Bondi Band

Bondi Band
If you thought Sonic Underground would battle this band, Think again...
Genre: Action Comedy Running Time: 10 minutes Country: Argentina Spain Italy Release Date: 2011 Network(s): Disney XD Created by: IAM Cartoon Projects Distributed by: Exim Licensing Group Starring: Lyon Smith Michael Adamthwaite David Berni Stacey DePass Lee Tockar Scott McNeil Seasons: 1 Episodes: 52

Bondi Band is an Argentinean-Spanish-Italian flash animated series created by Paula Vendetti, Pablo Feldman, Jonathan Hofman, Pablo Lewin and Gustavo Reinoso. It is produced by IAM Cartoon Projects, Exim Licensing Group, LedaFilms, and Mondo TV, and aired on Disney XD in 2012.

Plot

In prehistoric times, a pink meteor crashed on planet Earth. Thousands of years later, a villain named Miss C. Lebrity (who pretends to be a kind person among the people of Vila Tornasol) discovers a fragment of this stone and tries to reach the rest of the meteor to the center of the Earth to dominate the world. Knowing this, his rival Peter Solfa summons 6 children to become a band of superheroes with powers to stop the plans of Miss C. Lebrity.

Why This Band Sucks

1. The concept is very unoriginal, a group of colorful superheroes that transform through a device to defeat the villains and save the day every episode, basically the same formula used in several Japanese superhero shows and Power Rangers. Another show that this cartoon also shares ideas is Sonic Underground: a group of heroes who depend on magic instruments to fight beyond being a band that always sing at least one song per episode.
2. Plot Hole: How does nobody (besides Miss C. Lebrity) in the world discover the existence of the pink meteor in the center of the Earth after thousands of years?
3. There are lots of unnecessary characters which serve no purpose to the story. One example is the daughter of Miss C. Lebrity, Roxy Lebrity, who is just your typical spoiled young child.
4. The protagonists represent the worst types of possible stereotypes (with the exception of Laila):
   • Tony (red) is your typical arrogant and narcissistic leader who sings songs about how great he thinks he is.
   • David (blue) is a crybaby who does not shut his mouth about his mother.
   • Nina (orange) is a lazy clone of Beth from Total Drama.
   • Boris (yellow) is just a fat kid.
   • Azim (green) is the token black character, as well as a ghetto stereotype.
5. The flash animation is cheap and absolutely terrible.
6. The plots of the episodes are repetitive.
7. The songs sung by the characters often repeat themselves depending on the character that is focused on the episode.
8. The last episode, "The Seventh Hexarock" was a terrible way to end the series.

Redeeming Qualities

1. Catchy theme song. In fact, some of the songs sung by the characters also have a good rhythm.
2. Decent voice acting.
3. Laila (black) was an original character for the show's time, as she is one of the very few blind characters in children's television, which is a good thing.
4. The character designs and art style are awesome and colorful, despite the awful animation.

Reception

The shows holds a 5.4/10 on IMDb

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