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Recently, one of my real cinephile friends was lamenting the
‘death’ of sports movies. Obviously, we’re far away from all those years when
every studio was chasing after ROCKY’s golden goose. And having the occasional
MMA drama or inspirational baseball movie today isn't doing it for her.
Of course, hearing this made me chuckle, because the sports fad
never ended in anime. Not only did it never end, it took off to a level it
never really reached in America. Seriously, you could rattle off dozens of American
basketball flicks, but there isn’t one show that gets deeper into the mythology, and runs with it for hundreds of episodes,
like SLAM DUNK did.
And that’s just one. Hours and hours of content to dwarf the sum total of any Western franchise’s.
I bring all that up because dance movies are the
free-spirited cousin of sports flicks, obviously, and TRIBE COOL CREW might as
well be the Saturday morning cartoon version of BREAKIN’ (or the NICK version of STEP UP, if you’d prefer a less-dated analogy).
It’s a delightful little diversion.
The fact that the animation crew had to make 3D models of
our lead and his rival, chiefly because there was no way 2D animation
could keep up with their highly-technical breakdancing, made me chuckle ever so
warmly. If this were a US cartoon, the
skillz would be boiled down to only a few, generalized moves. Here, the bulk of
the budget goes that, and to making sure it’s accurate, man.
I’m not the target
demo for this, obviously, but it was fun, for sure. It tickles me to imagine how much farther TRIBE COOL
CREW’s going to take its premise once these two kids inevitably put aside their
differences and start dating.
Watch this pilot episode and decide for yourself.
Very nice :)
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