Although not a non-fan of Baby Huey, finding the character one-joke and annoying often and most of his cartoons repetitive and not particularly funny, a few of them are decent. 'Pest Pupil' is one of those decent cartoons.
Dialogue is simplistic, a bit tired and at best unmemorable. 'Pest Pupil' does start off with the typical annoying and unfunny "Baby Huey annoying everybody" and is a pretty fatigued and unfunny way to start. Baby Huey still irritates somewhat, a danger with one-joke characters, and there is very little of what he does that's cute.
The animation has also been better before, some nice colours but the backgrounds are sparse and the drawing pretty hasty-looking.
'Pest Pupil' however does get quite a bit better once the male teacher character shows up. He's a lively character voiced very entertainingly by Jack Mercer. The gags revolving around the lessons he tries to teach are predictable in outcome but have disastrous consequences that come over very amusingly in the gags, they're timed well and don't rely heavily on over-engineered and mean-spirited violence (like with Baby Huey's cartoons with the fox) to be funny.
Winston Sharples provides yet another outstanding music score, even in mediocre or worse cartoons Sharples' music was never among the flaws (if anything always one of the strengths or the best asset). Also love the lusciousness of the orchestration here and how characterful, haunting and whimsical the music was without going overboard in either, even better was how well it fitted in the cartoon and how it merged with the action.
Voice acting is very solid, Mercer coming off particularly well.
All in all, decent but not enough to make me a fan. 6/10 Bethany Cox
Dialogue is simplistic, a bit tired and at best unmemorable. 'Pest Pupil' does start off with the typical annoying and unfunny "Baby Huey annoying everybody" and is a pretty fatigued and unfunny way to start. Baby Huey still irritates somewhat, a danger with one-joke characters, and there is very little of what he does that's cute.
The animation has also been better before, some nice colours but the backgrounds are sparse and the drawing pretty hasty-looking.
'Pest Pupil' however does get quite a bit better once the male teacher character shows up. He's a lively character voiced very entertainingly by Jack Mercer. The gags revolving around the lessons he tries to teach are predictable in outcome but have disastrous consequences that come over very amusingly in the gags, they're timed well and don't rely heavily on over-engineered and mean-spirited violence (like with Baby Huey's cartoons with the fox) to be funny.
Winston Sharples provides yet another outstanding music score, even in mediocre or worse cartoons Sharples' music was never among the flaws (if anything always one of the strengths or the best asset). Also love the lusciousness of the orchestration here and how characterful, haunting and whimsical the music was without going overboard in either, even better was how well it fitted in the cartoon and how it merged with the action.
Voice acting is very solid, Mercer coming off particularly well.
All in all, decent but not enough to make me a fan. 6/10 Bethany Cox
