After the amazing series put forth by Disney, Warner Brothers and even Hanna-Barbera (mainly for Tom and Jerry) which revolutionized the cartoon industry, mainstream cartoons for the most part took a huge step backwards. The Flinstones is one of the earliest cartoons which showcased this very clearly.
You know what's the best thing about cartoons? They can be funny, hilarious, unpredictable wacky or whatever you want to call them. They can defy a lot of real life rules much easier than in movies. That's what makes cartoons so great. No matter how advanced technology gets and no matter how sophisticated film making gets, cartoons will always have the upper hand in terms of making the impossible possible. When cartoons started a whole new world of possibilities opened which was experimented with very finely on classics like Tom And Jerry, Bugs Bunny, Mickey Mouse etc. However, when the 20th century was more than halfway over, cartoons like this one came into existence and basically stripped away all that made cartoons fun to watch.
I do commend the cartoon for trying something different. Depicting a stone age family living modernly (well, for the 60s anyway) was something that caught the eyes of many viewers. But other than that, there's nothing redeemable about this highly praised cartoon. The jokes are very very bland, the laugh track just makes them more annoying, the advantage the creators had as they were making a cartoon and not a sitcom, has not been utilized much at all. The characters are just boring. The animation is very lazy compared to the cartoons of the 40s, even compared to some cartoons from the 20s. The story is insanely predictable and I repeat, the cartoon is not funny in any way, shape or form. Though some of the jokes involving usage of dinosaurs and other old animals are *kind* of amusing, even they are not presented in a fashion that could actually be humorous. Oh, and the 'catchphrases' are just dumb.
You'd think the creators would've learned something from the past cartoons from the classic 40s era and would've tried to analyze what works and what doesn't. Instead they made a pile of drivel which made some of the oldest Warner Bros. shorts seem like masterpieces. This is also one of the cartoons which bred the coming of similar atrocities in the 60s and 70s e.g The Jetsons, Yogi Bear, Scooby Doo (though it had some potential), 60s Tom and Jerry, Top Cat, Hair Bear Bunch etc. Mainstream cartoons did not progress at all after this avalanche till the early 90s.
In the end all I shall say is .... Yabba Dabba snoooooooore.....
You know what's the best thing about cartoons? They can be funny, hilarious, unpredictable wacky or whatever you want to call them. They can defy a lot of real life rules much easier than in movies. That's what makes cartoons so great. No matter how advanced technology gets and no matter how sophisticated film making gets, cartoons will always have the upper hand in terms of making the impossible possible. When cartoons started a whole new world of possibilities opened which was experimented with very finely on classics like Tom And Jerry, Bugs Bunny, Mickey Mouse etc. However, when the 20th century was more than halfway over, cartoons like this one came into existence and basically stripped away all that made cartoons fun to watch.
I do commend the cartoon for trying something different. Depicting a stone age family living modernly (well, for the 60s anyway) was something that caught the eyes of many viewers. But other than that, there's nothing redeemable about this highly praised cartoon. The jokes are very very bland, the laugh track just makes them more annoying, the advantage the creators had as they were making a cartoon and not a sitcom, has not been utilized much at all. The characters are just boring. The animation is very lazy compared to the cartoons of the 40s, even compared to some cartoons from the 20s. The story is insanely predictable and I repeat, the cartoon is not funny in any way, shape or form. Though some of the jokes involving usage of dinosaurs and other old animals are *kind* of amusing, even they are not presented in a fashion that could actually be humorous. Oh, and the 'catchphrases' are just dumb.
You'd think the creators would've learned something from the past cartoons from the classic 40s era and would've tried to analyze what works and what doesn't. Instead they made a pile of drivel which made some of the oldest Warner Bros. shorts seem like masterpieces. This is also one of the cartoons which bred the coming of similar atrocities in the 60s and 70s e.g The Jetsons, Yogi Bear, Scooby Doo (though it had some potential), 60s Tom and Jerry, Top Cat, Hair Bear Bunch etc. Mainstream cartoons did not progress at all after this avalanche till the early 90s.
In the end all I shall say is .... Yabba Dabba snoooooooore.....