Sadly Over-hyped

Beautiful, moving film.

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Fantasy and sci-fi have always been my favorite genres, part of the reason is because both are always about possibilities and believing that the impossible could be possible. When combined together the possibilities are just endless.This is one of my favorite animated shows of all time, and it's another childhood relic since I was a kid from the 80's; when I saw this show it just blew my mind and still does to this day.The combination of the post apocalyptic sub genre and fantasy I think is a beautiful combination and it's one I honestly don't see much. The only other ones I can think of are the movie Ralph Bashi's "Wizards" and the pulp comic book series "Mighty Sampson" which may have been a partial influence to this cartoon due to the uncanny similarity.The characters their not deep their simply there to serve their functions. But lets face it were all in this for the adventure and action and this show delivers well on both.I really love the animation, sure it old but sometimes old fashioned can still be the best way to go and it has a retro charm for me. The character animation is good but it's really the background animation that impresses me the most.It's a bit unnerving seeing how much of our world is in ruin because it also means a lot of culture that we thought would survive forever hasn't. For example, in one episode Thundarr sees a movie poster of "Star Wars" and Thundarr has no idea what the heck it is, let alone what a movie even is. It was a little disturbing but that little moment just shows how the things we take for granted once their gone their gone forever, which made me treasure things I love like "Star Wars" all the more.However at the same time despite the ruin it also means new possibilities have opened up like with the film Ralph Bachi's "Wizards" we see there is magic back in our world along with some advanced technology which is scarce but still around all the same. These things just created a sense of broadness and made me wonder what more this world holds.And the action is great and choreographed solid. I really like seeing the team just go on adventures and kick some asses that deserved to be kicked. They have to deal with Sourcerers, Evil Mad Scientiest, Robots, Monsters, Mutants, Faciests, Aliens, just a corn a coppia of bad which just makes it all the more tasty. Of course the highlight of the action is that Sun Sword which is obvious a rip on the light saber but all the same awesome, just seeing Thundarr using it to cut all things like butter and even block lazer bolts, you were almost indestructible with that sword. Along with seeing both Thundarr and even the Chewbaca like character Oo Loc both use their brute strength and force and Arial with her mystic powers which is also cool.I would love to see a revival, where may'be we can have a little more depth on the characters as well as a developing plot line concerning on of the villains. As well as may'be even more depth into the ruined world, where it could take place further in the future and we would see what kind of technological advancements were made which could advance the plight of the villains but also question whether we were already on a way to ruin. Let alone an explanation where Thundarr got his sun sword, may'be he stumbled onto some ancient ruins and this was a mystical object from their society, I don't know something along those lines, but all the same the idea should be considered.Overall, if you have a knack for retro toons then this show is one to check out, this series has plenty of thunder.Rating: 4 stars

It was in the episode entitled "Raiders of the Abyss" which is on a 3-episode tape I got at a yard sale. In it, there is a scene with the evil wizard Morak sitting on his throne and being saluted by his henchmen. These aren't the exact words, but you get the idea:Henchmen: All hail Morak! All hail Morak! All hail Morak!Morak: I cannot live on just cheers... bring me my supper!The flippant, sneering "cheers" comment is unexpected because Morak seems to be poking fun at the Saturday morning cartoon convention of evil leaders and their mindless followers! It's hilarious! (to me, anyways!)

This had to be one of the best animated shows of the early 1980's. The plot was pretty simple; a barbarian, a witch and a mutant creature known as a mock travel across the United States a thousand years after a disaster destroys most of the world. They go around fighting wizards and other assorted creatures in hopes of bringing order back to the world. This main thing I loved about this show was the fact that it wasn't like most of the animated shows at the time that felt they had to give a weekly ethics lesson. This show was just pure action from start to finish and it was just great entertainment without any hidden messages. I think this show will always stand the test of time and will always be recognized as a great action/adventure series.

....even if it did borrow a lot of concepts from the popular Star Wars movies. Thundarr with his Sun Sword (lightsaber), wise cracking Princess Ariel (Princess Leia) and a large hairy, growling companion, Ookla the Mok (Chewbacca).All these aside, it was still a great series. I liked how the items that are so common in our world, become totally new things in the Devastated Future World. It was also kind of interesting to see the new landscapes and realize that they were actually standing in ruined Los Angeles, Washington D.C., etc.It was somewhat hampered by the cheap animation common to Cartoon Series of the day. I would love to see the series re-made with today's animation techniques. I'm sure it would be even more astonishing.