Spawn

1997

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8| 0h30m| TV-MA| en| More Info
Released: 16 May 1997 Ended
Producted By: HBO
Country: United States of America
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: http://www.spawn.com/entertainment/spawnanimated
Synopsis

Todd McFarlane's Spawn is an animated television series which aired on HBO from 1997 through 1999. It is also released on DVD as a film series. It is based on the Spawn comic series from Image Comics, and was nominated for and won an Emmy in 1999 for Outstanding Animation Program. An unrelated series titled Spawn: The Animation is in production since 2009, with Keith David reprising his role as the titular character. Like the comic book, the series features graphic violence, sexual scenes, and extensive use of profanity. Todd McFarlane's Spawn was ranked 5th on IGN's list of The Greatest Comic Book Cartoons Of All Time.

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Helloturia I have absolutely never seen anything like this movie before. You have to see this movie.
Bluebell Alcock Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies
Stephan Hammond It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,
Cheryl A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.
classic-henry Flat, colorless dialogue and characters just as one dimensional. The NYPD in Spawn is criminally stupid. One character, Twitch is the only one who approaches interesting. It's nice to see a strong black female character in Wanda Blake, but she only switches between that simple formulation and a few other clichés. The main saving qualities of this series are the animation quality, overall plot and concept (not the execution thereof, however), and the nostalgia factor. Todd McFarlane's intros are absolutely stupid. They give an idea of how much he wants to force a narrative tone ("And now, Spawn. So turn out the lights.) rather than create one. The effect is a melodrama whose painfully cliché dialogue wastes Keith David's incredible skills. The show does little to improve upon the source material or explore new dimensions of the Spawn universe and fails to create a product that fits into HBO's family of top-notch programming.McFarlane wasted an opportunity to tell a quality story that could attract a new audience, which was probably his intent, but he missed his mark so severely, ignores the potential of subtlety so thoroughly, that the end result is merely fan service in an attractive package.
D W this could have been a great show but it has a very disjointed plot and the pacing is awful.random bad guys are thrown in and a lot of the time spawn is just creeping around having flashbacks. seizure inducing flashbacks for the viewer.the animation is VERY good and the voice acting is also great. also gratuitous violence and nudity are always a plus.I get the feeling that the director of the series and the writers weren't used to scripting TV...only watch this if you a) haven't seen the movie (since you will be even more bored) and b) don't mind going 20 minutes at a time waiting for something meaningful and interesting to happen.
Criticman12 During the year when the live-action adaptation of, "Spawn", was released, HBO released an animated series based on the comic-book series that ran from 1997 to 1999. This is one of the greatest animated series ever made.The animation is excellent it make's the series look dark and edgy, the characters were great including Detectives Sam and Twitch, and the voice acting was good especially having Keith David provide the voice of the main character.Overall, if you didn't like the live-action movie or looking for a good show to watch, "Spawn: The Animated Series", is really worth watching.
deranger-1 The artwork is good, the story is not interesting enough to sustain interest through Spawn and Spawn 2. The animation is nothing awe-inspiring so we are just left with an animated film that isn't bad to watch if you've nothing better to do and have the time to kill. I expected more with Todd McFarlane's name attached to the project. I'd rate it a 4 in the scale of 1-10. I don't find the Spawn's inner turmoil something I can relate to as it is hard to understand why a hell spawned assasin would ever have touchy-feely thoughts of his past life while in the process of killing yet another merely evil mortal. The narration is present too often during the film. It's as if the writers knew any viewer would need help to navigate the waters but maybe should have just written better and dumped the narration. The clown just is irritating.

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