The animation is bright and beautifully detailed with some suitably wild expressions in faces, eyes and body language, despite preferring the bolder and more traditional look. A lot of fine individual components can be found. Dot doesn't have an awful lot of personality here.
It's a story that does not sound exciting at all on paper and the execution just has next to nothing to it. The weakest segment by far is the very flimsily plotted and very bland "A Zit". The Warners were inconsistently characterised on this show, but this is thankfully closer to the wackier, witty personalities of the original than the smug ones that have been apparent in some episodes. It isn't an original plot and it is slight, but it's energetic, the writing is funny and smart with no signs of dumbing down and it is true in spirit to that of the original 'Animaniacs' on the whole. Really liked "Manny Manspreader" on the whole. Once again, the character writing for both titular characters is a delightful revelation and indicative of people that loved the understood the characters. Which was sharply, smartly and wittily written on the whole and the story wouldn't be too out of place in 'Pinky and the Brain'. While not perfect, with it being a type of concept done before elsewhere with a little more originality, for me the best segment was "1001 Narfs". Luckily the other two more than made up for that.
"A Zit"/"1001 Narfs"/"Manny Manspreader" is another one of the very inconsistent but also very watchable episodes, actually thought that generally it was pretty good despite not caring for one segment (which was not a surprise for me as that was the case with a lot of the episodes from this reboot). Almost all the previous episodes of the show falls in the very inconsistent but also very watchable category, excepting Episodes 5 and 11 which for me were great. Part of me was interested to see how they would work in a contemporary setting, but much of me also questioned its point because it didn't sound necessary to me as can be the case with a lot of reboots. Likewise with 'Pinky and the Brain' (not the case with its spin off 'Pinky, Elmyra and the Brain'). The original 'Animaniacs' is one of my favourite animated shows and a favourite overall. Expectations were very mixed for this 'Animaniacs' reboot.
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