The Legend of Vox Machina

With writing that plays on the audience's affection for these characters and a variety of genres to keep things interesting, it remains a funny, thrilling, and surprisingly deep fantasy series that balances fan service with a story that won't leave newcomers alienated.

Like the determined team we know Vox Machina to be, Prime Video’s animated adventure returns with just as much bravado as its scrappy heroes, delivering another action-packed season with a charm that is impossible to resist (though you can certainly try).

The tight friendship of the Vox Machina group, combined with sharp animation, funny jokes, rich action, and raw, honest drama, will win over new fans and satisfy old ones. The Legend Of Vox Machina is a critical hit.

Yet overall, this fourth season proves a welcome course-correction for the show - and should leave Critters eagerly awaiting Vox Machina’s final battle, as we head into the calm before the Whispered One-shaped storm.

Despite an overabundance of tropes, the season gets by thanks to its charming voice cast and endearing characters, which get deepened in exciting ways this season.

Vox Machina is a fun, chaotic ride through the world the players in Critical Role have been building upon for years. It takes the characters viewers are likely already familiar with, and establishes a story that both fans and newcomers can get into without catching up on the series.

Critically, it could use some refining, but as a fan of the game, sometimes it just feels good to watch a campaign play out like how we all imagined it in our heads.

This show took me by surprise, I had never listened to the DnD campaign by Critical Role so I went in completely blind. This show has been hilarious, entertaining and scratches an itch for dnd / high fantasy / and comedy. If you have Amazon Prime, this is very much worth your time.

I found this series fun for the first few episodes. Then all the shortcomings started to emerge. It's generic. That's it's biggest flaw. While sprayed with the occasional "The Boys" humor it all feels already used. I know it's generic in some areas due to D&D foundations, but that doesn't excuse it for being boring and predictable much too often. The animations are nice at moments, but also very uneven. The fact that the dragons are animated in a completely different way doesn't sit well with me, to be honest. It was an okay watch, but nothing spectacular. If you're a D&D fun, you'd probably give it a bit higher rating.

The efforts of overpaid TTRPG nerds and overworked Korean animators give us a juvenile saga that aims for subversion and settles for irreverence. Its like throwing a TV-MA on Shrek.

Some professional reviewers must have had a sizeable donation from Uncle Amazon, before putting in their scores, it seems. That's the only reason I can think of for grown adults giving something so basic, such glowing reviews. If you're a kid between the age of 12-17, you might really enjoy Vox Machina. The extremely cliche, trope-driven story and characters might not put you off and the script that substitutes swearing for jokes, might make you laugh a little. If you're an adult or just a mature kid, Vox Machina is unwatchable after a few minutes. The artwork is decent, if not stellar and the animation is low-level Saturday morning cartoon, but it's passable. Voice acting is also passable, there's some bad accents in there (but that's par for the course for the genre) but the cast do their best with the bad script. Unfortunately, however, the whole thing really comes down to that script and it is a stinker. It's beyond childish and whilst a similar project, Invincible, has a great time taking tropes and subverting them, and using harsh language and mature themes and using them with subtlety and wit to craft a show that's entertaining to all audiences, Vox has clearly been created by a different level of writer. Perhaps one that hasn't yet made it out of primary school?

Woke, written by edge lords, and generally formulaic. Sure they pepper it with swear words, and the occasional flash of nudity, but that is just to earn the adult tag. The cool trailer happens in the first minute, and never reaches that height again in the first three episodes. The art is good, as is the voice acting. But bad stories, woke agenda (especially in a fantasy setting), and juvenile antics from supposed adults robs this of any entertainment.