When I'm not watching hilarious episodes of 'Venture Brothers' these days, I'm enjoying the great work of the animator Genndy Tartakovsky called 'Samurai Jack'. Genndy is best known for his creation of Dexter's Laboratory (not something I've ever seen more than a few minutes of), but also for an animated series of the Star Wars 'Clone Wars'. The animated 'Clone Wars' was created before George Lucas made the movie, and some of the ideas for the movie are reputed to have come from the cartoon, eg. General Grievous. I watched season 1 and 2 -20 episodes of about 3 minutes each- in a day last week. I wouldn't say fantastic, but I would say that it's interesting to see someone else's take on how the 'Clone Wars' story could've been done.
One thing that is fantastic though, is the story of Samurai Jack. Cartoon network details the story like this, "Trapped in the future by an evil shape-shifting wizard named Aku, ancient warrior Samurai Jack fights diligently in his quest to rid the world of Aku's curse while also searching for the time portal that will finally take him home". Not sold yet?? I would be either, but you've gotta believe me, this cartoon is bloody good. The artwork in the scenery and the cinematography is fantastic. Listen to that!! If I have to use the word cinematography in a description of a cartoon, something must be up. The cartoons each have very little dialogue, but it is not at all missed when you are taking in all the visual and aural effects.
I've only seen season 2 so far, so I'm looking forward to getting into some of seasons 1, 3 and 4 shortly. I should get myself as t-shirt or something, cos this Jack guy is damn cool. Do yourself a favour and watch one or three, you'll be impressed.
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