A lot of fun.

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.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

I know a lot of people like this show, but good god is it horrible!! People say that Chowder is disturbing. Uh.... Chowder had more to it than just being disturbing. It's hard to believe that Patrick McHale and Alex Hirsch worked on this show. At least Chowder was copying PRE-movie SpongeBob. THIS was copying POST-movie SpongeBob. Thurop Van Orman, where did you go wrong? I know Thurop voiced Lil' Gideon in Gravity Falls, which is awesome, but him creating Flapjack?? Thurop has worked on such awesome shows like the original Powerpuff Girls series, the Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, AND Camp Lazlo!, and then he betrayed us. Flapjack is an acid trip. While it's not as abysmal as Superjail!, it's still bad. No surprise, the guy who made Adventure Time worked on this show (I would rather prefer Bravest Warriors, btw). I know the creator of Regular Show did not make this show, but this was what PUT J. G. Quintel in my all time least favorite animators list. This was before Quintel made Regular Show. Yeah, I hate the Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack. I call it the ANTI-Chowder in my opinion.The animation is horrible, the characters are all hateable, the jokes make no sense, and the voice acting is so lousy. Definitely skip this one. I recommend you watch Chowder.

In an endless sea of Dexter's Laboratory and Hanna-Barbara-esquire ripoffs, "Flapjack" certainly stands out. While it's simplistic main character designs (Flapjack, K'nuckles and Bubby) resemble the aforementioned cartoons, it's secondary character and background art truly shine. The backgrounds are not only handpainted, but utilize texturizing techniques (sponges and splatters) and multiple layers to give them a 3-D effect. It also incorporates claymation every once in a while to keep things interesting. The secondary characters range from pleasant looking to downright gross (I mean, that's what sailors most likely looked like). Just take a look at the opening sequence...awesome. Not since Ren and Stimpy has a cartoon shown so much attention to detail and proper animation techniques. I'd compare it to a cross between Pee-Wee's Playhouse and classic cartoons of the 50's and 60's. The animators and writers know what they're doing. Some of the animation is a bit graphic for very young children (the mermaid episode was almost nightmarish art-wise) but children, say, 6 and up will really dig it. Also the main character Flapjack is just a tad too androgynous for pre-schoolers to understand (everyone mistakes him for a girl and there is a little bit of gender-bending related subject matter) but otherwise it's pretty harmless. A great cartoon to let your kids watch, and a great cartoon for adults who appreciate classic animation. Watch it for yourself and see.

"The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack" are just that. Marvelous.This is probably the last great cartoon show on Cartoon Network outside of Chowder. For a man that has grown up watching cartoons, I have to say that the shows on Cartoon Network, and Nickelodeon for that matter, have been falling off in quality lately. Flapjack excluded.With the mixed media, the use of watercolor, the writing, the quirky stories, all of it is spectacular.It's like we say in improvisation, you have to find the love. This show really does a good job at showing the love between mother and baby, mentor and protégé, and between friends.Sure, Captain K'nuckles is a crass bad influence, he lies, he cheats, he steals, he's greedy, gluttonous, and whiney, but the lessons taught and learned are great.Flapjack is such a sweet, kind, energetic kid, it's hard not to fall in love with this nautical-nonsense cartoon.

All I can say about "Flapjack" is that it is one of the most bizarre animated show ever produced. Sometimes we watch it & when the episode is over we look at each other & say "Huh"? But we're always entertained & always laugh out loud at something. As a matter of fact "Magic Genie Island" is perhaps the strangest cartoon episode I've ever seen & I've seen a lot of em'. Suffice it to say that you've gotta see it at least once & experience the oddness for yourself. The animation is striking & in some cases a bit nightmarish but always interesting to the eyes. The voices are spot on as well. A great cartoon is what it is so give it a shot.