The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball

Like the best cartoons ostensibly made for kids, it doesn’t underestimate its audience, what it might understand or can handle. Many “Gumball” episodes devolve into a sort of authentically disturbing horror movie. .... It also demonstrates an adult skepticism about the world that might profitably infect young minds. There are critiques of capitalism, consumerism and online culture.

I’m happy to report that the new Gumball—whatever title you want to call it—is just as cheeky, clever, and fascinated with rear ends as it used to be. .... What ensues is a comedic melodrama about body positivity that’s also a pitch-perfect parody of any earnest “very special episode” with a moral at the end.

The gloriously anarchic Hulu series, which is actually a continuation of Cartoon Network's The Amazing World of Gumball, whose six-season run ended in 2019, plunges its imaginatively motley crew of characters into often heightened situations that are dazzling in their freneticness.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]

Well, I love The Amazing World of Gumball, and I also really enjoyed The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball! However, I think it could have been a little better. For example, the jokes aren't as funny as they used to be, the show's main focus is now more on social criticism, and the animation feels a bit "weird" and doesn't quite look the same anymore. Still, I highly recommend it because it's a great continuation of the original series! I'd give it an 8/10.

It's a very disappointing series, the audio for the characters is poor quality and the animation is very generic. It may be fluid, but the style doesn't fit with the universe at all, especially when it comes to the characters' emotions, and the characters are nothing like what we've come to know. The humor is very forced, which makes it awkward, and it's very much geared towards recent internet humor (not the best kind). And the nods to other works are far too forced and recognizable. The script makes the series very long to watch, unbearable, despite the high frame rate. It wants to be that way. Perhaps because the series was taken over by a streaming platform. It wants to be easy to watch and understand, while making forced references to the various references they've squeezed out to the last drop. The series isn't worth a zero because there are some nice moments, but it's not the best we could have or found.