Before watching Sonic Boom, Sonic X was the worst of the Sonic shows, with not enough Sonic and too much of a character that was both annoying and bland. Watching the show, for me Sonic Boom is almost on the same level.
There are a few things here that are good. While this viewer didn't think much of the voice acting generally, Mike Pollock is a lot of fun as Dr Eggman, the voice actor who consistently injects the most personality. The animation is very inconsistent and mostly in a bad way, but some of the colours are nice and vibrantly colourful. There are some inventive action shots, and there were a few well-written jokes in the second episode (which also did a nice job with Sonic and Tails' relationship), which gave the indication of a show that had a bad first episode but would get better but it went downhill again afterwards.
However, the rest of the animation is not great, the settings are on the most part very unimaginative, the amount of nice colours are outweighed by the number of flat and blurry-looking ones, lip-synchronisation is sloppy and sometimes even non-existent and the characters are incredibly stiff-looking and would look more at home in a PS2 video game rather than in an animated show airing fifteen years on (especially Knuckles). There is very little memorable or fitting in the music, and the theme tune- which is a lot of loud sound and not much else- feels rushed and incomplete, as well as feeling at odds with the animation.
Sonic Boom I didn't find a well written show. The humour does get too much when there should have been more story and action, and unfortunately the humour is a vast majority of the time incredibly forced and juvenile, it's so bad in the first episode especially that one has to resist the temptation to stop watching. The action is unexciting and often looks awkward, and the stories are too rushed in pacing, focus too much on everyday issues that are explored awkwardly and with little engagement and they repeat themselves far too much, Eggman's schemes are so samey it's tiresome. The characters have very little interesting or engaging about them, and the franchise characters are out of character with Eggman being played for laughs too much while Sonic treats and interact with the rest of the characters too much the same which undermines any conflict between him and Eggman.
Amy is personality-thin and the Minnie Mouse-like voice does not fit the character, Tails is a character that the show never does enough with, while Knuckles (a moron and unfortunately not an endearing one) and especially Sticks are incredibly irritating here. Aside from Pollock as Eggman, the voice acting is either lazy (Sonic) or irritating (Amy, Knuckles and Sticks).
Overall, has its moments but pretty underwhelming. 4/10 Bethany Cox
There are a few things here that are good. While this viewer didn't think much of the voice acting generally, Mike Pollock is a lot of fun as Dr Eggman, the voice actor who consistently injects the most personality. The animation is very inconsistent and mostly in a bad way, but some of the colours are nice and vibrantly colourful. There are some inventive action shots, and there were a few well-written jokes in the second episode (which also did a nice job with Sonic and Tails' relationship), which gave the indication of a show that had a bad first episode but would get better but it went downhill again afterwards.
However, the rest of the animation is not great, the settings are on the most part very unimaginative, the amount of nice colours are outweighed by the number of flat and blurry-looking ones, lip-synchronisation is sloppy and sometimes even non-existent and the characters are incredibly stiff-looking and would look more at home in a PS2 video game rather than in an animated show airing fifteen years on (especially Knuckles). There is very little memorable or fitting in the music, and the theme tune- which is a lot of loud sound and not much else- feels rushed and incomplete, as well as feeling at odds with the animation.
Sonic Boom I didn't find a well written show. The humour does get too much when there should have been more story and action, and unfortunately the humour is a vast majority of the time incredibly forced and juvenile, it's so bad in the first episode especially that one has to resist the temptation to stop watching. The action is unexciting and often looks awkward, and the stories are too rushed in pacing, focus too much on everyday issues that are explored awkwardly and with little engagement and they repeat themselves far too much, Eggman's schemes are so samey it's tiresome. The characters have very little interesting or engaging about them, and the franchise characters are out of character with Eggman being played for laughs too much while Sonic treats and interact with the rest of the characters too much the same which undermines any conflict between him and Eggman.
Amy is personality-thin and the Minnie Mouse-like voice does not fit the character, Tails is a character that the show never does enough with, while Knuckles (a moron and unfortunately not an endearing one) and especially Sticks are incredibly irritating here. Aside from Pollock as Eggman, the voice acting is either lazy (Sonic) or irritating (Amy, Knuckles and Sticks).
Overall, has its moments but pretty underwhelming. 4/10 Bethany Cox