Sunday, February 18, 2024

The All-New Super Friends Hour: The Runaways (1977)

 



This is the second segment of the third episode of The All-New Super Friends Hour, unlike most other Super Friends formats, this one had hour long episodes that were made up of various shorter cartoons. The first segment would be an adventure staring two members (or three in some cases as Batman and Robin would often team with another Super Friend) of the Super Friends. The second would be a morality play staring the Wonder Twins. The third would be a typical half hour Super Friends adventure. The fourth and last segment would feature one of the main Super Friends teaming up with a special DC Comics guest star. 

In this cartoon, two teenage boys run away from home and get in to trouble. The Wonder Twins help save them. 

This is another very weak Wonder Twins cartoon. It is simply much more interested in teaching kids a moral than being entertaining. The dialogue is very didactic and makes this sound like the bad PSA it is. Besides a bad joke at the end, barely anything here seems like feels like it is even trying to be fun. The characters are obviously just plot devices and it is impossible to relate to any of them. Even the sole action scene is quite boring. This segment may be aimed only at the youngest Super Friends fans, but I can't even see them being entertained by it.  

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