to make it look like an antique reel, what they chose to do instead just leaves it without its own personality. Normally the humor leans closer to modern cartoons. It will make references to it, sure, but usually these references are things like having the flowers dance or having the devil pull his face in frustration. It doesn’t seem to even reach for the visual language spoken in the old cinema days of cartoons. The animation is more akin to Ren & Stimpy or Spongebob Squarepants. There’s very little linking it to the love of old cartoons that the game thrived on. No, instead, Cuphead and Mugman get into situations that we’ve seen before. The first few years of Popeye cartoons was Bluto and Popeye competing over everything and inevitably beating the tar out of each other. A lot of Golden Age animation was exactly that. There’s the occasional song, and while they aren’t annoying, they aren’t particularly memorable either.Ĭould you have had a show based entirely around fighting bosses? Yes. The bosses from the games get tied into The Cuphead Show, albeit their roles are changed completely to the point where they just seem like token inclusions. Both of those play out in predictable ways, which is the word I’d wrap the whole show in: “predictable.” One week Cuphead and Mugman are babysitting and another they’re taking care of Elder Kettle’s garden. Cuphead does owe his soul to the Devil after flubbing a game of skeeball – a plot device that crops up in the occasional episodes – but rather than work off his debt, Cuphead does… very little at all. In order to retain their souls, they have to collect bounties on other souls throughout the Inkwell Islands. The Cuphead game had more narrative than Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse, showing Cuphead and his brother Mugman losing a bet with the devil. Castlevania turned out great, and it was based on an NES game that told its story through a text crawl. The Cuphead Show is Netflix’s latest transfer of a game to their streaming service.
Do you know what only superficially resembles a Golden Age cartoon? The Cuphead Show. That’s right, do you know who loves Golden Age cartoons? This gal. Or, more specifically, the VHS transfers of those cartoons, which is something I got to experience as a child.
Cartoons that existed before the television sucked them all into Saturday mornings when they played in theatres before the actual feature. After all, its style is directly lifted from the Golden Age of Animation. All Rights Reserved.It feels like it makes sense that Cuphead would get a cartoon.
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