I am – Hercules!!


It’s a comedy, from Nick Park’s Aardman Studios (“Wallace & Gromit”) that takes audio interviews with real people and creates animated animals around those interviews.

Variety says:

… Stretched to a half-hour, it's a tedious exercise, even as realized by the Aardman studio's wide-eyed, amusing designs. CBS has little to lose in adapting the British version with U.S. voices, but it's hard to imagine this surviving long past the first commercial break, much less beyond its run as a summer replacement.…

The Hollywood Reporter says:

… a wonderfully entertaining way to spend a half-hour …

Entertainment Weekly gives it a “B-plus” and says:

… Naturally funny interviews are easy TV; it's with drier material that the animators shine. …

USA Today says:

… the animation is a witty delight — though whether the central joke can sustain itself past the opening half-hour remains open to question. …

TV Guide says:

… The juxtapositions are hilarious: a hippo whining about being weighed by skinny girls, a monkey reciting “He loves me, he loves me not” as she picks nits off her mate. I hung on and laughed at nearly every word. …

The New York Times says:

… it makes you laugh when a fake pig, speaking as a middle-aged woman, talks about losing weight. …

The Los Angeles Times says:

… each juxtaposition of voice and creature, even or especially the most unexpected, creates something wonderful. …

The Washington Post says:

… clever and often hilarious. …

The Houston Chronicle says:

… Sometimes it works, as when a lovebird describes in lengthy detail all the doctors she routinely sees. But more often, it doesn't — no matter how funny the animated characters are to look at. The humor just isn't there.…

The Detroit Free Press says:

… a breezy summertime comic joy. …

The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel says:

… With conventional sitcoms fumbling and floundering, it's refreshing - and too rare - for network TV to try a different kind of funny. …

The Boston Globe says:

… The not-so-great thing about "Creature Comforts" is that a little goes a long way. A half-hour of talking lobsters, caged birds, bulldogs, and fish is about 25 minutes more than we need. …

8 p.m. Monday. CBS.

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