Simply A Masterpiece

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Last review I did of FMA: Brotherhood, I mentioned that adaptations of original source material are a touchy subject. While you want to be fair and objective in a review, you also have your opinion colored if you're familiar with the source material.However, this one is a unique case. While the HBO series isn't a faithful adaptation of the comic books by any stretch, and while it contains the same premise and characters, it would be most fair to label this as a retelling.And it's a rather fantastic retelling, as the animation is dark, stylish and slick, which adds to the series' dark roots.The characters are from the comic books as well. You have Cogliostro, Bobby, Terry, Wanda, Cyan, the Violator, Malebolgia, Sam & Twitch, and the eponymous character, each are deeply realized and brought to life, with the title character being the star of the show because of Keith David's stellar voice acting.The music is rather mood setting too, adding to the effect of certain scenes. One highlight is a scene with Cyan and Spawn. It's little things like this that make the series an excellent re- telling.It's also not a series for children, as it's dark and surprisingly violent. Which is a given, considering the original comic books.Overall, this gets a 9/10. This is a great retelling of the Spawn franchise, though it isn't faithful to the comic books, it manages to shine just as bright.

This is an absolutely fantastic cartoon, the big thing for me is the voice acting, it's flawless and probably some of the best in any cartoon. The storyline is perfect, the atmosphere is dark, mysterious, Gothic and eerie, unlike anything I have seen before. I have heard a lot of bad things about the film and I'm not even going to bother watching it. For those of you who have read the comics and enjoyed them, you need to watch this. You will find yourself saying "Wow" after even the first episode, you will keep wanting more the more you watch this and you need to watch every episode. The voice acting for the clown is absolutely outstanding, and that laugh he does sends a shiver down my spine. Great voice acting, gritty, dark, amazing animation, you need to watch this now!

During the year when the live-action adaptation of, "Spawn", was released, HBO released an animated series based on the comic-book series that ran from 1997 to 1999. This is one of the greatest animated series ever made.The animation is excellent it make's the series look dark and edgy, the characters were great including Detectives Sam and Twitch, and the voice acting was good especially having Keith David provide the voice of the main character.Overall, if you didn't like the live-action movie or looking for a good show to watch, "Spawn: The Animated Series", is really worth watching.

Spawn was a 3-season long HBO animated series from 1997-1999.I was not there to watch it during it's original run, but I caught maybe one episode on Teletoon years ago.I watched the entire series on youtube about a year ago and I bought the Season 1 DVD.This review is for the third season? Why does it have it's own separate IMDb page? Well apparently, the seasons were combined and made into films for the older DVD's.I am not sure if they make it separate episodes for the new tin-case box-set DVD's.Season 1 was simply amazing, I loved it! Then Season 2 in my opinion was a disappointment.It was good just nowhere near as good as the first.Season 3 improved from Season 2 and came close to being as good as the first season.The series ended in a sort of cliffhanger and never came back, though there is talks for a continuation.You can either by the tin-case DVD set with all three seasons, or you can buy the 3 DVD's which are more like movies.At $6.00 a DVD, it's definitely worth it.The DVD for this season(the old one) has an interview with Todd McFarlane & the cast talking about the show, plus two music videos.One is "Bawbitaba" by Kid Rock and the other is "Play Around" by Lil Cease & Lil Kim.These are kinda random, they have nothing to do with Spawn.The songs are both decent in my opinion, but not great.