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Back in the day, cartoons were meant to be a genre of entertainment meant to remove oneself from the harsh realities bought on by both the World Wars. Many would flock to theatres and be presented with various cartoons of that time era. First, there were silent films, then came sound, then came colour, and so on and so forth. Most of the cartoons from this era were of upmost quality. The cartoonists and animators made sure that every single frame in the cartoons were created in the best of their ability. Note that these were hand-crafted, and not automatically (or mechanically) done. Just purely raw animations. Most of the time, cartoons would have a short plot with witty humour and fantastical moments. This continued on for a while, up until the creation of the television, whereupon cartoons were no longer being shown in theatres. Instead, cartoons were shown on a cubic box known as the television. As well, production quality of these cartoons were watered down drastically. One reason for this reduction has to do with rising productions costs. It became more expensive to hire staff to write stories and animate the cartoons. That's why this was the end of the so-called "Golden Age" of animation, as the animations of the cartoons were rather poor in quality. Many studios suffered from this, and instead put their budgets on the stories of the cartoons, rather than the animation. Unfortunately, this continued for 2 decades, up until at least the 80s. Near this time, animation generally took a turn for the better, as production costs have generally gone down due to the new methods used to animate cartoons. As well, instead of 5-8 minute shorts for cartoons, 10 - sometimes 20 minute cartoons are made. These cartoons are also released almost monthly, rather than yearly. During the 80s and 90s, cartoons were very surreal and eccentric, almost dreamlike perhaps. They were basically what cartoons have been ever since the beginning; being generally weird, but imaginative. This trend somewhat continued into the 2000s, although cartoons would make one final change. This time they would have thicker plots and more character development. A compilations of cartoons, known as a series, would be created where many of the characters would be dynamic, rather than static. While cartoons still inhibit the unrealistic aspect, they have somewhat toned that down, although not by much. It is only the 2010s and above where majority of cartoons are once again poor in quality and effort. With the introduction of computer-generated images, it is unlikely that one will come across a cartoon that is traditionally animated. CGI, unlike traditional animation, is far easier to use and create to generate animation. However, in transitioning to CGI, the quality of most cartoons have unexpectedly dropped. This is likely due to the fact that companies are cutting corners and attempting to lessen the budget constraints, whilst making a great deal of profit. As a result, there are many very poor - even outright extremely poor quality cartoons that are accessible anywhere. Although there are still very high quality cartoons nowadays; you simply just have to search hard for it. This series, however, isn't one of that. In the horrible web-series "Woody Woodpecker 2018", Universal Studios elaborates that in attempting to revive an irrelevant cartoon character, poor animations quality, terrible characters, and horrifying plots can lead to desperate, brainwashed, unsupervised, die-hard children to watch such an abomination. The animation of the web-series, despite being computer generated, is a major spit against the - oops, I've run out of space for this essay

Lovely little short that takes place in Australia. The characters are absolutely adorable. The only problem is that this short was the left overs of a movie named Larrikins with the same characters. It was supposed to be made into a big adventure, but the execs at Universal decided that the movie should be cancelled for nothing. Creator tried to make the movie in another studio, but the execs for whatever reason decided to keep the rights to the movie and prevented the movie from ever continuing. Such a shame. Surprised that Universal and Dreamworks are striving on these kinds of decisions.

I actually don't rate this piece of garbage 1 star; I rate it -5 stars. Like, what in the world is this movie? Nothing can describe the abomination of this horror of a piece. Who in there right mind would watch this movie? Maybe if you watch it ironically or for a review, but even then why torture yourself? The trailer was already a huge red flag. Surprised it even has above 0% on Rotten Tomatoes. And as for watching the movie, good luck trying to digest that. Lots of very bland and (sometimes) disgusting humour. The story is as dead as the main character in the movie. Speaking of character, who the hell is Woody Woodpecker? Such an inappropriately named character. Why does he laugh so weird? Why does it burp, defecate, gassy, and stupid looking? Never heard of this horrid character until I saw it on Netflix after looking around. The CGI and editing of this movie is comparable to Cardi B's music (hell, she has better music and I would rather listen to it than watch this movie). As for the other characters, they are just as irrelevant as Woody Woodpecker. Also, who greenlit this? Who in there right mind thought that this was a good idea? Who thought that people would watch this sewer monster? If there were infinite parallel universes out there, there is no universe out there where Woody Woodpecker is good or rrelevant. Save your soul, hear, mind, body, family, relatives, friends, teachers, prime ministers, presidents, every single human dead and alive.