The Fairly OddParents: A New Wish
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The Fairly OddParents: A New Wish is an American-Irish animated television series based on and serving as a continuation to the 2001 animated series The Fairly OddParents. The series premiered on Nickelodeon on May 20, 2024. It will also be released on Netflix internationally in November 14, 2024.
Plot
Ten-year-old Hazel Wells has just moved to the big city of Dimmadelphia because of her dad's new job. On top of being in an unfamiliar environment, it's the first time she's been without her brother, Antony, who's just left for college, leaving her lonely and unsure of herself.
Why It's Magical Again!
- It is a huge improvement over the last two seasons of the original show, along with the live-action/animated hybrid reboot, since it keeps the charm of the original show and has a much better grasp of the source material by acknowledging and following "Da Rules" of the first eight seasons of the original series, which is surprising because some of the staff members (Alec Schwimmer) previously worked on the ninth season of the original series, which comes to show how much they learned though their mistakes.
- The new CGI animation is fluid, smooth, and decent. It helps that the animation is a huge improvement over the horrid flash animation we had in the second half of season 10 of the original show and the animated scenes of the infamous live-action reboot.
- Cosmo and Wanda are no longer flanderized and redeemed themselves and now have their original personalities back. Same with Jorgen Von Strangle.
- Mr. Crocker is also reverted back to his original personality, though he was previously well-written and was back in his original personality in the previous show, The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder.
- Likable original characters, especially the main character herself Hazel who, much like Timmy and unlike Chloe from season 10 of the original series and Vivian and Roy from Fairly Odder, has a reason to deserve fairies as she misses her older brother, have problems with some social skills and is struggling to adapt to the city.
- The theme song is catchy and good.
- It helps that the first episode paid a nod to the original series theme song.
- The first episode is also decent.
- Some funny moments.
- The voice acting is good, decent, and solid as the fairies' voice cast returns.
- Cosmo's voice, despite still being annoying like in seasons 9 and 10, is improved.
- The humor is well-executed and genuinely funny to some.
- The soundtrack by Caleb and Brian Chan (who also did the soundtrack of Angry Birds: Summer Madness) is brilliant, as well as being very superior to Guy Moon's score.
- Unlike season 10 of the original series, most of the current Nickcom shows and the live-action reboot, this CGI reboot doesn't try to be hip, and modern and appeal to the 2020s audiences.
- Similar to the original series, the title cards are well-drawn, especially since they are still in 2D animation.
- Poof surprisingly makes his return now all grown up and going by the name "Peri", acting and sounding in a similar vein to Cosmo's earliest appearances in the original series.
- Mr. Crocker and AJ would make appearances in the next episode. And their voice actors reprise their roles.
Qualities That Are Still Rule-Breaking
- The animation can be stiff and uncanny at times. which makes the character designs look a bit weird.
- The slow-motion sequences make the characters movements' look like if they were lagging on a video game.
- The voice acting can be annoying to some old-time fans.
- Cosmo's high-pitched voice is still annoying to listen to, just like with seasons 9 and 10 of the original cartoon and live-action series.
- Many new characters, while likable, in this series can look weird.
- Sometimes the characters can end up looking like rejects from Big Nate or Jimmy Neutron.
- Dev looks and feels like a carbon copy of Dexter from Dexter's Laboratory.
- Like seasons 9 and 10 of the original series and The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder, most of the characters from the original series are still missing in this reboot.
- To be fair, the series was recently premiered, so we have to wait for the next episodes to come if such characters reappear or not.
- For some reason, unlike all of the episodes of the original series, the title cards do not have "THE FAIRLY ODDPARENTS: A NEW WISH" and the episodes (besides "Battle of the Dimmsonian") do not end with the usual "THE END". This can be a huge letdown to fans who wanted these to come back, and it could also feel off to some old Fairly OddParents fans.
- Like seasons 9 and 10 of the original series and The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder, some of the episodes break Da Rules at times, especially "The Haunting of Hazel Wells", where Marcus meets Jorgen von Strangle.
- For whatever reason, the show still doesn't air on Nickelodeon in other countries yet, despite other shows like Rock Paper Scissors being dubbed pretty quickly and all of it's dubs releasing at the same time, though this is likely because its a Netflix exclusive internationally.
- Few bad/weak episodes such as:
- "Growing Pains"
- "Mind the Gap" (a poor way of bringing back Tooth Fairy)
Trivia
- This is the second series in the franchise that premieres on a streaming service (Netflix), after The Fairly OddParents: Fairly Odder (formerly on Paramount+), though it will be premiering internationally.
- This is also the second series shown on Netflix after the original series.
- Although many assumed he was not involved, original series creator Butch Hartman was involved with the series as executive producer alongside Fred Seibert according to an interview. Usually, creators who don't have involvement simply get an executive producer credit, like SpongeBob SquarePants creator Stephen Hillenburg, who despite his death in 2018, continues receiving an executive producer credit on the series.
Reception
Currently, this show earned a 6.8/10 on IMDb. Critics and audiences have considered it a massive improvement to the franchise and its praise for visual animation, new likable characters, and faithfulness to the original series. Although it wasn't doing well at first when airing on Nickelodeon due to low ratings, the series began gaining popularity online following Peri's appearance, spawning fanart and memes based on the series. When it released on Netflix, it became the most popular children's program on the service.
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