Spaceballs The Animated Series

That's right, you didn't misread the title. Spaceballs, Mel Brook's 80s pisstake of Star Wars (and sci fi in general) has been made into an animated series with the first four episodes airing on G4 (the folks that brought us Code Monkeys) on the 21st of September.

Obviously John Candy won't be reprising his role as Barf with Tino Insana taking over, Rick Moranis is still too rich to play Dark Helmet who is voiced by Dee Bradley Baker and Bill Pullman is too big a star to return as Lone Starr leaving it up to Rino Romano to do his part. That said, according to IMDb, Mel Brooks and Daphne Zuniga will be back to voice President Skroob and Princess Vespa respectively. Looks like Daphne gave up waiting for a Melrose Place reboot and went with the easy money.

If you can't wait until then and you like big, bouncy lady parts and in-your-face inuendo you might like to watch the following very silly trailer. Caution, it may be a little NSFW (especially the big-breasted Princess Peach I spotted flashing by) so wait until nobody is looking.

I see your Schwartz is as big as mine!

Red vs Blue Goes Animated

I can't put my finger on the date or time when "cartoon" became "anime" but according to Joystiq (and the following video) Red vs Blue, probably the most famous machinima ever to grace our computer screens, has now gone all animated.

At first I thought this was a bizarre turn of events seeing as the whole POINT of the series was that it was *in* the Halo world but after watching the clip it appears as though the banal banter and stupid humour still stands meaning RvB is still RvB.

In a world where everybody is jumping on the CG bandwagon it's good to see someone jumping off the bandwagon and back to the good ol' days (of bad 80s cartoons). It's a bit hard to see through the shaky cam video so I'll reserve my final judgement until I've seen the final product.

Now back to this misuse of the word "anime". Anime is Japanese animation often based on a manga (comic) and is not a general word to describe any and all hand-drawn or CG animation. Blame Nickelodeon for the poor kids these days who don't know the difference.