The Amazing Spiez!

The Amazing Spiez!
Before the seventh season onward of Totally Spies!, these spies are NOT amazing and should be jailed in the name of Smudger!
Genre: Spy fiction Action comedy Running Time: 22 minutes Country: France Canada Release Date: March 15, 2009 - May 25, 2012 Network(s): TF1 Teletoon Created by: David Michel Vincent Chalvon-Demersay Distributed by: Zodiak Kids Starring: Andrew Sabiston Peter Cugno Alyson Court Julie Lemieux Sugar Lyn Beard Dan Petronijevic Liz Ramos Adrian Truss Seasons: 2 Episodes: 52 Previous show: Totally Spies!

The Amazing Spiez! (French: SpieZ! Nouvelle Génération) is a French/Canadian animated television series produced by the French company Marathon Media and the American company Image Entertainment Corporation, originally broadcast on Teletoon. It is a spin-off of Totally Spies!.

The show first aired on one of its original channels, TF1, on April 1, 2009, although it had already begun airing on March 15, 2009, on Disney Channel (Asia).

The series was premiered and broadcast originally on Teletoon in Canada. Since September 2010, it premiered on weekdays at 6 am and 11:00 am. The series premiered internationally on Cartoon Network in the USA on April 26, 2010, at 8:30 am. After running 10 episodes the series moved to 5:00 pm. For Season 2, premieres were moved to 8:30 am.

Later, on May 25, 2012, it was announced that The Amazing Spiez! would premiere its series finale.

Plot

The series follows 4 siblings Lee, Marc, Megan, and Tony Clark who have been chosen by the W.O.O.H.P (World Organization Of Human Protection) to become international spies. Together, the spies learn to juggle everyday life with their missions.

Qualities That Aren't Amazing

1. Every episode mostly has the same storyline all over again, which makes it very repetitive.
2. Some of the characters are pretty annoying and unlikable.
   • Lee is an unlikeable leader and a snobbish loser who thinks he’s better than everyone else
   • Tami is a younger rip-off of Mandy
   • The show's villains are just incredibly generic and too unlikable
3. Lame humor and weak comedy.
4. Annoying theme song.
5. Like Doogal, it has no sense of pacing, especially in the season 1 episode "Operation: Dyno-might!".
6. For some reason, they made Jerry shorter through a shrinking device in one of the episodes but forgot to undo it, making Jerry look odd compared to how he did in Totally Spies.
7. They hinted at a possible love story between Tami and Lee which ends up going nowhere.

Qualities That Are Amazing

1. Some of the characters from Totally Spies! (such as Jerry) reappeared in this show as supporting characters.
2. Good animation that is somewhat faithful to the main series.
3. Marc and Lee, despite being the stereotypical "smart" and "lazy" guys, respectively, are enjoyable characters whose interactions are fun to watch.
4. The crossover episode featuring Sam, Clover, and Alex from Totally Spies! was decent.
5. Tami’s character slightly improved in season two, being a little nicer to Megan and her brothers.
6. The voice acting is at least passable.
7. There are a few funny moments.

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Reception

The Amazing Spiez! received mixed to negative reviews for its repetitive storylines and unlikable characters, particularly Lee, who was seen as an arrogant leader, and Tami, a knockoff of Mandy from Totally Spies!. The villains were considered generic, and the humor fell flat for many viewers. The theme song was also seen as irritating, and episodes like "Operation: Dyno-might!" were noted for poor pacing. Fans were further frustrated by odd choices like shrinking Jerry permanently and teasing a romance between Tami and Lee that went nowhere.

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