Sep
29th
2015
Danger Mouse · 10:33pm Sep 29th, 2015
I'm so happy with the reboot of Danger Mouse. Almost everything works, they've managed to update it technically without losing the charm of the original, the voices are right -- and it couldn't possibly be American. Not that I have anything against cartoons from the western side of the Atlantic, obviously, but DM should not be one of them. I blogged a little while back about how I wished there were blind reactions to European cartoons. Well, if anyone's looking for one to do, Danger Mouse could well be it! 
Wait, hold on. There's a new frickin' Danger Mouse cartoon?! I'm about to freak out. I love that cartoon so much! I've been toying with getting a Danger Mouse tattoo for a while, but white isn't the best color on a tattoo. It's better as an accent. I watched that and Trap Door to death!
coool! I wonder if there's a Duckula reboot in the works too..? I liked Danger Mouse, but liked Duckula even more.
3430382 There is! I don't know how you can see it, but I imagine it's available through, ahem, the usual channels. (It's on the BBC iPlayer over here.) The pilot is 22 minutes, but the regular episodes are 11. Having seen episode 2 (which is as far as it's got) I think that length works quite well.
3430418 I don't know -- but if Danger Mouse does well, then I wouldn't be surprised. I can think of old British cartoons I'd like to see brought back more, but they'd probably be too obscure/eccentric to sell internationally, which these days is likely to be a killer. Duckula would work, though.
I had to go watch some Danger Mouse episodes last night. YouTube didn't have the new ones, but I got to watch a bunch of old ones. Just as great as I remember them to be, but it's weird listening to Stiletto in his original voice. Here in the States, he had a really bad Cockney accent, rather than a really bad Italian accent. Because he's a villain, you see. I'm pretty serious about that "villains can only be American or British" thing.
But it's really strange hearing a different accent coming out of his beak.
3431872 I vaguely remember reading somewhere that they'd changed Stiletto's accent, but I didn't really register it. Mind you, "British = villain" has been on my mind lately, too, owing to a certain recently-released film... (For anyone who hasn't seen it yet, that's not a spoiler; it's obvious from the moment said person appears.)
3431872 Late addition: apparently the new DM is/will be on Netflix in the US.