Pingu in the City (2018)

*Some of the points made are based to season 01*

I like memes. In fact, one could say I am some sort of meme connoisseur, shitposter with endless stamina, collector of rare pepes, and in generally aware of all sorts of obscure coaxed snafu/moviescirclejerk epic. However, when I see one of the goofiest cartoons from my childhood rebooted and then turned into some sort of beyond childish and completely dull version of the original, I am not calling it the best thing evertz for the sake of lulz. Especially when it not-so-obviously is not it. --- I asked 3 natives if this if grammatically correct way ... to present what I want to express here, and all of them said a different thing, but basically: it sucks.

~~Story~~

The story types are limited and highly similar to each others. Pingu is doing some newly discovered thingies that vary from painting to helping firefighters, and being very useful while doing so, but then he either a) fucks it up and tries his best to fix it, or b) alternatively some asshole appears and rekts his hard work in some way. Sometimes he himself is the asshole when he gets to boss around kids younger than him. It's pretty fun. Especially when watched once a week and the word "fun" being the opposite of what it really means.

Some of the episodes feel like the first cognitive psychology test made to a few months old toddler where he/she is supposed to make a triangle, ball and square go in the right holes. The story writing can feel braindamaging-ly cringe. Some other stuff is far more reasonable and occasionally even entertaining. Typically it is just overly childish nonsense that has no appeal or charm.

~~Characters~~

Pingu is just being a real nerd here, getting interested over nothing or mad because someone teases him, only to become happy and go "noot noot" 2 minutes later. Real mood swinger this guy. The original cartoon Pingu was totally different and much more reasonable than this kid.

Great many side characters are either teasing him "ho ho ho Pingu you nerd" laughing at him (not with him) when he does something stupid or alternatively laugh at him when he does an ordinary thing but doesn't fuck it up, unlike usually. Occasionally other characters get mad at him because he fucks something up, or just tease him until they change their mind and actually help him instead because friendship or something. Part of the cast exists for the purpose of cheap provoking just to eventually show that they are "good guys" after all. Nice lesson I guess, good thing it's repeated till nausea and has nothing new to say.

~~Animation~~

Some scenes are neato. I especially appreciate those scenes where our characters waddle away, waddle waddle. It's cute. The original cartoon was actually entertaining to watch and serves an adult audience as well with its animation trickies, but this one is just overly childish nonsense. It's real basic stuff, not fluid at all, really just a try hard attempt to stay inside a small budget and follow the safety route. Inferior version of the original in every way and offer practically no reasons to appreciate it.

~~Sounds~~

Noot Noots, inaudiable dialogue. Outside the waddling, the sounds are pretty much filler, Noot noots are practically the only thing keeping the series on surface at this point despite getting old decades ago and being the most annoying thing already in the original cartoon.

~~Conclusion~~

I was team Pingu during the Shingeki no Kyojin opening wars in 2013 solely because this version of the cartoon didn't exist back then. Now I would have to choose something else. The original Pingu is still entertaining to watch and doesn't have nearly as shitty characterization. I am not going against that one, but this blows.