Just Jamie

This article is a stub. You can help New Qualitipedia Wiki by expanding it.

All of this just works. ― Todd Howard

This article needs cleanup to meet our rules and guidelines. You can help by editing it. The following reason has been specified: Very short page, and some pointers need more detail.

Just Jamie
"I look around, and this show is just a mess."
Genre: Comedy Animation Running Time: 24 minutes Country: Canada Release Date: 2004 Network(s): YTV Created by: Chantal Ling Katie Tallo Serge Cote David Bigelow Distributed by: Funbag Animation Studios Inc. Starring: Tia Caroleo Micaela Mankowski Amanda Tripp Kyle Switzer Jeff Lawson Lorraine Ansell Peter Michael Dillon Seasons: 1 Episodes: 13 (26 segments)

Just Jamie is a Canadian children's animated series based on original drawings by Helen Dardik. It first premiered on YTV in 2003.

Plot

Just Jamie is an animated world of sleepovers, phone tag, and girl talk. Twelve-year-old Jamie's number-one priority is hanging out with her two life-long friends. It's her mixed-up place in the world that has Jamie always wondering, always searching. With her audience as her confidante, Jamie expresses her innermost "stuff," making her an expert guide to the muddled-up reality of being 12.

Qualities That "Just" Suck

1. First of all, it has the laziest, cheapest, and probably some of the worst flash animation out of everything in the 2000s. Even The Eggs, which similarly has cheap animation, looks better than this.
2. Ugly character designs and art style that looked like mashed-up versions of 6teen, which premiered after this show.
   • Also, Jamie is supposed to be 12 years old, but her design makes it look like she's around 16-19. The same can also be said about the other characters around her age.
3. Just like The Eggs, it has constant animation errors which happen frequently in EVERY episode. Same thing as said show, sometimes when any character talks, their mouth doesn't move at all or match up with the dialogue.
4. It's unfaithful to the source material from the original drawings by Helen Dardik.
5. Most of the characters are pretty bland and unlikable, like Jamie's mother Margot.
6. There are some gross-out, unfunny, and mean-spirited moments.

Good Qualities

1. Catchy theme song.
2. Some characters can be likable at the times, like Jamie herself sometimes. Other likable characters can include Raissa, Sydney, and Jamie's dad David.
3. Decent voice acting, especially from Tia Caroleo as Jamie Brooks, Micaela Mankowski as Raissa Jackson, and Amanda Tripp as Sydney Banks.
4. Funny moments here and there, like in "Sibling Revelry" where Jamie dreams about having countless sisters.

Reception

It has a 5.4/10 rating on IMDb.

Comments

Loading comments...