Wonderful character development!

the audience applauded

Good start, but then it gets ruined

Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

I'm a big kid. I am a big anime fan and an 80's fan, and I remember this show growing up. This was a good show just to sit back and simply be entertained by. I still get a laugh out of watching this and just seeing how far that animation has come. People can say that this was a blatant rip-off of ThunderCats, but it was done by the same studio and it worked once right? The characters were likable, the dialog was cheesy but as someone else said before, it's just a cartoon. I was pleased to learn that the show had finally made it's way to DVD. It's about time, too, now that Voltron has finally made it. For all of the show's flaws, it's still good just to sit back and turn off the thought process and just be entertained by it. The origin of the show was very well put together and the first two episodes set the rest of the series up well. I just enjoyed this show as a kid and I still enjoy it today.

This was the worst example of formula writing I ever seen. No only were the characters carbon copies of the Thundercats, they were bad copies. The villain had the same transformation that Mum-ra did.I remember one episode in particular. Where one of the Silverhawks was hit by a laser blast and started falling...in space!?! Where was he falling to? Exactly which way was down in space? And then one of the other Silverhawks flies to catch him. Before what, he hits a planet on the way down? Argghhh! This used to frustrate me to no end.And to top it off they would end every episode with some thinly disguised science lesson.Silverhawks was a lazy attempt to make a franchise off something that worked. I do believe they even tried a sea version of this but the title escapes me.

It's been some time since I've been able to watch this on TV. But I can still remember the theme song and the cool looks of all the characters. If I take a look at todays Cartoon Network program, I wonder how this garbage came on in the first place. Besides Scooby Doo there's nothing of the old shows running and the new one's, I think, are really bad.If they'd bring cartoons like the Silverhawks back on TV, I'm convinced the kids would devour them the same way I did. They are animated nicely, the music is great and even though the story appears a bit weak to me now that I'm "old", it is still a great show.

I loved this show growing up and it still holds fond memories in my heart. It does require a bit of a suspension of disbelief ( but what 80's kid show didn't? ). The characters were cool, Mon-star had an interesting design for sure. I'd love to see this series on DVD as well as the other 2 Rankin Bass classics : Thundercats and Tigersharks.Good times, good times.