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Genny: I absolutely loved The Wild Thornberries growing up. As a kid, it was my favorite show on Nickelodeon (but then everything changed when the Fire Nation attacked), but as an adult maybe this kid who's only real power is the ability to talk to animals wasn't the coolest thing in the universe...
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NAH! It's still pretty rad. Eliza's more than just her gift. She's clever, brave, selfless, and resourceful. She's also rather ugly. In fact it never really struck me as a kid that the animation style of the show is kind of off-putting. And why does Darwin the chimp, who admits that he shares 98% of human DNA in the movie have long doggy ears instead of big human-like ears? Lots of weird aesthetic choices were made here, but enough about the animation and more on the movie. So the reveal of the villain(s) was so obvious that it was laughable that the movie would even bother trying to play it off for drama. Hey I said Eliza was clever, not intelligent; there is a difference between the two. If anything Darwin's the intelligent one, and I really liked their relationship throughout the movie, and the fact that it was tested by the inability to communicate at one point. If there's one thing the movie didn't pull off well other than obvious baddie is obvious, it was the increased focus on Eliza's adventures in boarding school and Debbie's adventures in the wilds of Africa. As a show about a tomboy who loves nature, that is not the kind of content anyone would pay to see. I get it, those two are completely out of their element and hilarity ensues, but the movie spends way too long focusing on that instead of on Nigel or something that might have been more interesting.

Red: Bad parenting is kind of a nickelodeon staple I guess. Hell even the animal parents that let their kids run off with a human child are bad parents in this one. This is one of the movies on the list most hurt by not having a background of knowledge on the series. I mean, I'm pretty sure Eliza has a brother that shows up a couple of times and for some reason hes full savage or something. On top of the fact her animal talking powers have stipulations and other things like that. This is also clearly from an age where all characters had to be ugly, because that was a thing I guess.

Scarlet: You have to wonder why Karo thought a list that featured virtually every single Nickelodeon cartoon ever made would be worthy of the time of Gauntlet Crew. Especially when you find yourself remembering that, by and large, Nickelodeon was the dimestore Cartoon Network, which was an animated company that desperately wanted to be a competitor with the standard Saturday morning cartoon manufacturing company, which in turn just wanted to recreate the success of Mel Blanc, who never truly found the success of Disney. Anyways, this was a movie that felt like I was watching Tarzan Jr., and at least the discovery of Flea in the voice cast tickled me during the credits.
Rating: 18/100

JONA: I always thought the show was boring and this was just like the show. Nothing outright bad, just boring.
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