Dr. Dimensionpants
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Dr. Dimensionpants is a Canadian animated television series created by Brad Peyton and produced by DHX Media and The Factory Backwards Entertainment. Originally set to launch in the winter of 2014 on Teletoon, the series instead premiered on November 6, 2014, as well as on Télétoon. 26 episodes were produced.
Plot
Kyle Lipton was a normal 12-year-old kid, until a portal opened and dropped a pair of "The Dimensionpants", also called the 'Pants of Power' or 'Power Pants'. It is one of several powerful clothing items constructed in the Unicrone dimension, which also included socks and a summer dress. When he wears them, he becomes a new superhero called Dr. Dimensionpants. Now Kyle has all the superhero powers he ever wanted, along with responsibility. With the help of a talking unicorn named Philip, Dr. Dimensionpants learns his powers to save the dimensions, while dealing with normal kid issues.
Why It's Not Dimensional
- The animation provided by Top Draw Animation, while good, it's getting cheap and weird.
- The character designs are mediocre with some disturbing moments.
- The voice acting, while decent, can be very annoying and ear-grating to hear like sometimes when they are screaming or yelling. Especially Samuel Vincent, Richard Ian Cox, and Ian James Corlett.
- Some characters are not good and unlikable sometimes having so much problems.
- Kyle Lipton is a bland annoying/obnoxious and selfish kid who much like Timmy Turner in The Fairly OddParents and Johnny Test who also doesn't care about anything.
- His unicorn mentor Philip was being sarcactic and doing something awful.
- Kyle's sister Amanda was a basic Mary Sue.
- Kyle's parents, Dudley and Ann-Mary aren't that good either.
- Rebecca Stella was a mean popular blonde girl who always ignores Kyle, instead she was in love with her generic love interest Lennon.
- Dutch was an unlikable bully.
- Dragon Master Paul is an annoying roleplaying boy, unlike Martin Prince from The Simpsons.
- Some antagonists aren't good, such as The Cortex, Glass Skull, Roblins 'Glug and Slob', Evil Wizards 'Murray and Silas', Underwater Man, etc.
- Unfunny, plain, and boring jokes can't get very old.
- Plenty of gross-out humor.
- It has a little mean-spirited moments
- The theme song was very horrible to hear, as the lyrics are repeating "Dr. Dimensionpants".
- Constant recycling of character models, like other shows.
- The transformation sequence where Kyle puts on his magic pants was repetitive and pretty bad.
- No sign of character development
- Lackluster writing with having a fair-share of bad or mediocre episodes, such as:
- "Bravo Dimensionpants"
- "Dr. Dimensionpants Camp"
- "I Tabby"
- "Robo-Teddy"
- "Pranks-A-Lot"
- "The Cortex in the Vortex"
- "Are You Ready to Oink?"
- "Fee, Fine, Foe"
- "Dry Clean Only"
- "Horn Control"
- "Princess Perfectpants"
- "Unicrone Penalty Box" (probably considered the worst of all)
- "Get Smarter"
- "Horsing Around"
- "Faster, Higher, Lazier"
- "Goody Gobbles"
- "Not So Secret Admirer"
- "Catch And Release"
- "Nice-Inator"
- "Wrongo Bongo"
- "Dimension Skirt"
- "The Lesser Evil"
- "Mentors Only" (which ended the series on a sour note)
Redeeming Qualities That Should Get Dimensional
- The concept seems to be original that it's badly excecuted.
- The animation and character designs are being decent and good sometimes, despite getting mediocre.
- Excellent soundtrack.
- Some characters can be tolerable.
- Also, Amanda and Liz being likable at times.
- While the voice acting, some can get passable.
- Interesting backgrounds.
- There can be entertaining sometimes.
Reception
This show received mixed-to-negative reviews and currently holds 3.7/10 on IMDb by 133 people.