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The Galaxy Trio:
"Gralik of Gravitas"

Review______________
Hey kids, let's meet today's villain, shall we! Bugging the Galaxy Trio for the next 10 minutes or so will be Gralik, a once genius scientist from some way out planetoid who was excommunicated by his people because of his radical experiments. No, these weren't of the "human guinea pigs" kind that mommy and daddy used to speak of in their bedtime tales of Ilsa the Wicked Warden's Adventures In Candyland, nothing so ghastly and war crime worthy as that! No, instead the mildly unhappy (as he's not entirely "mad" about his predicament per say) space man of science liked to dip his pointy ears in the forbidden fruits of gravity manipulation. While Isaac Newton spins in his grave at 100 miles per hour, Gravik has created his "Ultra-Gravitizer", or "U-G" as we'll call it, for the sake of saving a little wear and tear on uncle Anubis' centuries old cartilage.

What's the U-G do? What is it with you selfish bastards these days?! Everything has to has some kind of purpose or use or function when it comes to you snot-nosed junior witch hunters of the modern day! Back when I was kid, nothing meant anything, nothing did anything it didn't want to, and nobody expected otherwise! It was a grand system and there was peace throughout the land! The sky was made of blueberry pie filling, the urinals were made out of caramel and people's genitals tasted like vanilla soda! You couldn't get enough oral sex! And there wasn't any of this "diabetes" crap to ruin it all! Damn you kids and your "functional sciences"!

Anyway, after grandpa was force fed his happy purple pills by the good men in their white jackets, it seems that Professor Gralik (doctor of gravity, physician of funk and a PhD in mixology) intends to use his U-G for *gasp* evil and vengeful purposes! So, he immediately contacts his exilers on the planet Gravitas and starts tossing around King Gramor's new tax dollar gobbling science center from no less than "thousands of miles away"! Having made the anti-gravity powers of Gravitas's top gravitolologiststs look like an empty beer can in comparison to his proverbial drunken frat boy forehead of a machine, Gravy Boat (as he shall now be known by royal decree of Duke Seagram 7, Earl of Alkitude!) starts making demands, with the threat of an anti-gravity hangover as the consequences if they are not met! Being kind of new to the board game that is villainy, Gravy Boat isn't really prepared with any demands just yet, so he gives the king and company 12 hours to decide whether they'll submit to the might of Gravy Boat, or to the cold clammy hands of death. I'm voting for death, but we all know this toon isn't going to end favorably for the dastardly schemes of one Senor Boat of Gravy.

Well, lucky for King Vitamin (another decree by our High Lord Seagram 7 and his royal court of Yuengling chasers), his daughter happens to be Gravity Girl of the Galaxy Trio, and I'm sure she's forgiven him for putting that video camera in her toilet by now! And so, the call goes out for GG and her 2 male comrades to come and save the day! Wow, lucky for them Gravy Boat gave them that 12 HOUR reprieve, otherwise the heroes may never have made it in time! Congratulations Gravy Boat, if you ever get work as a villain for another show, remember not to give a warning of what you plan to do a half-day in advance! This moron could team up with X the Eliminator and just let the Wonder Twins kick 'em around for a few hours. "Oh no! An ice cube tray and a puddle of Country Time Lemonade™! We are doomed! Let us escape while we still can!"...

As they receive the call from King Vitamin, we learn that Meteor Man and Vapor Man didn't even know that their penis-less cohort was of royal blood! What kind of team dynamic do you have with a person when you don't even know they're dad could get you tax exempt status?! Anyway, with luck it looks like GG happens to know of Gravy Boat's old hang-out (long, sorted college affair there that ended rather messy when GG got blitzed at a frat kegger one night and used her "gravity powers" on 3 of Gravy Boat's frat brothers) and the Trio are on their way to put the kibosh on any evil doings scheduled for the day.

Despite Gravy Boat's defenses, the Trio use their team work (and Vapor Man's stinky cloud form) to slip into Boat's HQ. But, the villain's "negative gravity" (i.e. "anti-gravity", right?) proves a formidable fight. In the end though, it's Vapor Man's mustard gas whirlwind and Gravy Boat's own super anti-gravity gun that lead to his defeat. He winds up a million miles in space, no doubt crushed into less than an atom by the pressure of a black hole in a "not nearly as grizzly as it sounds" death. Meanwhile, the good guys fly home in victory and Meteor Man pokes fun at his teammate's newly revealed royal status... before he and Vapor Man fingercuff her... yeah, that was uncalled for, but just because you don't have the extended director's cut doesn't mean that it didn't happen!

A villain who uses gravity as his weapon is actually pretty cool, and had the project been in the hands of a capable creator today, who knows what we might get as a result, but in this cornball setting it's just a 10 minute joke. I also find it hard to believe that Galaxy Girl's partners would be so clueless about her origins. If I'm putting my life in the hands of a couple of weirdoes with crazy ass powers, I'm gonna wanna know as much about them as possible, from family lineage to secret identities to what kind of syrup they put on their stack of silver dollars at IHOP! Ever read the DC Comics Teen Titans story The Judas Contract? Check it out and you'll understand the stark ravings of a paranoid fanboy...

The Moral of this Episode: A heads up for all rulers and aspiring rulers: when some mad genius attempts treason on your throne, don't just exile him to a place where his super smart madman brain can amass evil schemes with which to get back at you! Two words: public execution. Kill the bastard so you don't have to worry about him/her returning in the future PLUS you'll dissuade any future would-be coups.

Screen Shots______________
"Wow, for a the series finale to
one of TV's funniest shows, that
last episode of 'Seinfeld' sucked!"

Not a lot of people know this,
but for a brief period in the
'60s Hanna-Barbera created sex
education films so they could
receive government funding.

"In the name of Christ,
it's a transparent cola!
It's an abomination and
must be DESTROYED!"

"Really Meteor Man, I'm
flattered, honestly I am.
But, I'm not sure our sexual
organs are even compatible!"

If You Liked This Toon, Check Out...
- "The Superfriends" -
- "The Herculoids" -
- "Space Ghost" -
- "The Fantastic Four" -

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