Magic School Bus Rides Again Elephant
Stay with the original!
This is a poor remake of a archetype. Voice work is disappointing, lessons are watered down. The characters are fabricated to all be cookie cutter perfect instead of individuals. Certain different colors but their bodies are withal and Ms. Friz is young and obnoxious. Miss the quirky wonderfulness.
Stick with the original.
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Non bad, merely doesn't really stand up out to me anymore
It lacks the charm of the original shows. The scientific discipline lessons seem watered down to squeeze in more wow factor and a little politicizing. The kids don't really figure out the lessons anymore but rather are just shown them while the teacher explains. The residue of the earth in the show merely accepts the magic bus as normal for some reason.
The new Miss Frizzle feels more random than witty. She still makes lots of puns though. The kids don't have personalities anymore. Instead each episode they pick a child to exist the master "lesson learner" that takes something to excess so they tin can acquire about information technology. It might have something to do with their personality, or it might not.
The technology element they added in is pretty fun, I call up the art is good compared to other modern CG cartoons, It's not also bad on it's own as a show. Miss Frizzle still does the Q&A at the end of the show, which is pretty fun.
I don't call up information technology actually compares to the original show though. Still I promise they make more than and improve on their formula a lilliputian.
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A rushed carbon copy that never quite captures the charm of the original
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I had high expectations for this re-invention ane of my nearly honey childhood edutainment serial--and, unfortunately, they weren't able to meet them. The serial tries very difficult to capture the humour and wit of the original, the new episodes and story lines are fairly interesting and the updated Magic Bus is appropriately high-techy, only... everything seems less than it once was. Other reviews take pointed out the cheap animation, so I'll skip that and consider other problems.
Examples: Children'southward personalities - they were mostly flattened, they yet retain traces of their former disposition (Keesha is bossy and not exactly a team actor, DA obsesses over research, Ralphie likes to fantasize), but their personal quirks sometimes come out when the episode calls upon them to be nowadays. When they are non needed, they but fade into the background. For instance, Carlos' puns are few and far between, and when they exercise occur, they feel quite forced. On the contrary, Arnold'south personality has been by and large reduced to being fearful and anxious.
Incidentally, Phoebe was replaced by a newcomer Jyoti, who's annoyingly Mary Sue-similar: not only she's a great athlete and a great team thespian, but too a super-tech savvy child who tin e'er salvage the solar day when the rest of the class hasn't got a inkling. In fact, information technology often feels like the residual of the class are merely a sounding board for Jyoti's ideas.
Miss Valerie Frizzle was substituted by her sister, Fiona Felicity Frizzle, who feels like a cheap knock-off. Oh aye, she tries very hard to exist hip, swell and 'with the kids', just you tin tell that she'due south struggling and doesn't have a whit of Lily Tomlin'due south je ne sais quoi. Tomlin'due south Frizzle was upbeat, quirky and witty, just also calm, mysterious and reassuring when necessary: McKinnon's Frizzle has the energy of a caffeine-overdosed insomniac: you lot feel as if she'southward SUPPOSED to be lively and have fun, only she tin can never quite work herself into the mood. I found myself waiting for the terminal section of each episode, when Tomlin's Frizzle would respond questions from the audience: she had a quiet charm nigh her that McKinnon utterly lacks.
Interestingly, you can fifty-fifty tell that the creators predicted the fans' outrage over Fiona'due south coming, so they addressed it in the first episode, when she is explicitly likened to an invasive species that sneakily wriggles her way into the classroom habitat. Fiona is shown to take some doubts nearly her role, she'south non exactly familiar with the Bus and makes some mistakes during her first trip; about significantly, she recognizes the fact that Arnold doesn't like her and she implicitly manipulates him so that he'south forced into accepting her. Here's also where the apartment characterization comes into play: children seem all too accepting of this newcomer teacher, whereas they're at the age when any such change should be a quite dramatic consequence that takes getting used to.
Continuity errors: this series is supposed to take place after the school vacation, with all the children still remembering their last field trip. The original series was full of continuity nods: when kids visited places they've been earlier (similar the bloodstream), they'd recognize information technology and betoken familiar features. In the new series, the grade remember nada of their previous field trips and have to re-learn parts of the material they've already seen. For instance, Ralphie wants to build a giant cheer-leading robot, fifty-fifty though he built a robot in the original series and found out outset hand why information technology'southward not such a proficient idea. This is neither mentioned nor alluded too: it feels well-nigh similar the writer plagiarized the previous episode. Of course, all this could have been hands remedied by picking a new class of children unfamiliar with Ms Frizzle, but they writers took the easy way out--and it shows.
Sense of wonder: the original FELT similar a magic passenger vehicle only considering yous couldn't e'er explain what it'd do. The new motorbus feels like a high- tech invention with all the wearables, flat screens and cameras, but it has very petty magic of its own and almost no personality. Nosotros don't really see the bus remember for itself-it's on a very tight leash, as Fiona Frizzle constantly handles a remote through which she controls its behavior. I found the Jitney' moods and behaviors 1 of the best parts of the original: the new version Bus feels only like an ultra modern vehicle. By trying to be cutting edge, it'll probably go extremely dated in a few years, whereas the original has a timeless quality nigh it that still captures your imagination.
Writing: much weaker than earlier, story lines oft feel forced and hastily cobbled together. For a prove geared towards children, the pace is often break-neck and doesn't allow time for properly learning new concepts. I remember that the original had children repeat the word 'phytoplakton' several times so they'd learn the proper pronunciation: the new serial introduces very circuitous words (such as medulla oblongata) in passing and expects the class to flawlessly reproduce them. It's as it the writers had to make full in their scientific discipline quota per episode and they packed them full of references, not caring if they play well with the story.
In sum, I don't really recommend this new series: I still very fondly return to the original seasons and they never end to make full me with the sense of wonder and glory of the sciences and natural world, whereas the new episodes make me experience... bored. Bored and restless.
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Whahooo
My whole childhood gets a new chance and I always wondered what it would be like to have two frizzles and now I know how much fun it is in fact I'1000 convinced that Fiona frizzle was getting her teachers caste while her older sis Valerie was nevertheless teaching the kids in the original series my childhood memories of wanting to take a teacher like that haven't even faded to this day even though I'm a 27 adult women delight keep this show going stiff because I tin can't stop watching the last episode of season 2 that'due south hinting there'south more to come and so as Mrs frizzle would say have chances brand mistakes go messy and make that third season happen
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Magical!
I have been burned by reboots of favourite shows before (looking at you, guardian code...). Past the end of the opening credits, I was sold on Magic School Bus Rides Again. The crew clearly loves the original. Then they hit us with a sweet plot twist!
The kids in this business firm will certainly exist watching!
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Love information technology
Great reboot! Better and so the one-time one, they took out the actually annoying catchphrases.
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This was a good show!
I do not understand how this can exist bad, It's trying to teach children! I also really like the new Wink Animation. I watched the first two episodes the day it came out, and it turned out to be practiced! I watched another ii episodes and it turned out to be really good! I'd requite this seven out of 10.
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My seven Year One-time Loves it!
I'one thousand e'er pressing my youngest to lookout educational programming if she's going to exist planted in front of the TV. She watches the episodes multiple times and loves absorbing the information and then sharing with and educating unsuspecting adults.
Love the work by Kate McKinnon and guest stars.
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Merely sentry the original serial.
Bring back the old show. Show information technology to a new audience. Done. The original was great. My three boys watched all the episodes, growing up, and yeah, learned something but were innocently entertained, as well. Back earlier political definiteness. Each character was unique and likable It didn't need remaking - unless you are simply providing 'work' for Hollywood.
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What happened to Keisha and Tim?!
The Keisha and Tim I grew upwardly with were nighttime skinned and black-haired. They were not mixed or fair skinned. Why the modify? The educational quality of the show is ok, merely this flaw stands out like a sore thumb. What gives?!
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The 5 is me being nice
This Frizzel is a drizzle!!! The students are tedious flat and dull. Only we did employ it to learn a few things.
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Review by Johnny H., Age 5
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Review of Magic School Bus Rides Over again, Season one Interview with Johnny H., age 5, long-time Magic School Bus fan
*How would you draw the new Miss Frizzle, the younger sis of the original Miss Frizzle? How is she unlike from the original Frizz? Are at that place whatsoever means they are like?
Johnny: She has a different voice than the original Miss Frizzle, and her hair is always down, but the original Miss Frizzle always had her hair upward. They are similar because they both wear dresses with pictures that foreshadow what will happen in the next episode. They also both have carmine hair. She doesn't think danger is in sight. She doesn't talk about danger a lot. She's brave. And she always wants to get out in pitch black water where the pressure level is the same at 5,000 elephants!
*In that location's too a new student in the science class—Jyoti. Practise y'all call up she'due south a good addition to the classroom? What do you like about her?
Johnny: Yes, I similar her because she likes science a lot and she's good at solving problems. I also like her locket considering information technology has all kinds of measuring gauges like GPS and a barometer an accelerometer and an altimeter and it besides had a thermometer.
*Of all the episodes in this season, which episode was your favorite and why?
Johnny: MONSTER Ability!
*What happened in the episode?
Johnny: They go camping, and Arnold is scared the whole time of the Blot Monster coming. And so he brings all these lights to continue on the whole time so the Absorb Monster doesn't come.
*What do you like nearly this episode?
Johnny: Information technology's funny, and I like that Arnold is the one who solves the problem considering he is ordinarily scared or worried.
*What was the funniest moments of the flavour?
Johnny: When Arnold says "This field trip just got 12% scarier" when they were traveling to the midnight zone in the body of water.
*What is the coolest new thing you've learned this season?
Johnny: I liked information technology when they described the zones of the ocean in the last episode starting with the Marianna Trench to the Abyssopelagic Zone to the Bathypelagic Zone to the Mesopelagic Zone to the Epipelagic Zone (the surface)
*What field trip haven't they taken or topic oasis't they covered that you hope they'll take in the next season?
Johnny: I hope they'll go inside sound, and I hope someday they'll finally stay home, just similar Arnold wants!
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Telephone call 911.
This bear witness should exist put to expiry.
Why? Why does this exist?
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Entertaining, educational and nostalgic. Fun adventures. Great learning experiences.
Looking for an entertaining, educational and nostalgic TV series on DVD? Well, then the Magic Schoolhouse Passenger vehicle Rides Once again: All About Earth! is perfect for you. Although it is targeted toward a younger audience, I yet found myself attentive and interested in the story lines. Each episode has a fun take a chance, mixed with an enthusiastic learning experience. It reminds me of how much I liked reading the original The Magic School Bus books when I was younger.
In the 4 episodes on this DVD, "Pigs in the Wind," "Hides and Seeks," "The Tales Glaciers Tell," and "Tim and the Talking Trees," the characters learn nearly the Earth's patterns and ways of communicating and how it'southward important to take care of the Earth. They also learn about wind patterns, how animals camouflage, how oxygen and carbon is preserved in glaciers for thousands of years and how ecosystems communicate with each other. And they besides run across many sights from different time periods and places that make astonishing field trips.
My favorite episode is "Hides and Seeks," especially when one-half of the kids get to travel to different geographic locations and study animals camouflaging to report back to the other half of the kids. We run into animals in the environmental atmosphere blending in, and in contrast we see the kids in their game of hide and seek. This show is for younger audiences, but some of the concepts are explained too quickly for me to grasp and won't make sense to everyone. A few characters are pretty dissimilar from the book, which makes them unique in this Idiot box prove. The voicing of the characters is realistic and plumbing fixtures for their personalities. Although there is some repetition in ideas and story lines, it isn't enough to brand the prove any less fun to sentinel. I would definitely sentinel this prove in my free fourth dimension merely for fun.
One of the letters in this series is honey the world and to protect it. This inspires people to preserve the wildlife and habitats. We are also shown that y'all can always find fun in learning and it's easier to acquire when you lot become an inside look and explore things on your own, instead of read about them in a textbook. Sometimes the kids in the evidence find themselves in a scary situation, but they are never in grave danger. Apart from some concepts being a petty difficult to empathize this serial is pretty kid friendly great for school-aged kids.
I requite this DVD 4 out of five stars and recommend it for ages half dozen to thirteen. Adults and teenagers may savour it too. Reviewed by Rosemary K., KIDS Showtime!
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Why
I watched the original Magic School Bus all the fourth dimension when I was a kid, and... WHY did they flatten, remove, and add together characters. In the original, each character had his/her distinct personality that played an of import office in each episode, now every episode revolves around one character with the rest just there. Plus, why'd they change/remove Kiesha and Tim, two dark skinned character, and at present accept none. That seems like a step-down in multifariousness. WHY use Wink animations!!! They wait so flat and boring, and to make upwardly for that, they make all movements bouncy and unnatural. The one-time blitheness looked then nice, and the difficulty of truthful animation keeps weak ideas from ever being blithe and released! I think the height of animation was the 90s, with shows like Magic School Bus, and Disney movies like Mulan and Tarzan. WHY are the lesson so bluntly obvious. This is a tendency I see in new kid shows, and it kinda stinks. Rather than trying to fit a lesson INTO the story. (which requires decent writing) Child show writers instead brand a flashy, interesting story, and then just add five minutes of dry lessons into the show to explicate information technology all. WHY does Netflix keep trying to dug at our nostalgic heart strings and so we watch them? Netflix has been making a lot nostalgic tv-shows. Some of them simply feel rushed, hoping that the classic proper noun will save them.
Now, as much every bit I like the modernization of the bear witness, it will seem very dated within a few years, compared to the original. I tin just think of one episode from the original that is truly outdated, the estimator one. Only many episodes of the new one contain unnecessary ties to pop culture that will out date it quicker than you can say "why." two/x
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90's kid- 2019 mom love this show
Why? Because my kid loves information technology! He is entertained past it. He is learning and I couldn't enquire for anything better. I loved the original one, but that was my fourth dimension. Let these piddling ones accept their shows. Can't come across how a show that is meant to brainwash be bad. truly promise a 3rd flavour is in the making.
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Lacks the charm of original.
The show is bully my kids honey it but it does lack the bubbly amuse of the fast talking teacher of the original! Seems to become at a much slower footstep for the sink in result only its a adept show still. I love mckinnon so it's all good.
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It's great for a reboot
I recall that what is getting lost a lot is that when shows are rebooted, it's done for a new audition, not the same old one.
Equally such, I'm basing my review on the audience for this new show: young kids whose parents and teachers have grown up watching the original.
My kids are seven and 4. The elderberry i was initially exposed to Magic School Omnibus through her teacher showing the original series as a treat during the very rare "pajama day" at school. The younger 1 was only exposed to the original insofar as the older ane wanted to watch *more than* Magic School Bus.
They both beloved the reboot. They inquire to picket it over the original, which the older loved, but which the younger hated considering it was "too scary". The reason it was too scary? The kids in the original would exist yelling in fearfulness over something every two seconds. In the reboot, the children are on the whole more than competent and calm, and overall freak out less. When they find themselves in trouble, they try to figure out solutions on their own earlier appealing to Ms. Frizzle for help. I can see how information technology's more appealing to young kids who have grown up beingness told that anyone tin can practise scientific discipline, and that unexpected events can be an opportunity to problem solve.
Every bit for Ms. Frizzle? I happen to like that she's non a carbon copy of her big sister. Yes, sometimes her puns are very random, only I think it works to give her a personality of her own. Mckinnon doesn't quite disappear into the character equally Tomlin did, but I remember for my role it'south because I was familiar with her voice beforehand, whereas I didn't know Tomlin earlier watching the original Magic School Bus. My kids accept never heard of SNL, so they don't really accept any way of recognizing McKinnon's voice, as it should be. To them, she'southward only "the new teacher".
If yous take kids between 5-9, they'll probably enjoy it regardless of whether they dear the original or non.
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its practiced, only low enthusiasm and animation kills information technology.
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First off is the theme song, probably the best thing near the evidence, it has a updated feel but nevertheless pays homage to the original, I absolute love it.
The voice acting was decent, about of the kids sounded like the originals, just the actor who plays Frizzle'south sis is so unenthusiastic, its like she just wants to get it over with, the roll of Frizzle requires enthusiasm, something the actor who plays her lacks.
Blitheness is the worst function, it looks so flat and blocky compared to the original serial. If you accept a wait at the original intro, the blitheness is and so fluid, something the re-boot lacks extremely, information technology makes it and then difficult to watch.
The story line is OK though, it feels very reminiscent of the original while adding new aspects, something I think it actually good.
If you enjoy the original "Magic School Charabanc" and are not bothered by Wink Animation, I recommend it.
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Excellent!
The energy Kate McKinnen puts into the role of the new teacher is amazing! Feels just as good as the old show. This is educational television that really works. Information technology besides has ethical lessons that are merely subtle plenty that kids have to work them though on their ain leading to better understanding and retention and the Carlos jokes are AWESOME! (like a bad dad joke)
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Magic School Bus: New Commencement, New Thrills, New Adventures
I recall watching the one-time serial while eating breakfast, getting ready for some other twenty-four hours of simple school, and was excited during science form when the teacher turned down the lights, hitting play and everyone watched the episode based on the field of study nosotros were learning.
Information technology was great fun while it lasted, distressing though that the series was over, the testify no longer aired, though those who enjoyed the old series purchased the DVDs that were released in shop, but after all these years, to see a trailer for the new series, the kid inside that grew up clean-cut down equally I fell in love with the serial in one case it was finally released on the 29th on Netflix.
As for my thoughts, I love the new animation, much better so the old cell blitheness with the old serial. And then much can be done now, new styles that could't be done before with the archetype series. The class, love how each graphic symbol was redesigned, maintaining the characteristics, peel and hair color to the previous series and the plots, technology, the creators went with the mod day then one-time school. The music, peculiarly in the introduction really brought dorsum memories, and I loved the new voice. The just negative affair I would accept to say that could be done was at the end of the intro, show what the episode was going to be, the title, like with the old series. That is my only concern, but equally for the plot itself, it definitely follows and flows the same way with the classic, peculiarly at the cease where Ms. Frizzle "Sr" answers questions the audience has, and fifty-fifty gives clues as to what the next episode would exist.
I would defiantly say that with this new serial, the new generation of young kinds that are anxious for learning, fun, and excitement will love this series like I exercise and will want to continue to watch and know what will happen next in the exciting adventures of "The Magic School Bus Rides Again.
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great rebooted but fans still dispointed yeah
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Frizzle valerie back with old students from Scholastic books instance Florrie and Carmen and Greg and John and Alex and Shirley and Michaels , etc in 1986. I love Fiona and monkeys.
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Some remakes are good - non this one.
There is zippo and so challenging as filling a competent person's shoes.
Though, some people don't intendance - or worse, don't know whatsoever amend (run across other SNL alum Jimmy Fallon).
It is clear that Lilly Tomlin is no longer with the show - the wit (and much of the education) is lost.
If you grew up with Adventure Time perhaps you might similar the show? But somehow information technology's less educational than that.
All the charm of the original serial is equally gone as Little Richard.
The 2nd star is only of merit for honor off what the show SHOULD have been and once was.
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Awful Reboot
The magic school double-decker dies again. The worst blithe Netflix prove. Simply awful in every mode. Vox acting atrocious, animation awful, writing awful. This is a disgrace to the original.
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Recaptured soul of original, Jyoti is improve than Phoebe, Specials have better art style
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9Story did a skilful chore at recapturing the soul of the original serial. And I'm glad Phoebe's gone, because she was a little annoying, and her replacement Jyoti overall seems better. The artstyle is kinda meh in the first and second seasons, having used tiresome flash, but when it comes to the specials (Flavour 3), they apply a scrap of CGI, which was the original goal of The Magic School Passenger vehicle 360°. The Omnibus is in CGI at present, and nobody's the aforementioned skin tone. My favorite episode of the series has got to be the i where Ms. Frizzle splits into three (The Frizz Connectedness), as we get to discover more of her character - as the funny, daring, (and sometimes serious) teacher. As well, in Season 2, there's a musical about feces, which is gilt - er... brownish gold as DA's uncle calls it in that episode. Overall, this is a solid continuation of the original series, and the Charabanc will forever ride again in my middle.
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