Marvel's M.O.D.O.K.

If you’re a fan of Adult Swim-esque humor and have always wondered what that might look like in the Marvel Universe, “M.O.D.O.K.” is going to make you laugh and maybe make you feel sympathy for a megalomaniacal C-list supervillain.

The show is just a really solid piece of comedy, from the writing, to the animation of the toy-like characters, to the (naturally) Easter egg-filled background gags, and it shows how malleable the superhero genre is once you accept the fact that people don’t need to be carefully guided through a comic book universe anymore.

It has a consistent cleverness that makes its flaws easy to overlook, especially when the lines are delivered by such talented voice actors. It's just a fun world to hang out in with talented comedians in every scene.

By the middle of its 10-episode first season, the series becomes genuinely funny in its own peculiar way. Unlikable characters start to grow on you. And the insane plots, subplots and narrative issues — many of them inspired distortions of what goes on in the serious Marvel Cinematic Universe — grab one’s imagination. In other words, this one is worth watching too.

The voices and pell-mell references are the biggest reason why a 10-episode weekend binge of Marvel’s MODOK amounted to such easy, quickly digested entertainment. Whether or not you think the series wants to amount to more than that — and I feel like it really does, and perhaps someday could — depends on you.

Marvel dives big head first into the Adult Swim sandbox with "M.O.D.O.K.," a stop-motion animation series that seeks hilarity in exploring the lighter side of one of the more ridiculous denizens of the comics. While the show -- decidedly not for kids -- should amuse those steeped in comic-book trivia, the kick of doing something different is offset by the sheer weirdness of the effort.

Marvel’s M.O.D.O.K. suffers from not only being not as funny as it should be, but it also pumps the fan service gags instead of actually developing the world around its star supervillain.

One of the funniest new comedies of the last five years. It's a predictable travesty that Disney cancelled it. Its main USP is MODOK himself, a massively insecure, egotistical moron/genius and supervillain with a giant head and tiny doll-like legs and arms. Played by Patton Oswalt at his most absurdist and deranged, MODOK is a brilliant character. The rest of the cast isn't nearly as charismatic and funny, even the currently ubiquitous Ben Schwartz, who's been good in everything else I've seen him in. He plays MODOK's son, an eminently bully-able teenage boy(who, unfortunately, never becomes remotely funny or likable). One of the stupidest(ie. best) jokes is that MODOK's two kids looks so different, his daughter taking after MODOK and thus floating around as a giant head with floppy rag-doll physics for her lower half, his son taking after MODO's ex-wife, and thus looking completely normal. This joke is never alluded to at any point, it just sits there being absurd. And that is the show in a nutshell, MODOK unleashing a barrage of absurdist narcissism upon everyone around him, while also trying to deal with the agony and depression of a divorce. The latter occasionally serves to make the show quite melancholy, which seems to be the trend with these kinds of animations, eg. Rick and Morty, Bojack, etc. I don't think it quite works here - the tonal whiplash is slightly too much. But it doesn't matter; MODOK/Patton Oswalt is so good that all the little details that don't quite work, from casting to pacing and plotting, are rendered irrelevant. I'd love it if someone picked this show up and gave it another season, but no-one seems to have given much of a **** about it being cancelled in the first place, and it's a Marvel property. **** likely. A real shame.

Bo-ring. Yeah there are a lot of subtle callouts to other movies and media, but it doesn't make an ENTERTAINING whole. Lots of stuff happens, but I didn't really care about it because it was just a jumble of ideas that didn't have any cohesive link, which makes sense as the skit comedy robot chicken crew were powering this and they don't seem to know how to do a non-skit show. MODOK confirmed that I'm robot-chickened out. Seth green needs to find a new horizon and set a course for THAT. MODOK would have been better as a 3D animated cartoon or a traditional animation show with much better writing. I had no interest in finishing the series and went back to catching up on the infinitely better show Mythic Quest. I gave this a 5 strictly because of Patton Oswalt leaving it all on the (virtual) stage, but the SHOW deserved a 3 or so if judged on its meager merits.

M.0.D.0.K. Has the same type of humor as family guy but far less jokes land. The animation is pleasant to look at and the characters are decent.

Not funny at all. I don't get how with all these people involved they have made something so boring. I give a 3 rating thanks to the adaptoid.

This show tries too hard to be funny. It’s unbelievably unfunny, the jokes are so basic and unbearably unfunny and are so frequent that the show is unwatchable. Who wrote these jokes? It sounds like a group of middle aged white woman who think Jimmy Fallon is the funniest “comedian.”