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Ducktales was one of my favorite cartoons from childhood. I even watched them on youtube as an adult and still liked this. I was excited to hear the news about a reboot, especially with David Tennant playing Scrooge McDuck. David Tennant is indeed good in his role, but I can't say that about other voice actors. They made me hate the nephews. They are voiced by adults, and while many voice actors can play child characters rather well, these three are terrible at it. They have zero empathy to their characters, and the viewers can spot that. They are not playing the characters by putting themselves in the place of the character, instead they are simply 'play-acting' like an amateur in a house-party. For example, every time a nephew says something deemed silly by adults, we can sense that self-awareness in the tone of the voice actor. In reality a child would believe what he/she says and be genuine about those silly things. A good actor would be able to imitate that innocence. All children's voice actors in the new Ducktales fails horribly at this. To be fair, the writing is also to share some blame. The writers, by making the nephews have individual characteristics (a change I approve in theory, but not in this particular execution), botched by being too judgmental and superfluous. Huey is a nerd - and nerds are weird and overbearing right, let's show it. Webby is awkward - let's make fun of her social awkwardness. Giving them special traits are good but they are just so in your face!

The animation is in the style of comic books, and I like it. I found voice of the person singing theme song kinda annoying (just a personal taste). The stories are sometimes good, sometimes meh. What I hate about it is the so-called character development they tried to bring in to the story. I do like character development in stories but these people do it wrong. Each character is too self-absorbed and the plot entertains them in this narcissism by trying to make their adventure all dramatic, emotional, and heroic, but ends up looking like an adult sitcom. Many people may enjoy it. Maybe kids will enjoy it, I don't know the taste of today's kids and I can't even say whether or not I would have liked this show as a kid. But Ducktales for me is not a sitcom. It's a children's show. And children's shows can be both nonsensically funny, have pop-culture references, and deal with serious social and psychological issues - just watch the All Hail King Julien show. But this new Ducktales people seemed to have copied some main points from several successful shows (for children and adults) and mixed them together trying to keep to predetermined recipe, possibly due to their inability to come up with solid plots, witty dialogues, or empathetic character development.