Spot Reviews 04/17/26
Apr 17 2026
Wonder Pets: In the City (2024) [/] Children's education show on Apple TV. Our heroes are three pets: Izzy the Guinea Pig (Victoria Scola-Giampapa), Tate the Snake (Christopher Sean Cooper Jr.), and Zuri the Bunny (Vanessa Huszár). By day they're pets in a kindergarten. But after school they get calls from around the world -- animals in trouble that need their help. They put on their capes and use their flying toy vehicle to go help their brethren.
Educational in that every animal in trouble is at a place so there's a bit of explanation about what the animal is and its habitat. Also before they leave there's usually a bit of trouble they have to solve and that solution applies to helping the animal. Solutions are simple like "work together", or "don't help but support each other", or "dealing with frustration".
The animation is collage-like as if photos are cut out of magazines and put together. There are lots of song numbers from their intro to their solution song to traveling song and ending song. The hero pets are voiced by kids and I guess the singing is too. Each episode has two 10-minute segments. It is kind of barely watchable for adults but I've seen worse.
Lucy (2014) [-] I watched this late 2015 and gave it 3/5. Watched it again because I was bored and it's worse than I remembered. Way too much stuff about how using more and more of your brain would give you superpowers and the asides to explain it with the funny little videos are quite annoying even if Morgan Freeman is doing the narration. Not one of Scarlett Johansson's better roles as once Lucy starts activating her brain she becomes rather emotionless. The few action sequences are ok though I didn't like the last fight scene as it got a bit bonkers. I hope I don't get the urge to try watching this again.
Cut the Rope 3 [/] Seems like a simpler version of Cut the Rope for Apple Arcade. Go to a random world and do three mini-levels to collect a creature which I guess eventually another random world. Each mini level you cut the ropes to get a little guy to his dad waiting below and if you can get the little guy to collect 1 to 3 starts that'd be great too. Besides rope cutting there is a grappling hook and a cannon and probably more stuff. I remember playing Cut the Rope and that's quite hard getting three stars whereas this one seems rather easy though I guess it gets harder.
Star Trek: Nero (2009) [/] This four issue series fills in the 25-year gap between when Nero arrived in the Kelvin universe and when Spock arrived as seen in the movie. It's not as interesting as Countdown because there's less going on. It's mostly stuck in Rura Penthe for almost 25 years. I did like the detour to visit V'ger or a version of V'ger before it returned to Earth.
Educational in that every animal in trouble is at a place so there's a bit of explanation about what the animal is and its habitat. Also before they leave there's usually a bit of trouble they have to solve and that solution applies to helping the animal. Solutions are simple like "work together", or "don't help but support each other", or "dealing with frustration".
The animation is collage-like as if photos are cut out of magazines and put together. There are lots of song numbers from their intro to their solution song to traveling song and ending song. The hero pets are voiced by kids and I guess the singing is too. Each episode has two 10-minute segments. It is kind of barely watchable for adults but I've seen worse.
Lucy (2014) [-] I watched this late 2015 and gave it 3/5. Watched it again because I was bored and it's worse than I remembered. Way too much stuff about how using more and more of your brain would give you superpowers and the asides to explain it with the funny little videos are quite annoying even if Morgan Freeman is doing the narration. Not one of Scarlett Johansson's better roles as once Lucy starts activating her brain she becomes rather emotionless. The few action sequences are ok though I didn't like the last fight scene as it got a bit bonkers. I hope I don't get the urge to try watching this again.
Cut the Rope 3 [/] Seems like a simpler version of Cut the Rope for Apple Arcade. Go to a random world and do three mini-levels to collect a creature which I guess eventually another random world. Each mini level you cut the ropes to get a little guy to his dad waiting below and if you can get the little guy to collect 1 to 3 starts that'd be great too. Besides rope cutting there is a grappling hook and a cannon and probably more stuff. I remember playing Cut the Rope and that's quite hard getting three stars whereas this one seems rather easy though I guess it gets harder.
Star Trek: Nero (2009) [/] This four issue series fills in the 25-year gap between when Nero arrived in the Kelvin universe and when Spock arrived as seen in the movie. It's not as interesting as Countdown because there's less going on. It's mostly stuck in Rura Penthe for almost 25 years. I did like the detour to visit V'ger or a version of V'ger before it returned to Earth.